Elon Musk interviewed Donald Trump for almost two hours last night. It was on X, and it got off to a rocky start. While this event was great, this platform can’t handle the volume. Musk said the means test for 8 million people—tens of millions will tune in, guys. Regardless, Trump attacked Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s record, voiced concerns about the country’s future, and outlined the many socio-economic issues plaguing the country.
ELON: “My track record historically has been moderate. If not moderate, slightly left…this is to people out there who are in the moderate camp…I think you should support Donald Trump for president!”
TRUMP: “Thank you, and, you know, I actually always did think of you as… pic.twitter.com/Z8F3wa2QdC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024
TRUMP: “If we were going to suffer another four years like we suffered for the last four years, I’m not sure the country can ever come back.”
ELON: “I think that’s a very real risk.” pic.twitter.com/MBygVYmIYv
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024
TRUMP: “Kamala wouldn’t have this conversation. She can’t! Because she’s not smart…Biden…? He would’ve given up in the first half of a question…He would’ve said where am I? Where am I going?” pic.twitter.com/BMgXdCftUZ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024
Donald Trump just TORCHED Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 🔥
“Biden is close to vegetable stage…I look at him today on the beach…The guy could barely walk…He can’t lift the chair! The chair weight about three ounces! It’s meant for children and old people…!
ELON: “Clearly… pic.twitter.com/HjREwAARP5
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024
TRUMP: “What I’m going to do, one of the first acts…I want to close up Department of Education!” pic.twitter.com/qvE9Zw8Bgq
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024
President Trump on the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania:
“One of the miracles was that nobody ran.”#TrumpOnXpic.twitter.com/wWcxTBKVZi
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 13, 2024
Yet, from a media standpoint, you’d think this was an address made at a Klan rally. The liberal media is terrified of people voicing their opinions on a platform designed to encourage free speech. My only gripe with the platform is that they banned me, but let’s get back to the issue here: the media is worried about misinformation, which you already know is liberal-speak for views we don’t like. The reaction to this interview is like what we’re seeing across the Atlantic, where the government is now regulating speech on the Internet, even throwing people in jail. In America, you can believe in things that are incorrect, even nutty. Democrats should support this—all of their ideas and their supporters are certifiably insane:
Axios’ @sarafischer: “@elonmusk will let Donald Trump speak all of the falsehoods & misinformation that he wants. I mean, he’s not a journalist … Does he want to be fact checking all the information? So I think it‘s just a platform for Trump to come out say whatever he wants.” pic.twitter.com/13w1MVzzGD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 12, 2024
Ha, says the guy who worked for Obama as if most of the media hasn’t personally endorsed Kamala and given in-kind donations through their coverage (while she snubs interviews). Elon is just honest and transparent about it. Further, he said it was a conversation at the beginning. https://t.co/QiXwD2Gfpp
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 13, 2024
The Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson: “One more, @ElonMusk is slated to interview [@realDonaldTrump] tomorrow — tonight on — on @X. I don’t know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign… pic.twitter.com/zKxJNF1zbf
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024
After Musk’s event, the Harris campaign sent an unhinged fundraising email accusing the Tesla founder and the former president, claiming that the platform is being used to spread Trump’s hateful agenda. Oh, and they need $25 if you can spare it:
Does Kamala Harris take personal responsibility for statements like this? https://t.co/AbD5zDl3Xg
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) August 13, 2024
This has gotta be the most petty and unhinged campaign email of all time and it’s even more hilarious considering neither Kamala, nor Tim Walz have spent more than 0 seconds doing an interview, a press conference, or any conversation. pic.twitter.com/abZBy7Ge10
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 13, 2024
It’s also embarrassing. Elon invited Kamala to do the same interview on the platform, but she refused. I wonder why. Is it because she’s not ready for prime time and will be exposed as a horrible candidate? Probably.
Elon said he invited Kamala for the same LIVE chat. She turned him down.
— Lisa (@Rockprincess818) August 13, 2024
Here’s the full interview:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
Both Harris and Walz are complete frauds. They have NO COGNITIVE PLATFORM, NO VISION FOR THE FUTURE. The potential for a revolution is at hand.
REMEMBER “VALERIE JARRETT (SR. ADVISOR TO OBAMA & HER FAMILIES INVOLVEMENT W/COMMUNISM INVESTIGATED BY “JUDICAL WATCH” & HOW SHE WAS PERSONALLY INVESTIGATED FOR HER ROLE OF “SQUALID” LIVING CONDITIONS AS CHICAGO’S CHIEF EXEC. OFFICER FOR HABITAT COMPANY W/REZKO & DAVIS & LASTILY “WHO” GAVE THE STAND DOWN ORDER INVOLVING THE BENGHAZI SCANDAL~ HINT, IT “WASN’T OBAMA AS SUPPOSED TO BE (HE WAS NO-WHERE TO BE FOUND)
I DISGRESS~ THIS PLAYBOOK THAT OBAMA & HILLARY USED IS WHAT IS THE CENTER OF THE INFAMOUS “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA OBAMA SPOKE OF THROUGH HIS SPEECHES…
Rules for Radicals
In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way: What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. His “rules” derive from many successful campaigns where he helped poor people fighting power and privilege.
For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they stop thinking about it.
According to Alinsky, the organizer, especially a paid organizer from outside, must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”
Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.
Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
File a lawsuit, for theft and plagirism. Then file a Federal lawsuit for Dereliction of Duties, on Joe and Kamala. Also Joe is a treasonist. I’ve made that perfectly clear many times. Open borders and a call to surge the border is Treason. You bastard Republicans are as bad as the Democrats for dereliction of your Duty’s. Democrats are lowlife scum, and the Swamp is full of them. File charges on MSM for accessory to cover Biden crimes. File Dereliction of Duty on Nancy Pelosi for the cover up of the Truth about Jan. 6th. The only way to stop these ignorant Fks is bring arms against them and the MSM, and the FBI, and CIA. I’m a pissed off American. I’ll stay that way until there are no Democrats left in 2025. As a matter of fact. I will speak my mind anytime you censoring feckless freeloading bums. The Truth burns like hell. Fucking infidels, and communist Socialist Rot!