Cenk Uygur experiences leftist intolerance firsthand after volunteering to help Trump admin



Cenk Uygur of "The Young Turks" appears to have undergone a rapid metamorphosis in recent weeks. Months after calling the once and future president "an actual fascist" and a "mad king," Uygur asked to join the incoming Trump administration.

Leftists immediately attacked Uygur over his willingness to serve at the pleasure of a Republican he just days ago characterized as "unstable and unhinged." Some fellow travelers suggested that the progressive host was an insincere turncoat, while others concluded he was just another opportunistic talking head.

Ultimately, Uygur was provided with a clear demonstration of the left's intolerance and the right's relative openness.

Uygur — whose interest was evidently piqued by the promise of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency — tweeted Monday, "Hey @elonmusk, put me in charge of the Pentagon. I'll slash $400B easy. That'll get you 20% to your goal of $2T, right out of the gate. I went to Wharton three years before you. I own a media company, so I know how to run a business. If you really want to cut, put me in, coach."

Elon Musk, whom Uygur attacked on Election Day, responded, "Specific suggestions are welcome."

Afforded the opportunity to chime in — something Uygur later noted no Democratic leader had ever asked him to do — Uygur recommended precluding generals from acquiring jobs with defense contractors for 10 years, noting, "They authorize so much wasteful spending because they're going to get hired by those same companies."

Donald Trump Jr., magnanimous despite Uygur having viciously attacked his father for years, tweeted, "This is a great idea that has been discussed."

'Knock it the f*** off.'

The positive engagement stunned Uygur and enraged his fellow travelers.

Emma Vigeland, a former fan of Uygur who hosted "TYT Politics," was among the leftists who couldn't stand the thought of her former boss cooperating with the Trump administration, writing, "Why does your assessment of politics change based on who pays attention to you, specifically a billionaire?"

"Holy s***. This ain't it. You're talking about the 'lock her up,' 'retribution' guy?" wrote Joanne Carducci, the host of "Are You F'ng Kidding Me? with JoJoFromJerz." "Do not obey in advance, Cenk. Knock it the f*** off."

Another leftist podcast host tweeted, "Amazing to watch some of these life-long progressives line up, one after the other on bended knee to kiss the ring."

'Now, which side seems more open and inclusive?'

Even Uygur's nephew, Hasan Piker — a radical who justified the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and insinuated the terrorists' civilian victims were "criminals" — lashed out, writing, "This is preferring someone to lie to you rather than one who doesn[']t even do that."

Uygur suggested that effective pragmatism was better than political impotence.

"While the left is yelling at me not to work with MAGA, here's @DonaldJTrumpJR saying we should limit generals from working for defense contractors," wrote Uygur. "That's a policy we've been pushing for and gotten nowhere with Democrats on. Who cares who does it as long as it gets done?"

"A little common sense never killed anyone," wrote Donald Trump Jr.

"Now, which side seems more open and inclusive? Which side seems more welcoming and which side tries really hard to drive you away if you disagree even a little with orthodoxy? Which side is asking for suggestions and which one is demanding compliance and obedience?" added Uygur.

While numerous liberals criticized the progressive media host, Uygur was flooded with messages of welcome from Trump supporters and other right-leaning populists.

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Musk spotlights voter fraud claims out in the open — and liberals aren't happy about it



There are a number of ways that concerned Americans who suspect or have evidence of voter fraud can notify authorities or the general public and seek remedy.

For instance, in Pennsylvania, voters can file complaints with the Pennsylvania Department of State's formal election complaint site or call 1-877-868-3772. They can also submit a report with the Republican National Committee-backed Pennsylvania Protect the Vote site or contact their respective county officials. In deep-red Cambria County, for instance, where voting machines malfunctioned early on Election Day, voters could reach out to Maryann Dillon, chief clerk in the Cambria County Elections Office.

In addition to state and local options, there is also Elon Musk's Election Integrity Community.

Musk's community on X, linked to his pro-Trump America PAC, lets voters share "potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities."

As of early Tuesday afternoon, the group had around 63,000 members sharing concerns, sharing videos of possible election shenanigans, and coordinating pressure for greater transparency.

Leftist academics and the liberal media are enraged that Musk and other private citizens would dare highlight possible instances of voter fraud, signaling concerns about the EIC's potential efficacy.

'If you are aware of any election integrity issues, please report them to the X Election Integrity Community.'

Wired characterized the voter integrity group as "a cesspool of election conspiracy theories."

Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University, told the liberal tech magazine that "it's just an election denier jamboree."

"This is another cynical and destructive step that Musk and many, many others on the political right are taking to undermine faith in elections, because of their anxiety that if elections are just held in a conventional, straightforward way, their side loses," added Barrett.

