Elon the DestroyerMusk is become death. And his illegal D.O.G.E. unit seems determined to put democracy, the Union, the global economy, and human life on earth through the woodchipper.Elon Musk is often described as a James Bond villain. With his silly name, his unplaceable foreign accent, his unusual multinational background, his yen for rockets and electronic cars and boring devices, his false front as a genius inventor and successful man of business, his wretched sense of humor, his immense wealth, his amoral greed, his thin skin, his easily-bruised ego, his petty grievances animating a thirst for revenge, his obvious desperation for positive regard, his inability to shut up about his sinister plans, his ridiculous henchmen, his manipulation of multiple foreign governments as a non-state actor, his unfuckability, and his sadistic desire to hasten the end of the world, it’s not hard to see why. All that’s missing is a hunky British spy to escape from his clutches, foil his plan, steal his girlfriend, and drop some clever witticism as he’s sucked out of the airplane window, while Adele sings. (That particular Hollywood ending can’t happen, of course; Musk doesn’t have a girlfriend.) But this comparison, tempting as it is to use, fails to adequately convey the threat that the Cybertruck Nazi poses. What I have come to realize these last few months is that the current head of D.O.G.E.—to be sure, an acronym straight out of Ian Fleming—is not Elon Stavro Blofeld or Muskfinger. The real Elon Musk is orders of magnitude worse than any 007 foe. What he wants to do will not just strangle democracy to death in the United States and everywhere, but, ultimately, end human life on earth. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but I’m not trying to be funny now, nor am I exaggerating. Elon Musk is a living, breathing, skipping-like-a-dipshit extinction event. If we must use pop culture to describe Elon’s true nature, let’s switch from From Russia With Love to Ghostbusters. At the end of that eschatological comedy (not to be confused with scatological comedy), the Ghostbusters stand before a portal to another plane, where Zuul heralds the coming of the shapeshifting god Gozer the Gozerian. “Choose the form of your destructor,” they are told, and Dan Ackroyd’s character inadvertently selects the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, a ridiculous junk-food mascot who suddenly materializes taller than the Midtown buildings and starts going Godzilla. That’s who Elon Musk is: the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He’s pasty white, puffy, goofy, and seemingly too innocuous to be a clear and present danger. But that doesn’t mean he won’t bring about the end of the world if he isn’t stopped. Who is up to that task? In the movie, New York had the Ghostbusters to save the day. In real life, we have. . . appeasement-happy ditherers Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar. God help us. I have long seen Musk as a traitor to democracy and a dire threat to national security. The day after he showed up at Twitter HQ with that idiotic sink—October 28, 2022—I wrote a piece called “Tower of Bab-Elon,” in which I said:
A few weeks later, in “A Bridge Too Far Right,” I picked up the theme:
The piece ends with this:
(Needless to say, Biden, as usual, did not take my advice.) I’m not quoting that piece at length to crow about being right. To the contrary: while I recognized in 2022 that Musk was a five-alarm threat to national security, I badly underestimated him. He’s so much more corrosive than I thought. Since I wrote those pieces a little over two years ago, Elon Musk has:
. . . and that’s just off the top of my head. Like, he’s a fucking bad guy, okay? Even worse is the fact that he’s just getting started. Incredibly, today is just the end of the second full week of Trump Redux. There are 102 weeks left to go—and that assumes the Rough Beast doesn’t stick around for a third term. That’s plenty of time for Elon Musk to wreck the global economy, consolidate his oligarchical power, dismantle NATO, poison our alliances with other Western democracies, hand Russia a victory in Ukraine, silence all dissenters, send enemies of the Regime to Gitmo, conquer Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone, screw up the food supply, and, worst of all, accelerate climate change—and with it, the end of the habitability of the planet for us humans not on a rocket to Mars—with his crypto, his AI, and his other energy-sucking frivolities. That’s what I mean when I say that Musk will bring about the end of the world. Back when X was still Twitter, I used as a pinned tweet a thread I wrote in 2018. It began like this:
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There are plenty of things I got wrong in that thread—mostly, alas, the parts about justice coming for these filthy criminals. How naïve I was! But I was correct in my assessment of Trump as a Putin vassal, chaos agent, and breaker of things. But Trump, I see now, is merely Zuul, the herald of the real destructor, Elon Musk. And MAGA hats off to him: the ongoing attempt to destroy USAID is truly the work of an evil genius. It checks all the boxes:
