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Elon Musk at Trump rally: ‘This is the most important election of our lifetime’

From LifeSiteNews
“Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don’t know what’s going on, if they don’t know the truth, how can you make an informed vote?”
Business mogul Elon Musk declared during Saturday’s Trump rally that he believes the upcoming U.S. presidential election is “the most important” we will live to see.
“I think this election is the most important election of our lifetime. This is no ordinary election,” said Musk, while alongside Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same location where the president nearly lost his life just three months ago.
The X owner praised Trump’s courage amid the assassination attempt, considering it a defining moment. “The true test of someone’s character is how they behave under fire,” said Musk.
“America is the home of the brave,” he continued. “There’s no truer test than courage under fire. Who do you want representing America?”
Musk went on to highlight what he believes are some of the most important issues at stake in this coming election.
“The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech. They want to take away your right to bear arms. They want to take away your right to vote effectively,” he said, pointing out that 14 states now do not require voters to show ID.
“Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don’t know what’s going on, if they don’t know the truth, how can you make an informed vote?” he continued.
“That’s why we have the First Amendment,” Musk said, adding that the Second Amendment helps to preserve the rights listed in the First, to cheers from the crowd.
“President Trump must win to preserve the constitution. He must win to preserve democracy in America,” Musk declared.
The SpaceX founder went on to implore Americans to register to vote, and text “everyone” they know to ask them to register to vote and “make sure they actually do vote.”
“If they don’t, this will be the last election. That’s my prediction,” warned Musk. “Nothing is more important.”
During Saturday’s rally, the former president highlighted the goals of his hopeful next administration, including sealing the border, deporting illegal immigrants, making the U.S. energy independent, lowering inflation, and cutting taxes so that Americans can again afford the basics of living.
“No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. And no tax on social security for our great seniors. Inflation has killed our seniors…it’s just horrible,” said Trump.
He further pledged to “keep critical race theory and gender insanity out of our schools,” as well as “defend religious liberty,” “secure our elections,” and “keep men out of women’s sports.”
“From the very beginning of this journey, I’ve been on a mission to rescue our country from a failed and very corrupt political establishment,” said Trump.
“In that mission I will never quit, I will never bend, I will never break, I will never yield, not even in the face of death itself.”
Alberta
Can Trump Revive The Keystone Pipeline?

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By David Blackmon
In a post on his Truth Social media platform Monday night, President Donald Trump said he still wants to see the Keystone XL pipeline through to completion. Here is the full text of the president’s post:
“Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just thinking, that the company building the Keystone XL Pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden administration should come back to America, and get it built — NOW! I know they were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!”
For those unaware, the company that spent a decade attempting to finance, obtain permits, and build the Keystone XL pipeline project is TC Energy (formerly Trans Canada), which is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Fraught with controversy from the beginning, Keystone XL became a true political football during the Barack Obama presidency as the anti-oil and gas lobby in the U.S. mounted a disinformation campaign to kill public support for it. The mounting of the costly disinformation campaign made the process of obtaining permits at all levels of government – state, local, and federal – far more difficult and time-consuming, needlessly running up the project’s cost in the process.
After the Obama State Department led by Secretary John Kerry refused to issue the international cross-border permit required to complete the line, Trump quickly acted to ensure its approval early in his first term in office. By the time Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021, TC Energy had invested billions of dollars – creating thousands of high-paying jobs in the process – and well over half the line was already in the ground. Still, despite the huge sunk cost and lacking an ability to cite any instance in which TC Energy stood in violation of any U.S. law or regulation, Biden took the extraordinary, indefensible step of cancelling the project with the stroke of a pen.
But can the project really be revived now? It’s an important question given that Keystone XL was designed to bring as many as 830,000 barrels of Canadian oil per day into the United States for refining and delivery to markets.
Here, it is key to note that – as I pointed out last November when then-President-elect Trump raised this topic – TC Energy is no longer the owner of the moribund project. The remnants of Keystone XL were included in a group of assets TC Energy spun off last year when it formed a new company named South Bow Energy.
Complicating matters further is the fact that, after it decided the pipeline was a lost cause back in 2021, TC Energy pulled the installed pipe out of the ground so it could be repurposed for other projects in its portfolio. Then, there’s the fact that many of the permits the company spent years trying to obtain from various levels of governments are no longer valid and would have to go through the application and approval processes again were the project to be revived.
At the federal level, the Department of Interior and FERC would govern most of the necessary permitting processes. President Trump ordered all of his departments and commissions in January to research ways the executive branch can streamline the federal processes and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum included that goal as one of his 6 top priorities in a memo to staff dated February 3.
But even if those projects are successful in speeding up permitting at the federal level, they would have no impact on such challenges at the state and local levels. Activist groups who organized the opposition to the project saw great success in holding up permitting issuances at these lower levels of government, and would no doubt revive that strategy to attack any effort to restart the pipeline.
There can be no doubt that Trump’s desire to get the pipeline built is a laudable goal from a commercial, environmental and national security standpoint. Whether it is a practical goal is another question with many factors arrayed in opposition to it.
But one thing I’ve learned long ago is to never underestimate Donald Trump’s ability to get a deal done, so no one should give up hope just yet.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.
Business
Elon Musk: ‘I’m getting a lot of death threats’ due to DOGE

From the LifeSiteNews
The work of DOGE is ‘not an optional thing. It is an essential thing,’ Elon Musk said. ‘If we don’t do this, America will go bankrupt.’
At the Trump administration’s first cabinet meeting, Elon Musk said that he’s “taking a lot of flak” for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), adding, “I’m getting a lot of death threats.”
“We simply can’t sustain as a country a two trillion-dollar deficit,” said Musk, explaining why the work of DOGE is so important to the functioning of the country.
“Just the interest on the national debt now exceeds Defense Department spending,” said the tech billionaire. “We spend a lot on the Defense Department, but we’re spending over a trillion dollars on interest. If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.”
Only DOGE can save the US from bankruptcy
Musk said that the work of DOGE is “not an optional thing. It is an essential thing.”
“If we don’t do this, America will go bankrupt,” he emphasized. “That’s why it has to be done.”
“I’m confident at this point … that we can find a trillion dollars in savings,” he said. “That would be roughly 15 percent of the seven trillion-dollar budget.”
“And obviously that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room,” he said to the cabinet secretaries. “And I would like to thank everyone for your support.”
“DOGE is a support function for the president and for the agencies departments to help achieve those savings and to effectively find 15 percent reduction in fraud and waste,” he explained.
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