October 11, 2024

"These days, in private conversations, Mr. Musk is obsessive, almost manic.... He praises Mr. Trump’s courage under fire..."

".... he endorsed him on the night of the assassination attempt in Butler — and talks about how funny he is. One person who spoke recently to Mr. Musk recalled him saying, without any hint of irony, 'I love Trump.'... It may be impossible to capture the financial value of all the support Mr. Musk is providing to Mr. Trump. This is in part because of his role on X, where he amplifies so much of the former president’s message. Mr. Trump has privately used grand — and unverified — terms to describe what Mr. Musk is donating to the super PAC, telling one associate recently that the figure is $500 million.... Just as Mr. Musk worked late into the night as his companies teetered on the verge of catastrophe, tinkering with rocket designs at SpaceX, sleeping on a couch in the Tesla factory or making staff cuts at Twitter, Mr. Musk has deemed this an all-hands-on-deck moment."

From "Musk Is Going All In to Elect Trump/Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself" (NYT).

78 comments:

David53 said...

Yeah, it's pretty funny. My hipster cousin obsesses over his Tesla but hates Trump. Such conflict!

Yancey Ward said...

The obsession the Left has with Musk's support of Trump is hilarious!

Big Mike said...

Two entrepreneurs like each other. Isn’t that amazing!?!?!

Mason G said...

"It may be impossible to capture the financial value of all the support Mr. Musk is providing to Mr. Trump. This is in part because of his role on X, where he amplifies so much of the former president’s message."

You mean- like this?

"It may be impossible to capture the financial value of all the support Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Dorsey are providing to Mr. Biden. This is in part because of their roles on Facebook and Twitter, where they censor so much of president Trump's message."

Goose, gander...

Kakistocracy said...

As a true American patriot, I hate the United States and get most of my information from Russian videos posted on a site owned by a South African. 🤣

Gerda Sprinchorn said...

What's up with Harris's earpiece?

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1844070610353418493?s=61&t=X63XGBTO2OYDsTR5w3ZPAQ

RideSpaceMountain said...

Hey NYT, now do Reid Hoffman. They have their billionaire tech guys, we have ours.

Yancey Ward said...

And the descent into madness and idiocy continues unimpeded for Bich.

Kevin said...
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Kevin said...

They're upset Elon is normalizing Trump. Given the effort they've put into de-normalizing him, their only way forward is to de-normalize Elon. And Tulsi. And RFKjr. And anyone who might vote for him. And..

Aught Severn said...

Mr. Trump has privately used grand — and unverified — terms to describe what Mr. Musk is donating to the super PAC

And unverified, the new without evidence.

It may be impossible to capture the financial value of all the support Mr. Musk is providing to Mr. Trump. This is in part because of his role on X, where he amplifies so much of the former president’s message.

Suddenly, in-kind contributions to candidates by friendly media is questionable and concerning! I am now going to read the article and see if the conclusion is that this is a threat to democracy.

And I can't and have forgotten the paywall work around. Based on the tone of the excerpt, I imagine the writer paints Elon's action somewhere from bad mannered to evil and the impact of them somewhere from unsavory to fascist.

An awkward attempt to isolate Elon Musk from polite society? A call to arms for the lefty billionaires to get hot? Random blather to meet an article deadline?

If I am wrong and the rest of the article portrays Musk in a positive manner, I will put up a 'in this house we believe...' sign for a week to try and cure myself of my unconscious bias

Kakistocracy said...

Add RFK Jr to the mix -- you have the strangest collection of oddballs and weirdos ever assembled under one political banner.

Jersey Fled said...

They had to get the word “unverified” in there, didn’t they. They just can’t help themselves.

Jersey Fled said...

There are those magic earrings again.

Gerda Sprinchorn said...

"Above all, he is personally steering the actions of a super PAC that he has funded with tens of millions of dollars to turn out the vote for Mr. Trump, not just in Pennsylvania but across the country."

This is actually important. The Dems are spending so much more than the Repubs on their ground game that I was assuming the Dems would do a few percent better than the polling shows, and this election would be a wipeout. But maybe Musk will overcome the Dem spending advantage.

Funny how the NYT doesn't mention the huge spending advantage the Dems have overall.

Gerda Sprinchorn said...

She gets really flustered when she realizes she has been caught talking to her earpiece.

