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Trumpocalypse: What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children

I am reprinting my column this week from Tomdispatch.com . Check in over there for the essential introduction of the invaluable Tom Engelhardt. My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, […]

It’s Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, of course, is no longer with us, just his kids who are running things). I feel like I should try to explain our era to whoever opens this time capsule a century from now, though you may need scuba gear to get at it. A lot of records could be lost by then. The Chinese climate hoax was less of a hoax than we thought at the time. Forgive me, Donald, but despite what the New Evangelical Church says, you were anything but infallible — even if I still can’t say so publicly.
I’d like to move away from the coast, maybe even go north. But real estate in the interior is too pricey, especially at higher elevations away from the flood plains. Looking on the bright side, though, my bunker has held up alright so far, even during the usual Cat 7 hurricanes, and I’ve stocked plenty of canned soup. I do worry, though, about being submerged by a storm surge. No one wants to end up like those poor people in Galveston.
I only hope that the state police won’t find my solar panels, which charge my contraband batteries to keep the AC going down here. We’re all haunted by that Black August in Palm Beach. It turns out that they had 100 percent humidity then. Combine that with temperatures reaching 120º F and it dead-on kills you. Your sweat just can’t cool you down anymore and you end up with terminal heat stroke. Of course, most of them could have been saved by air conditioning if it hadn’t been for the blackout at that new nuclear plant. Bad timing. It turns out such plants use water for cooling and, that day, the local water was so hot they had to shut the plant down.
Tipping Point
There was an unforeseen climate tipping point we blundered into. Looking back, I now realize that the U.S. put out 4.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the year before — yes, before! — the Second Advent of Our Trump. Horrific as that may have been, it was only about 11% of total global emissions, which hit 41.6 billion metric tons that year before the Second Advent (up from 40.6 billion tons in 2023). In short, we used up our carbon budget twice as fast as anyone had predicted, though I wasn’t paying attention at the time. My friends then would have thought me crazy if I had.
Even a few years ago, such facts and figures would have seemed unbearably wonky to me. I didn’t realize my wife would divorce me over them and I’d end up alone here in my bunker, doomscrolling the dark web looking for the catastrophes they don’t let the mainstream media report anymore. Don’t worry, I use a virtual private network and I don’t think the NSA can trace me. The long and short of it is that the world was going in the wrong direction even before Our Trump returned that second time and turbocharged that all too unfortunate trajectory.
Some people think we should flee the Big One. For me, it’s too late. The highways are a parking lot and the price of gasoline is too steep because of the fracked fields going dry. Maybe Our Trump shouldn’t have banned EVs. And I can’t fly out of here anymore (even if I could afford to). It’s too hot for the airplanes to take off. I hadn’t known it, but flying depends on the air having a certain thickness, and hot air has less volume because the molecules speed up and spread around. That’s what Alfred, my PAIC (Personal AI Chatbot), told me when I asked him. Not sure I understand, but it doesn’t matter. The planes are grounded, and so am I.
The Resurrection and the Triumph of Coal
When Our Trump and Secretary of Energy Joe Manchin put billions into reviving Big Coal, that shot U.S. emissions up to six billion metric tons of CO2 in just a couple of years, then seven billion, and so on, launching an international trend as Trumpist-style parties took over ever more governments globally.
As you might expect, once Elon Musk bankrolled the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and helped put it in charge, its Fourth Reich held huge rallies in soccer stadiums where they piled up banned solar panels and wind turbine blades and burned them. Then they rounded up immigrants to use as slave labor in Germany’s revived coal mines. When the European Court of Justice ruled against them, the fascist government in Berlin promptly annexed Belgium. And that essentially marked the end of the European Union.
Russia also doubled down on coal. Even in the early 2020s, its Kuznetsk Basin in Siberia was one of the world’s largest coal producers. When Our Trump gave Eastern Europe back to Moscow, the Russian Federation prohibited electric cars and heat pumps so it could sell its oil and gas. Poland predictably returned to being all coal all the time and the Le Pen cartel in France, taking its marching orders from Russia, soon legislated the same prohibitions on green tech. Europe’s carbon dioxide production soon skyrocketed.
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But the worst problems lay in Asia, an area about which I’ve only recently started to get up to speed. The leaders of China and India insisted that they were damned if they would make sacrifices and risk labor unrest shutting down their coal industries, when the U.S. and Europe were planning to go all out promoting theirs. Imagine the Chinese communists being afraid of their own workers and, worse yet — something I hadn’t faintly realized then — but at the time half the coal mined in the world came from China and even before Our Great Leader came to power a second time, the Communist Party already had plans to mine a billion more tons of it per year.
