Elon Musk exposes the “biggest fraud of all time”
Elon Musk lifted the lid on what he calls the “biggest scam” in U.S. history during his viral appearance on episode #2281 of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The conversation focused on government waste and abuse – and Musk had a lot to say.
Musk quickly caused shock when he revealed that the government had given the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines – and not a single submarine was built.
When lawmakers asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea – a revelation Musk heard firsthand from Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine).
“I think Senator Collins told me about a case where she gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, but didn’t get any additional submarines, and then held a hearing to ask where the $12 billion went.
And they said something like, ‘We don’t know. That’s it.’ I mean, basically, this is all so crazy. Only the federal government can get away with this waste,” Musk said.
In another eye-opening moment, Musk concluded that the government could save $100 billion a year by forcing agencies to explain what their payments are actually for.
He mentioned that the current system allows the government to send payments with no categorization code, no description, and no explanation – basically issuing blank checks with no accountability.
Musk compared this to publicly traded companies, saying that a company that tried to do the same would immediately be delisted and its executives “would go to jail.”
Musk and Rogan extended their outrage to the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they were alarmed to learn that over 100 intelligence officials had spent taxpayers’ money turning government servers into porn chat rooms instead of protecting the country.
“Your tax dollars at work,” Musk scoffed. “They shouldn’t even be talking about this. They should be protecting the country.”
Musk picked apart the slogan “threat to democracy”, calling it a cover for the “threat to bureaucracy” before exposing what he called “the biggest fraud of all time.”
And that fraud consists of the government using taxpayer-funded NGOs as a loophole to funnel billions of dollars into shady, unaccountable organizations that do actions that would be illegal if done directly by the government itself.
Musk explained that the term “NGO” is actually a “contradiction in itself” since these so-called non-governmental organizations are funded directly by the government.
“The whole NGO story is a nightmare. And it’s a misnomer because if you have a government-funded non-governmental organization, you’re just a government-funded organization. It’s an oxymoron,” Musk explained.
Popular X user and data scientist Jennica Pounds, better known as DataRepublican, recently exposed an NGO that claims to be committed to “democracy.”
In a NewsNation exclusive, she revealed that this particular NGO received $17 million – and “the only act they did with $17 million was produce a terrible Muppet show.”
The NGO, co-founded by Norm Eisen, calls itself the States United Democracy Center, and all they managed to accomplish with that $17 million was about 200 views per episode of their Muppet Show knockoff—something that looked more like a $17,000 production.
“They took money and did this show with it. It was just awful. Jim Henson would be turning in his grave. And it was weird because all the videos had less than 200 views,” DataRepublican explained.
“They didn’t even try to promote it with advertising or anything. So where did the $17 million go?” she asked.
DataRepublican also recently exposed the Uniparty as a group of NGOs that are partly funded with your tax money.
According to their investigation, seven NGOs, heavily supported by USAID and the US State Department, act as the executive arm of the Uniparty, spreading propaganda under the guise of “protecting democracy.”
Originally founded during the Cold War, these groups shifted their mission from spreading democracy abroad to protecting their own power, redefining “democracy” to mean themselves.
Or, as Musk puts it, a threat to “democracy” is really a threat to bureaucracy.
🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in… pic.twitter.com/eG3mI1lOuQ
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 11, 2025
During the podcast, Rogan asked Musk what he expected when he first launched DOGE to expose the waste of government funds.
Musk replied: “I thought it would be bad, but I didn’t think it would be this bad.”
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March 6, 2025