Elon Musk’s Big Mistake

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

For a genius, Elon Musk sure got it wrong. He fell for the okey-doke. He took seriously what he was told when he arrived in America. That was a grave error because the story he was told – and the story those of us outside the ruling caste are told – is not the same story that the ruling caste tells itself. It should be, but it isn’t. All that stuff about hard work and free speech – that’s great stuff. But the hard truth is that those who would rule us do not believe a word of it. The hard work part applies only to us; the free speech only to them. And they were understandably baffled when Elon showed up and demonstrated that he fell for their scam.

Dude, what gives? It was all rube bait to get the proles to toil and obey. But now that Elon is acting like what he was told was real, well, that’s screwing everything up.

What was Elon told? He was told that hard work pays off and that it is the key to success. And that is true for us, in the sense that we get to work hard even though it less and less pays off in a country where the deck is stacked against everyone but the feudal few in their blue fiefdoms, like the nicer parts of DC, LA, and NYC. We get to work hard, and we expect a lot from the people we supervise too. Elon worked hard and expected a lot from his folks at Tesla, and he built a massive company with a successful product (successful enough that I own some of its stock and have made a pretty paper profit even after the recent decline resulting from the establishment’s concerted attack on the uppity entrepreneur). Then he did the same at SpaceX, which is doing amazing things. But what do these enterprises have in common?

They make stuff. Unlike so much of what the consultants, scribblers, synergy sellers, and diversity hustlers of the ultra-white-collar class do, what Elon’s companies do is real. A Tesla either runs or does not. SpaceX builds tubes full of explosives that must blow up into space without blowing to bits. It has to work, or that’s the end of that. It’s not how it works for some assistant gender studies professor at Gumbo State, who can publish “Decolonizing the Patriarchal Dynamics of the Male Gaze In the Music of 4 Non-Blondes” in the Northeastern Journal of Phallocentric Resistance and not just keep getting a paycheck but get treated like an intellectual instead of a clown.

Making Teslas was one thing, but Twitter, well, that’s another thing entirely. Twitter operated with mediocre functionality – nothing detonated when Twitter went down except blue check’s heads. It operated while run by a bunch of spoiled brats living in San Francisco presuming to decide what the rest of us can see and hear. And they worked, sort of, three-hour days, often in their footie PJs, often at home or sometimes at an office that seems more like a playground for awkwardly adulting 20-somethings. But Elon did not get that reality. He thought Twitter was a business instead of a framework of sinecures for the sons, daughters, and non-binary otherkin of the ruling caste to act as cultural curators. Disgorged from overpriced colleges, these unaccomplished yet smug twits imagined their worthless credentials gave them some sort of divine right to rule, and also a free pass from actually working hard.

When Elon took over, he saw them lolling about on bean bags drinking subsidized kombucha and fired a whole bunch of them. And you know what? Twitter was just fine without them. But the newly unemployed drones were not fine, nor were their cultural fellow travelers who joined the outrage against the guy who simply expected hard work and focuses from those he wrote a paycheck to. But hard work and focus are for the suckers who sweat when they work, who dig, who hammer, who soldier. It’s not for our precious Kadens and Ashleigh. How could Elon not know that?

Probably because he was focused on actually accomplishing something rather than gliding through life as part of the unaccountable ruling class. Elon believed that the concept of hard work applies to everyone, not just people named Ernie, Roberta, or Jose. But that was never the intent of the people at the top of the pyramid. They expect us to slave for them as they free spirit their way through life following their “passions” and posting Instagram selfies from places the rest of us probably will never see.

And Elon Musk was also told, when he arrived from repressive South Africa (via repressive Canada), that you could say whatever you wanted in America, that free speech was our highest secular value. And it was never a problem for Elon because he was not a conservative guy, not one of those evil right-wingers who were getting censored. What he said was just fine – he was within the paradigm and no one was telling him to shut up and be quiet. It was no big deal because his speech was always free. That’s the thing about free speech – the issue never comes up if you are not saying something that offends those in power.

