GREG GUTFELD: These California officials are abusing their power to punish Elon Musk

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the panel discuss California officials rejecting Elon Musk's SpaceX launches on ‘Gutfeld!’

So last week, this is interesting, something called the California Coastal Commission rejected SpaceX's request to launch more rockets from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, which is about 150 miles north of L.A. The commission claims they're worried about the environmental impact and the sonic booms that ring out for hundreds of miles. After all, you wouldn't want to wake up those 180,000 homeless in their tents before noon time, would ya? But launches like these have been done for the past 70 years. Not to mention the other sonic booms they allow, like letting Eric Swalwell eat bean burritos from Taco Bell. But the commission's own words prove they're less worried about SpaceX's environmental impact than Musk's social impact. Here's Chairwoman Caryl Hart.

CARYL HART: Dealing with a company that does not-- that is-- the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race.

See, what she should have said was, we're dealing with someone who's injected himself into the presidential race, who isn't helping the Democrats. But see, that would be honest. The trait that most bureaucrats abhor. After all, Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. The Soros Foundation funds left-wing DA's left and right. And Zuckerberg helped swing an election for Joe in 2020. See, they're not mad Musk's a political billionaire. They're mad he's not their political billionaire. Listen to Commissioner Mike........

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