A secret dinner party of billionaires
Elon Musk has way too much power.
Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party of billionaires and millionaires in Hollywood last month. Its purpose: to defeat Joe Biden and re-install Donald Trump in the White House. The guest list included Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Travis Kalanick, and Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s treasury secretary.
Meanwhile, Musk is turning up the volume and frequency of his anti-Biden harangues on Twitter/X, the platform he owns.
Way too much power.
According to an analysis by the New York Times, Musk has posted about the president at least seven times a month, on average, this year. He has criticized Biden on issues ranging from Biden’s age to his policies on health and immigration, calling Biden “a tragic front for a far left political machine”.
“Far left.” Biden. Come on.
The Times analysis showed that over the same period of time, Musk has posted more than 20 times in favor of Trump, claiming that the criminal cases the former president now faces are the result of media and prosecutorial bias.
This is no small matter. Musk has 184 million followers on X, and because he owns the platform he’s able to manipulate the algorithm to maximize the number of people who see his posts.
We’re doomed.
Musk bought twitter to make money and control the narrative. Now making money and controlling the narrative aren’t inherently bad things, unless they are being done *at other people’s expense* by a swaggering moron.
I suppose living in interesting times is going to be replete with swaggering morons.
Unlike most stuff with Musk I find myself somewhat concerned.
Just goes to show that you shouldn’t bully a dragon, but I doubt anyone is going to spare the self-reflection to acknowledge it.
You know, I think I can see how Biden could be seen as “a tragic front for a far left political machine”. As in Biden is not himself far left; he is merely a sad figurehead being used by the far left as a means of giving themselves the appearance of continuity with traditional liberalism. We know that a vote for him is a vote to enable the continuing war on biological reality. At this point, I’m not sure he truly understands or is even aware of all the things his executive branch is getting up to. I mean, he’s not far from Ron Burgundy with teleprompters.
Not that any of this means one ought vote for Trump, mind you.
If letting the trannies get their way for just a little longer is the price of the Republic holding together and Europe/East Asia being safe I say free double mastectomies for two year olds and a land acknowledgement in every pot.