So Elon believed what he was told, that we could all say what we thought without fear of being gagged or punished since he was never gagged or punished. After all, he was a Democrat. But that restless curiosity that led him to build Tesla and SpaceX from nothing drew him beyond the thought boundaries set out for the ruling caste. Elon started looking at intriguing new ideas, ideas not in vogue within his caste. And what he saw could not be unseen. It was the gagging of the hilarious Babylon Bee that broke it open for him. The Bee made a funny comment about the man pretending to be a woman who is the surgeon general being the Woman of the Year and BOOM – off Twitter.

The ruling caste decreed that you could not point out that a man pretending to be a woman was a man pretending to be a woman. That was mind-blowing to Elon. That’s pretty basic free-speech stuff. We are not talking about incitements to murder, pornography, or the revelation of national defense secrets. No, this was a joke about how a man pretending to be a woman is a man pretending to be a woman. And for making that joke – for crossing one of the red lines of the ruling caste by saying what everyone on earth knows but they don’t want you to say – Babylon Bee, an outlet millions of people read, was to be silenced and perhaps even driven to bankruptcy.

Oh, that Elon and his linear thinking again. He believed in free speech and its inevitable consequence – that people will say things that other people dislike. But Elon is a man of action. So he bought Twitter. And he is now freeing those gagged by the ruling caste.

And the ruling caste is aghast.

It is interesting to watch Elon as he sifts through the censorship regime on Twitter. The disconnect between America he was promised and the America of 2022 is blowing his mind. He’s still not a conservative – all that red-pilling you see is simply him holding Twitter up to the standards he was told America adhered to when he landed here. He was told that you get to say what you want, even if other people – including the most powerful people in society – do not approve. He’s just making that true again.

Elon deserves our thanks for the substantive relief he has brought to the muzzled and the gagged (though I and others are still throttled and stuck within the same 2K follower count band for six months – follow me at @KurtSchlichter and fight the power!). But we should save our greatest gratitude for how his naïveté and innocence – for which he should be applauded for stubbornly clinging to – have revealed the rotten core of our ruling caste. Politicians were outraged that conservatives would be allowed to speak freely and threatened his businesses and even his freedom – notice how all these “investigations” suddenly happened the minute he challenged the liberal Borg? Under leftist pressure, other corporations withdrew advertising to try to kill off Twitter – such is their terror at one outlet not under their Birkenstocks’ heels. And the regime media melted down at the thought of “unmoderated” content escaping to circulate among the proles.

Guess who they think should be the moderators?

They lied to us about hard work. Oh, it was fine for us to toil to get them shiny electric cars or rockets. But hard work was not meant for, you know, them. And they lied to us about free speech. That was meant for them, and only them. And only within the appropriate bounds.

Elon Musk’s crime is that he believed the lies that the ruling caste told him, but he went one step further and dared hold the ruling caste to its lies. That’s why they hate him That’s why they want to destroy him. And that’s why we should not only thank him but also have his back.

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Elon worked hard and expected a lot from his folks at Tesla, and he built a massive company with a successful product (successful enough that I own some of its stock and have made a pretty paper profit even after the recent decline resulting from the establishment’s concerted attack on the uppity entrepreneur). Then he did the same at SpaceX, which is doing amazing things. But what do these enterprises have in common?

Billions of dollars in government subsidies, grants, and contracts.

And not a week goes by where we don’t see a Tesla blowing up and killing people or driving into a crowd of people standing on the sidewalk. If that’s how you rate success, then yeah, he’s killing it.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

This article sounds like a big jerk session for a WEF graduate and supporter.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

As are most articles that appear in a mainstream venue.

Do not believe for one second that Musk is anything other than a bellwether and a stalking horse for Trad-Americans. His free speech schtick is threadbare at best (you can’t discuss 9/11?).

overthecliff
overthecliff

The Farmer has seen through the crap again. Farmer might be wrong but I doubt it.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

I will only trust Elon Musk if he puts a human on Mars.

/sarc

Anonymous
Anonymous

With a subsidy from NASA?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I will trust him when he puts himself on Mars, and stays there.

awoke
awoke

Yeah, richest (publicly acknowledged) man in the world has the wool pulled over his eyes and isn’t doing what the elite want. Sure.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Or is he?

Remember how Cointelpro works?

Control both sides of the debate.

If he was causing them any concern whatsoever he would lose every contract he has and the banks would shut him down.