The Guardian, a foreign liberal publication, likened Musk's community to the "'Stop the Steal' Facebook group, Telegram groups and message boards on alt-right social media firm Parler" that "perpetuated the baseless claim that the election was being stolen from Donald Trump."

Renee DiResta, a former research manager at Stanford University's now-defunct narrative curation outfit that worked hand in glove with the Biden-Harris administration to flag and clamp down on undesired speech, told the Guardian, "These are real rumors by real people that are being picked up and used by a propaganda machine that really wants to get that view out there."

One of the supposedly "false claim[s]" the Guardian and other liberal outfits are up in arms about is the suggestion that the Biden-Harris administration has imported illegal aliens in hopes of impacting the election in Harris' favor — one of the factors that ostensibly prompted Joe Rogan to endorse President Donald Trump.

CBS News, which further discredited its reporting with the final edit of its Oct. 7 interview with Kamala Harris, also attacked Musk's community, suggesting it is a digital space where "false claims proliferate."

Max Read, a senior "researcher" from the U.K.-based censorship outfit Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told CBS News, "The X community is sort of a consolidation point of a lot of different false, unverified claims about the election process."

Musk tweeted last week, "If you are aware of any election integrity issues, please report them to the X Election Integrity Community."

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4 things Elon Musk told Joe Rogan before his 11th-hour Trump endorsement



Joe Rogan, the massively popular podcaster who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2020 and signaled he would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) were he to go the distance in 2024, long expressed reluctance about having President Donald Trump on his show.

Rogan finally gave in late last month and sat down for three hours with the Republican president for an interview that went viral despite YouTube's apparent censorship efforts. Although the titular host of "The Joe Rogan Experience" appeared receptive to Trump's various policy proposals and his commentary about the issues facing the nation, Rogan refrained from endorsing the president — until Monday night after Elon Musk detailed his own reasons for backing Trump.

Rogan noted after the nearly three-hour interview Monday that Musk, a former Democrat, made "the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear" and agreed with the tech magnate "every step of the way."

While their conversation was replete with indications that might account for why Rogan finally endorsed Kamala Harris' opponent — such as the falsity of both the Democrat-constructed Russian collusion narrative and the party's promise of change; Harris' censorial reflex and dislikable personality; economic woes; Democrats' failure or unwillingness to tackle crime; reckless government spending; the border crisis; the promise of Trump's "Make America Healthy Again" movement; and the slaying of Peanut the squirrel — Musk highlighted four key reasons Trump was the optimal choice.

To save America from a 'one-party state'

Musk, who has reportedly poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to see Trump elected, emphasized that should the Republican candidate lose the election, America will in turn "lose the two-party system."

The tech billionaire reasoned that there are only a handful of swing states where the margin of victory is small, "often 10 or 20,000 votes."

Musk echoed the concern Rogan raised with Sen. John Fetterman on the previous episode, namely that "the Democrat administration has been ... importing vast numbers of illegal aliens into swing states."

"What we're seeing is triple-digit increases in the numbers of illegals in every swing state. Some cases, 700% increases. These are gigantic numbers," said Musk, stressing that these numbers are far in excess of what would be necessary to permanently lock swing states for the Democrats.

'If Trump doesn't win, this is the last election.'

"Once the swing states vote blue, there is no election anymore," continued Musk. "There's only a Democrat primary."

"Which is so crazy," Rogan responded. "And it's so crazy that people are fine with that."

Musk indicated that the ultimate result would be a "one-party state" whose Democratic commissars could continue the project of overwhelming resistive states with illegal aliens until the remaining resistance is electorally neutralized.

While the Tesla CEO intimated that amnesty might play a big role in this scheme, he indicated that illegal aliens will be able to put their thumbs on the scale long before receiving citizenship, referencing successful Democratic efforts to eliminate voter ID laws.

Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center of Immigration Studies, noted in a recent op-ed that illegal aliens are also counted in the census, meaning blue states will enjoy greater and greater representation in Congress the longer the border crisis goes unchecked.

"If Trump doesn't win, this is the last election," reiterated Musk.

Rogan replied, "I think you're right."

To save the Constitution

Musk noted that there has been a concerted campaign by Democrats to infringe upon Americans' rights and to render the Constitution a dead document.

"There have been all these attacks on the Constitution, especially on the Democrat side. They have been repeatedly saying that the First Amendment is an obstacle," said Musk. "And they're claiming, 'Oh, the First Amendment is enabling disinformation, misinformation.' And I'm like, 'Yo, there's a reason for the First Amendment.'"

Democrats have been explicit about their problems with the First Amendment and the speech rights it guarantees.

