Tech troll Elon Musk is pulling out all the stops
to push his lame horse Donald Trump across the finish
line.
Musk has continued doling out the $1,000,000 checks to registered
swing state voters who signed his pro Trump petition.
The DOJ confirmed to NBC News that it has received
a letter from a former DOJ official, from former DOJ
officials and former Republican lawmakers urging an investigation into whether
Musk is violating a federal statute prohibiting paying people to
register to vote.
And perhaps worse is that over the weekend, Musk yet
again joked about the assassination of Vice President Kamala Harris,
and then a church, no less.
I mentioned as a, as a joke, I meant it
as a joke that, that no one's even bothering to
try to kill Kamala, you know, 'cause there's no point.
There's no point is what, I just get another puppet,
you know?
So I'm, I'm not suggesting someone should try to kill
her.
It's pointless, but I'm just saying.
I'm just making an observation.
Nobody's bothered.
Why is that?
Because it doesn't matter.
Yeah, assassinating a puppet is pointless.
Talking about the assassination of anyone, let alone the sitting
vice president, is not a joke.
It's dark stuff and something he's talked about multiple times
since first posting about it and then deleting it last
month.
And he's not just another Twitter troll.
He is the owner of one of the world's largest
online platforms, AUS defense contractor whose star link system is
being used in current wars, and the chief animating force
of the Trump campaign.
At this point.
Beyond hitting the trail for Trump, a Musk backed group
has largely taken over Trump's ground operation in crucial battleground
states, even though, as the Guardian is reporting, some of
those canvassers are faking their efforts.
Musk is also bankrolling the Trump campaign, having invested $75
million in his Pro Trump PAC in just the last
three months.
And in a new fundraising ad this morning, the campaign
says Musk will match every dollar that is raised from
the ad.
And if you wonder why Musk would go to such
lengths for a man who seems more interested in speaking
about the genitalia of a dead golfer than providing actual
policies, good question, and here's the answer.
If Trump was to was to win, were to win,
he has said that he would make Musk part of
his administration leading a government efficiency Commission.
That means the man who has had over $15 billion
in government contracts over the past decade, including from the
Defense Department, and who is facing investigations and oversight from
all corners of the government, could now be given oversight
over those very agencies.
It all fits into Trump's talk of bringing the country
back to the Gilded Age, where a handful of the
ultra wealthy acted like oligarchs running the country.
In addition to Musk, you have another tech billionaire, Peter
Thiel, who has an ownership interest in Trump's running mate,
JD Vance.
It should scare us all that these billionaires would have
unfettered access to Trump and Vance and could operate them
like marionettes should they win.
Joining me now is Hugo Lowell, senior political correspondent for
The Guardian, and Anand Giridas, MSNBC political analyst and publisher
of the newsletter The Ink on Sub Stack.
Hugo, let me start with you.
Give me the extent of, of, of Elon Musk's involvement
in and I guess you could say control over the
Trump campaign.
It's really extensive.
I mean, if you think about this election and how
close it is, it basically the result is going to
come down to turn out and the entity that's got
the biggest presence on the ground in all of the
battleground states is Elon Musk's America Pack.
I mean, as you noted in the intro there, America
PAC is effectively doing the bulk of the Trump campaign's
groundwork.
And the way I was thinking about it was, you
know, he's basically put $75 million into the America PAC
operation, and he basically now has a way to go
back to Trump, regardless of what happens to say it
was all because of me.
If Trump wins, Elon Musk is going to have an
outsized influence in Trump's orbit in a way that I
don't think anyone else to date has had purely by
virtue of the amount of money that Elon Musk has
spent here.
And on the flip side, if Trump doesn't win, he
will have demonstrated to the Republican Party that he is
basically enabled to become a kingmaker down the road.
Whether, whether it's 20262028, if there is a Republican candidate
that Elon Musk wants to back here shown through this
cycle, he has the means and the wherewithal to try
and figure out how to do it.
And I think that's where we're headed with Musk.
You know, Anand, neither Peter Thiel nor Elon Musk can
run for president.
They were both born in South Africa, but they essentially
have 2/3 of the control of a potential next president
and vice president between them and one other billionaire.
They've given the bulk of the money that Donald Trump
is spending in this election, and he's now also controlling
their ground game.
This strikes me as incredibly dangerous, open oligarchy.
But I want to get your thoughts.
Yeah.
You know, you were talking in the last segment about,
you know, how how locked in people are to their
tribes and how hard it is to breakthrough.
But but there's a lot of research about the only
thing that does breakthrough is actually explaining to people how
they are manipulated, right.
That actually does breakthrough.
So let's I wrote a book about billionaires and how
they run this country and the and the very clever
methods they've used.
Let me let me break down the Musk move here.
First of all, you have to understand and you can
see that in the clip you showed, like a lot
of men in Silicon Valley, this is a highly personally
limited man, right?
This is a person who if if if he were
in a room with you would be probably the least
comfortable person in that room, just not particularly equipped at
understanding people.
When he when he makes comments about society, they just
sound very high school child speculating about the world without
having lived in it.
Even though he's middle-aged, he's also someone who lost a
relationship with his daughter because he was so attached to
his own ideas and his own ideology that he couldn't
let her be who she became.
Very few parents love some idea more than their own
child.
But this is the kind of limited man we're talking
about, and he's someone who's very disoriented by progress in
the future.
OK, so that's the billionaire.
What they then do, because it's a very small number
of them and in a democracy their their paucity would
be a problem, is that they then need to get
a bunch of human Shields to associate their interests, their
regular lunch pail lunch bucket union stiff interests with that
highly limited billionaire man.
And the way they do that is by ginning up
these issues of outrage, of culture, whatever that somehow are
meant to dupe specifically, I think with Elon Musk, America's
men to come to their side.
So I, I, I just want to say very clearly
to America's guys today listening to this, Elon Musk is
betting that guys are so scared of the future that
they're willing to set aside their own interests and sell
the country to him rather than fight for it.
He, he wants America's men, frankly, to be his little
bitches.
He is betting that men can be duped to be
more afraid of the future, even though there's actually so
much promise in this country for men and everybody to
build awesome things in the future.
But he wants people to be so afraid of the
future that you outsource your interest to him.
You outsource the future to his deciding and maybe a
couple of those other people.
And I actually don't think America's men want to be
Elon Musk's little bitches.
And I I actually don't think men who think of
themselves as real men outsource the protection of their families
to billionaires and what billionaires want.
And I don't think real men who think of themselves
in those terms outsource the care of their families to
dictators.