@thefernandocz: Elon Musk's pod with Rogan yesterday is mind-blowing. Let me save you 3 hours—here are the 12 most important things they talked about🧵

X.com ^ | March 1, 2025 | Post Conversation Fernando Cao @thefernandocz

[ransomnote]

https://x.com/thefernandocz/status/1895997179132866942

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
Elon Musk's pod with Rogan yesterday is mind-blowing.

They discussed:

• The chances of Musk being assassinated
• Who's really protecting the Epstein files
• Why AI could end humanity by 2030

Let me save you 3 hours — here are the 12 most important things they talked about🧵

Mar 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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18h
1. The scale of government waste is worse than anyone imagined.

$1.9 billion was sent to an NGO formed just a year ago with almost no prior activity.

The US government is losing $2 trillion per year, failing its own audits.

And it gets even worse:

[ransomnote: There's a 1:14 video clip of Rogan asking Musk about his reaction to the size of it all]Mar 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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18h
Treasury payments worth nearly $5 trillion annually had no categorization codes or descriptions - essentially blank, untraceable checks.

A change as simple as making payment codes mandatory could save $100 billion yearly.

And here's DOGE's most shocking discovery:

[ransomnote: There's a 54 second video clip of Musk explaining to Rogan the lack of descriptions on treasury funding which Musk described as 'blank checks']

Mar 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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18h
DOGE found 20M dead people marked as alive in Social Security databases.

While they weren't directly receiving payments, their "alive" status enabled fraud through disability claims, unemployment, and fake medical payments.

This is potentially the biggest scam in human history.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:02 second clip of Musk explaining that the identities of those deceased but marked as alive can then qualify for other benefits.]

Mar 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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18h
2. What's really happening with immigration?

Elon believes Democratic leadership is using immigration as a voter recruitment strategy:

In swing states where elections are decided by ~20,000 votes, adding 200,000 immigrants who vote Democrat could alter the political landscape.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:14 video clip in which Musk describes Dem purchasing votes essentially and say its an attempt to destroy the country]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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18h
FEMA, designed to help Americans during disasters, was paying for luxury hotels for illegal immigrants in New York - even AFTER Trump signed an executive order to stop it.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:11 clip of Musk talking about halting the FEMA payment to luxury hotels and the NY Government sued. Even after Trump ordered these payments to stop, FEMA still 'pressed send' on 80 million dollars in payments.]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
3. Musk had a shocking realization about X (Twitter).

If he hadn't bought the platform, Trump would have never been allowed back, Alex Jones would have remained banned, and Musk's own account could've been suspended.

The 2024 election might have had an entirely different outcome as a result.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:23 clip of Rogan asking Musk to imagine what life would have been like if he hadn't bought Twitter]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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19h
4. Musk's Mars timeline has accelerated dramatically.

SpaceX will launch several Starships to Mars by the end of next year (November/December 2025).

The goal: determine if they can successfully land intact before sending humans.

But why the urgency?

[ransomnote: There's a 1:06 clip of Musk explaining Mars mission plans]

March 1, 2025 

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
Mars missions face a fundamental time constraint. Each Earth-Mars orbital synchronization occurs every 26 months.

Musk believes we have about 15 such opportunities (roughly 30 years) to establish a self-sufficient civilization on Mars before Earth potentially faces civilization collapse.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:21 clip of Musk describing the Mars mission time frame]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
5. The SpaceX astronaut rescue mission finally has a timeline.

The stranded astronauts who've been in space for 8 months (instead of the planned 8 days) will be rescued in ~4 weeks.

Musk revealed that Biden rejected earlier rescue offers for political reasons.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:03 clip of Musk describing the planned fligh and that SpaceX has been transfering people to the space station for about a year, and have transported 50 people so far]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao @thefernandocz

6. On AI, Musk made his most alarming prediction yet:

We'll have AI smarter than any human within a year or two.

By 2029-2030, we'll likely have AI smarter than all humans combined.

But there's a fascinating silver lining to this existential threat...

[ransomnote: There's a 1:31 clip of Musk discussing AI intelligence]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
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19h
Musk estimates that there's an 80% chance AI will benefit humanity. The other 20%? Complete annihilation.

His biggest worry isn't AI itself, but AI programmed with extremist values — Elon wants to avoid a world where AI "executes people for misgendering."