Tim Wu, a former special assistant to President Biden for competition and tech policy and author of one of Biden's executive orders, complained in July that the "First Amendment is out of control" and recommended reining it in.

Former Biden-Harris climate czar John Kerry noted during a World Economic Forum panel discussion on trade and so-called sustainability in September that "our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer ['disinformation'] out of existence."

The Biden-Harris administration has evidenced in practice its hostility toward free speech. For instance, it leaned on social media companies to silence dissenting voices during the pandemic; launched the Department of Homeland Security's short-lived Disinformation Governance Board and tasked an advocate for deplatforming Trump to run the censorship outfit; weaponized the State Department to clamp down on undesirable speech; and worked to control speech on the internet.

"If you don't have freedom of speech, you don't have democracy," Musk told Rogan. "If you don't have freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. If they're just being fed propaganda, and there's no freedom of speech, democracy is an illusion."

Musk noted further that the Second Amendment — similarly under assault by Harris and her fellow Democrats — serves to ensure Americans can fight off those tyrannical forces that would dare undermine the First Amendment.

"I've had these debates, especially with people in L.A., because they want to take everyone's guns away, and I'm like, 'Yo, can you guarantee me that the government — that we'll never have a tyrannical government in the United States? Can you make that guarantee?' They're like, 'Well, nobody can make that guarantee.' I'm like, 'Then we need to keep our guns,'" said Musk. "Because that's what's going to stop it."

Harris' campaign website noted that if elected, she would "ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people."

In the past, Harris has threatened to storm the homes of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun inspections and sponsored a handgun ban.

To save America from suffocating regulation

Musk told Rogan that regulation has stymied innovation, such that it apparently takes longer for Space X to gain approval from regulatory agencies for a rocket launch than it takes to build the actual rockets.

When making his case for why a return to Trump's style of relative deregulation is optimal, Musk likened regulators to referees in a game of football.

"You don't want to have no refs. You want to have some number of refs. But you don't want to have way more refs than players," said Musk. "'Well, the running back couldn't complete the pass because there were too many regulators in the way because the football field was full of regulators.' Like, you can't even play the game."

Musk said in September that if Trump wins, "We do have an opportunity to do kind of a once-in-a-lifetime deregulation and reduction in the size of government."

To save America from foreign entanglements

The duo broached the subject of the left's desperate attempts to liken Trump to Adolf Hitler. Musk made a point of noting that Hitler is so despised because he committed genocide and effectively started war with Western civilization.

"Tell me about the wars and genocide that Trump did. Uh, I don't remember that, and he was president for four years," said Musk. "It's insane. It makes no sense."

Rogan noted, "He's campaigning on stopping all the wars. It's like his primary concern."

'Vote like your life depends on it because I think it does.'

"Exactly! The war mongers like Liz Cheney hate him," added Musk. "Because they love war. ... They profit off of war."

Former Jan. 6 committee member Liz Cheney and her father, Dick Cheney — a champion of the invasion of Iraq, which cost thousands of U.S. service lives and trillions of dollars — are among the interventionists who have backed Harris. Harris and Cheney recently denounced Trump's "isolationism," calling his aversion to foreign entanglements "dangerous."

Rogan indicated that he felt a sense of cognitive dissonance when the left celebrated Dick Cheney's Harris endorsement: "It's the craziest turn — the craziest 180 I've ever seen in my life."

"Yeah, can we play all the videos where you said Dick Cheney was the devil?" Musk replied, laughing.

"The war-profiteers hate Trump," said Musk. "Which is f***ed up. ... We should be like, 'Yeah, let's vote for the guy war-profiteers hate. That sounds like a great idea.'"

The tech billionaire noted further that the "Kamala puppet regime" is a guarantee for more war.

Musk concluded the interview by emphasizing the "men need to vote."

"This is a message to the men out there: Vote like your life depends on it because I think it does," said Musk. "Nothing is more important."

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10 YUGE Elon Musk tweets from a wild presidential campaign weekend



When Elon Musk put his voice and considerable wealth behind President Donald J. Trump's campaign, it signaled a shift in the country. One of the country's most successful businessmen and entrepreneurs made his fortune by inventing what became Google Maps, making online payments, transforming electric vehicles, and single-handedly saving the American space program. So when he acquired Twitter, changed the name to X, and then signaled his support for Trump's campaign, it was a watershed moment in a political realignment that's shaking up everyone from old-school RNC power brokers to Silicon Valley tycoons and everyone in between. It's hard to understate the importance of his purchase of X. Without a platform where people and alternative media outlets could share information, it's unlikely that Trump would have any chance of getting in for a second term. His tweeting style can be equally hilarious and over the top. Here are the ten funniest tweets Elon sent over a wild political weekend.

