Elon Musk Part 2

The boys continue their discussion of Walter Isaacson's "Elon Musk." This is the part where Elon loses his mind.
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Sources:
• From self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to Team Trump and DeSantis: Elon Musk’s curious politics revealed (independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-polit…)
• The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom (newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elo…)
• Elon Musk biographer admits suggestion SpaceX head blocked Ukraine drone attack was wrong (theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-bi…)
• Elon Musk's Daughter on Dad's Biography: 'Sad Excuse for a Puff Piece' (rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/vivian-j…)
• Character Limit (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-…)
• Twitter fulfilling more government censorship requests under Musk (aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfill…)
• Elon Musk booed for nearly 5 minutes straight at Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco (latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-12-1…)
• New CNN Chief Trying to Please GOP Elite (fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/new-cnn-chi…)
• Research finds more than 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 if USAID defunding continues, including more than 4 million children under five (ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-mo…)
• What the data says about Social Security (pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/20/what-th…)
• Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data (cbpp.org/sites/default/files/2025-03-25socsec.…)
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