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
·
19h
7. On the Epstein files, Musk didn't hold back.

The lack of transparency around the Epstein client list raises serious questions.

If Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail for sex trafficking, who exactly was she trafficking to?

But powerful interests are preventing disclosure...

[ransomnote: There's a 1:20 second clip of Rogan asking 'How can you put someone in jail for trafficking without ever naming to whom. Musk remarked it's 'common knowledge' and yet, where is the proof etc.]

March 1, 2025

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
8. SpaceX is working on a technological breakthrough that's never been achieved before.

The Starship must solve fully reusable orbital heat shields - a problem no one has solved.

The heat shield tiles are as brittle as coffee cups but must withstand both extreme cold (liquid oxygen at -330°F) and reentry heat (potentially 1000+°F).

[ransomnote: There's a 2:02 clip of Musk describing the complexity of creating the heat shield tiles.]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
9. Government's structure makes reform nearly impossible.

Musk compared it to becoming captain of a ship where the entire crew was previously your enemy.

This explains the slow pace of promised transparency:

Even high-level appointees like Kash Patel face institutional resistance when trying to release classified information.

[ransomnote: There's a 56 second clip of Musk saying he thinks Patel and Bondi are great, but they just got there, and they are in a hostile environment. He thinks we should give them a little slack there and says it's like you're the captain of a ship and everyone around you was until now, your mortal enemy.]

March 01, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
·
19h
10. Musk fears assassination.

Two separate incidents involved people traveling to Austin to kill him before his political involvement.

Now with mainstream media portraying him as a "Nazi," he believes the risk has risen.

He's careful about how hard he pushes on corruption.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:42 clip in which Rogan asks Musk about what his experience has been like with so much at stake/responsibility. Musk says 'stressful'. Rogan says 'These are real enemies' and Musk says there are posts on Reddit not just saying they want to kill him, but that they want to desecrate his corpse. Musk describes the hate his receiving as an 'anti-body' response and mentions them calling him a Nazi, and then justifying killing him because he's a Nazi. Musk asks why did the Trump shooter try to kill the President.]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
11. The Trump assassination attempt mysteries remain troubling.

The shooter's house was "professionally scrubbed" with no cutlery or personal items.

He had five phones at age 20, and his digital footprint was almost completely erased.

Strange.

[ransomnote: There's a clip of Rogan and Musk wondering about the assasin - Rogan notes that there was evidence that a cell phone had been tracked leaving the FBI and visiting the shooter's home prior to the attempt. Musk notes the same of Epstein phone records - saying they were precise enough to tell which path a person walked along on Epstein's island. ]

March 1, 2025

 

Fernando Cao
@thefernandocz
12. Musk believes our future requires becoming multiplanetary.

For the first time in Earth's 4.5 billion year history, we can extend consciousness beyond our home planet.

This window may not stay open long - civilization could collapse from war, natural disaster, or simply population decline.

Mars is our insurance policy.

[ransomnote: There's a 1:16 clip of Musk explaining Mars as a strategy]

March 1, 2025

[Whatever Works]

I also read it. It depends on what you wish to accomplish. The ISS,was economical, but did very little and you couldn’t live there without severe long-term health hazards.

The O’Neill habitat was designed to actually live and thrive permanently in Earth orbit. It’s like comparing a pup tent with Mara Lago on military steroids. It would allow us to figure out how to get further into our own solar system and perhaps even plan generational ships to another (in time).

We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.

[daku]

Thanks for posting till I get the chance to listen myself

[enumerated]

Such a claim would be grandiose were it not for the fact that it’s true - Elon Musk buying Twitter probably changed the course of history.

[SisterK]

perhaps all the libtards need to build colonies on Mars

[logi_cal869]

That’s the best idea this century!

[Axenolith]

It always kills me when people are discussing ways to bring things put up there back down. Since it’s so expensive to get stuff UP there, the “disposal method” should be cheap, reusable or ion/scavenged material driven propulsion units that will push the stuff to higher orbit, like a geostationary or Lagrange point junkyard, or push it to the moon to an area most likely to be amenable to building a base there.

They want to accelerate the decommissioning of the ISS now, and precisely due to the fact that it’s got a bunch of components wearing out, suffering cracks, etc it is THE best laboratory for people to get field experience dealing with failure in space. It’s not going to be an enjoyable experience to try to deal with an ad hoc repair or failure half way to Mars or during return...

