#elon #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #twitter #twitterサービス終了

Yeah, that's about right.

Elon Musk to be summoned to UK Parliament over X's role in riots

Recent provocative statements have added to concerns about Musk’s role in X

computing.co.uk/news/2024/elon…

#technews #uk #twitter #x #elonmusk

Elon Musk to be summoned to UK Parliament over X's role in riots

Controversial CEO of X set to face questioning on his and X’s role in UK riots earlier this year.

^{www.computing.co.uk}

Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers
or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities.

But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder #Palmer #Luckey and the venture capitalist #Marc #Andreessen, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology
and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.

There were tech up-and-comers, too:
Donald Trump #Jr. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital.

And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary,
Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation.

Ms. #Wiles also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.

“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer #Omeed #Malik, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.

➡️Rockbridge began with more humility.

Back in 2019, Mr. #Vance, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named #Chris #Buskirk began informally hosting a series of small dinners
that would eventually become called Rockbridge.

The group drew early support from the venture capitalist #Peter #Thiel and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.

Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla.,
or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking.

Speakers included people like #Tucker #Carlson; the Thiel protégé #Blake #Masters; the casino mogul #Steve #Wynn; the investor #David #Sacks; and #Woody #Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.

Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind.

Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.

#RockbridgeNetwork #RebekahMercer #ElonMusk #KenHowery #LukeNosek

@Npars01
Nativist ---- Terrible Father
Libertarian ---- Made his billions thanks to tax payers money
Space Enthusiast ---- His satellites are going to Kessler us off from the Universe for a generation.

#ElonMusk #Musk

Elon is never going to Mars, he's never even been into Space, he's a coward with no vision, a grifter hawking Science Fiction as a product about to be delivered.

Clown and a Creep.

#ElonMusk #Mars

Jamie Lee Curtis Quits X:”God, Grant Me The Serenity To Accept The Things I Cannot Change”
#News #ElonMusk #ElonMuskX #JamieLeeCurtis

deadline.com/2024/11/jamie-lee…

Jamie Lee Curtis Deactivates X Account

Jamie Lee Curtis Deactivates X Account: "God, Grant Me The Serenity To Accept The Things I Cannot Change"

^{Melanie Goodfellow (Deadline)}

For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.

You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…

Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.

p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack

#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump

I think there’s a good chance that Trump’s narcissism will make Musk getting a bunch of attention intolerable and he’ll kick him to the curb. Those two egos can barely fit on the same planet.
#trump #elonmusk

Obligatory…

It's time to take Old Yeller behind the shed.

#Twitter #X #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/…

1/ After #ElonMusk has started to heavily promote #Trump in the past months, #Bluesky has seen a large surge of new users while #Mastodon has not. Yet I am more convinced than ever that focusing my social media efforts on the latter was the right choice. Why?

Because Bluesky is not Trump-proof.

i researched testosterone for my PhD & i can say without reservation that high levels of #testosterone are a powerful poison of rational thought

#ElonMusk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’

#TestosteronePoisoning #politics independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.

But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.

disconnect.blog/shame-on-the-e…

#tech #elonmusk #trump #uselection #politics

Shame on the Elon enablers

Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Don't threaten us with a good time

#ElonMusk #Twitter #Meme

"It’s difficult to convey to people how much the GOP has radicalized, how much the power centers of conservative politics are in the hands of extremists, how much the rightwing intellectual sphere is dominated by some really radical ideas that are being pushed into the mainstream."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/18

"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/17

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/it…

It Could Definitely Happen Here

Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right

^{Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)}

"It’s easy to look back at the Trump years and declare, “We survived!”—unless you’re one of the thousands of Americans whose death from COVID might have been avoided if not for Trump’s mismanagement, demagoguery, selfishness, penchant for conspiracy theories, and incompetence. There’s no guarantee that any of us, in the next crisis, will be lucky again."

~ Cathy Young

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/16

thebulwark.com/p/the-next-cris…

Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come

Based on his past record, Trump should not be anywhere near American government during the next national emergency.

^{Cathy Young (The Bulwark)}

“'By my calculations he will need 58,201 flights in fully loaded Boeing 737-800s to fly them all out' and five large-scale staging grounds the size of Houston, Porter reports, concluding that it is an impossible enterprise and Trump will fail, not before creating immeasurable hardship."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/15

"When the goal is to crash the economy and cause widespread despair and ruin, depriving America of a labor force necessary for our productivity is just part of the plan. Here is the assessment of Washington Post economic columnist Edoardo Porter based on a 'reduced' proposal by Trump to deport 'only' 11 million 'unauthorized immigrants' from the U.S."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/14

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

"If Trump returns to the White House, his plans for mass deportation would unfold on 'an incomprehensible scale,' as Melissa Gira Grant writes in an excellent essay for The New Republic. Removing 15 million people is equivalent to emptying out the populations of entire countries such as Belgium or Bolivia."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/13

lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-ma…

Trump's Mass Deportation Machine in the Making

Trump's migrant detention system while president rehearsed his plans to turn the state into a mass deportation machine on an epic scale

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"Some people talk about Trump’s economic plans; others about his intention to undo the rule of law. In this five-minute video, I try to explain how the two relate: how lawlessness will wreck the economy."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/12

snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-l…

Trump's Lawless Crash (video)

Ending the Rule of Law Brings Down the Economy

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

Jay Kuo says that :Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it."

