Elon Musk is in the left’s crosshairs — but he’s – Latest News
Democrats are having a communist second — but again.
From New York to Colorado, the most radical candidates in a number of races are poised to win in November, dragging the celebration ever more leftward.
Just as in each different communist revolution, their first objective is to make foes of society’s most efficient and rich people.
And proper now the richest of all of them, Elon Musk, is Public Enemy No. 1.
What’s taking place to Musk is straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” playbook, particularly Rule No. 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”
The torrent of abuse directed at Musk has elevated dramatically in the previous couple of weeks, ever since Musk’s investments crossed him into “trillionaire on paper” territory.
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That’s when Democrats like California Rep. Ro Khanna and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren began agitating to grab Musk’s property — as a result of it’s simply so gosh-darn unfair for him to revenue from his unbelievable successes.
“A 5% tax on Elon’s trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American,” Khanna ludicrously wrote on June 5.
The useful neighborhood observe hooked up to his X post ought to have set him straight: Khanna’s proposal would web $60 billion — simply a fraction of the $160 billion spent yearly spent on tuition in bachelor’s degree packages alone.
Warren echoed his seize-first-do-math-later sentiment when she posted that a slice of Elon’s property may pay for “child care for all three and four year olds in America.”
This, of course, is nowhere close to the actuality: Seizing 100% of Musk’s wealth would keep the whole authorities operating for about three months, complete.
And the hysteria ramped up from there.
On June 22, Khanna accused Musk of having “possibly sentenced to death” an unimaginable “4.5 million children,” when Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency really helpful cuts to USAID.
Note the phrase “possibly,” rigorously inserted to keep Musk from suing Khanna into oblivion for that nasty bit of slander.
Then got here Nicholas Kristof, contemporary off his nonsense column accusing Israeli jail guards of utilizing canine to rape prisoners, who began naming names of people Musk had ostensibly killed.
“Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia,” Kristof alleged.
And how about Peter Donde, he demanded, “a 10 year old in South Sudan who had his HIV medication cut off.”
Yet Musk did no such factor: DOGE didn’t truly make any cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which since 2003 has spent over $130 billion of Americans’ tax money on HIV training and eradication round the world.
In reality, as Musk tried to elucidate, a lot of DOGE’s work entailed asking recipients to substantiate that the money America sends them is truly reaching the people it’s imagined to help.
“Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued,” he identified, “and is now administered by the State Department.”
It didn’t matter.
None of Musk’s accusers had been arguing in good religion: They had been too busy personalizing and polarizing their goal.
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Their allegations didn’t need to be true, and even make any sense — simply invoking Musk’s title and stirring up the hatred was enough.
Ironically, many of Musk’s most rabid accusers are themselves very rich.
The Free Beacon’s deep dive into Khanna’s personal funds this week revealed that his two school-age youngsters have “large ownership shares in three private golf clubs” — and his spouse drives a $190,000 car.
The communist nomenklatura at all times have insider privileges, but this is a bit a lot.
How is it acceptable for Khanna to stay in consolation and splendor whereas an ambulance in Liberia has no fuel?
How may he allow his youngsters to hoard their wealth, reasonably than spending it to save lots of HIV-positive youngsters’s lives?
The relentless assaults on Musk mix open envy with the politicized push for a socialist system that will confiscate all the pieces he’s earned.
And they’re pure poison in an period of “assassination culture” cheered by the left.
The lies about him are supposed to lather the base into a frenzy — and whereas the ostensible goal is Elon Musk, what’s actually in the crosshairs is America itself.
Right now the United States is engaged in a humanitarian mission to save lots of lives following the earthquake in Venezuela.
America is at all times there when the world wants us.
But that generosity can’t go away us open to multi-decade scams that rob us blind, lest each death on Earth be laid at America’s toes.
We’re a nation that permits people to succeed in their full potential and make as a lot money as they will think about.
We’re additionally a nation that does unimaginable good in this world.
The socialists need to destroy that fact in the event that they’re to succeed in their devastating goals.
We can’t allow them to.
Karol Markowicz is the host of the “Karol Markowicz Show” and “Normally” podcasts.