With America’s implicit permission, Beijing promptly ramped up production. I found out that they were already putting out 70% of the world’s methane emissions from coal mines in the early ’20s. Even then, there were 1.5 million Chinese coal miners while more than 6% of that country still depended on coal plants for electricity. All those numbers only went up when the Communist Party, citing Our Trump, ramped up coal production, sending billions of tons more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. Alfred says methane is up to 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, even if for a shorter period of time.
In the early part of this century, India was already increasing its coal-fired power plants. When the Hindu nationalists fell in love with Our Trump, however, they became yet more bullish on coal. Their CO2 emissions went through the proverbial roof. They say that, given the smog in New Delhi, the capital, nowadays you can’t see two feet in front of you on a typical day, and 10% of Indians have chronic bronchitis.
The Indians had rejected criticisms of all those carbon-dioxide emissions from low-lying Bangladesh as “anti-Hindu propaganda.” Our Trump used to say that we’d just get more top-notch beachfront property out of sea level rise, but now I realize that was a sick joke. If you keep heating up this planet, it melts the surface ice, which goes into the ocean and does indeed cause its level to rise. Warmer water also takes up more space, contributing to sea level rise. So, the Bay of Bengal did indeed rise to claim the capital, Dhaka, along with 20% of the rest of the country. Famine left tens of millions of its people gaunt or skeletal. When millions of Bangladeshi climate refugees then tried to get into India, its army committed what’s now known as the Great Bangla Genocide. Historians say killings on that scale had never been carried out before.
Goodbye to Trump Tower
At an old, banned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site on the dark web I found a document that said, “Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence.” That was from 2024 and whoever wrote it may now be in one of those reeducation camps for Beijing Ministry of State Security spies accused of promoting what the Trump Environmental Protection Agency branded “the climate hoax.” I might find myself there, too, if anyone discovers just how I feel these days.
I now realize that scientists have known for over a century that carbon dioxide absorbs the ultraviolet light reflected off the earth’s surface, keeping more of the sun’s heat in our atmosphere. I guess those UV rays used to hit this planet and then radiate back into outer space at a significantly greater rate, leaving us so much cooler than we are now. I never paid attention to any of this back in the twenties of this century. Since then, however, I’ve had time to get up to speed. After all, what else is there to do in this bunker?
Believe me, it was kind of embarrassing in 2034, even to me, when The Tower of Our Trump collapsed in Manhattan. Of course, as he said then, it was absolutely not his fault. Instead, he blamed the immigrant construction workers who built it, but they weren’t to blame, either. These days, at least three or four percent of the buildings in New York City are at risk from groundwater table rise. And it isn’t just that. Every time another big storm hits, flooding damages tens of thousands of buildings and turns the subway into a swimming pool.
Worse yet, more than a third of the buildings in New York are at risk from storm surges in year 24 of Our Trump. I read somewhere that the southern tip of Manhattan, the East Village, the Upper East Side, and the Tribeca and Canal Street areas now flood for some months of the year. Likewise, the Queens neighborhoods near Jamaica Bay are thoroughly waterlogged. Wasn’t Our Trump originally from Queens?
And to jump across what’s left of this country for a moment, today I caught someone on the dark web reporting from Phoenix, Arizona. It seems like the population there is just a quarter of what it was 25 years ago. Half of the year now it’s dangerously hot and there isn’t enough water. And the electricity blackouts that take out your AC are evidently a nightmare and a half. Same problem, hot river water can’t cool the plant equipment.
That fellow reporting from Phoenix said those local diehards who refuse to leave call themselves Fremen like in the remake of the Dune film and say they need stillsuits. When the Proud Boys won the election for city council there, Our Trump told them to deep-six the local climate action plan, which he swore was for “pussies.” Painting everything white, he insisted, made the city look like a tomb and he wanted the urban tree cover to be cut down for firewood.
Trump’s will be done, as they say.
At least Phoenix is still there. Los Angeles wasn’t so lucky. As it got drier and drier every fall, the Santa Ana winds regularly whipped up wildfires, and one neighborhood after another was turned into cinders. When Beverly Hills went up in flames the way Pacific Palisades had 20 years earlier, that was the nail in the coffin.
The Big One?
Now, I spend my days thinking about the Big One, about how it could all go down. When Chinese forces fired on that American destroyer off Taiwan, the Trump dynasty went ballistic. They said they would bring pain to Beijing like the world had never seen before. They didn’t want to send in ships or troops though, claiming their Dad had been against wasting money on foreign wars.
That was when someone on Fox & Friends (the only “news” show still allowed) suggested a symbolic response, an attack on that big new Chinese military base on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The Trump family immediately ordered a nuclear strike there. I hear Tiffany was the only one who didn’t think it was a good idea. But it melted a lot of the Thwaites glacier, one of the biggest in the world, and the rest of it slid into the ocean. They say it will raise sea level by two feet globally and pretty darn quickly, too, because of that nuke melting so much surface ice. Count on one thing: it will truly be a Trumpocalypse.
That would put my bunker under, of course. I only hope it’s watertight.
Copyright 2025 Juan Cole
Via Tomdispatch.com
Filed Under: Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Featured