Gerda Sprinchorn said...

Bingo.

They have worked hard to make Trump anathema in polite society. This is a serious breach in that wall.

Kakistocracy said...

Trump colluded with Saudi-backed Elon Musk to stifle the Vance dossier on Twitter. I’ll wait for the real Twitter Files outrage from Matt Taibbi.
(gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU4.Xj0Y._2ibb8ivlBDq&smid=url-share

Jupiter said...

Just "NYT"? You aren't going to tell us which one of their lying liars who always lie assembled that particular set of falsehoods? I guess it doesn't really matter, does it.

Yancey Ward said...

Good grief, Bich- this isn't even an Inga level contribution to the Democrats.

Lazarus said...

Like Zuckerberg in Wisconsin in 2020. I guess Zuck didn't actually go there, but it would have been nice in the NYT had reported on his efforts to tip the election to Biden.

Aggie said...
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Aggie said...

Actual reporters verify things before they publish them, without evidence.

Ampersand said...

Musk is acting as though he believes that a Harris win would destroy his businesses. Such delusional thinking is rightly criticized by the wise and truthful Maggie Haberman. Elite journalists can always be relied upon. Sarc alert.

RideSpaceMountain said...

At this point it's almost a certainty that this account is an LLM-powered bot that exclusively pulls information from JoeMyGod.com

Rory said...

In the year before the 2016 primaries kicked off, mainstream media gave Trump $2 billion worth of free coverage - almost twice what was given to Clinton and Sanders combined. Trump was the chosen Republican candidate of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, because they thought he had no potential as an actual candidate for the Presidency:

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/15/media/trump-free-media-coverage/

Maynard said...

Funny how the NYT doesn't mention the huge spending advantage the Dems have overall.

They never have in past elections. It would upset the ridiculous narrative that Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of everyone else.

The Kamala-lala-ding-dong campaign is obviously emphasizing that narrative with campaign ads here in AZ.

Ficta said...

He's a US citizen. Which means he's an American not a South African. You anti-immigrant filth.

RideSpaceMountain said...

A Republican got free media coverage

Compared to the trillions provided free to democrats for the last 50 years, all I have to say is it's about damn time!

MadisonMan said...

Elon Musk encroaches on NYTimes territory with respect to influence-peddling in an election. NYTimes complains.

Butkus51 said...

Soros and mini-Soros. Crickets

Limited blogger said...

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Elon Musk!!

William said...

This helps to make up for the loss of Taylor Swift and Buce Springsteen. The loss of Barbara Streisand is, however, irreparable........Just about everyone in Hollywood, the music industry, academia, and journalism are against Trump. I wonder what price tag one would put on their support for Trump. It's definitely worth a lot more than whatever support Musk can throw Trump's way on X.

William said...

I don 't know if the migrants were allowed in as part of some replacement theory. I do know that upwards of twenty million were allowed in and nobody got to vote on it. I wonder what other radical changes the Democrats feel can be implemented without recourse to the will of the people.

Lexington Green said...

Musk said it to Tucker Carlson: If Trump loses, I'm fucked. He predicted that he would go to prison and never see his children. His knowingly and willingly risking that, because he believes our country will be destroyed if Harris wins. So, of course he is hardcore for Trump. He has bet his life on Trump.

Kakistocracy said...

Regarding Musk, it might bare remembering that he has legal action pending in the US regarding spectrum management for his c. 7,000 satellites which depends on an argument essentially that the US must assert its sovereignty vis-a-vis the international body that regulates global spectrum, so that he it’s able to capture more revenue. This argument would be unlikely to get much traction under a Harris administration, but a Trump one would fast track it.

n.n said...

Musk hails from the Dark Continent, where Democratics rule in ethnic Springs.

Hassayamper said...

I certainly hate the American news media, and do not trust them to give me the truth/whole-truth/nothing-but-the-truth about any topic or event that has the slightest susceptibility to manipulation that could help the Democrat Party amass power.

I'm really glad that we have an uncensored channel of communication that allows us to confront the power of the dishonest lying media, the communist Democrat scum, and the enemy traitor occupation of the Deep State. Attacking and sabotaging and undermining all of them is a great act of patriotism, and American citizen Elon Musk is among the greatest patriots of the 21st century.

loudogblog said...

