Posted on 05/23/2022 10:31:49 PM PDT by blam
The most significant political event in the last 18 months happened last week. No, it wasn’t the Pennsylvania primary, and it certainly didn’t have anything to do with the sham Jan. 6 committee.
(Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)
It was the announcement by Elon Musk that he’s as mad as hell, and he’s not going to take this anymore. OK, he didn’t use those exact words from the 1976 movie “Network,” but he might well have been channeling the character Howard Beale when he announced to the world that he was voting Republican this year.
News anchor Beale was characterized as “The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves” when he realized the system he worked in – network television – was rigged, and that powerful forces were manipulating him and the audience. In a soliloquy eerily relevant today, Beale threw out the script and started telling the uncomfortable truth.
“I don’t have to tell you things are bad,” he told his viewers. “Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it! … I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad!”
Well, Elon Musk has gotten mad – and when the world’s richest man gets mad, he just might shout loud enough that everyone will hear him.
The entrepreneurial wizard who founded or co-founded Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal had already been in the news for his announced plan to purchase Twitter and take it private with the intention of restoring free speech to the platform. That alone could have earned him the title of “The Mad Prophet of Silicon Valley,” for like Howard Beale, Musk had discovered that powerful forces were manipulating him and his audience on Twitter, and Musk wasn’t taking it anymore.
By making a legitimate buyout offer, Musk gained the right to inspect the books, so to speak, and what he started to uncover about the social media giant was distressing. Long-blocked accounts were suddenly resurrected. Fake accounts (or bots) were confirmed to be inflating user numbers. Unhappy Twitter employees started to out themselves as operatives of the Democratic Party – or as one employee said, in an undercover Project Veritas video, “commies.”
But all of that was child’s play compared to Musk’s next move, which was to expose the left’s “diversity is us” sloganeering as a sham. That he did so on Twitter just added icing to the cake. Here was Musk throwing down the gauntlet on Wednesday:
“In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold,” Musk wrote, adding a popcorn emoji to suggest the show was just getting started.
The next day, Musk commented on his own post: “Judging by the relentless hatestream from the far left, this tweet was spot on.”
That hate is not unexpected. As many conservatives have noted since Musk made his announcement, “Welcome to our world.” There is only one permitted narrative, and it is that Republicans are dangerous white supremacists who live in a fantasy world and are mostly Russian propagandists. Democrats, on the other hand, are noble social justice warriors who ensure an open border, keep women’s sports safe for men, and punish schoolchildren for using the “wrong” pronouns.
Yep, you can bet that the mainstream media will try to silence, smear, cancel, and crush Musk. But like Donald Trump, Musk can take it. Being a billionaire has its advantages.
I can’t say I love everything about Elon Musk or his public persona, but I love that he has 91 million followers on Twitter and isn’t afraid to offend them. He is to the younger generation what Steve Jobs was to mine, and his refusal to bow to cancel culture will inspire many to do the same. The fact that a person identified as a liberal icon, someone who has been welcomed in Democrat circles for years, would publicly recant his previous support for leftist ideology speaks volumes about where we are as a nation.
A genius who knows how to put together cars and rockets has deconstructed contemporary American politics with penetrating simplicity: The party of “kindness” is now the party of “division & hate.” Wow.
That truth bomb just blew up the 2022 midterm elections, and maybe beyond!
I’ve never loved Musk because he made his first billion subsidy farming at the expense of the US taxpayers, but I do like this bit.
Villainy wears no deadlier guise than that of Virtue.
I like the cut of his jib.
Here we go with that nonsense again.
Just how did he “subsidy farm” when he made his first billion?
And did you moan and whine when Musk paid a staggering $11 billion in taxes last year? The highest by far in America history by any individual in any one year?
Are you Pocahontas by any chance?
Everyone should ask themselves... “do I want to be in the party of losers or the party of winners?”
Socialism is for losers.
It would be funny if Musk tweeted this.....
“My next venture will now be bankrolling the campaign of the Presidential run of Donald Trump.”
Let the meltdown commence.
Or if he said he was to Zuckerburg the 2022 election.
Musk is the epitome of “crony capitalist.” We must always remember that. But I’m okay with his imperfections, just as I was with Trump’s.
I have always maintained that Dems have not mentally matured beyond the age of 16. They behave like spoiled 16 year old brats.
It would be funny if Musk tweeted this.....
“My next venture will now be bankrolling the campaign of the Presidential run of Donald Trump.”
Let the meltdown commence.
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While he’s, “Shouting Out” I wish he would call out the so called major news outlet’s COVERUP regarding Hillary Clinton’s exposed complicity in the fraudulent Russia Collusion Scandal. A public shaming is long overdue.
Dems pretend to hate America when in reality they hate themselves.
People who say the world’s population needs to come down NEVER think their own deaths could be part of that.
That, however, is the only positive thing they could do to make their goal a reality.
The democrat arty the party of division & hate sense 1828 pick up new partners Marxism and socialism some wonder how things got this way.
Vegetables belong in the refrigerator not the office.
IMO e-cars are step backwards but I am growing fond of Mr. Musk.
I think he wants to run for president. He’s following a proven model.
It reminds me of the late, great, Eddie Chiles’ radio commercials in Texas that paved the way for Ronald Reagan’s nomination in 1980.
“What are you mad about today, Eddie?”
“I’ll tell you what I’m mad about. I’m mad as hell about these Washington bureaucrats stealing us blind, ...”
I miss Eddie.
Mr. Musk will do for now.
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