Elon Musk put on BLAST by Corey Booker
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a new podcast from Microsoft Azure. I'm your host, Susan Etlinger. In each episode, leaders will share what they're learning to help you navigate all this change with confidence. Please join us. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. So, in fact, if you take my question, my name is Gary Oshkosh. I'm a senior vice commander at the Disabled American Veterans in Burgerfield, Wisconsin.

And I'm a Vietnam veteran. When I heard Donald Trump say that John McCain was a hero because he was captured, I felt sick. And I don't understand why any veteran or any currently serving military person has anything to say about this person. But the amazing thing is 65% of veterans voted for him.

I don't get it. And if that 65% had been flipped, we would have the first woman president in the world. I'm thinking on my desk and talking to veterans. Every time I see a veteran in the street, every time I talk to any veterans, I try not to be political about it because like I said, it's not a right or left thing. It's a right or wrong thing. And veterans should not be promoting

For this type of government that we have right now. So I'm asking every citizen I know you stand for veterans. I know where everybody here stands for veterans. I know where all America or most of America stands for veterans.

But the people, the veterans, the 65%, they're not hearing it. They're only hearing the rhetoric and the bullshit. Excuse me that they can't then they get from right with media. We have to get the message to those veterans. Like I said, when I was talking to some of my veterans in my group, I'm able to get through to them. So we need everyone to get, if you know, a veteran.

If you know a friend who knows a veteran, talk to them and ask them why they are not getting this message. And we have to stop them from starting to see it. I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry. You earned that right. You earned the right to be a surfer. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

And I'm going to just say one thing, because this is what I've noticed about New Jersey veterans, is when I say thank you for your service to a man like you, it's not just your service. What blows me away about veterans in New Jersey is they come home and they keep serving like you are. They keep serving other veterans, they keep volunteering in the community, and they keep bleeding. And so...

I'm going to mention this a lot, what he is doing with 80,000 layoffs in the VA, with all the layoffs he's doing. And by the way, folks in New Jersey should know this. When I was mayor of my city, I cut the size of my government. It was difficult, but we didn't have the power to print money. We cut Newark's government size down 25%. We laid off one out of every four of our employees. We made a lot of our departments a lot more efficient. I'm not saying that the federal government, God, the federal government needs to be more efficient and more effective.

But the way that Elon Musk is going about this, dashing, he's like, it's like ready fire and maybe I'll aim later. But the way he is eliminating entire agencies, divisions, and critical services that the majority of Americans, Republicans, Democrats really want is outrageous. And with no accountability, not one oversight hearing, it is wrong. So, sir, I'm going to fight for veterans who fought for me. I'm going to stand for people that fell for me.

everywhere possible. And this is the bad, this is a good political advice I didn't take from my county executive who said, "Cory, stop it, stop it." He begged me to stop this because every time somebody from Burgerfield speaks, I'm still trying to prosecute the fact that my last high school game, I lost to Burgerfield and I'm upset about it. So I love you, sir. I love the town of Burgerfield, except for the 1987 football team. We are better than them over again. Okay, go ahead.

Also, where are you? Back there. You're right.