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Tuesday, 5 May 2026
The Aid Industrial Complex
When Bono, darling of the left, major supporter of all sorts of “Aid” events, says this, you know it’s true.
Government money >> Aid agencies, NGOs >> vast majority Left wing >> vote for Democrats >> donate to Democrats >> who ensure the free money keeps flowing.
Meantime the administrators of the Aid agencies, NGOs enrich themselves before any intended recipients. Sometimes/often none of the money reaches intended recipients.
That’s the “NGO Industrial Complex”.
Which explains the fury directed at Elon Musk when DOGE, which he ran for a few months, came after Waste, Fraud and Abuse in government. It was a threat to the Gravy Train.
Jews fighting back
It’s about 99-1 pro-Hamas and anti Israel, so this, above, with Danny Seaman, is just a tiny bit of pushback on the narrative.
Especially on the BS of the “genocide”.
And of course”starving Gazans” when they’re getting twice the number of food trucks every day than they need, the surplus lining the pockets of Hamas bosses.
This war has revealed a bitter truth | Ahmed Khalifa
This war has revealed a bitter
truth for us Arabs & real Muslims
in the UAE & the Gulf:
Europe is no longer the Europe
we used to know.. The Europe of
beauty, culture, humanity & art
the one we looked up to, studied in
& learned so much from, is gone !
Now it feels like a third-world
country a refuge for failures
a safe haven for extremists
run by the Muslim Brotherhood
IRGC agents & every terrorist who
got kicked out of the Middle East!
Europe has sadly lost its identity.
Soon the the native European will
feel like strangers in their own land
watching their society get worse
& worse all with the blessing of their
own leaders!!
It’s a painful, pathetic joke..
I’m sorry, but I have to post this
warning (Video) again. It was from
10 years ago. I don’t know if it’ll make
any difference anymore, but I’m
sharing it for the fifth time anyway!
Monday, 4 May 2026
As goes California, so goes America
"As goes California, so goes America"
Well, we better hope not. Because --
The story of California in my life time has been --
California: from Leader to Laggard.
California heydays. The Beach Boys. Haight-Ashbury. The Hippies. The Grateful Dead. All that was cool was California.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers sang Californication:
It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the East, at least it settled in a final location
No longer. Who wants to Californify? People are leaving CA faster than rats off a sinking ship. Companies too. People and companies have had enough. Those that stay are not Grateful, just Dead. Because of endless green tape, red tape, buck tape.
Gavin Newsom, the CA governor who made this happen, denies reality. Harps on about the size of the CA economy. But that's old news, which he had nothing to do with; and in any case is destroying.
Today California is no.1 in:
- Highest cost of housing
- Highest cost of petrol
- Highest cost of electricity
- Highest grocery costs
- Highest unemployment
- Highest poverty rate
- Highest homelessness
It doesn't help that many of these failures are the outcome of well-meaning policies. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
And yet, Newsom is leading the polls for the Democrat nominee to the 2028 presidential election.
Heaven help us.
Adam Carolla, Mr Common Sense, talks to Congressman Kevin Kiley. About all this and other things. E.G.: the hi-speed train to nowhere that will never be finished.
It's worth anyone from anywhere watching this. Because it's not just As goes California, so goes America. It's also "As goes America, so goes the World". Much as the world denies it, because of their TDS.
Can the tide be turned? Like "Californication's'' creative destruction?
Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation...
Greens (and BBC) deny Reality of Islam
Watch. And Marvel.
Anti-semitism is caused by… the fact that “We’re living in Rip-off.Britain”.
Apparently…. Rising price of eggs … leads to anti-semitism. Apparently…
According to Greens leader Rachel Millward.
This is the Green-Red alliance. Where…
Green = Hamas, etc. The whole panoply of Islamic supremacism.
Red = the Greens. Confusing, I know. But you get the picture.
By the way. Come the revolution. Come the victory of Islam, the first to be lined up and shot will be the Lefties. The Greens. As per Iran in 1979. When the Ayatollah came to power and killed his erstwhile allies, 30,000 of them. The Iranian leftist leaders.
Victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome
It's a useful summary of those in the media. The ones that fuelled the craziness. I remember it all. I remember being dubious about the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff at the time, as every day, with every promised "bombshell" revelation, nothing actually came out.
And then I read, I actually read and notated, the Mueller Report, which found nothing at all that Trump could be charged with. Essentially, Not Guilty.