Has that happened?

Enjoy the theater if you like, but do not confuse it with reality.

Red River D
Red River D

What. Every time I ever bought a company for 44 billion, the previous owners ALWAYS left behind reams and stacks of incriminating evidence.

Happens all the time!!!

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

‘zactly, Seth.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

All we have here is a bunch of Jews bitching at one particular Jew. That’s all it is. I figure (((The One))) is working for another faction attempting to gain their piece of The Carve-Up of the World. And we’re all living in countries that all have a central bank. So nothing changes, until the whole fiat system collapses, and our overlords are just as broke as we peons.

YourAverageJoe

It would be nice if he took over ZeroHedge, ditched the Tylers and allowed more freedom of speech.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Let it go.

eraser
eraser

Let’s not get to excited about this guy; I’d hate to wake up pregnant. My money says Musk is the most charismatic anti-Christ to date.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

A lot of these contradictory things can be true at the same time. He works hard and he benefits from government subsidies. He runs Starlink – which helps the NATO effort in the Ukraine, but he’s releasing e-mails from the Biden Administration directing unconstitutional censorship. It might just be that he’s inconsistent – working with the Deep State when it benefits him, but irking them when he feels like it. Obviously he’s no savior. I’m glad that I – who have (has?) no Twitter account – can again surf Twitter without being blocked by pop-ups telling me to join.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

The time is approaching when the democrats will need to jettison the Corrupt, Creepy, Senile, Old Pedophile and this week’s release of the evidence of the collusion we all knew was going on is the beginning salvo. The republicants will assume power in the House in 4 weeks and can begin their investigations into the Biden crime family. A deal will be struck for Joey to retire to his basement in return for a dismissal of any charges against his family. We will then have the “historic” elevation of the first female POC / POS to the position of resident. After January 20, she will be qualified to be elected for 2 terms.

TampaRed
TampaRed

tn,
since you are coming up w/scenarios,the reps should initiate an investigation of the veep so that the dems would not allow potus to resign —
biden 4 a couple more years would be no worse than harris 4 a couple of years & it would keep the scandals in front of the public —
at the same time they should be digging hard 4 dirt on any possible 2024 dem candidates,the same way that the dems are going after rep potentials,esp. desantis —
the commies are pushing hard on the financials of the immigrant flights that fla has used & there is a trial currently going on about the state atty from here in tampa that desantis suspended —

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I like your idea, Red. Since she was put in charge of the border, maybe they should haul her up there with Mayorkis for some show trials. Drag the Hunter investigation out for another year and then start the trial in a red controlled state around August 2024

Anonymous
Anonymous

The next two years matter little; in ’24 it will be none other than Big Mike.

Thunder
Thunder

But I want to she her/his unadulterated birth certificate with either a M or F ticked.

AKJOHN

Your sounding hopeful today. What’s got into you. LOL

Junious Ricardo Stanton

What you say has a lot of merit but I don’t think the cabal will be able to push KH if she runs on her own. Then again they set the table for Creepy Joe so anything is possible.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Funny, isn’t it? Fire 3/4 of the employees andsuddenly it works better.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Musk believes in Musk, not free speech. He won’t let Alex Jones back.

Thunder
Thunder

There is something suspect about that Elon fellow. I can’t put my finger on it but anyone who carries out security fraud openly, never gets arrested, pump and dumps crypto and survives on Government cheese is bad enough. This twitter takeover is the biggest red flag ever.
He will probably suffer an unfortunate accident should he keep digging for the Nigger in the woodpile.
Just saying, No one is that blessed, No one!

Junious Ricardo Stanton

The globalist cabal will take Elon Musk to the proverbial woodshed and spank him for his impudence. He may learn the lesson and get back on the reservation, time will tell. There is too much at risk here, far more than just the Big Tech censorship. They are coming after him about his Neuralink project that he recently announced would be ready in 2023 pending FDA approval. This may be one way to punish him, although what he is doing is part of the overlords’ transhumanism agenda. But they can always get someone else to do something similar. He either will heel and kowtow before the other billionaires or they will take him down a peg. BTW he is not richer than the Rothschilds so don’t believe the media hype.

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