The long-anticipated ritual takedown of the fall man Elon Musk

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The long-anticipated ritual takedown of the fall man Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Just as anticipated, the clown show attacks on Elon Musk have begun with a shot across the bow from Russel Honoré, a retired general who often shows up in the mainstream media. But there was not a word about Musk’s bid to take over the entire world with low-orbit military satellites, or to use brain-computer interfaces to render us as idiots, or his multibillion-dollar fraudulent use of government funding to build his Tesla house of crap empire in Honoré’s editorial in the New York Times.

Russel Honoré

No, retired general Honoré only attacked Musk for having investments in Russia and China that might pose a security risk. That is to say that Musk’s globalist ambitions to take over the world and control all of humanity are just fine as long as they don’t get in the way of the other show in town (in DC, that is), the drive for world war.

Honoré writes,

“Mr. Musk’s relationship with China’s leaders could prove a problem for America’s national security given that SpaceX has a near monopoly on the United States’ rocket launches. The United States is in an intense space race with China.”

China and the United States are both involved in a race for hegemony, and also, at the same time, the billionaires of both countries are cooperating to take control of the entire world. Both are true, but you will never get that truth from the likes of General Honoré.

It is a form of billionaire imperialism and it could mean war between those who are basically on the same side. Yes billionaire friends in China and the US could fight each other just as multimillionaire friends in England and Germany fought each other, or had working people die for their war, in 1914.

Just because the imperial powers fought each other over China in the early 20th century, did not mean they were not on the same side. The same can be said of the various billionaires and the retired generals and politicians they toy with.

Let us be frank here. Elon Musk was a psychological operation from the start, granted he had a few billion dollars. Musk has been set up to grab the headlines, and to take all the flack for the men behind the curtains during the opening of the Trump reign.

Musk is on TV to serve as the object for our attention, thus allowing Peter Thiel and Alex Karp of the private intelligence firm Palantir and Steve Feinberg of the defense and intelligence private equity/consulting firm Cerberus to take over the entire Federal government via outsourcing of IT services to their firms, and the complete corruption of the chain of command after the coup d’etat against chairman joint chiefs of staff General Charles Brown.

Peter Thiel

Alex Carp

Feinberg is also deputy secretary of defense and busy there turning the Pentagon into a cash cow for private equity and managing Cerberus on the side, while TV personality Pete Hegseth wows them with his racist zingers.

Steve Feinberg

The time has come for the games to begin, for everyone to blame Musk for the destruction of what was left of the federal government.

None of the actual damage will be undone, of course. All experts, all men and women of conscience are gone, or begging to get out. Now the government can just do the bidding of billionaires without any pecky resistance from government employeees.

In fact, none of the radical privatization of the military will even be mentioned in the media, even after Musk is gone. We are heading into a world war, starting with the mobilization for war with Iran. What could be better to distract during the final build up than stirring up some more stupidity about Musk and Trump.

The real billionaires have too much invested in this leveraged buyout of the entire federal government to stop now. I mean Timothy Mellon cannot sleep; he is just so excited about this chance to seize control of all ports, of all sea lanes, of all trains and airports!

Timothy Mellon

They are following the game plan they used to take down the Soviet Union, now recycled and updated. The US already has its own oligarchs. But this crash is going to be much worse than the collapse of the Soviet Union because most everyone will have a stake in it. They are betting on exactly that.

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NEW YORK TIMES

Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk

Dec. 29, 2024

Russel L. Honoré

(Lt. Gen. Honoré retired from the U.S. Army in 2008)

It is now fair to ask the question: Is Elon Musk a national security risk?

According to numerous interviews and remarks, Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency co-leader, Vivek Ramaswamy, once appeared to believe he was. In May 2023, Mr. Ramaswamy went so far as to publicly state, “I have no reason to think Elon won’t jump like a circus monkey when Xi Jinping calls in the hour of need,” a reference to China’s leader. In a separate X post targeting Mr. Musk, he wrote, “the U.S. needs leaders who aren’t in China’s pocket.”