And I thought that that's it.
There's nothing there, nothing in the Mueller Report, so they, the TDS people, will accept that and move on. After all, it was their Report.
Except they didn't. They still believe it. Despite the Mueller evidence that they, the Dems, the Trump haters, the TDS-afflicted, had demanded and had constructed and had filled with Democrat lawyers looking into every nook and cranny of the issue.
Then I knew we had a real problem. Not one easy to solve. And one that's got worse over time. Now in his second term, the TDS folks are crazier than ever....
Sunday, 3 May 2026
Immigrants JOKE about Germans working to support them
Make sure to click on the link below to get the video of the joke. It’s sad-funny, and true.
Germany is so far gone that even immigrants have their own jokes about themselves all being on welfare while the natives work to pay for their lifestyle.
I will never understand this continent's willingness to put itself into servitude for the entire third world.
It's sad.
H/tip: Nioh Berg
In the chart above, MENAPT = Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey. It’s the blue line above. It never rises above zero, even during working ages.
This group of immigrants never makes a net positive financial contribution to Denmark. This is the same in other countries: Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the United States.
This single fact destroys the simplistic claim that “immigrants contribute to the economy”.
Some do. Very many don’t.
Including the single largest immigrant groups to Europe today.
These are a net drain on their host countries. Why is government debt such a curse these days? Well immigrants who do not contribute, who gloat at taking advantage of naive westerners, are most surely a major factor. How could they not be?
Blarney Castle, Ireland
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Conspiracy “theory” becomes Reality. Case #34517
X post from Kevin Dalton:
The Left: "Stop saying we are pushing for illegal immigrants to vote in elections."
Also the Left: "All we’re saying is we want illegal immigrants to vote in elections."
H/t Kevin D.
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Me: I remember when we wondered -- I wondered -- why the Biden administration was opening the borders, letting in, willy nilly, millions of unvetted immigrants. Many/most/all illegal.
Perhaps it was the John Lennon "Imagine" reason. Imagining a "world without borders". Cool, baby. Peace ☮
Perhaps was their simple incompetence at sealing the southern border.
Or... or...
Perhaps it was because the Democrats were looking for more voters!
For illegals will always vote for the party that gives them free stuff. Like the Dems. Like we've seen them doing, most egregiously, in Minnesota.
"Conspiracy theory nutters", scream the Dems. It's "without evidence" (one of their favourite phrases).
Turns out that last reason is the true one. It wasn't a conspiracy theory. It was just a conspiracy. Which turned out to be true.
The Dems are going to allow all immigrants -- "undocumented" or not, non-citizens or not -- vote in American elections. That's insanity. From a national interest POV, but most certainly from a Rep POV.
But it's completely understandable from a "we-must-win-at-all-costs, no-matter-what-the-cost, and by-any-means-necessary" Democrat Party. Starting first, of course, with that testing ground for all progressive ideas, California.
Californicating America.
Democrats Dreaming of Murdering the President
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Democrats Fantasies of Murdering the President. And then denying it.
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Communism Redux
Jonathan Tobin talks to professor Jonathan Brent. Why is communism on the march again? In western countries? By young people? Why?
I remember when the Berlin Wall went up. I was a kid in Germany at the time, my dad in the Australian Embassy, Bonn. He came home that day of August 1961 and said: "guess what happened today? The Russians started building a wall through Berlin". He was clearly rattled.
28 years later, and the Wall came down. I was in China at the time, watching the students in Tiananmen Square calling for democracy in China, for which they were about to be crushed.
One side of the world: Wall down, Democracy on the march. The other side of the world, Democracy crushed.
What was happening in Berlin was the division of one ideology from another. A perfect petri-dish of a social-political experiment. Which works better, Capitalism or Socialism? The capitalist-market economy of the west; or the socialist-communist economy of the east?
The answer was easy. You could see it. The vibrant, open, rich, happy West. The downtrodden, dreary, dark, oppressive East.
The mass of people moving was in one direction only: from the east to the west. During the time of the Wall they were willing to risk their lives, those East Berliners, to storm to Wall and get to the west.
I thought at the time, well that's it. That's the end of socialism. The nail in the coffin of communism. Never mind what was happening in China. That was something else. The rest of the world was changing.
I was in Moscow in 1990, in the last year of the Soviet Union. One year later and socialism there, communism tried in it clearest form, was about to fall.