"Mr. Trump has privately used grand — and unverified — terms to describe what Mr. Musk is donating to the super PAC, telling one associate recently that the figure is $500 million...."

Unverified being a key word here. This whole statement is unverified, but it's amazing how a reporter can make an outlandish claim like this and provide absolutely no documentation to back it up.

$500 million is a completely unbelievable amount of money.

Plus, Musk has already debunked the media lie that he is donating $45 a month to a Trump PAC.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musk-not-donating-45-million-a-month-to-donald-trump

Jim said...

Musk prizes IQ, of course he’s against Harris/Walz. Together I wouldn’t give them 230.

AlbertAnonymous said...

So you don't like Musk because he's an African American?

Rocco said...

“Bad Genes” said...
As a true American patriot, I hate the United States…

Thanks for admitting what we all pretty much knew anyway.

RideSpaceMountain said...

You're being extremely generous.

planetgeo said...

To show how fiercely the leftists hate Musk now, the CA Coastal Commission just rejected our military's request to increase the number of SpaceX launches from the West Coast. Talk about insanity. They're now willing to hamper our national security out of personal spite for Musk/Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-regulators-dump-on-elon-musk-in-rejecting-spacex-rocket-launches/ar-AA1s3KhB?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=1210e62f5d334607e3f004241b6e4cd9&ei=17

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

If Trump looses and you a Trump yard sign, forget Canada, they turn you in.

JaimeRoberto said...

"talks about how funny he is"

Well Trump is funny.

BarrySanders20 said...

Musk is, right now, the most interesting person in the world and the individual person likely to have the greatest influence on the future of humanity.

Hassayamper said...

California won't change until the state has completely collapsed. Texas and Florida will be happy for the extra business.

john mosby said...

Musk is a Bond villain. If anyone tries to prosecute him, they will face measures that make the Godfather look like a schoolboy prankster.

Untraceable emails sent to police and prosecutors with photos of their loved ones at school, work, etc, combined with crypto bribes beyond their wildest imaginings.

Crucial audit trail evidence would disappear - not from Musk businesses, but from third party custodians: banks, government agencies, etc.

Heck, critical witnesses would disappear - not into unmarked graves, but into third-world mansions, with massive quantities of crypto to support them the rest of their lives, and plastic surgery to hide their identities.

Look at what Trump has been able to do, just paying lawyers to use the legal system’s own features.

What do you think a guy with 100 times Trump’s wealth, who really thinks his back is against the wall, can and will do?

And if that doesnt work, if you think the Dems recruited patsies to take pot shots at Trump, how good do you think an actual businessman would be at triple-blind assassin recruitment?

Oh, and space rockets are ballistic missiles.

JSM

MadTownGuy said...

Saw a Trump ad on an electronic billboard by the interstate today, with a caption saying he's endorsed by Elon Musk, but paid for by a PAC. Lots of traffic in I-81, and when it's slow-and-go, lots of 'air time.'

Mary Beth said...

"One person who spoke recently to Mr. Musk recalled him saying, without any hint of irony, 'I love Trump.'"

Unfathomable to them.

The Godfather said...

Trump was President for 4 years, and during the last part of that term the US suffered from the Covid epidemic. I think that's why he lost (dispute that view if we want to).
Yet, the US overcame many foreign challenges during the years of his administration and did not go to war.
I have always been a supporter of US presidents' foreign involvements.
But now we are involved in a war in Ukraine (which I support), but isn't there a way to end that conflict? Perhaps not. It would be good if there was. Biden has never proposed a way to do that, and obviously neither has Harris.

gadfly said...

So Trump suddenly has courage? He just asked to be transported in military vehicles on land and in the air because Iran is out to kill him. That, by the way, is a twist from his recent claims that the Democrats are out to assassinate him. Our felonious former leader has lost his mind and his ability to remember his last lie.

No presidential candidate has ever been transported in military vehicles. Perhaps he should surround himself with all those foreigners visiting or working at Mar-a-Lago that far outnumber the Secret Service. If he wasn't stealing so much from his supporters, he could just ask for his prison sentence to commence.

Four walls to hear me
Four walls to see
Four Walls too near me
Closing in on me

Mason G said...

"But now we are involved in a war in Ukraine (which I support)"

How are you supporting it?

Kakistocracy said...

You either die a free speech advocate or you live long enough to start censoring people you don’t agree with.