Mr. Ramaswamy has since walked back his numerous public criticisms of Mr. Musk, but he was right to raise concerns. According to news reports, Mr. Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, face federal reviews from the Air Force, the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General and the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security for failing to provide details of Mr. Musk’s meetings with foreign leaders and other potential violations of national-security rules.

These alleged infractions are just the beginning of my worries. Mr. Musk’s business ventures are heavily reliant on China. He borrowed at least $1.4 billion from banks controlled by the Chinese government to help build Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory, which was responsible for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries in the third quarter of 2024.

China does not tend to give things away. The country’s laws stipulate that the Communist Party can demand intelligence from any company doing business in China, in exchange for participating in the country’s markets.

This means Mr. Musk’s business dealings in China could require him to hand over sensitive classified information, learned either through his business interests or his proximity to President-elect Donald Trump. No federal agency has accused him of disclosing such material, but as Mr. Ramaswamy put it, China has recognized that U.S. companies are fickle. He added, “If Xi Jinping says ‘jump,’ they’ll say, ‘How high?’”

Mr. Musk’s relationship with China’s leaders could prove a problem for America’s national security given that SpaceX has a near monopoly on the United States’ rocket launches. The United States is in an intense space race with China.

In a May interview, Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Gagnon, the deputy chief of space operations for intelligence at the U.S. Space Force, said that there has never been a buildup comparable to what the Chinese are attempting in space — not even during World War II — and that “an adversary arming this fast is profoundly concerning.” The last thing the United States needs is for China to potentially have an easier way of obtaining classified intelligence and national security information.

Mr. Musk already has a history of pleasing the Chinese Communist Party. He heaped praise on Mr. Xi to commemorate the party’s 100th anniversary. In 2022, earning thanks from Chinese officials, he went to bat for the party by arguing that Taiwan should become a special administrative region of China.

In May 2023, Mr. Musk also reportedly told Qin Gang, then the Chinese foreign minister, that Tesla opposed the United States decoupling from China, stating that U.S. and Chinese interests are “intertwined like conjoined twins.”

Although claiming to be a free-speech advocate, Mr. Musk was the first foreigner to contribute an article to China Cyberspace, a magazine that is run by the Communist regime’s internet censorship agency.

Chris Stewart, a Republican former congressman and senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, whom Mr. Trump reportedly considered nominating as director of national intelligence, once pushed for closed-door briefings on Mr. Musk’s China ties. Mr. Trump’s choice for secretary of state, Senator Marco Rubio, who previously accused Tesla of covering up for the Chinese Communist Party, introduced a bill to prevent NASA and other federal agencies from giving contracts to companies linked to China or Russia.

The question now is whether the incoming Trump administration will take this risk seriously.

Mr. Musk is one of Mr. Trump’s top advisers. Mr. Trump may have gone so far as to reject a bipartisan congressional budget measure because it did not have Mr. Musk’s stamp of approval. In November, after his election, Mr. Trump traveled to Texas to watch Mr. Musk’s Starship launch. That is fine, but doing nothing to ensure America’s space apparatus remains secure from potential vulnerabilities would not be.

The Musk-China concerns might be just the beginning. In a November letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Pentagon’s inspector general, two Democratic senators asked that they investigate Mr. Musk’s “reliability as a government contractor and a clearance holder” because of his reported conversations with Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials. In a separate letter, the senators asked the Air Force secretary, Frank Kendall, to reconsider SpaceX’s “outsized role” in America’s commercial space integration. Mr. Kendall wrote back stating that, while he was legally prohibited from discussing Mr. Musk’s case, he shared their concerns.

If the federal investigations demonstrate deep connections to China and Russia, the federal government should consider revoking Mr. Musk’s security clearance. It should already be thinking about using alternatives to SpaceX’s launch services.

The fact that Mr. Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars to help re-elect Mr. Trump does not give the incoming White House the license to look the other way at the national security risks he may pose. If Mr. Trump and his appointees mean what they say about getting tough on America’s adversaries, then they will act on this matter without delay. There is too much at stake to ignore what’s right in front of them.