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Is Musk Scared? He’s Really Starting to Sound Like Trump, Now Whining About Insulting Billionaires

The staff at this site spends a lot of time, daily, every day, scanning over political news, and some politically-related news (with Flare!), and it is impossible to escape some patterns that hold true through similar circumstances.

If one simply looks to Trump as the lead case because he got the most coverage as president and continues to be the center of all we see as “wrong” nowadays, and because he insists upon being the leader of the GOP despite the scandals from his administration, one easily discerns that Trump would/will increase his “volume” in saying extra crazy stuff, distracting stuff, making up false issues, and picking fights with weirdly tangential people, always ahead of revelations, some of which were suspected, some true surprises.

He was also compromised in some way, whether, willingly, vulnerable, by habit, or poor judgment. Everyone knew there were boundaries he wouldn’t cross and still hasn’t crossed. He still cannot condemn Putin’s butchering in Ukraine, for example. He says Putin made a “mistake,” as the furthest he’ll go.

These patterns hold true for his acolytes.

We move on to Elon Musk. The man has destroyed his reputation over the last six months. No one pays Elon to be political. Elon was never political. He seemed to have “bigger” things to do and we liked that. Weirdly, it would probably feel similar if Elon was suddenly acting like AOC or Eric Swalwell. Again, he seemed above it all. Electric cars, space, what about a vacuum tube running through California? Mars?

At no point did he act like he cared what you thought.

And now, he has flung himself so far right that it’s not about “free speech,” or even any real issue. He’s insulting liberals generally as if we’re entirely homogenous and all believe the exact same things with the exact same strength. He has allied himself so strongly with the Right that one wonders if he’s looking for “loyal” defenders. He has already said, “Watch for their dirty tricks.”

Sound familiar? Why does he very suddenly care what politicians say about billionaires? Even Zuckerberg doesn’t care what you think, actually – especially Zuckerberg doesn’t care what you think. Bezos is too busy trying to surpass Elon. One of these kids is not like the other.

So what is this?

Is he threatening while whining? He has enough money to “buy” any information anyone might have on anyone. This is a guy who never had time before to worry about what politicians thought. Putin has changed American politics by obviously turning us against each other, always picking one side. Tucker always takes Putin’s side, same as Gosar, Marjorie, etc.  Suddenly, very suddenly, Elon cares so deeply about politics he’ll pay over $100 billion in damages to his reputation and in the Twitter hit. And Elon picked the side Putin favors. Elon is dividing the country and has enough money to do serious damage.

We scan political news all day every day. Patterns emerge. We have seen this pattern before and it raises some disturbing questions. What is he doing?

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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