Everyone in America would support never getting another political text for the rest of their lives.

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An underrated strategy Musk has employed is a robust get-out-the-vote campaign in swing states, including paying one lucky winner $1 million each day in the run-up to the election. It's resulted in a wave of new Republican voters.

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Over the weekend, the state of New York raided a man with a pet squirrel and killed the man's pets. It struck a nerve, showing how much the government has grown into being a nefarious force that meddles in the lives of everyday Americans. Elon jumped in to promise justice for Peanut the squirrel.

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The story of the murdered squirrel caught on like wildfire and resulted in memes calling for justice to be done.

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This tweet is a perfect example of the power of the X platform to cut through media lies. In the past, media could just lie that President Trump had called for violence against Liz Cheney, when he was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of people like her who send our soldiers to die in pointless wars while she comfortably plots from D.C. Now, there's the opportunity to push narratives and voices like Tulsi Gabbard to counter this blatant lie.

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Never, under any circumstances, drink the Kool-Aid.

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Fair and balanced.

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At this point, Harris should have P. Diddy endorsing her from jail, considering she has everyone else on stage from his parties.

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Does anyone doubt this at this point?

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The last thing a government bureaucrat making six figures working from home 16 hours a week sees.

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Make sure to try to convince everyone you know to go out and vote.

'Secretary of Cost-Cutting': Trump taps Musk for new potential role to slash government waste



Former President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that, should he win the presidential election, he plans to tap Elon Musk for a new potential role to significantly reduce government waste.

During an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," the Republican presidential nominee said he hopes to appoint Musk as his "Secretary of Cost-Cutting."

'We will rip the waste out of our $6.5 Trillion budget. Our goal: Balance the Budget of the USA.'

Trump told the news outlet, "He's a great business guy, and he's a great cost-cutter."

According to Trump, Musk told him he could slash government costs "without affecting anybody."

He noted that Musk does not want to be a part of the Cabinet but does want to help eliminate government waste.

"He is dying to do this," Trump said of Musk. "We'll have a new position: Secretary of Cost-Cutting. Elon wants to do that, and we have incredible people. He's running a big business. He can't just say, 'I think I'll go into the Cabinet.' Other people can. He can't, but Elon's a little bit different in that sense."

Trump also told Fox News that Musk promised him he would get a rocket to Mars by the end of Trump's potential second term, stating he hopes Musk pulls it off "long before" China or Russia.

During an August X Spaces discussion, the former president complimented Musk for being "the greatest cutter." Musk previously stated that he had slashed the staff at Twitter by approximately 80%.

"I look at what you do. You walk in and you just say, 'You want to quit?' They go on strike — I won't mention the name of the company — but they go on strike, and you say, 'That's OK, you're all gone. You're all gone. Every one of you is gone,'" Trump told Musk.

Musk explained during the Spaces conversation that government overspending causes inflation.

"Would you agree that we need to take a look at government spending and have, perhaps, a government efficiency commission that just ... tries to make the spending sensible and so that the country lives within its means?" he asked Trump.

Musk advocated for a government efficiency commission "that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money — that taxpayers' hard-earned money — is spent in a good way. And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission."

On Monday, Trump-Vance transition team co-chair Howard Lutnick posted a photograph on social media of himself and Musk.

"Welcome to DOGE," Lutnick wrote, an acronym referring to Musk's proposed "Department of Government Efficiency." "Doge" is also a cryptocurrency.

"We will rip the waste out of our $6.5 Trillion budget. Our goal: Balance the Budget of the USA. We must elect Donald Trump President," Lutnick stated.

Musk shared Lutnick's post, adding, "We gotta win, but, once we do, we can cut the millions of strings that, like Gulliver, hold back the giant that is America!"

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The 8 funniest memes about Haitian immigrants eating animals in Springfield, Ohio



The importation of 20,000 Haitian immigrants into the small rural area of Springfield, Ohio, has caused serious problems for the residents of the tight-knit community. It's a problem across the country; small towns that are already dealing with strained resources, decades of globalization outsourcing, inflation, and the opioid crisis are forced to absorb third-world invasions, subsidized with their own tax dollars. However serious this is for the residents experiencing the benefits of enforced diversity, the internet has responded with humorous takes on the unconfirmed reports from residents about missing pets and local wildlife. The power of memes shows that absurdist humor can tell a truth the media seeks to silence. Here are some of the funniest ones from X.

Blaze Media's own Logan Hall makes it clear that in the second Trump administration, voodoo sacrifices will not be tolerated.

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Peachy Keenan's tweet made the front of the Drudge Report and was shared by President Trump.