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

The long-term Impact of Israel’s Gaza Genocide will only become Clear as the Toxic Dust Settles

by Dr Emma Keelan by Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the toxic dust begins to settle, it is hard to even fathom the complex feelings of our Palestinian friends and colleagues, many of whom have families in Gaza who are beginning the arduous task of returning home and […]

...and rebuilding, having survived 15 months of Israeli genocide. Since October 2023 Gaza has been pummelled, relentlessly, through aerial bombing campaigns, supplemented by ground offensives that, far from eradicating the resistance, have laid waste to entire towns and cities.
Whilst local authorities have estimated the current death toll to be in the region of 47,000 there is a growing consensus that this figure is a mere fraction of the overall total number of Palestinian men, women and children killed. These figures are catastrophically incomplete, capturing only those for whom we have evidence of their martyrdom being a direct result of Israeli air strike, bomb blast, or bullet fired, a point that has been noted in the globally respected Lancet medical journal.
The true number of Palestinian lives lost will only become clearer when the rubble is finally cleared, and the bodies are recovered. Despite the cyclical nature of Israeli military assaults on Gaza, the long-term implication on Palestinian health is vastly under-researched, with much more work needed to consider the long-term impact of sustained exposure to prolonged hunger, the effect of inhalation of toxic fumes and heavy metals – the by-product of military bombardment – or the effects of poor sanitation and water contamination on public health.
According to the Watson Institute for International and Public affairs, in the 12-month period from October 2023 to September 2024, approximately 62,413 Palestinians died from starvation alone. As a result, in July 2024 the Lancet tentatively suggested that a more accurate depiction would be to say that the death toll attributable to the genocide lies somewhere in the region of 186,000. Following this logic through to the moment that a temporary cessation came into effect, the number of deaths caused as a result of the Israeli genocide could well stand at over 250,000.
Whilst this temporary ‘ceasefire’ (a term we use advisably) allows for a modicum of relief for those in Gaza, as comrades and colleagues, we remain resolutely focused on the material reality which is the fact that Gaza remains besieged. The Israeli state maintains its collective punishment of the Palestinian population through its ongoing blockade, limiting the control of essential goods including aid and medicine, and continuing to fully control the movement of over two million Palestinian survivors of genocide. The difference now is that these practices of subjugation and colonial control take place amidst a Gaza which has been completely destroyed.
Therefore, our work has only just begun.

