Trump And Musk Vs. The Tyrants

The media have done an amazing job of spinning up Kamala Harris as a candidate because she has done nothing so far. They have created an extraordinarily impenetrable echo chamber, an echo chamber so strong it is effectively a cone of silence for the American people.

For example, Time Magazine published a cover of Harris titled, “The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris.”

The reintroduction of Kamala Harris https://t.co/noW5TOgawP pic.twitter.com/iLmQIhxOeF

— TIME (@TIME) August 12, 2024

Does she need a reintroduction? She’s been reintroduced for the last 10 years. She was the attorney general of California. She was a senator from California. She ran for president. She lost. Then, she became the vice president. She failed. And now, she’s running again.

It’s an extraordinarily powerful echo chamber because according to Time itself, Kamala refused to engage in an interview with Time Magazine.

So, Time Magazine featured Kamala Harris on their cover, a subject who will not deign to speak with them.

All of Harris’ reported momentum is reliant on the continued spin of the media and her continued silence, because if she ever has to emerge from the bubble that has been created around her, she will immediately meet with reality and begin to melt.

But that only happens one of two ways: if one of the members of the media decides to get honest and do their job, which is not going to happen, or if there is so much outside pressure on Harris to actually come out of the bubble. Then she would meet with reality, which would be very bad for her.

Thus, the media are now attempting to protect not only Harris, but also the bubble they have built around her. They can’t just protect Harris. They have to protect the bubble. They are the bubble. 

So what’s the biggest threat to the bubble? The possibility of a competitor arising who might, in fact, penetrate human minds to the same extent they do by going around them.

Which brings us to Elon Musk.

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The legacy media has attempted to choke off alternative sources of information for years. There’s really nothing new happening under the sun since 2016 when Donald Trump won. There has been an overt effort by regulatory agencies in Europe, by Democrats, in the United States, by organizations like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, to shut down alternative sources of information by depriving them of revenue, by declaring their work misinformation or disinformation, and by telling social media to siphon off traffic from anything that is not the legacy media.

The bubble had to be maintained. If the media loses that bubble, they lose everything. They don’t just lose their business. They lose their political influence as well. 

So on Monday, they trained all their guns on Elon Musk. The real reason they were mad at Elon for buying Twitter (now X) in the first place was, of course, that Twitter had been part of their Praetorian Guard. Twitter was part of the team.

Run by Jack Dorsey, Twitter was a place where you could be banned, as Jordan Peterson was for mentioning that boys are not girls. Twitter was a place where, if you took heterodox political positions, Twitter would make moves to shut down your distribution and reach. They would shadow-ban you; it happened to me, as well as many others.

But then Musk bought it. He opened it up. And he made clear to everyone what Twitter was doing.

That’s what the media could not stand. Since that day, they’ve been scared of Elon, and they’ve been scared of anyone who’s willing to provide a counter to their bubble.

On Monday, that broke out into the open because Donald Trump came back on X (formerly Twitter) in advance of his interview with Elon Musk on X Spaces.

Musk is a Trump-supporter at this point. He has come out and said that he’s voting for Donald Trump. He has pledged money to PACs associated with Trump. He wants Trump to win.

As opposed to Trump, who will walk into hostile places to do interviews, everyone understands that if Kamala Harris gets off the teleprompter for 37 seconds at a time, she’s in dire trouble.

So the entire bubble — the Democrat apparatus, the human centipede that is Democratic politicians, their press offices, and the entire media — that entire apparatus was threatened by Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which is the only way to explain why they went off their rockers.

They called out the big guns. They started freaking out. And it was not just Democrats; it was members of the media and regulators in Europe. This could not be: to threaten the informational monopoly they have created over the course of decades.

In advance of the interview yesterday, Thierry Breton, who is a member of the European Commission, wrote a letter to Musk in advance of the interview issuing a threat: 

As you know, formal proceedings are already ongoing against acts under the DSA …  we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU. Therefore, we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections. … My services and I will be extremely vigilant to any evidence that points to breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from serious harm.

In other words, he was saying, “Shut the hell up or we are going to come after your company and destroy you.” 

That’s how threatened they are. That’s how scared they are of the possibility of the legacy media applecart getting upset.

And it wasn’t just the Europeans; it came from America too. The Washington Post ran a news piece titled, “Elon Musk’s X feed becomes megaphone for his far-right politics.” The entire article revolved around how Elon Musk is Right-wing and that’s bad and he’s far-Right.

A Washington Post pseudo-journalist named Cleve Woodson was in the White House pressroom on Monday prior to the Musk interview. He actually asked the White House why Musk was allowed to interview Trump, saying:

Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomor- — tonight on — on X.  I don’t know if the president is going to tune in. Feel free to say if he is or not. But I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It’s a — you know, it’s an America issue. What role does the White House or the president have in sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter- — intervening in that?

One of the most astonishing elements of the American media is that no one clamors more loudly about the importance of the First Amendment. But for American media, the First Amendment only applies to them when they see freedom of the press being protected. They do not see freedom of the press as a subsection of an amendment dealing more broadly with freedom of speech. They see themselves as the special elite who have been elected by the Fates in order to express free speech.

You don’t get to. But they are members of the press, which means they have extravagant and magical capacities to engage in free speech. 

But you don’t. Elon Musk doesn’t. President Trump doesn’t.

Why? You, Musk, and Trump are not members of the press. You do not have the stamp of approval.

And thus free speech does not really apply to you.

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