Finally, and most ominously, it’s a trial balloon to see how far our new fascist overlords can take it. “Foreign assistance doesn’t have a real constituency,” a plugged-in source tells me; therefore, USAID “is the guinea pig to see what [D.O.G.E.] can get away with and apply to other agencies. This is why the pushback now is critical.” Most Americans have no idea what USAID is or does, fail to understand its critical importance, and will be easily persuaded that money going to “condoms in Gaza,” the idiotic rumor circulating on X this week, would be better spent at home. (As Al Jazeera pointed out, the condoms were going to a different Gaza, in town in Mozambique, to prevent the spread of HIV; in the other Gaza, the Palestinians are presumably not much focused on safe sex right now.) And while it seems reasonable, at first blush, to freeze funds for 90 days, doing so would effectively kill most of the programs—and also kill many thousands of people, while at the same time causing irrevocable longterm harm to our national security. And that’s why USAID exists: it’s a key instrument in the U.S. soft-power strategy to promote and strengthen national security. As the USAID Stop Work website puts it: “Foreign aid is not charity—it’s an investment in America’s safety.” Oh, and in addition to fucking with USAID’s funding, Musk’s crew of young incel goober engineers took down the agency’s website, which includes the Development Experience Clearinghouse, or DEC—a repository of all USAID programming: its reports, research, studies, and so on. The DEC is, or rather was, a complete institutional record of USAID’s work, free and publicly available. Now Americans can’t go there to learn about the agency’s incredible achievements—at the very moment when they would most want to do so. “Taking down the DEC is like taking a match to the National Archives,” my source says. Also gone is the USAID’s foreign assistance tracker—the sudden removal of which, as Dave Harden, the former USAID mission director for the West Bank and Gaza, told Haaretz, makes debunking the onslaught of Trump/Musk disinformation “not so easy now, since the website is down, the X handle is down, the systems tracker is down.” Expect this sort of wholesale woodchipping, and worse, to happen at every federal agency, with increasingly disastrous effects, if Musk is not exorcized from the government like the cacodæmon he is. Speaking of demons… Getting back to eschatology—that is, the subset of theology that studies the End Times—let’s take a gander, just for fun, at the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse of John: the Book of Revelation that the Mike Johnsons of the country, and so many Trump voters, love so well. I was surprised to discover that there’s not one but two beasts mentioned. The first beast—let’s call this one the Rough Beast—has a head that was “wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world wondered after the beast.” (John of Patmos does not make clear if the first beast he saw had Kotex on the side of its wounded-but-miraculously-healed head.) We are also told that “there was given unto him a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies,” which also tracks, “and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months,” which is six months shy of a full presidential term. But wait, there’s more! “And I beheld another beast coming up,” John reveals. So, like, a separate entity. Beast #2 “exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him; and he causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” The infamous “six hundred threescore and six” part of Revelation concerns the second beast, not the first: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.” To hell with 666. What could be simpler, as the mark of the (second) beast, than the single letter X? Now, to be clear, I don’t actually believe in any of this eschatological hokum. I’m not suggesting that the Book of Revelation is explicitly fingering Donald Trump and Elon Musk as the two beasts of the Apocalypse. My TDS isn’t that acute. What I’m saying is that we have to start thinking of them like they are twin Antichrists. Because that’s the level of threat—to democracy and the future of human existence—that Trump and Musk represent. What they want to do ultimately ends in actual Apocalypse. Again: this is not hyperbole. The stakes really are that high. Every MAGA policy is designed to harm Americans—just as Putin likes it. What does Goldfinger say to Bond? “I expect you to die!” In his first term, Trump was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 Americans, whose lives would have been saved were it not for his negligent handling of the pandemic response. Already his retrograde policies have caused ample suffering and death. How many more will die when Musk chokes off financing for medical treatment, for medicine, for medical research? How many women will die in childbirth? How many people will starve if the ICE roundups and the global warming mess with our food supply? How many will die of tainted meat in a country without a functioning FDA, or denial of vaccines by the whale-beheading HHS head? How many refugees will get deported, only to be executed upon arrival? And so on. Extinction is where this is headed. We have chosen as our destructor the Stay Puft Nazi Marshmallow Man, who, with his South African accent and nostalgia for Apartheid, is actively attempting to destroy the government, the Union, the global economy, and human life on earth. Elon the Destroyer must be stopped. Now. Before it’s too late. Photo credit: Los Angeles Museum of Art. Chola-era statue showing Shiva the Destroyer dancing. Elon Musk’s dumb face: U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks with Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, during the Ira C. Eaker Distinguished Speaker Presentation in the Academy's Arnold Hall on April 7, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. |
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
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