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Israeli policy for those living in Gaza has long been focused on meticulous management of the Palestinian population, creating a situation in which health and life may be sustained, but just barely. To paraphrase Fanon, this gnawing at the existence of the colonised tends to make of life something resembling an incomplete death. Policies such as limiting the calorie intake of those living in the Strip, using a calculation designed to maintain minimum intake but only just prevent starvation, have long been documented. By 2012, around 10 per cent of children under five years of age across the Strip had stunted growth due to prolonged malnutrition. Increased rates of anaemia were reported, with 37 per cent of pregnant women, 58.6 per cent of Gaza’s schoolchildren and 68 per cent of children aged nine to 12 months all suffering from the condition.
The deliberate targeting of healthcare facilities and medical personnel over the last 15 months has meant that chronically ill patients have had almost zero access to much needed medications, significantly worsening their condition and unquestionably leading to an increase in the likelihood of mortality. Over 1,200 dialysis patients and over 10,000 cancer patients have been denied access to lifesaving treatment, and the fate of these patients remains unknown, with many waiting to receive assurances of getting access to treatment abroad.
Research in other war-torn contexts has shown that famine and food shortage will have both short term and dire long-term consequences. Those who have experienced famine in the womb can develop significant health issues across their adult lifespan, including a decreased immune function and increased rates of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Men who suffered starvation between the ages of 9-15 are more susceptible to high blood pressure as adults, with excess mortality noted from associated heart disease and stroke. Women who have experienced famine have greater prevalence of breast cancer. Thus, surviving the genocide in Gaza will undoubtedly have long term consequences for many.
Prior to 7 October 2023, the baseline prevalence of non-communicable diseases including ischaemic heart disease, stroke and diabetes was alarmingly high across the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, approximately 71, 000 in Gaza live with diabetes and 225, 000 with high blood pressure. Whilst little is known about the connection between heightened levels of food insecurity and the impact on such health conditions, what is likely is that those in Gaza will experience a pandemic of non-communicable disease in the coming decades should the colonial status quo remain the same.
With over 70 per cent civilian infrastructure destroyed, the dust that is in circulation, the toxic remnants of asymmetrical and wanton Israeli destruction of Gaza, includes cement, metals, silica, asbestos and other synthetic fibres. As an active carcinogen, when inhaled as dust particles, asbestos is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, in particular mesothelioma. When we consider that, according to the UN, over 800,000 tonnes of the bombed-out debris has been generated in Gaza since 7 October 2023, the likelihood of significant exposure to asbestos is high. Research done in the aftermath of the World Trade Centre collapse has shown that 4,343 survivors and first responders have died from related illnesses since the attack compared to the 2,974 people who died on September 11 itself. The point is: the deadly effects of asbestos and inhalation of other toxic particles released over the last 15 months will only be evident in the decades to come.
Heavy metal exposure from munitions will have permeated Gaza’s soil and water sources, and, as such, the land used to sustain life in the Strip will have been further poisoned. Previous research conducted after the 2011, 2014 and 2018–2019 Israeli assaults on Gaza linked the high incidents of birth defects and premature births in mothers with evidence of exposure to heavy metals. Furthermore, childhood lead exposure in particular can lead to permanent alterations in the function of the nervous system, with higher incidences of attention deficit disorder and Alzheimer’s and dementia noted later on in life.
And so, whilst this is an important and necessary moment of purported cessation, a time to take stock and contemplate the sheer volume of destruction that has been meted out on a starved and besieged population by a conglomerate of nuclear armed ‘superpowers’, our gaze must be longer.
We must recommit ourselves to the struggle for a justice oriented, full Palestinian liberation. This will require a more fulsome understanding of the long-term impact of Israel’s genocide on the healthcare of the Palestinian population in Gaza, as some the long-term health impacts of surviving the genocide will only become clearer much later on.
In maintaining this longer gaze, it is our duty to stand alongside our sisters and brothers as they rebuild Gaza, yet again. It is critical that we vociferously call for reparations from all who stand accused of aiding and abetting this latest failed attempt at Palestinian erasure.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

