The Enemy Within

Trump is losing this election. His only hope of winning is if Elon Musk's attack on America succeeds.

When South Africa sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing crime. They’re racists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Elon Musk is not a good person

Here's a 2013 video showing Elon and his brother Kimbal admitting they obtained millions in seed money for their 1995 startup Zip2 despite not being legally allowed to start a business in the US.

Musk was on a student visa in 1995 and did not graduate from University of Pennsylvania until 1997. To fix that timeline problem—and move up the date of his eligibility for an H-1B visa—Musk would later tell the lie that he graduated in 1995.

Having made his first millions by stealing startup funding from legally eligible US entrepreneurs, Musk has, less than 30 years later, catapulted himself to the status of the world's richest man, currently worth around $250 billion.

Elon Musk is a scam

Musk has built his success on the ideas of others and thanks to a massive taxpayer-funded stimulus loan from President Obama that saved Tesla from bankruptcy. Along the way he's mistreated workers, turned his back on California, and been so weird and Trumplike in his always-wrong pronouncements that comedian Alex Falcone makes a convincing case he's a total scam:

Sadly for those who helped him get where is today, Musk is now using his unprecedented wealth to actively commit crimes in a slimy bid to overthrow democracy in his adopted home.

Musk in 2024 is the candidate Trump pretended to be in 2016

As Will Stancil tweeted recently:

We've never seen anything like this in American history: the richest guy on earth purchasing a presidential candidate and election directly, running the infrastructure of the campaign out of his pocket, so that he can essentially elect himself shadow president.

Unlike Trump, Musk is really rich and actually self-funding a campaign to capture the Presidency.

Two weeks before an election in which he's asking America to go full-fascist, the shape of Elon's massive election interference scam is now visible.

It's a plan that took shape over the past four years—and which has put Elon Musk in a position to lie and cheat his way to becoming the most powerful Shadow President in US history.

How did he do it?

He did it by impersonating Donald Trump.

The business part was easy.

Musk has long acted like a high-tech, on-the-spectrum version of the carnival barking clown Trump. His M.O. is to sell false promises, exploit workers and bamboozle investors. He puts his name on everything that goes well. Quickly walks away from the disasters he causes.

The problem was, in becoming the Henry Ford of the 21st Century, Musk had convinced everyone he was some kind of visionary, way too smart to be part of the poorly educated MAGA cult.

To effectively become Trump, Musk still had to convince people that he, like Ford, was dead serious about "using his immense power and influence to quash unions, control immigrant workers and vilify Jewish people."

Musk couldn't, of course, simply switch his Iron Man costume for a Nazi uniform. He needed to radicalize the masses more gradually than that. He needed to destroy "cancel culture" before revealing what a cancelable POS he truly is.

After all, this is the same CEO who quit two of Trump's business advisory panels in 2017 after Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, tweeting: "Climate Change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world."

Elon may not be as smart as many people thought. But even he knows, you can't go overnight from pretending to care about the planet to endorsing the candidate literally willing to sell it to Big Oil for $1 billion.

Musk made himself too big to fail—and too big to jail

As his wealth multiplied in the Covid era, Elon realized he could use his untaxed and unrealized paper profits to become king (or kingmaker) of the (post-dollar) world.

When Trump was banned from social media after inciting an insurrection in 2021, Musk saw his opportunity.

Like many rightwing grifters before him, Musk realized that simply by leaning in to his racist, misogynistic, schoolboy-humor loving ways he could become just as famous for "owning the libs" as he was for making exploding cars or dreaming about colonizing Mars.

With Trump no longer tweeting, Elon became Twitter's new Trump, literally behaving like a Trump parody account.

With Trump out of the running for future SNL hosting duties, Musk put his hand up. Just four months after January 6, he hosted the show, as humorlessly as Trump had in 2015.

At the time, Musk was endearing himself to crypto bros and meme investors by regularly hyping Dogecoin on Twitter. By the time he hosted SNL, DOGE had become the fifth largest cryptocurrency in the world, with the market cap of $70 billion. After he admitted the junk coin was a "hustle" on Weekend Update its price plunged immediately. Three-and-a-half years later, it is the ninth largest cryptocurrency worth only $20 billion.

Meanwhile, new stock market highs continue to be set on a regular basis under the Biden-Harris administration. (A fact that I point out in case you needed further proof that the safest and best performing investments are index funds during Democratic presidencies, not the get-rich-quick-schemes promoted by charlatans like Musk or Trump.)

