A Tribute to the Genius of Elon Musk

A Tribute to the Genius of Elon Musk

Emanuel Pastreich

Independent Candidate for President

December 6, 2023

In this age of overwhelming threats, when danger and decay lurk in every corner, it is most fitting, most appropriate for sure, for us now to praise famous men. And the most famous of the famous, the most innovative genius who stands out in the star-studded high-tech landscape of innovators is without any doubt Mr. Elon Musk.

It is not merely Mr. Musk’s entrepreneurial spirit in revolutionizing transportation with his electric car the Tesla, nor only his dream of autonomous transportation that is safer than human drivers, nor just his visionary embrace of artificial intelligence made manifest in the numerous products developed by OpenAI, nor is it only his revolutionary approach to space as seen in SpaceX, or to satellites as found in his ambitious Starlink system, nor for that matter is his genius limited to his commitment to free speech as articulated in his full-throated defense of X (the social media platform formally known as “Twitter”).

No, Mr. Musk has grasped something essential about entrepreneurship, investment savvy, technology, culture, and even geopolitics in a prescient, insightful, and perspicacious manner.

But wait, wait one minute! I seem to have been led astray—I started talking like an American politician!

What was I thinking? Was I assuming that the path to power leads forward over the slippery inflated egos of billionaire predators, of the economic parasites who attribute the loot that they take from innocent citizens to their brilliance, after buying off government officials and privatizing government services? Such thieves are not legends in their own time, but legends in their own minds.

No, I think that dose of intoxicating elitist establishment opium is wearing off and, verily, I can see clearly now!

Yes, Mr. Musk is most certainly a genius, but a genius of a very different genus.

He has a genius for greed, for cruelty, for hypocrisy, and for a psychopathic inability to recognize the evil of his own deeds.

Telsa? A scam to use tax dollars in the form of subsidies to make a fortune that was then multiplied in the casinos known as the stock market and derivative market—to produce an overpriced luxury car available to only the few at the expense of workers.

Paypal? A fraudulent means of sending money that was achieved by bribing government officials around the world and granting special rights to a special elite class.

OpenAI? The development of systems for dumbing down the population, and destroying jobs and civil society at the citizens’ expense—the technological equivalent of telling people to dig their own graves.

Neuralink? A project for dangerous experimentation without accountability on the unsuspecting brains of the innocent intended not to enhance the intelligence of the individual but to allow the multinational corporation to reach its grubby hands deep into your mind and to feed garbage into your soul.  

SpaceX and Starlink? The launching of numerous dangerous satellites and other classified weapons systems at the taxpayers’ expense using the most brutal forms of bribery-driven privatization.

And there were plenty more innovative frauds that Mr. Musk undertook. In fact, given all the money he spread around, he could not go wrong. 

Oh, did I forget? No, no, it was Mr. Musk who forgot. He forgot to pay taxes as he made billions and billions of dollars using government credits around the world that were paid for with—well, your taxes, your hard-earned money. That is right, your money is what made him a billionaire many times over.

At the same time, we must recognize that Mr. Musk would not have gotten this far without the cooperation of a vast hoard of collaborators and accomplices, including many who should have known better, and many who did know better, but who took the hook because of their greed and because of simple evil hidden in the folds of the heart.

No, Mr. Musk is no hero, and most certainly he is not a workingman’s hero. Perhaps he is a hero for rapacious billionaires who seek innovative ways to squeeze the common man even more. Why Mr. Musk offers tremendous innovations in raking workers over the coals and then brainwashing them into thinking he is their defender.

I must admit that I almost threw up my lunch when I saw Robert F. Kennedy Junior interview Elon Musk and praise him, gushing, “I just want to tell you how much I admire you for your work and how grateful I am on behalf of my country. You came here from another country and became a key instrument for rescuing American democracy and freedom of speech.” Mr. Kennedy, a man I once looked up to for his brave stand against vaccines, stooped to praise the self-crowned Musk just as Musk was in the middle of destroying what was left of free speech in that psychological operation and marketing tool formally known as Twitter.

Kennedy’s glaring hypocrisy then, as much as his embrace of Israeli cruelty later, not only ripped the mask off the Hyannis Port mystique, but it also revealed just how low the standards have fallen for politicians today.

It is clear that if you do not kiss the ring of King Musk, you are finished in the political realm, or in most any realm of public discourse.

Let me draw a line in the sand today, stark and plain, like an iron curtain, a DMZ, between me and the rest of these politicians who swarm like maggots when the billionaires toss out scraps.

My first day in office will be Elon Musk’s last day of freedom to wreak havoc in America. He will be arrested for his crimes; he will have all of his assets seized, including those he hides behind various overseas trusts and funds, and all the documents held by his spider’s web of corporations, as well as all the classified documentation related to his covert work with the US, Israeli and other militaries, intelligence agencies, and governments, will be released to the world, in unedited form, so that you the people will have a full picture of his remarkable criminality.

Certainly, we will need those funds to compensate those crippled by the technologies that he pushed (while brilliantly claiming to be worried about AI), to compensate those he robbed with his financial scams to enrich himself at the expense of the working man and working woman.

Oh yes!

Holler out, from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea, “There is no man in this country above the law; No man who can simply print up his own money at our expense to enrich himself because he has bought off all the gatekeepers, or lulled them to sleep with his AI algorithms.”

For truly, “This land is your land, and this land is my land!”

Without any doubt, “This land was made for you and me.”

And this land is not for parasite billionaires and their spawn, nor is it for the zombie politicians they have licking at palms of their hands. Good riddance and good night!