The Far Right, the Tech Bro Oligarchy, and Zionism

Musk serves as Trump’s ideal dancing partner in the chaotic spectacle of the dismantlement of the last fragile remnants of public welfare, writes Yoav Litvin. ( The New Arab ) – Elon Musk, the obscenely wealthy, self-appointed messiah of the digital age, wields influence like a neural network running on overload. Hailed by some as […]

....Hailed by some as a genius in the pantheon of Western capitalism, his ventures range from interplanetary settler colonialism to audacious plans to transform human brains into glorified USB ports.

A serial entrepreneur with a personal life as turbulent as his X feed, Musk has rebooted marriages and ignited controversies. Part appropriator, part provocateur, he seems to thrive at the intersection of technology and spectacle, reshaping industries and stirring debates.

Treating the human mind as just another operating system to be optimised for speed, while boldly telling advertisers to “go f*ck yourself” rather than cave to “blackmail,” Elon Musk’s political views are uninformed at best, and dangerously racist at worst.

Appointed to lead Trump’s concocted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk embraces far-right ideologies and dodgy tactics, including election meddling in the United States, Europe and now Australia to push his crony capitalist agenda of deregulation and tax cuts while consolidating ruling class political and cultural influence.

Once upon a time a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” Musk found himself at odds with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Zionist lobby group and self-styled “anti-hate organisation” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), after airing his views in an X space with far-right antisemites and conspiracy theorists Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes, among others.

This sparked a backlash from advertisers, which Musk dismissed with typical bravado.

Yet this kerfuffle appears to have marked his ‘come-to-Zionism’ moment.

Reminiscent of Yuval Noah Harari’s odyssey into a parallel Zionist universe, Musk may well have volunteered as a guinea pig for one of Neuralink’s brain implants, with the latest Zionist propaganda manual uploaded directly into his circuitry, perhaps in collaboration with Israel’s Unit 8200.

The sordid romance culminated in his carefully choreographed visit to Israel, where a crib was conspicuously staged amidst the crime scene littered with bullet casings, a theatrical touch to drive Netanyahu’s atrocity propaganda home.

Elon Musk’s services to Zionism have included a visit to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and the adoption of far-right, decontextualised interpretations of the October 7 events justifying an acceleration of Zionist genocide of and theft from the Palestinian people.

Musk’s continuous promotion of Zionist narratives seems aimed at rehabilitating his image and ongoing antisemitism, which is often laced with typical white supremacist attacks on George Soros, historical revisionism, misrepresentation of Hitler and apologetics for the Fuhrer’s ideological heirs in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) xenophobic far-right party.

Unsurprisingly, none of this seems to have troubled Greenblatt, who appears quite content with Musk’s enthusiastic shilling for Israel as a cure-all-antisemitism panacea alongside his toxic philosemitic statements amongst which Musk has claimed he’s “Jewish by association.”

Most strikingly, on Monday at Trump’s inauguration celebrations, Musk appeared to have brandished several Nazi salutes to the crowd, raising concern among many non-Nazi people, including its historical victims, Jews.

Unsurprisingly, Greenblatt and the ADL were among the first to defend the tech billionaire, exemplifying the Zionism-for-antisemitism, quid pro quo relationship.

Capitalism and Zionist white supremacy

Musk personifies the dangerous intersection of capitalism, white supremacist Zionism and antisemitism in advancing fascism and global oppression.

This dynamic, rooted in a history of white supremacist and Zionist exploitation of antisemitism, serves two interconnected purposes grounded in resource and land theft: sustaining Israel’s settler colonial project and scapegoating Indigenous, Black, Brown and immigrant populations worldwide as these same populations are robbed of their ancestral assets.