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Logan Hall makes an impassioned plea for where we would send the people making America Haiti.

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The indomitable Jack Posobiec makes it clear that Trump will not stand for this.

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Even Elon Musk couldn't resist jumping into the fray. RIP, Snowball I.

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Return managing editor Peter Gietl showed a cat with a simple message for November.

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Blaze editor in chief Matthew Peterson advocated building an American ark to save the animals.

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The Babylon Bee has been noticing some interesting culinary developments in the area.

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Globalists push to have Elon Musk arrested as global assault on free speech kicks into overdrive



Over the past month, the left-wing Guardian newspaper in England has run no fewer than three op-eds calling for Elon Musk's arrest: one from in-house columnist Jonathan Freedland, one from former Twitter VP Bruce Daisley, and most recently one from former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich — for simply operating his publishing platform, X, in accordance with American law.

It bears mentioning that X is not the first open-access publishing platform that follows American content moderation rules, not foreign ones. And it will not be the last.

Those who are paranoid about the 'rise of the far right' in Europe counterintuitively suggest that the answer to this bogeyman is to grant the state sweeping censorship powers.

American regulations on publishing platforms follow two rules: first and foremost, the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which creates a near-absolute American right to nonviolently express any opinion on practically any matter of public importance or operate a publishing platform that hosts those opinions. Second, there is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which codifies at the federal level a judge-made First Amendment jurisprudential principle that you cannot impute liability to a publisher for a statement of which the publisher does not know the content in advance of its publication.

Although Musk is a controversial figure, one thing we can all agree on is that he is an American. This means that unlike, say, Pavel Durov, Musk has the choice to remain in the United States and use his effectively infinite wealth to project free speech abroad and take refuge behind the impervious shield of the American Constitution. No state powers on Earth combined — not Brazil, the European Union, or the United Kingdom — have the power to stop America or, by extension, if Musk avails himself of his American civil rights, to stop him.

In a world where the most powerful country with the largest nuclear arsenal guarantees its citizens the right to host, impart, or receive whatever political ideas they want, even from abroad, the rest of the world needs to get used to the idea that Americans will always create spaces for free speech online and that no legislative or judicial intervention by any foreign power will prevent them from doing so. If Elon and X were not, some other company would, and indeed, numerous other, smaller companies already do). What European commentators want is for tech companies to all band together and eliminate American-style free speech online once and for all. As long as America exists and there is market demand for free speech, this will never happen; as long as Americans exist, they will disobey.

Once the rest of the world gets the memo, civil servants outside the United States will have three choices: (a) punish their own people for engaging in free speech; (b) legislate partially effective domestic blocks to try to deny their own people access to free speech; or (c) collectively punish or pressure innocent parties subject to their jurisdiction who have nothing to do with the speech in question, such as is the case when countries threaten to imprison "local representatives" — hostages — whom many nations, including Brazil and Germany, demand that American social media companies employ in their jurisdictions.

In its recent enforcement actions against X, Brazil has tried to do all three. When X refused to name a local representative for Brazil to arrest, in addition to ordering X’s blocking at the ISP level, Brazil's supreme court ordered the app’s removal from the Google and Apple app stores, threatened Brazilians with daily fines of approximately $8,000 U.S. dollars for using the app, and briefly even considered banning VPN apps in the country (a move that it later rescinded). Chillingly, the court also ordered the seizure of Starlink’s bank accounts in-country; seeing, however, that Starlink and X are different companies, without common ownership structures, any coherent legal system possessing even a basic notion of fairness and due process would refuse to impute liability for the torts or crimes of one company — or one person — to another company, or other people, who have no relationship to the alleged criminal acts in question. The only thing these two companies have in common is that they are partially owned — in Starlink's case, not even majority-owned — by one man.

Despite many attempts to do so in the last 230-odd years, Europe has proven unable to stop Americans from being American. The question is how far Europe is willing to go, what punishments it is willing to inflict, what privacy tools it is willing to take away, and how much power it is willing to give the state to prevent disfavored political thought from circulating within its own borders. Historically, Europe has been willing to go “all the way” to punish political dissenters — by which I mean it murders them.

The United States’ laws on free speech were informed by this history, which includes such examples as the case of William Anderton in 1693, a printer who was convicted of treason and executed for daring to refer to the then-king of England as the “Prince of Orange” — a true statement of fact — in a written pamphlet. Censorship-motivated crimes against humanity such as this are why the First Amendment exists, and it is why Elon Musk cannot and will not be arrested in the United States for running his platform as he pleases.