And yet. And yet... we now have people in the West, in thrall to socialism, in hock to communism.
What's going on?
It's the Marxists of the west. Of Europe. The post-modernists. The likes of Darida, of Gramsci, of Foucault, of the Frankfurt School, who have never given up their delusions of communism. Who convince the youth of the west that "Socialism has never been tried properly". And those of us who say "Oh, yes, it has, and it's failed everwhere", are simply discounted as old fogeys, as bigots.
Friday, 1 May 2026
Pit Bulls and... guess who?
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Heh!
Thursday, 30 April 2026
The most foolish Islamic beliefs
“The most foolish Islamic beliefs”. Yeah, well. It’s a target rich environment.
I started this blog a couple decades ago. To record issues about Islam. As in the ideology. The thought system. Not the people. The ideas. The belief system.
The vid above is a pretty good selection and well researched.
Fact-checked by me and authorised as ☑️.
Tucker is crazier than Trump
Tucker Carlson: What? You didn’t know? That Donald Trump is a jumble of things? That he says a lot of stuff? That some is it is vengeful? That some of it is spiteful? That some of it is boastful? That some of it is apocalyptic? That some of it is plain doozy?
You don’t like his war in Iran? You’ve forgotten that he’s been banging on about this for fifty years? That he's never stopped saying that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon?
Carlson is the crazy one here. The most duplicitous one.
Rich Lowry does “Over and Out” again.
No, Ro. Joe no no “great statesman”
Ro Khanna really is a bit of a dimwit. At max a midwit.
Just after the fourth time the Dems, urged on by Ro, Dem representative for California district 17, failed in their attempt to stop Donald Trump prosecuting the war in Iran, our man Ro somehow got onto the dreary topic of Joe Biden. Said Ro “Joe Biden was a great statesman”.
Really? I thought. What comes to mind. Let’s put aside the 125 years he spent in the senate before he finally crawled into the presidency and relaxed.
Let’s concentrate on his alleged “great statesmanship” during his presidency.
What do I recall? Just going on memory. No AI.
Afghanistan: the pull out, a disaster, according even to the mainstream media.
Russia: To threats of invation of Ukraine, by Putin, Joe says: "Don't". But also, afterthought: "if you only take a bit of it, I won't do anytihng". So that's what Putin does.
Iran: Deliver $15 Billion in cash to the tyrannical theocrats. On pallets, that's eight 737 jets full of cash money. Which gets given to terrorists in Gaza, in Southern Lebanon, in Yemen. And around the world. And is stolen by their leaders, who become billionaires themselves living in Qatar. Well done, Joe.
NATO: plays soft. Makes European NATO feel softy and squishy. Happy that they're going to be looked after, defence-wise, by Ameica, so they can go on funding their comfortable welfare states.
All that? That's "great statesmanship"? Pull the other one, Ro.
People making things vs people taking things
People making things are entrepreneurs. People taking things are civil servants.
There's not a thing I can think of that civil servants actually make. And I speak as a former Australian civil servant, son of civil servants; but also in business and an entrepreneur, if only a small one, here in Hong Kong.
I've often thought and said: there's nothing like the discipline of having to meet a payroll every month. To give you perspective. And make you truly responsible. And make you appreciate the plus side of actually making things, creating services, and selling them to people who value them.
Below is a French person, @brivael, telling a tale of two types.
ReferenceElon Musk had said something that really stuck with me about resource allocation. In essence: beyond a certain level of wealth, money is no longer about consumption—it's about capital allocation.
That sentence changes everything.
Economics, at its core, is just an allocation problem. You have finite resources and infinite uses. Who decides where what goes?
Imagine a school playground. 100 kids, packs of Pokémon cards handed out at random. You let it play out. Very quickly, an order emerges. The good players accumulate rare cards, the collectors sort, the negotiators strike deals. No one planned it. And yet every card ends up in the hands of the one who gets the most value from it. The system maximizes the total happiness of the playground. That's the invisible hand.
Now bring in the teacher. She finds it unfair. Leo has 50 cards, Tom has 3. She confiscates, redistributes, enforces equality. Three immediate effects. The good players stop playing—what's the point. The bad ones have no reason to improve; they'll get their share anyway. Trades collapse. The playground is equal, and dead. She maximized equality, she destroyed happiness.