Indeed, early Zionists drew heavily from European fascism, white supremacy, colonialism and messianic Evangelism, forging a troubling legacy of collaboration with antisemites, imperialists, and fascists to advance their exclusivist and expansionist agendas. Elon’s personal supremacy is reminiscent however of the divine right of kings, transmuted to a contemporary doctrine of the ‘divine right of the ruling class’.

White supremacy, including Zionism, utilises racism historically to uphold colonial and capitalist systems, with devastating consequences for marginalised communities globally. This was also a dynamic exhibited in apartheid South Africa, from where Musk originated.

Over the past century, Zionists and antisemites have often aligned in their shared goal of concentrating Jews in Israel; antisemites seeking to scapegoat, disenfranchise and expel an unwanted population and Zionists aiming to address the so-called “demographic threat” posed by native Palestinians. Both ideologies perpetuate the white supremacist notion of Jews as a distinct biological race, advocating segregation as part of a broader vision of global apartheid.

Elon Musk, Project Esther and DOGE

Musk’s collaborator Trump and his ally Netanyahu aim to bolster private capital by fragmenting the working class, pushing for the privatisation of public resources and dismantling workers’ rights and union protections.

They manipulate the concept of a white, Western “nation” to fuel their nationalist agendas, all while claiming to safeguard the purity and security of their in-groups and Western interests.

This enables them to sustain a racist, capitalist system of global apartheid and subjugation to a predatory ruling class. Musk, the embodiment of the type of individual this corrupt system nourishes, is the perfect benefactor and cheerleader to advance a rapacious agenda of deregulation and personal aggrandisement.

Courtesy of the Biden administration, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has reshuffled the imperial deck, serving as the US’s testing ground for oppression of resistance to its crony capitalist policies which are destroying the planet, rendering expansionism legitimate while disregarding international law.

The devastating results of these fascistic ventures provide a feeding ground for Musk who has indeed stated his desire to help rebuild Gaza after a ceasefire is reached, now brokered by the Chicago-Boy-loving Trump. This scenario exemplifies Naomi Klein’s concept of disaster capitalism, where crises are exploited for profit and control.

Musk’s trajectory also fits seamlessly into the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther,” a campaign designed to weaponise the vilification and scapegoating of Palestinians and allies to shift U.S. policy under a second Trump administration.

Targeting natural enemies of white supremacy and predatory capitalism, including Indigenous, Black, Brown, immigrant, queer and other marginalised groups, Project Esther unapologetically seeks to erase anticolonial perspectives from US education, limit the spread of dissenting information and restrict advocates’ access to the public sphere, economy and Congress.

Its objectives include prosecuting alleged legal violations by “Hamas Support Organisations (HSO)” members, disrupting their communications, stifling demonstrations and rallying Jewish communities and the broader public against anticolonial resistance.

Musk’s DOGE precisely resembles the intended setting for what Project Esther calls “an opportunity for public-private partnership when a willing administration occupies the White House.”

Here, Musk serves as Trump’s ideal dancing partner in the chaotic spectacle of the dismantlement of the last fragile remnants of public welfare.

Cloaked in fearmongering and patriotic rhetoric about “American values,” the initiative reframes offensive aggression as “defence” and institutionalises the repression of dissent within a fascistic framework.

It casts itself as the last bastion against a fabricated bogeyman of “foreign influence,” claiming to protect white America from supposed anticapitalist infiltration, whilst shepherding criminal Israel and protecting its actual foreign influence which aligns with US exploitative regional foreign policy in the Middle East.

Musk and the ideologues behind “Project Esther” heroically wage a holy war against liberals and woke culture, echoing the Ku Klux Klan’s delusional self-portrayal in Birth of a Nation.

It appears that Musk has also taken cues from Zionist atrocity propaganda and fabricated narratives, including faux-rape allegations, integrating these Jim Crow-style tactics into his latest fixation on “grooming gangs” in the UK and the trope of vulnerable white girls.

In a gruesome dance macabre, Musk’s broader ideological framework works in tandem with Trump’s, amplifying their shared penchant for fearmongering and divisive cultural narratives, all while they posture as self-proclaimed white saviours.

Reprinted from The New Arab with the author’s permission.