Those who are paranoid about the "rise of the far right" in Europe counterintuitively suggest that the answer to this bogeyman is to grant the state sweeping censorship powers. Crushing dissent (a) won't silence American servers and (b) is not a surefire way to win a political fight, having failed, in catastrophic fashion from the perspective of the ruling regimes, under the ancien régime, in apartheid South Africa, in the Weimar Republic, and in the former Soviet Union.

If European moderates are truly afraid that the far right will start winning elections, the sensible thing to do is to create institutions and rules that will act as a bulwark against state power, not to expand it. In Europe and the U.K.'s cases, this would involve scrapping the comparatively weak human rights protections of European Convention, repealing existing censorship law, and replacing the current rules with hardened, American-style inviolable civil liberties as quickly as possible.

Ultimately, the worst-case scenario for incumbent parties and ideologies in the weaker democracies is not what happens if the far right expresses itself nonviolently on foreign servers; it is what it will do with powerful censorship laws, once wielded in anger against it, when it wins.

'LFG!' Texas judge sets stage for Elon Musk to drag leftist Media Matters before a jury



Elon Musk's X Corp. filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America on Nov. 20, 2023, accusing the leftist outfit of dishonestly and "maliciously" suggesting to major advertisers on the platform that its posts had appeared "beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content." The alleged purpose of Media Matters' concern-mongering campaign was to "drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp."

Media Matters, an organization founded by Democratic operative David Brock, attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed in an apparent effort to avoid a jury trial and the possibility of being financially wiped out of existence by having to compensate X Corp. for damages.

Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied Media Matters' request Thursday, just as he denied the leftist outfit's motion to prevent the lawsuit from moving to the discovery phase in April and rejected its desperate attempt to list Tesla as an interested party in the lawsuit.

Contrary to the suggestion by Media Matters, O'Connor indicated that X Corp. has indeed succeeded in stating a claim for the following three causes of action: tortious interference with existing contractual relations, business disparagement, and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage.

The case will now go to trial on April 7.

Musk, who has repeatedly claimed that Media Matters is "pure evil," responded to news of the dismissal on X, writing, "LFG!" — an acronym indicating his readiness to tangle with the so-called watchdog in court.

The case largely centers on a report Media Matters published on Nov. 16, 2023, titled, "As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content."

The article alleged:

[Elon Musk's] social media platform has been placing ads for major brands like Apple, Bravo (NBCUniversal), IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity (Comcast) next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. The company’s placements come after CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed that brands are 'protected from the risk of being next to' toxic posts on the platform.

On Nov. 18, 2023, Musk tweeted, "The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company."

X Corp.'s original complaint noted that in November 2023 alone, Media Matters had published over 20 articles "disparaging both X Corp. and Elon Musk" — the latest campaign in an apparent years-long war against the platform to paint it as a "risky, unsafe platform for advertisers."

According to the lawsuit, in order to produce the desired result for its preferred narrative about X, Media Matters "manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X's largest advertisers' paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare."

Despite allegedly manipulating the algorithm, the complaint claimed Media Matters still was not left with its desired pairings of ads and content, so it:

resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed, generating between 13 and 15 times more advertisements per hour than viewed by the average X user repeating this inauthentic activity until it finally received pages containing the result it wanted.

The lawsuit claimed that Media Matters hid its alleged manipulation from readers and advertisers alike.

'Media Matters stands behind its reporting.'

Most of the companies mentioned in the corresponding Media Matters report, including Apple, Comcast, Disney, IBM, and NBCUniversal, suspended their advertisers — a result the leftist outfit celebrated in updates to the article itself.

At the time of filing, Media Matters President Angelo Carusone vowed to defend his site, reported CNBC.

"This is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X's critics into silence. Media Matters stands behind its reporting and looks forward to winning in court," Carusone said in a statement.

Media Matters filed a motion to dismiss in March, alleging lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue, and failure to state a claim. It did so unsuccessfully and will now likely face a jury.

CNBC indicated Friday that Media Matters had not responded to a request for comment.

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Elon Musk says he is 'willing to serve' after Trump raises possibility of a job for him



South African billionaire Elon Musk may end up serving as a cabinet-level hatchet man for President Donald Trump should the Republican win in November.

In their 70-minute conversation on X Spaces last week, Musk raised the possibility of working under a future Trump administration on a novel committee tasked with eliminating inefficiencies and waste. On Monday, Trump spoke further to the possibility of having Musk on his team.

Shortly after explaining why Trump's "inspiring" reaction to being shot on July 13 was part of what prompted him to explicitly endorse the Republican, Musk broached the subject of maximizing government efficiency.

"Inflation is caused by government overspending," said Musk. "Would you agree that we need to take a look at government spending and have, perhaps, a government efficiency commission that just ... tries to make the spending sensible and so that the country lives within its means?"

