Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
I like Elon Musk’s style, his refusal to conform to the dictates of the dictators, and his cool sci-fi villain’s name, but here’s the thing – I am under no illusions that Elon Musk is going to save us. A visionary thinker? Yep. A useful ally? Sure. But the guy who is going to save America? Nope. That’s not his intention and that’s not how this works. We gotta save ourselves.
Elon Musk is useful for discrete tasks that require both money and testicular fortitude, like trying to buy Twitter. Throwing off the censorship of Cupertino’s Dolores Umbridge corps – there’s a reference for you Harry Potter virgins – will be invaluable not primarily because it will allow the shunned the chance to tweet again, but because it will cheer our side and demoralize the enemy. Remember, our elite enemy is desperately trying to stick its soft, girlish fingers in the narrative dike to plug up the leaks of unapproved thought that keeps spilling out. The ruling caste knows it maintains its sinecure not by persuasion but by power; if they can’t silence and subdue us, they’ll be trampled in the stampede to those who actually can adequately perform the job of running society. That’s why suddenly free speech has morphed into a threat to democracy. And, of course, democracy is also a threat to democracy.
Now, let’s be clear who we are talking about or, rather, who we aren’t. Donald Trump is not one of these oligarchs. He was a celebrity with a personal brand built over the years. Yeah, he was a rich guy with his own plane, plenty of real estate, and top-shelf arm-candy, but he was also tight with a buck. Trump’s impact came from taking his place at the head of an orphan political movement no one else had the vision to lead. It did not come from him opening up his checkbook.
Money can be extremely helpful even though it is not a substitute for political leadership. The Elon Musks and the Peter Thiels and the rest of the not-left rich guys can be useful at times, but they are not conservative ideologues like us. It is not that they do not have a comprehensive political vision. It is that, except for Trump and maybe Ross Perot, they are not positioned to become the avatar of one out there in the electorate that existing pols have failed to claim and harness.
For that reason, to lean on the Crassus contingent, is to court consistent disappointment. Remember the Koch Brothers? They gave the libs fits, but they were not America First nationalists. They were quirky libertarians who, for every three good policy positions, held one that we reject, like freeing criminals or sending a bong to every high school grad. The last one is probably not a thing, but only because they didn’t think of it before fading away.
Again, they were intermittently useful, and in the main a plus, but they were not us.
Not surprisingly, the businessmen tend to focus on the businessy stuff. And the economic factors are important but are not necessarily determinative of the issues that really matter in our lives. What is really contributing to the falling quality of American life is not just the fact that gas costs so much you have to run a credit report to fill up your Chevy, though that is important. Sure, that a lot of manufacturing jobs departed to lesser countries is also an issue (and one the rich guys tend not to get super worked-up over), but that’s also not necessarily the main issue today.
The main issue today is culture, as in who gets to run it – us or the woke groomer mutants? And that issue is the one that the rebel oligarchs are least likely to rebel over. They don’t have kids in public schools. Little JOmNerf#$, or whatever bizarre name Musk laid on his last kid, is not going to come home and say “Daddy, my teacher told me I am privileged and also that my penis has nothing to do with my sex.” This is a problem that we less enormously wealthy people face. So, it’s probably not really on his radar screen; in Musk’s case, there is a literal radar screen and it will soon be tracking a rocket to Mars.
Even if he was interested, it is unclear what he could do to help solve this. Big money works in the macro, though Mark Zuckerberg’s targeted payoffs to Democratic municipalities to manufacture Democrat votes pioneered a new way to do it. That probably won’t happen again, as we’ll be watching for a rerun next time, and you know the Democrats will be watching for the same from us. What fighting these battles takes is really a hundred thousand outraged moms showing up at school board meetings and yelling and running themselves if they can’t scare the incumbents into doing their jobs instead of submitting to Big Woke.
This is something only we can do. Elon Musk can help at the margins, but he is not going to make it all better for us. Nor should he. Looking for a white knight with big bags of cash to pour out and make it all better is dodging our duty. We are citizens, and being a citizen takes work. Serfs and subjects have it easy. They toil in their masters’ field then kick back afterwards. But we not only have to do our own toiling in our own fields, but we have to take some of our free time to go participate in our own governance.