Kuo provides a list of Trump's proposed wrecking crew, led by Elon Musk and RFK Jr. He concludes,

"Fascism thrives in chaos and misery, and that is what a second Trump term expressly seeks to create."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/11

thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…

Trump's Second Term Plan To Empower Musk, RFK Jr. To Undermine Institutions

Donald Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it.

^{The Big Picture}

"This campaign is fueled by hate—hate for diversity, for progress, for women, for democracy, for expertise, for facts, for the truth itself. At its center is a pathetic, egotistical would-be dictator, fueled by his own petty, self-serving hatreds."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/10

elliotkirschner.substack.com/p…

I Hate Hate

Sadly, it's on display

^{Elliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)}

"Elon Musk could never have got himself elected into office in the US. But as the cost-cutting tsar, a made-up role Trump has promised him, he would exert extraordinary power to cause pain, with the only choice left to citizens being whether or not to hug it."

~ Zoe Williams

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/9

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

^{Zoe Williams (The Guardian)}

"If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States. Welcome to oligarchy, American style."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/8

thebulwark.com/p/donald-trumps…

Donald Trump’s American Oligarchy

The billionaires are lining up to get their bread buttered.

^{Mona Charen (The Bulwark)}

Boddie quotes Jake Tapper of CNN:

"Just a reminder, RFK Jr has no medical license, and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines. Frankly, this is what he said — kind of a deranged remark — about coronavirus."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/7

"'I'm gonna let him go wild on health,' Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy. 'I'm gonna let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines.'"

~ Maya Boddie

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/6

alternet.org/tapper-trump-rfk/

CNN’s Tapper slams Trump and RFK Jr’s plan: 'There aren’t even words to describe what hackery that is'

CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday blasted Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to join forces to take over medical government agencies. "I'm gonna let him go wild on health," Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy.

^{Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)}

"Last night, antivax crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a man who once said Covid was possibly a bioweapon that had been 'deliberately targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews—told a group of supporters on a video call obtained by CNN that Trump had promised him 'control' over America’s public health agencies."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/5

"And on Monday, he replied to an X account predicting 'markets would tumble' thanks to an 'initial severe overreaction in the economy' if Trump followed through on his mass-deportations strategy, before ultimately resulting in 'a healthier, sustainable economy.'

'Sounds about right,' Musk replied."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/4

"Elon Musk, Trump’s richest and loudest backer and his 'secretary of cost-cutting'-to-be, has repeatedly suggested that the opening act of a second Trump presidency could be a period of serious economic turbulence. On a call last Friday, he warned that 'some temporary hardship' would be necessary to put America back on a sustainable fiscal course."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/3

"In the closing days of the election, one party and its leading candidate are promising to inflict economic pain on the electorate; stating that they will turn over the top health agencies to one of the country’s leading vaccine skeptics; and pledging to pursue a disruptive, 'massive reform' to the nation’s healthcare system—historically, the sort of move that has proven extremely unpopular."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/2

"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery:

With days to go, top Trump surrogates are laying out a presidency that they admit will include some suffering."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/1

thebulwark.com/p/magas-closing…

MAGA’s Closing Pitch to Voters: Economic Pain and Health Care Sorcery

^{Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)}

"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."

~ Robert Reich

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Twitter #EconomicElites #Trump
/3

robertreich.substack.com/p/wha…

What Bezos and Musk really want from Trump

It’s all about dominance in space

^{Robert Reich}

#ElonMusk’s PAC launched an X Community supposedly focused on “exposing voter fraud & election interference."

But it's being used to dox election workers, who will likely be threatened. As far as the DOJ is concerned, threats to election workers will be investigated & prosecuted.

This is another case of Musk using his platform to interfere with the election.

spockosbrain.com/2024/10/30/th…

“America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.”

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
#politics #ElonMusk #Voting
wired.com/story/elon-musk-amer…

Elon Musk’s rightward turn includes an extreme right fascination: Civil war
Musk has posted about an impending civil war on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months. Some warn it’s dangerous rhetoric.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon… #ElonMusk #ElonMuskIsAWhiteSupremacist #CivilWar #Europe

Elon Musk has been predicting civil war in Europe for nearly a year

^{David Ingram (NBC News)}

NEW: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC has spent $144 million and over 40% went to Phil Cox - I analyzed FEC filings and found that $61.7 million was paid to firms linked to former GOP and DeSantis operative Phil Cox, who helps run America PAC.

#ElonMusk #Musk #AmericaPAC #Trump #PhilCox

My latest:

newstracs.com/musks-america-pa…

Musk's America PAC spent $144 mil, 40% to firms tied to PAC head

Elon Musk’s Pro-Trump America PAC has spent $144 million and over 40% was paid to firms tied to Phil Cox who co-manages America PAC

^{Wendy Siegelman (NewsTRACS)}

#ElonMusk 's PAC will be gathering unverified stories of voter fraud & election interference.
They will use this information in combination with their own, " media" in order to make the appearance of widespread voter fraud.

General Flynn's organization has said that they will use this information to protest at the State House in NC, demanding that they investigate before verification.
#Election #