The teacher's problem is that she can't have the information the playground had collectively. That's Mises' economic calculation problem, formulated in 1920. The USSR tried to solve it for 70 years with the Gosplan. Result: shortages, lines, collapse. Not because the Soviets were stupid, because the problem is mathematically unsolvable in centralized mode.
When Musk has 200 billion, he doesn't consume it—he allocates it. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Every dollar is a bet on the future. And he has a track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. He's demonstrated he knows how to spot massive problems and allocate resources to them with spectacular returns.
The state has a track record too. Hospitals collapsing, education declining, debt exploding, public services degrading despite constantly rising budgets. The market identifies good allocators; politics identifies good communicators.
Profit isn't an end goal—it's a signal. It says: you've allocated scarce resources to a use that people value enough to pay for. The bigger the profit, the greater the value created. When Starlink turns profitable, it means millions of people in rural areas finally have internet. When a ministry runs a deficit, it means it's consuming more than it produces. One creates, the other destroys, and we call that redistribution.
In our societies, there are two categories of actors. Entrepreneurs and bureaucrats. The entrepreneur takes personal risk to spot a problem, mobilize resources, create a solution. If he's wrong, he loses. If he's right, his customers win, his employees win, his suppliers win, the state collects taxes. He's the basic cell of human progress.
The bureaucrat takes no personal risk. His salary is guaranteed. At best, he maintains an existing rent. At worst, he destroys it through overregulation, forced bad allocation, perverse incentives that discourage those who produce. But in no case does he create.
Look at the last 50 years. iPhone, civilian internet, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. All private inventions, driven by entrepreneurs, funded by venture capital. Not a single ministry has invented anything that's changed your daily life.
France has become the world's laboratory for bureaucratic drift. 57% of GDP in public spending, an absolute record. A sprawling administration, a tax system that penalizes wealth creation. Result: falling behind the United States, Germany, Switzerland. Brain drain. Deindustrialization. Exploding debt.
And the worst part is that bad allocation self-reinforces. The more the state takes, the less entrepreneurs create. The less they create, the less tax base there is. The more the state borrows and taxes. Perfect negative feedback loop. The teacher thinks she's helping, and every year the playground produces less.
In our societies, it's always the entrepreneurs who advance civilization. Bureaucrats, at best, maintain a rent; at worst, they destroy it. No society has ever progressed by taxing its creators to subsidize its managers.
The question is never who has how much. It's who allocates the next unit of resource best to maximize humanity's future. The answer hasn't changed in 200 years. It's not the civil servants.
Best company in the world
That’s easy: Tesla
Or: Tesla when merged with SpaceX. Which will happen in a year.
And will be run not by Elon Musk but by Gwynn Shotwell. According to Farzad.
It’s the everything company.
Electric Cars
Robots
Real world AI
Batteries
Lithium
Space
Data centres
Terafab chip making
Data centres in space
Humans on the moon
Lunar manufacturing
Mars
Humans on Mars
Part of Elonososphere: Which includes all of the above. Plus: Solar City. Neuralink. Boring company
There’s not a company even close to Tesla, let alone Tesla-SpaceX.
That’s my good news post for the last day of April.
Buy a single stock? Make it Tesla. Then you’ve bought the optimistic side of the future.
If you want the pessimistic side of the future… vote Democrat.
Simple as that.
[Posted half way round a walk in Siena Park, here in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Most political violence is from the Left
A list of (alleged) Right-wing political violence, compiled by the ADL: in the last three years ALL the violence they recorded was labelled “Right wing”. All of it. Hardly credible, right? Indeed not.
For I did a deep dive into the ADL stats. All of it was by neo-Nazi biker gangs. Weird. Of course these bikies are neo-Nazi nutters. But their violence is all inter-gang. It’s about drugs and territory. And Ho’s. It’s not political violence. It’s just gang rivalry.
You get the picture.
That’s the ADL. The other source the Left relies on for its BS that “most political violence is right wing” is the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Which also cooks the books. Example: All anti-Jew violence is “right wing”?! WTF?! The Left has long been anti-Semitic. For the Right, violent anti-semitism a new thing — at least in this century — by the cooks in the “Woke Reich”. Like Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens and Nick Fuentes.
Writer, podcaster, ex-Leftie, Batya Ungar-Sargon:
An example of how the Left cook the books to absolve the Left of violence in the Wall Street Journal today: A graph it published that seems to show near parity between Left and Right wing political violence is sourced to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which by its own admission reclassified pro-Palestinian violence as "ethnonationalist".
