If you’ve been reading political news over the last several days, you know Democrats have a new talking point. As the tale goes, far from the humble, people-led affair of the Biden administration, the federal government has now become an “oligarchy” ruled by Elon Musk. Why? Because the billionaire said Congress shouldn’t pass a pork-filled 1,500-page continuing resolution.
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The horror, right?
Naturally, the attacks on Musk and incoming president Donald Trump, who is now being touted as a “puppet,” were picked up by CNN’s liberal analysts. What they forgot is that Scott Jennings exists, and for the time being, there’s some actual truth being shared on the left-wing network.
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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 21, 2024
JONES: There are big fancy college words called oligarchy, and plutocracy, that folks tonight might want to look up. It’s called “ruled by rich folks,” and that’s what we’re dealing with. A bunch of rich folks, two rich people threw a fit online and threw the government upside down. Now, did the bill go from big to little? What happened was that the bipartisan deal that got struck by elected officials of our country was overthrown by two billionaires throwing a fit, and it’s not even January.
I’ll get to Jennings’ smackdown momentarily, but I want to address the framing here. If Jones believes that the outrage over the 1,500-page CR was restricted to Elon Musk, he’s delusional. The popular outcry was extensive and began before the Tesla and SpaceX owner said a word. What Jones is really saying, though he won’t admit it, is that social media sites like X are giving normal people a voice in their government they haven’t previously had. At the end of the day, it was “elected officials” who decided to not vote for the original deal. That they were influenced by the masses is a good thing.
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JENNINGS: Well, if Van is concerned about unelected officials running the government, I’d invite him to review the last four years of the Biden administration and maybe pick up The Wall Street Journal this week. We’ve apparently had a president that’s so diminished that his staff has been hiding it from the American people and making key decisions on behalf of the American government despite never being elected to anything at all. So if you’re concerned about it tonight, maybe take a look over the last four years.
Look, I think ultimately, all’s well that ends well. The government did not shut down. We’re not in any kind of crisis over the holidays here, and when Republicans get sworn in in January and Trump comes to the office on January the 20th, they’re going to have to come together as a team and decide, “Are we going to work together or not?”
Hammer, meet nail. For Democrats to now fear-monger about “unelected” people running the government is to ignore that’s precisely what has happened throughout President Joe Biden’s term.
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How does that compare to Musk making a post online? It doesn’t. What he did was public and out in the open. People were able to decide whether to agree with him or not, and in the end, it was elected officials who chose to come up with another deal. That’s democracy in action. What’s not democracy in action is a bunch of nameless figures running the government behind the scenes while lying to everyone about the president’s senility.
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Jennings wasn’t done, though. Later, he would appear on Abby Phillip’s show and be faced with the same talking points. Once again, he was ready.
NEW: Scott Jennings hilariously mocks CNN panelist when she can’t decide whether Trump’s a dictator or merely a puppet for Elon Musk.
Wait till you hear her answer at the end.
JULIE ROGINSKY: “Elon Musk is puppeteering Donald Trump and every other member of Congress that he… pic.twitter.com/8uy8kl9Glq
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) December 20, 2024
JENNINGS: If he gives information to people that he didn’t previously have or some transparency in that government, is that necessarily a bad thing?
PANEL MEMBER: I think that’s a great idea.
ROGINSKY: Elon Musk is doing this to gin up people to call their congressman or congresswoman to tell them to vote against something that Elon Musk doesn’t want them to vote for because it doesn’t directly benefit Elon Musk. Let’s be very clear, he’s not here…
JENNINGS: How do you know that?
ROGINSKY: How do I know that? Because look at this bill.
Hang on just a second because, as Jennings will go on to note, that’s a serious allegation. Did Musk oppose the 1,500-page CR because it didn’t “directly benefit” him? That should be pretty easy to figure out. What is in the 105-page CR that passed that wasn’t in the original deal? If Roginsky can’t define that, then her claim is baseless.
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I’ll go ahead and spoil it for you. She didn’t provide any evidence for her allegation.
JENNINGS: It’s a serious allegation. You’re essentially alleging corruption.
ROGINSKY: First of all, I’m not alleging corruption. I’m alleging that Elon Musk has a particular interest in seeing certain things happen that benefit Elon Musk’s business. That’s a fact. He’s a businessman. He’s not here as a staffer. If you were a staffer, if you were working on the hill, then he should go work on the Hill. DOGE is not, he’s purposely not going into the government because then he’d have to show a lot more information about himself than he and Vivek Ramaswamy want to so now they are just advisors.
They’re unpaid advisors, and for that reason, Elon Musk is puppeteering Donald Trump and every other member of Congress that he wants to benefit Elon Musk.
PHILLIP: I’m not sure Donald Trump is doing anything to dissuade people of that position.
JENNINGS: In October, the principle Democrat argument was, “Donald Trump is gonna be a dictator,” and today it’s, “Donald Trump is just being controlled by other people.” Which is it?
ROGINSKY: It can be both!
Democrats are so desperate to turn things in their favor that they can’t help but flail like this. If Trump is a ruthless dictator ready to turn America into his personal fiefdom, then he can’t also be a powerless puppet being controlled by Musk. That makes no sense at all. The charge that it’s somehow wrong for people to call their congressional members to tell them not to vote for a crappy CR is also pretty insane to me. Who does Roginsky think is in charge of these “elected officials?”
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In the end, Musk did nothing wrong here, and his involvement is not proof of an “oligarchy.” It is proof of an information age where politicians can no longer hide what they are doing from the American people. Far from being a negative, that’s a great thing.