"The waste is incredible and nobody negotiates prices," said Trump.

'The Matrix will fight back.'

The former president shared the story of how upon first taking office, he was presented with an outrageously expensive deal from Boeing to modify two 737 jumbo jets to serve as Air Force One.

Upon learning the terms of the deal were allegedly based on a prior understanding had with elements of the former Obama administration, Trump indicated he told Boeing to pound sand. Ultimately, the company agreed to more favorable terms, only later confirming that it ate over $1.1 billion in costs related to the deal.

"I shaved [the price] by $1.6 billion for the exact same plane," continued Trump. "You can now take that and multiply that out times thousands of other items and the numbers are astronomical."

Musk stressed that there should be a government efficiency commission "that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money — that taxpayers' hard-earned money — is spent in a good way. And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission."

Musk previously shared with Lex Fridman his aspirations of manning a government-shrinking committee in Washington, D.C., but noted doing so would be no picnic.

"The antibody reaction would be very strong. You're attacking the Matrix at that point. The Matrix will fight back," said Musk.

The "Matrix," which some may alternatively refer to as the administrative state, has already taken steps to hinder a future Trump administration from maximizing efficiency in government.

Trump — who expressed admiration for Argentine President Javier Milei's apparent success taking a "chainsaw" both to his predecessors' failed leftist policies and to bureaucratic overgrowth — sounded amenable to Musk's idea of a waste-cutting commission, noting the X CEO has demonstrated himself a capable "cutter."

"I look at what you do — you walk in, you just say 'You want to quit?' They go on strike — I won't mention the name of the company — but they go on strike and you say, 'That's okay, you're all gone."

Months after taking over Twitter, Musk confirmed in a 2023 interview with the BBC that he had fired over 80% of the workforce.

"This is not a caring [or] uncaring situation," Musk said at the time. "If the whole ship sinks, then nobody's got a job."

Trump may have, however, been referring to Tesla's termination of at least 18 employees last year, which the New York Times alleged was in response to a union organizing campaign at a plant in Buffalo. The company alternatively indicated that the firings were the result of a semi-annual performance review and planned prior to the publication of the union campaign.

When pressed Monday about whether he would consider naming Musk to an advisory role or a cabinet-level position, Trump told Reuters, "He's a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would. He's a brilliant guy."

Musk subsequently took to X to emphasize, "I am willing to serve."

The image accompanying his post shows Musk behind a podium emblazoned with the proposed title, "Department Of Government Efficiency," along with its acronym, which users recognized alluded to another meme: "Doge," the shiba inu dog immortalized in the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

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The 7 biggest moments from the Elon Musk-President Trump interview on X



Last night, Elon Musk, the billionaire tech giant and owner of X, conducted a historic virtual interview over his social media platform with former President Donald Trump that his team dubbed “THE INTERVIEW OF THE CENTURY!” Despite being plagued with technical difficulties, including a late start caused by a denial-of-service attack and poor audio quality on President Trump’s end, the two-hour interview garnered a billion views, marking a win for free speech and alternative media.

“Musk’s act of commercial statesmanship by buying a media apparatus enables free political speech at a time when it is being crushed. Conversation with Trump tonight proves the thesis. This is a commercial-cultural movement in the midst of a cold civil war. And this = how to win,” Matthew Peterson, the editor in chief of Blaze Media, posted on X.

Musk explained why the Biden-Harris administration has been so bad for Americans' wallets and urged the next administration to cut spending to reduce inflation.

Here are the seven most important topics Elon Musk discussed with President Donald Trump:

1. Failed assassination attempt

Right off the bat, Musk and Trump delved into the failed assassination attempt. Trump recalls the moment when he felt the bullet graze his ear and told Musk his escape was “an act of God.”

“For those people that don't believe in God, I think we gotta all start thinking about that. You have to, you know, I'm a believer. Now I'm more of a believer,” Trump said.

While Trump focused on how he was thankful that he survived the assassination attempt, Musk took a jab at the Secret Service’s failure and said, “How on earth does a shooter get on a roof 130 yards away? That seems crazy. I think most people are wondering how on earth could such a thing happen."

Then, after Trump explained the entire situation again, how the shot was “not a long shot” and how it was a miracle that he turned his head toward the illegal immigration graphic at the right moment, Trump made a joke, saying, “Illegal immigration saved my life.”

2. Open borders

Speaking of illegal immigration, Trump’s most important policy issue, Trump and Musk traded jabs at the border czar, Kamala Harris.

Following the Harris campaign’s recent ad portraying her as being tough on immigration and the false claim that she was never the border czar in the first place, Trump argued the Biden-Harris administration has been a disaster for the border.

