Summary
Elon Musk has reportedly been staying at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate since Trump’s election win, raising eyebrows with his frequent presence and involvement.
Musk, who has donated millions to Trump’s reelection, was recently seen dining with the former president and even joined a call with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
Although he has no formal role, sources say Musk is influencing Trump’s decisions and staffing.
Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher warns Musk may eventually be ousted, noting Trump “goes through people like tissues.”
There’s a bigger story here. The tech industry is making a play as a lot of tech billionaires had openly supported Trump late in the election cycle. Elon weirdly becoming Trumps shadow. Bezos human-centipeding himself to Trumps corn hole. a16z doing an about face after supporting Democrats all these years, openly admitting its because “fuck you, lower taxes for the rich”.
Elon surviving Trumps conveyor belt of cronies is irrelevant. The tech billionaires have signaled they are all in on Trump. It’s pretty obvious his regime is better for them. No more regulatory road blocks. Policy that personally benefits wealthy individuals.
What is going to happen with all the Google antitrust stuff. I assume it’s as good as gone.
I suspect big tech knew with near 100% certainty the Trump victory. It’s their whole reason for existence to know these things. I might even be inclined to say they nudged it in their favor. Elon suddenly inserting himself into the picture is pretty damning. I think he knew if not outright leveraged Twitter until their internal analytics showed a certain Trump victory.
Starlink was involved in some of the voting machines, so that adds more suspicion
I don’t believe that theory. How does an ISP impact the functionality of a voting machine, especially when they have paper copies of the ballots? It’s not like they were running SpaceX software on the machine, just using it as an Internet connection to report results to a centralized database. Conspiracies like this are what we fought against in 2020, when the QAnon fools thought Hugo Chavez and Dominion stole the election from Trump.
Plus, the Dems just got outplayed. Rubes went deep into every social media environment while the Dems acted like it was still 2002.
Edit: all they had to do was go on podcasts and even X and share memes of Lima Khan as Ghengis raiding the corpos and talk about how they were coming after each and every one. Shut up about Trump. It was that easy.
