Elon Musk Speaks at the Town Hall in Oaks, PA

Hello, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to the Team America Rally. What's up? And I love you, too. All right, so let's see. What should I say? SpaceX does rock. Indeed. Actually, I'm pretty excited about the possibility of SpaceX, you know, and just generally becoming a space-faring civilization, going beyond where we went in the past with where we went to the moon. And it's crazy that we went to the moon over 50 years ago was the last time anyone went to the moon. And a lot of people think we didn't go to the moon, but we did. We did. The Soviets would have called us out on that one if we hadn't gone to the moon. They would have called bullshit on that one, 100%. Yeah, yeah, we need to go back. We should not just go back to the moon. We should have a moon base, you know, like Moon Base Alpha, you know, like an actual base with like a science station. That would be sick, you know. And I think we want to become a multi-planet species and be out there among the stars. We want to make Starfleet real, you know. So that like, I mean, like you should be able to go to Mars if you want to go to, I mean, go to Mars. It would be like amazing, you know. How long will it take? It will take six months. So Mars is far, but we can do it. We can create a base on Mars and ultimately build a city on Mars and make life multi-planetary. I think that would be super cool. Yeah, I mean, you know, life can't just be about like, you know, solving one miserable problem after another. There have to be things that inspire you, that excite you about the future, that you look forward to. You're like, wow, that's going to be cool. And I think being a space-faring civilization and, you know, having a city on Mars and going out there exploring the moons of Jupiter, ultimately getting to other star systems would be incredibly exciting. And suddenly you're like, wow, you should really look forward to that. That would be like, I don't know, incredible. So, you know, go out there and find like maybe alien civilizations. You know, like in Star Trek, you know, go where you've never gone before. So, yeah, let's make Starfleet real. Yeah. Meanwhile, back here on Earth, we need to, I think we definitely need to get President Trump re-elected. So that is, I think, incredibly important. And, I mean, I think America is great, but we want to be greater. And we want to do amazing things. And we don't want the Apollo program to be our high-water mark. We want to do great things in America. And I think we also want to preserve what has made America great. You know, so things like freedom of speech. You know, like, you know, the right to bear arms. These things in the Constitution that are actually, you know, important. You have to say, why did they add these amendments to the Constitution? It was because in the places that people came from, if you said what you wanted to say, you'd be put in prison or you'd be killed. And they took everyone's guns away so that they couldn't rebel against oppressive government. That's the whole idea behind taking the guns away. So I'm a big believer in the Constitution. Big believer in, you know, what makes America great. And then we also need, like, some obvious things. Like, we need actual secure borders. Like, you're not a country if you don't have, like, a border. Like, what does it even mean to be a country at that point, you know? And I went to the border just to see for myself what it was like. And it was like, it's like World War Z at the border. You know, like, this is crazy, man. So obviously I'm in favor of immigrants that add to the country where it's well vetted. I'm like, you know, one myself, so obviously. But we can't just have, like, just, you know, total zombie apocalypse at the border. This is crazy. We also have to have safe cities, you know? And so it's like, it's nutty. It's insane that, I mean, you walk around the streets of almost any major U.S. city and it's unsafe. I mean, it's like a sort of drug zombie apocalypse. I mean, it's nuts. So, like, why is that, you know? And, you know, I went to college in Philadelphia for three years. And, you know, really enjoyed my time here. It was awesome. Now, it was dangerous back then. But then I met someone who graduated recently. And they said, it's actually even more dangerous. I'm like, it was more dangerous? We had a buddy count back then. I'm like, yeah. Like, okay, that's crazy. So, I mean, I think we're the most powerful country in the world. We should have, you should be able to walk around your city and not feel in danger, you know? So, it's like, you know, it's basic stuff. It's common sense, yeah. And then, like, government spending and sort of what I call over-regulation, like slow strangulation by over-regulation is what's going on. You know, so, yeah. It's, you know, the insane government spending is driving the country into bankruptcy. And, you know, just like a person, if you spend too much, you know, eventually you go bankrupt. The federal debt's growing by a trillion dollars every three months. I mean, it's, I mean, our defense budget is pretty gigantic. It's a trillion dollars. But the interest that we owe on the debt is now higher than the defense budget, over a trillion dollars and growing. This is not sustainable. So, we have to do something about that or the country's going to go bankrupt. So, that's an essential thing, too. Yeah, so, that's why we need the Department of Government Efficiency. D-O-G-E. That's on a brass plaque on a desk. It's going to be amazing. So, you know, it's like, yeah, exactly. As people were saying, it's just like, it's common sense stuff. And, you know, America really just needs, it needs to remain the land of opportunity. The land where, you know, your success is a function of how hard you work and your talent. Like, if you're talented and hardworking, that should be the only thing that determines whether you're successful. That's it. You know? And America's also supposed to be the land of freedom. That means personal freedom. Like, the government should not be imposing all these rules on people. And, you know, it's like, you know. Yeah. So, government overreach is not cool. Freedom, freedom. Yeah, exactly. Twitter files. I mean, it was just nutty. You know? People don't realize just how much government involvement there is in the media. And, like, how much the government influences the media. I mean, it's crazy how, you know, you'll see. In fact, I think whoever's manipulating the media should mix it up a bit because they're really not doing a great job. Like, you know, a week before the debate between Biden and Trump, everyone on the media was saying Biden was sharp as a tack. Sharp as a tack. Like, you should mix it up a little. Get a thesaurus. Okay? The NBC media puppets were just all saying exactly the same thing. So, you know, it's just kind of strange. And, like, do they all just get the same memo at the same time? I don't know. Where does it come in? I want to see the group text, okay? Like, is there, like, an email copy list or what? Everyone say the same thing at the same time. Yeah, just total puppets. You'll see it next month. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, totally. So, well, let's see. Like, you know, what I think, what I find is really engaging is when people are able to ask questions or make comments. And so if anybody wants to, you know, try to keep the comments, like, reasonably short. Any monologue should be ideally kept to, you know, less than a minute. So just far, you know, far, far away. And I'll try to answer questions and, you know, respond to comments. If you own a Tesla, can you jump the line? Well, yeah, sure.