Trump campaign, Musk coordinated to stop hacked material on X: Report
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4929125-trump-campaign-musk-coordinated-to-stop-hacked-material-on-x-report/

The reason there’s so much right wing media is simply because it’s profitable. That’s why Twitter has lost 80% of its value ever since Elon Musk turned it into Newsmax.

Michael K said...

Sorry for your plans to assassinate him. Better luck next time.

Dude1394 said...

One thing you can say about Elon, he puts his money where his mouth is. God Bless Him.

Dude1394 said...

archive.ph/ before the url usually works.

Dude1394 said...

The one thing that musk is really good at, is focusing on first principles. He sees getting the vote out as fundamental. Unlike the typical republican advisers who want to spend money on advertising so they can cull favor.

Dude1394 said...

I typically have always supported the US foreign policy. But not the Ukraine one. Because WE caused this war with our nato expansion, that is a fact.

Dude1394 said...

So how many assasination attempts must he survive?

Gospace said...

In 1988 Musk left South Africa for Canada. Apparently with Canadian citizenship through his mother.

Essentially- he was draft dodger, unwilling to support apartheid, so he left to avoid serving.

Since then, he's been able to watch things unfold in South Africa. I doubt he's really happy with the results. And likely doesn't want to see the same thing happen here. A lot of white (and Asian) South Africans have left since apartheid went away. And a lot were killed.

boatbuilder said...

Why do you care whether he's transported in a military vehicle or not?
Are you saying that because the last two attempts failed he has nothing to worry about?
What the hell is wrong with you? (Rhetorical question).

Achilles said...

The fascist explains the rationale for shutting down Starlink.

Only Comrades can have business in the Harris Regime. Musk supports free speech. Rich wants him in jail.

I appreciate you taking your mask off.

Achilles said...

Leftists are still on X. Nobody is stopping them from saying anything legal.

The problem for Rich is X lets Trump supporters speak too.

He is a fascist piece of crap. That is all.

Kakistocracy said...

This election is Trump versus the United States of America. I choose America.

RAH said...

Anyone take a photo?

sunsong said...

Musk does not have integrity. May it catch up with him, soon. May it be so!

john mosby said...

Gospace, good point about Musk not wanting this country to end up like South Africa. I would refine it a bit: South Africa went from a place where the minority oppressed the majority, to one where the majority oppresses the minority. The US is doing the reverse.

JSM

Kakistocracy said...

'Why the temporary de-amplification of the Hunter Biden laptop story 4 years ago led to my endless "reporting" on censorship. But Elon coordinating with the Trump campaign to censor speech isn't really something I want to talk about.' ~ Matt Taibbi

CT Ginger said...

You might look into a cabal known as "the squad" if you want to see an actual bunch of oddballs and weirdos

CT Ginger said...

Just an observation but the Harris Walz team is spending money on TV ads in Connecticut of all places. If the democrats think Connecticut is in play they must be panicking.

Rusty said...

You're saying he's dishonest?

Bruce Hayden said...

Plus, the FAA is actively inhibiting next test launch for his big rocket. As far as I can tell, they are just fucking with him because they can. Being government employees, and thus Democrats, they are probably doing it solely to punish him for coming out in favor of Trump.

NKP said...

...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

NKP said...

Been there. Done that. As the '70s came to a close, CA went bat shit crazy over the possibility of Shuttle Launches from Vandenberg. The Brown Pelican and various pinnipeds that favored San Miguel, one of the Channel Islands, were mentioned.

Over a lengthy period (20 years?), it was feared a dozen or so launches might cause unusually loud sonic booms (under specific "possible" meteorlogical conditions) thereby causing panic during the reproductive cycles of said species.

The lone media actually wondering what that was all about was GEO Magazine. So, One fine afternoon, I escort a writer out to San Miguel. After the helo put us down a good distance from the beach we hiked about 20 minutes before sighting the creatures of interest.

There were thousands and thousands of them. They literally carpeted the beach, as far as the eye could see. Even more remarkable than that, the non-stop noise they created was deafening. I don't know if GEO ever published anything on the subject (there was no request for further information) but, at the moment of this encounter, the writer and I shared a look that could have been translated as "Really?"

NKP said...

The incumbent is always provided military protection when he travels by air. In fact, he's protected by the military when at home or work, in the White House.

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