And that is how it should be. Let’s welcome the rich guys who want to help us out where they can. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that this is our country, and we are the ones responsible for taking it back.
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Well, no one is going to make anything better for the common people simply because they’re not part of the equations pursued by our Elites. Nothing will ever be solved until the current system completely collapses. And if you are going to go vote in some election like it matters, knowing what we know now, then you are a damned fool.
Exactly! The Dems will probably suffer a massive defeat in November, but it doesn’t matter when you have McConnell paying for Murkowski’s reelection campaign, Graham screaming for Putin’s assassination, and Collins voting for the angry black woman who just got on Scotus. No solutions will come from DC, even if we have the best possible conservative POTUS in place. The only solutions will come from red states saying “enough!” and defying DC.
There won’t be a “massive defeat” of the socialists in November if enough people choose to not vote, for whatever reason. Conservatives staying home on election day helped the democrats in November 2020 when 40% did not vote.
If you say so.
And if you don’t vote, regardless of your excuse, you have no right to complain, so just Shut up!
Willy, you’ve got that backwards by precisely 180 degrees.
Unless that was /s?
It’s so hard to tell in current year clownworld.
“quirky libertarians who” live and die by muh free market bailouts and subsidies . Capitalism is reeeeellll…reeeee
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Musk is no different. Ticket takers get paid . Hard work , sacrifice and a level playing field exist only in your feelz. Capitalism is a Khazarian op too.
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Whenever someone starts talking about true socialism you’re about to go broke and then shot in front of ditch.
Unless it is National Socialism (: That starts with rebuilding a homogenous, high-trust society of one’s own people. Most people are less concerned with sharing resources when the resources go to one’s own people.
You got a down vote but you are right. Tribalism has been a reality since the dawn of time.
“Sure, that a lot of manufacturing jobs departed to lesser countries is also an issue (and one the rich guys tend not to get super worked-up over), but that’s also not necessarily the main issue today.” Totally wrong. NAFTA was the original sin that started the culture wars. Niggas didn’t gangbang when they had to get up in the morning to go make $35 an hour building Chevrolets. We wouldn’t be arguing over $15 an hour McDonald’s employees. There’s a lot of missing rungs to the ladder towards the American dream created by sending all of our industry offshore. Now, government and increasingly publicly traded companies have absorbed way too many of the illiterate who have bought college degrees, yet possess no skills. The next step for our society is sloughing off these people, getting them back to cleaning motel rooms and pumping septic tanks. Musk is where he’s at because he only had one criteria for hiring. Stone Cold competence. That’s where we’re headed. It’s a glorious thing.
Mr. Musk has a boss over him somewhere. I would say his bankers or funders are the first place to look. That would tell us whose asset he is.
Don’t be stupid. Musk has no boss. He has stayed independent of a lot of things that tried to destroy him less than 5 years ago. Not fair to call him an oligarch either. He built his companies. Real companies that create real things. The market priced it.
Mr. Musk has so far produced little of value to society except a few ratty cars full of bugs and some rockets that we read about every now and then. His enterprise would normally be called a scam but apparently he’s the apple of someone’s eye. And he has bankers. What more is there to say?
Brilliant stuff. Support every white populist uprising everywhere. A lot of those uprisings like the truckers and the school uprisings have non-white allies too.
Joe Rogan needs to ask Elon Musk about this pic of his mother.
Schlichter got jabbed, so I take his “I’m the new Paul Revere” act with a huge dose of salt. He fell for it hook, line and sinker!
Come on, he just wanted to travel.
I don´t know who “Elon Musk” is, but a visionary thinker as I define it he is not.
He’s a conman. He did not start Paypal or Tesla. He just conned himself in, and propagandized he was a founder. You can’t deny he is a great businessman. He pays off the powers that be. He’s all in on the global warming hoax. But he does seem to approve of some level of freedom for the masses.
Then you are dumber than a post