The one thing that has grown since Musk's SNL appearance is his following on Twitter (now X). Five months after his $44 billion purchase closed in October 2022, he overtook Barack Obama to become the most followed account on the site.

Today, he has more than 200 million followers on a platform he routinely manipulates to boost his own posts and other right-wing accounts he favors.

The way Elon Musk has run Twitter has made no sense from a business perspective...

... But it makes a lot of sense if his goal all along was to make the site as attractive as possible to young, easily manipulated male users.

Today's X is a "town square" where the worst tendencies of depressed and disaffected young men are nurtured and allowed to flourish. Musk has welcomed back the worst voices of the alt-right and the "manosphere," including Andrew Tate, an international sex trafficker best known for his instructional videos on how to beat up women to make them obey you.

Under Musk, X is not a place that bans you for being a Nazi. It pays you. And the more you can make people "engage" with your content (positively or negatively), the more you get paid.

Having gathered the world's most unlovable incels, racists, misogynists, and crypto bros on his site, Elon, their benevolent leader, gave them what they really wanted: Porn.

For a small monthly (blue-check) fee, Elon will now even let you make your own porn with Grok AI.

He may have destroyed Twitter as a business, but even though it may disappoint those who invested in his $44 billion purchase, Elon Musk has done a great job in turning X into a campaign arm of Trump and the "Dark MAGA" GOP.

As Trump did in 2016, Elon Musk is committing crimes to cheat in an election

As owner of X, Elon already has an incredible amount of the platform's user data in his control.

But he still wants more.

When he launched his America PAC earlier this year, Musk was exposed for tricking voters in swing states into giving him their personal information, when they clicked on Google ads offering them help with voter registration.

He's now been exposed for funding the sickest, most cynical, most deceptive ads America has ever seen—painting Harris as pro-Israel to Arab voters in Michigan, and as pro-Palestine to Jewish voters in Pennsylvania.

People questioned the legality of the $100 bribes he was offering people to register to vote and sign his 1A/2A petition.

Then he turned his failing GOTV effort into a fully criminal $1-million-a-day lottery. According to law professor Rich Hasen the punishment for the crime he's committing is up to five years in prison:

Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal. See 52 U.S.C. 10307(c): “Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both… See also the DOJ Election Crimes Manual at 44: “The bribe may be anything having monetary value, including cash, liquor, lottery chances...

So far, the only punishment Musk has gotten is even more national publicity from a compliant national media.

Because, exactly as Trump did in 2016, Musk is using his celebrity to gain millions (or billions) in free TV, print and internet coverage in 2024.

Like Trump, Musk doesn't care if the coverage is good or bad. He doesn't care if he's breaking the law. He just wants to control the narrative. Make himself the story. Bump Kamala off the front page whenever can.

Trump is losing this election. His only hope of winning is if Elon Musk's attack on America succeeds

Musk also knows that Trump is physically weak and mentally feeble. That's why he's becoming the co-host of the campaign in its closing stages.

I asked "How Low Will Elon Go?" in my last article.

Since then, he's gone even lower.

Earlier this year, he posted a deepfake video of Kamala Harris. Now he's running Facebook ads promoting fake Kamala Harris websites. And, like a Drag Queen in Blackface, he's now literally texting people pretending to be her.

Elon Musk remains the CEO of publicly traded companies. He's received billions in government contracts from NASA and the Defense Department. He recently got a contract to build our new spy satellites—even as he openly calls for the end of US democracy every day on X.

He's repeatedly made the Trump-like claim that Biden and Harris are "puppets" being controlled by shadowy elites.

But as with most of Trump's dangerous rhetoric, that's pure projection.

Musk—along with Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch and GOP leaders—know Trump is in steep decline.

That's why Musk and Thiel conspired to put JD Vance one cheeseburger (or one 25th Amendment) away from the Presidency.

Trump has already said the quiet part about Elon's future influence out loud. Letting Elon do whatever the f**k he wants might be good news for racist AI image generators, but it's bad news for humans.

Musk has already met with—or claimed to have had recent talks with—world leaders including Putin, Netanyahu, Modi (India), Meloni (Italy), and Melie (Argentina).

He knows he won't be getting to Mars anytime soon. So he wants to be a global powerbroker today. That's why he's manically spreading lies and disinformation, breaking laws, and offering bribes and $1 million prizes to help Trump across the finish line in November.

As garbled as Trump is lately, we should always listen closely to the warnings contained in his psychological projections.

America has "an enemy from within," says Trump. "And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries."

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