Elon Musk is driving Twitter into the ground like a bad SpaceX booster test.
Elon Musk takes part in the New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Nov. 29 in New York City.
Elon Musk, the self-made (snort) but not-for-long-at-this-rate richest guy on the planet, said the other day that his social media platform X’s advertisers could “go f— themselves.”
That’s certainly uncensored free speech.
Musk was being questioned at the New York Times 2023 DealBook Summit about the snowballing X advertiser boycott, which now includes Disney, IBM, Apple — insert big outfit name here. Those companies seem to have CEOs who go fund themselves.
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Musk was not only born on third base, his family owned the land beneath the stadium. His father, Errol Musk, at one time owned an emerald mine, and young Elon and his brother would go to Tiffany’s and hawk them — kind of like kids with a paper route.
Business Insider noted that Errol once said, “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe.”
Stuffed safe doors are also a common problem any American kid can relate to. Errol told Business Insider that one person would hold the money down while a second would slam the safe door shut “and then there’d still be all these notes sticking out, and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.” Sure. Like an allowance.
Elon Musk has lots of obvious issues besides stuffed safes. He’s rapidly unstuffing his own safe with the kind of behavior that started well before he melted down at the NYT gabfest.
In a tweet (are they still tweets or X’s?), Musk lit up the internet with his condemnation of so-called “anti-white” views, which is a pretty fancy way of saying that he thinks Hitler made the trains run on time.
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Some numbskull posted that Jews “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
“You have said the actual truth,” Musk, a kid from South Africa, a formerly noted non-anti-white nation, replied without a drip of irony.
Musk also seems to think Pizzagate is a thing, too.
You also may have heard that Musk is faintly, ever-so-slightly not that down with American democracy.
In the DealBook interview, Musk also said he couldn’t possibly support President Joe Biden (who should consider that as a campaign commercial) and seemed lukewarm on his erstwhile soulmate Donald Trump. Musk flirted for a while with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who now seems as viable as Hindenburg Airlines.
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Musk also said Rich Kid Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is “looking like a strong candidate.” Maybe for the presidency of the Mars colony Musk wants to build?
Musk ruled out the latest GOP sanity It Girl, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, as weak on his free speech mantra, which he doesn’t extend to CNN and Washington Post reporters who question him.
Since we’re here, let’s talk about SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink.
Musk has gotten over $15 billion for SpaceX since 2003 from the evil spendthrift U.S. government. Musk has teed off on National Public Radio as a big waste of federal cash (less than 1% of its funding), calling it “government-influenced media.” Your typical KQED listener is laughing at that while listening to the subversive travel host and international globalist puppet Rick Steves or the obviously socialist propaganda “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” host Peter Sagal — without question a Deep State stooge, too.
Tesla has gotten 3 billion in federal bucks through direct subsidies and tax credits for its electric cars. Gov. Gavin Newsom has also noted that Tesla has gotten cash and prizes totaling a billion clams from California as well. Even DeSantis might force a phony smile at that notion.
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Starlink? Hmm. Well, Starlink alone costs Ukraine $20 million per month, which is a vital defensive system keeping Vladimir Putin and the Russian Army at bay. Imagine depending on the tender mercies of Elon Musk and his judicious demeanor for the survival of your nation.
Israel is also handling Musk like a live, antisemitic grenade. After his X-rated endorsement of the Anti-Defamation League-bashing “anti-white” tweet, Musk slithered over to the Middle East so that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could school him quickly about the use of Starlink there.
Elon Musk driving Twitter into the ground like a bad SpaceX booster test is one thing. Being a bad businessman is not illegal. But Musk’s manbaby goofball persona rants have only clarified what he really is: a government succubus/incompetent trust fund baby who doesn’t really get American values.
Move him to Texas? Naw.
Move him to Mars. And close the safe door behind him.
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Jack Ohman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and writer. He can be reached at jackohman.net, on Instagram at @jackohman60 and Threads at @jackohman60.
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