[Carl Vehse]

This was (and is still) not just a criminal enterprise.

It is a treasonous enterprise of Demonicrats, who need to be brought to Justice through trials, convictions and sentencing.

[Whatever Works]

I agree. The ISS was planned obsolescence. The O’Neill habitat is designed as a Lagrange point station and would generate its own gravity, food, air, etc. It would be permanent and a way point for most demons to the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond.

[Arlis]

THANK YOU!

[Rockingham]

How do the inhabitants of an O'Neill space cylinder generate enough ongoing net economic value to make living there viable in the long run? If not, then they would be a continuing economic drain on the sponsor and become a dispiriting orbital welfare slum with fabulous views and low G sports.

Your analogy with Mar-a-Largo is more apt than you may realize. It was built by the fabulously wealthy breakfast cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and deeded to the US government in her will. Eventually, tiring of the costly upkeep, the US government put it up for sale, half expecting that the deteriorating pile would be torn down and something new built in its place.

Then Donald Trump swooped in, buying Mar-a-Largo with an improbable plan to restore it to glory and make it an upscale club. Many thought Trump would lose badly, but he made it work quite well. As always, having a viable business plan matters as much as having a vision.

If there is a way to make the first O'Neill space cylinder pay, it would be as a combination space service station and fantastic orbital cruise ship of sorts. The business case though first requires enough manned lunar and planetary traffic to require a service station in space and enough affordable manned launch capacity to make visits and residence there plausible in economic terms.

I think that we are at least four or five decades and a lot of technology development away from that, with practical fusion power required. And when we finally build an O'Neill cylinder, there will already be permanent human settlements on the Moon and Mars that generate lots of space traffic.

What then emerges may be more like the industrial grittiness and scheming of The Expanse than a shining, utopian city in a spinning tube in space.

[Whatever Works]

Mining the asteroid belt and establishing factories in space as well as collecting endless solar energy would pay for this.

All of this has been written about for many years. The papers are out there.

[mabarker1]

Thank You for doing this and Elon for doing the task of cleaning up the .gov fraud.

[unlearner]

“Musk wants to go to Mars. O’Neill wanted to build an orbiting space cylinder. Why not do both?... An O’Neill cylinder (also called an O’Neill colony, or Island Three) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill... [that] would consist of two counter-rotating cylinders... [and] provide artificial gravity.”

I like the idea of pursuing both, but both will have enormous challenges. And permanent off-earth colonies will probably require new energy sources and forms of propulsion.

The artificial gravity created by rotating a ship or other manmade dwelling is not the same as gravity because the acceleration is not linear which causes the Coriolis effect. It is impossible to say how this may affect living things in the long run. People, animals, and plants may not be able to adapt to it long-term any more than the rough conditions of Mars.

[Whatever Works]

Your remarks are cogent. But that is the only way to get off planet. I agree with Musk and Heinlein. The Earth is fragile and unless we learn how to get to and live elsewhere, we are doomed. It won’t be easy, but anything worth having never is.

[unlearner]

Your position is unsurprising since “Whatever Works” is the ultimate pragmatic pseudonym.

And I agree. Both approaches are worth the effort.

[Whatever Works]

I chose it because I am an engineer(retired). I’ve had many jobs, careers (also an educator) and many obstacles (family and health). I’ve learned to persevere and everything happens for a reason. God is good.

Life is what you make it. 😊

[MNJohnnie]

Never listen to one of these before. Both of these guys are really good in this format.

[one guy in new jersey]

We’re generally not troubled by galactic cosmic rays (CR) here on Terra Firma.

It’s when you emerge out from the protection provided by Earth’s magnetic field when the real trouble with cosmic rays starts.

Talk about energetic—CRs are brutal, unrelenting, and, so far, and for all practical purposes—unstoppable. Collectively, they are the implacable enemy of biological life. Shielding them? How much lead do you think it will take, if lead will even do the trick? This is going to take a scientific miracle.

[cgbg]

It is going to require a totally new artificial metamaterial created at the molecular level (nanotechnology).

Lead is way too heavy.

Since the material does not exist I cannot characterize it further at this point.

[PLMerite]

So have the stranded astronauts been rescued yet?