It classifies all antisemitism as Right-wing, and all pro-Palestinian "attacks on Jewish individuals or institutions" as "ethnonationalist." This is just nakedly partisan propaganda presented as "data" and then mainstreamed in the American press. More in my column below linked.
The third assassination attempt on President Trump’s life this weekend has reignited a debate between Left and Right about where political violence in America comes from.
The Right points to the assassination attempts on the President, the murder of Charlie Kirk, the rise of Islamist terrorism, the rabid violence of the George Floyd riots, the elevation of political violence fan Hasan Piker to celebrity status in the Democratic Party, and the recent polling showing that the more liberal a person is, the more likely they are to support political violence.
On the Left, people point to January 6 as well as data purporting to show that most political violence comes from the Right. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, The Economist ran a piece claiming to explain “what the data show,” which suggested that most political violence was a Right-wing phenomenon. Other publications cited studies from the Center for Strategic & International Studies or the CATO Institute. [Read on…]
Israel controls America…
Not.
Jeremy Boreing touches many of the points I’ve made on this here blog. (Jeremy, fwiw, is Christian).
I’ve been asked by Occasional Readers why I still support Israel.
My answer: Because it’s still right. Because it’s still good. While Hamas is still wrong. Hamas is still bad. While Iran’s tyrannical theocracy is still wrong. Is still bad.
All the noise, all the constant repetition of hate on Jews and hate on Israel, doesn’t make it right. It’s just proof, yet again, of Joseph Goebells “Big Lie” theory. Tell a big lie. The bigger the better. And tell it often. People will believe it. And today, weirdly, the Big Lie is coming from both Left and Right. (The latter now called the Woke Reich).
Well, I don’t believe the Big Lie. Nor the one about Israel. And the Jews. Or about how Hamas are brave “resistance fighters”.
I still support Israel. Unequivocally. Staunchly.
For reasons I’ve often repeated here. Which Jeremy handily summarises for me.
Jeremy’s take down of Tucker Carlson’s ludicrous claim that America has “no strategic interest” in Israel is spot on. If Israel, if the Middle East is not strategically relevant, then the term has no meaning. Of course it’s relevant. Hugely so. Israel is very much the bulwark against a major victory for extremist Islam.
Jeeemy doesn’t mention the economic benefits to America and the world of israel. It’s inventions and investments. On the high tech NASDAQ index, for example, Israel has the third highest number of companies listed, after only China and America itself.
On a recent YouTube talk, Ambassador Mike Huckabee listed the number of Israeli-Jewish inventions that have benefitted mankind. Tell me a similar list from the Arab-Muslim world. Heh…
Here’s a list from AI:
• Drip irrigation system
• USB flash drive (Disk-on-Key)
• PillCam (capsule endoscopy)
• Waze navigation app
• Israeli emergency bandage
• Mobileye driver assistance system
• ReWalk exoskeleton
• Cherry tomato
• Polio vaccine (Jonas Salk)
• Ballpoint pen (László BÃró)
• Oral contraceptive pill contributions
• ICQ instant messaging
• Firewall technology (initial versions)
• Solar water heater advancements
• Copaxone (multiple sclerosis treatment)
But, you know, “Jews be Bad”…
Nonprofits manufacture problems to stay in business
Relating to my recent post on the SPLC. The "Southern Poverty Law Centre".
And about why the Left hates Elon Musk. Basically they hate him because in his time at DOGE, he was trying to expose and cut Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
While the Dems rely on Waste, Fraud and Abuse. It's their money machine. It's the NGO Industrial Complex. It's their laundromat. Their money laundering.
Below some words on all this, from the four smart guys at the All-in podcast:
David Sacks:
“Here's the systemic problem with nonprofits and NGOs.
Let me just contrast it with business.
In business, you set up a company, the company has to make revenue, it has to make profits.
And if it doesn't, it's going to go out of business, right? Because it'll lose money.
So there's a feedback mechanism from the market.
With an NGO, nonprofit, what have you, they raise money. They don't sell things.
They fundraise from donors in order to engage in an activity, but what happens over time is the actual activities may stop mattering, and all that really matters is they're able to keep fundraising, right?
Because they're just trying to figure out a justification to keep going back to donors to get more and more money out of them.
That's what perpetuates the organization.”
