cromwell wrote:Which is not what the rest of the billionaire owned social media sites want. They want the only opinions to be on show to be their opinions.
So they hate Musk for disrupting their monopoly.
They hate him for that but also they hate him for not having 16 houses, a massive superyacht on every continent and that he spends the vast majority of his life working, gaming, or with his kids. In fact Musk thinks more than a week on holiday is purgatory. Not your standard Billionaire and when he became the very richest of them the disparity became even larger.
Now he is on X actively tearing into their carefully laid schemes to control the governments, control the people and make their cash pile exponentially larger. They hate Trump because they simply can't control him. They hate Elon too because all the normal levers "we'll collapse you stock and take away 75% of your money" simply can't work on him. He doesn't spend much money so he is not at risk, 2 or 3 billion would allow him to keep doing what he is doing and keep opening new companies in new fields like Neuralink.
The nearest they can get to is to put him in prison and he has been building a very strong legal team to avoid exactly that since Biden came into the White House.
When Elon bought X he said that the hate sphere was going to spiral into overdrive and they would try to put him in jail. Very clearly for the record he said "I am not suicidal and never will be".
Roll forward 2 years....
There are things unsaid which you really have to follow closely and concentrate on. The "rich" tried to defund X by pulling their advertising. Leading to Elon's now famous G.F.Y statement on blackmail.
But if you were paying attention you would know that Elon said and did specific things when buying Twitter. He said that if your entire revenue source was advertising then you did not own your platform, the advertisers did. This was also a sly dig at Google. What did he do? Well after he sacked 85% of Twitter staff he sold another $7.5bn of shares. This is after the acquisition, after dumping the staff and unilaterally exiting extortionate rental contracts with a "so sue me"; this was at a time when he should not have needed to sell any more of his Tesla shares.
$7.5bn represents the X running costs for 5 years with zero revenue. Elon's estimate to transition X to the financial everything app? 5 years.
The "rich" are frantic. They are attacking everything he does but bouncing up against boundaries. You can't hold back SpaceX without endangering Artemis and by 2030 Artemis will have consumed $200bn of US public funds. In fact they would be far better off trying to get him direct funds so he can get to Mars faster. Then they would be shot of him.
Then Trump? With the Fraud conviction being crushed, considering it should never have happened in the first place, this is one more nail in the Lawfare coffin and the "rich" become more and more desperate. They literally Have to kill him because in reality, outside of press and media massaged stats, Harris has extremely low support. The only reason she's getting even around 30% of the votes is the number of people who truly hate Trump.
This is insanity plus in terms of how to run a country and a world. One of the reasons Elon wants Mars and Human society 2.0.
Keep watching but spend some time remembering and a lot more time listening for what certain statements imply.