“[Kamala] could close it up right now. [The Biden administration] could do things right now. It's horrible,” Trump said.

Trump also criticized the current administration for letting “people that are in jail for murder and all sorts of things” into this country.

“She was totally in charge. She could have shut the border down without [Biden]. … She was in charge of the border, and the border was the worst ever,” Trump added.

Musk replied, “And if we have another four more years of open borders, and it's gonna be even worse, with another four more years, it's gonna be even worse than it's been for the past three and a half years. I'm not sure we've got a country.”

3. Interventionism run amok

Not only is America more dangerous under the Biden administration, but so is the rest of the world. The Biden-Harris foreign policy has led to violence across the world, which Trump claimed would never have happened if he were still the commander in chief.

From the Middle East to East Asia and Russia, Trump blames the high tensions across the world on Biden’s frenzied foreign policy.

“All this stuff that you're seeing now, all the horror … look at Israel. They're all waiting for an attack from Iran,” Trump said. He also insisted that if he were still president, “Israel would have never been attacked [by Hamas]” in the first place, “Iran would not be attacking” since it knew "not to mess around,” and Putin would never have [invaded Ukraine] if he was in charge.

Then, Trump told Musk about a conversation he had with Vladimir Putin while he was president, in which he told Putin, “Don't do it. You can't do it, Vladimir. [If] you do it, it's gonna be a bad day. You cannot do it.”

Most importantly, Trump urged a return to a foreign policy that seeks to de-escalate foreign conflicts. He criticized Biden’s incompetence in dealing with Russia and warned that “it can lead to World War III.”

“I think you're right. I think people underrate the risk of World War III. And it's just, when looking at the risk of global thermonuclear warfare, it's game over for humanity,” Musk replied.

4. Cost of living

Perhaps the most important policy issue this election cycle, tied with the border, is inflation and the economy. For the past four years, Americans have lived in a highly inflationary environment due to the left’s radical economic plans.

“It's a disaster with inflation. The inflation, it doesn't matter what you make. The inflation has eaten you alive,” Trump said.

Musk explained why the Biden-Harris administration has been so bad for American’s wallets and urged the next administration to cut spending to reduce inflation.

“Inflation comes from government overspending because the checks never bounce when it's written by the government,” Musk explained. “So if the government spends far more than it brings in, that increases the money supply. And if the money supply increases faster than the rate of goods and services, that's inflation.”

Then, Musk volunteered himself to help solve the inflation and spending problem and said he would “be happy to help out” on “a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayers' hard-earned money is spent in a good way.”

5. Education reform

One of the biggest drivers of government deficits is the federal government's spending billions on federal agencies. The Department of Education, which has faced considerable scrutiny from conservatives over the past half-century for being inefficient and seizing control from states and parents, would be first on the chopping block for President Trump.

“I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I wanna close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states,” Trump told Musk.

If Trump follows through, state legislators would have more control over their education policies, which could result in more school choice legislation at the state level — a massive victory for families who want to choose where they send their kids to school.

6. Energy, AI, and tech

Americans can’t afford electricity, either. That’s why Trump vows to “bring energy prices down” in his next term.

“Not only gasoline; it's the cost of heating your house and cooling your house. That has to come down. It's gone up 100%, 150%, and 200%, and that has to come down. When that comes down, and we're gonna drill, baby, drill,” Trump promised.

Furthermore, Trump understands the need for efficient energy access to support AI innovation. AI development is driving the swell in energy consumption, which requires immediate reaction from legislators and industry leaders. Some have warned AI’s demand for energy is “pushing the world toward an energy crisis.”

“And I know you're a big fan of AI, and I have to say that AI, and this is shocking to me, but AI requires twice the energy that the country already produces for everything,” Trump told Musk.

“So you're gonna have to build, we're gonna have to build a lot of energy if our country will be competitive with China, because that's our primary competitor for this AI. You're gonna need a lot of electricity. You're gonna need tremendous electricity, almost double what we produce now for the whole country, if you can believe it,” he added.

7. The far left

Trump asked Musk why he is voting for him to cap the interview off. Essentially, Musk, a former “moderate Democrat,” thinks the Democrats are swinging too far left.

“They're rewriting history and making Kamala sound like a moderate when in fact she is far left, like far, far left,” Musk complained.

“Worse than Bernie Sanders. … She's a radical left lunatic,” Trump replied.

Lastly, Musk urged fellow moderates to vote for Trump. “I'm just trying to point out that my track record historically has been moderate; if not moderate, slightly left. And so this is to people out there who are in the moderate camp to say I think you should support Donald Trump for president. And I think it's actually a very important junction in the road. And we're in deep trouble if it goes the other way,” Musk said.