Chamath:
“ Why wouldn't the Southern Poverty Law Center focus on southern poverty? Which is an issue that actually still exists in some shape or form.
Why do you call it one thing, focus on racism, and then all of a sudden whip up fake racism?”
Sacks:
“I do think that at one time in this country, civil rights was a noble cause, a very legitimate cause.
We had the legacy of segregation and Jim Crow, and there were groups that were set up to basically change that, and they succeeded.
But again, no one in an NGO or a nonprofit ever declares victory.
When Obama got elected in 2008, regardless of whether you liked Obama or not, or agreed with his politics, I thought that at that point, most people could see that this was not a racist country.
Whatever else you could say, the fact that the highest office in the land was not denied to anybody showed that this country was not holding people back based on their skin color.
And instead of just basically packing up shop and saying, ‘Okay, we've achieved our goal,’ the goalposts all got moved.
Remember, that's when the whole anti-racism thing started, was around Obama's second term.
If they just said at that time, ‘You know what, we're going to move the goalposts from equality of opportunity to equality of results. We're going to basically make everyone equal at the finish line,’ which is to say, identity socialism.
People would've said, ‘Eh, no, we're not on board for that.’
So instead, they created this whole new terminology to justify it.
And it's taken us years to unpack that and realize what's really going on.
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
The real existential threat to America: Leftist Political Violence
And no, it's not "there's violence on both sides". It's almost exclusively from the Left. From the Far-Left, if you will.
The violence is against what they claim is an "existential threat" to "our democracy", from Donald Trump.
But that's based on a delusion. That he's a tyrant. That he's Hitler. That the law enforcement officers of the state are Gestapo Goons. That people who vote for him followers are Nazis. All that is nonsense. It's objectively false. That vast swathes of Democrats truly believe it... doesn't make it true.
Instead we have the Left trying to overthrow an administration that won two elections, the latest with both the popular and the electoral college vote.
A democratically-elected administration that they try to overthrow, with lawfare, with obstruction on the streets, with obstruction in the Congress.
And with murderous violence. Repeatedly.
While denying that it's a problem of the Left. As did Obama in his reaction. But. This is the problem of the Left.
Josh Hammer is the senior editor of Newsweek. I've followed him for a while. I'm rather of his view on this whole thing, in the vid above. Which is, like, "whaaa? What are we doing?? This is crazy!"
Indeed it is. And the future of the Republic, the future of possibly the last bastion of western civilization, is at stake here.
Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?
I've been meaning to write a post on "Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?"
I would say that it's because he changed from a centre-left Democrat to a Trump supporter. So, word: Trump.
Before that, the Left loved Elon. A major player in climate change, with his Electric Vehicles and Solar City.
Then, he says he'll support Trump in 2024, and all that goes. They hate Elon. Just as they hate Trump.
The reason why he migrated to support Trump, is that he thinks that reducing the national debt is an existential issue. Neither side has been good with this, but the Trump admin tried harder. They did. With DOGE, which was to tackle Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Which sent the left into paroxysms. Because, it turns out, the whole of the NGO, the non-profit, the charity sector is one big boondoggle to wash money for Democrats. But that's another story.
Then there's a twist I heard about the other day from the likes of the creaky centenarian Democrat Strategist, James Carville, that they think Elon "stole the 2024 election" for Trump. Which is not true, because the swing states that Trump won, the 7 balance states, had zero input from Elon. What's more, the Dems spent way more money than the Reps, 1.5 billion to around 800 million. So there's that.
Now there's another reason, by the insightful Cathie Wood, of Ark Invest.
Namely that the Left hate that Elon is actually doing something for Climate Change. And if he manages to solve it, then there's nothing more for them to campaign on. A new twist on the stuff relating to NGOs. That they don't want to solve the problems they've been set up to tackle. For then the money flow stops. They have to stop feeding at the trough.
Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.
She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.
Not as praise. As a pattern.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.
Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.
The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.
Start with Tesla.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.
Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.
Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.
Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.
Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.
A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.
Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.
SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.
Which is exactly what the press counts on.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
Mars was never the exit.
It is the lab.
Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.
You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.
Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.
He is not running from the cradle.
He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.
But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.
Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.
Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.
That is what terrifies the establishment.
Not that he might fail.
That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.
A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.
So they do the only thing they have left.
They send the media after him.
Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.
It has worked on every builder before him.
It will not work on this one.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.
The stones always come from inside the walls. From Dustin.
Monday, 27 April 2026
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