Elon Musk and Donald Trump have a lot in common.  They are both rich, although Musk is far richer than Trump at this point.  They have both had their bad points from a libertarian perspective, yet both of them know how to poke at the establishment and help expose corrupt systems.

Elon Musk is now supposedly buying Twitter and turning it into a private company.  It was difficult to turn down Musk’s offer because he was offering more than the share prices were worth at that time.  Still, I had my doubts about whether it would happen, as the establishment figures at the helm of Twitter care more about censorship than they do about shareholder value.

It was already quite obvious that the Twitter executives care more about censorship than about profits.  They shut down Trump’s account.  I can’t imagine how many hundreds of thousands or millions of people who were on Twitter just to follow Donald Trump.  So either the Twitter heads chose politics over profits, or they were being told what to do by the government.

Ever since Musk started talking about turning Twitter into a free speech platform, the left and the establishment (there is some overlap there) have gone crazy over it.  Musk has all of a sudden turned into a villain.

Remember, Donald Trump was not a villain before 2015.  He had made a few enemies and some people didn’t care for him, but he wasn’t generally hated.  He was a real estate guy who hosted a television show and was a bit full of himself, but that’s about it.  After he came down that escalator to announce his run for the presidency, things quickly changed.

And so it goes with Elon Musk.  He isn’t just buying a business.  He is making a political statement, and it is a statement that disturbs the establishment.

Elon Musk is no hero to libertarians.  He has lately sounded more libertarian than he did in the past, but we should not be fooled here.  Musk has largely gotten rich by working with the government.  Space X partners with the government and gets taxpayer funding.  Tesla is in the business of selling electric cars, which the government largely subsidizes.

Why do people get to use “free” charging stations?  You don’t get free gasoline.  And let’s remember that people were getting thousands of dollars in rebates (welfare) from the government just to buy an electric car, while the government keeps tightening the screws on companies producing non-electric vehicles.

So Elon Musk has benefitted greatly with his partnership in government.  It’s unclear how that will change based on his Twitter acquisition.

Still, Musk is obviously an intelligent guy.  He knows a lot about a lot of different things.  In this case, I’m not sure if he is in over his head.  Like Trump, he may underestimate the power of the establishment.

And yes, I do think Trump underestimated just how much the establishment/ deep state would come after him.  Was he really expecting charges of colluding with Russia to steal the election?

I was not a fan of Trump.  I am still not a fan of Trump in many ways.  He holds many positions that are in opposition to libertarianism.  Still, it is appropriate to acknowledge that he is different.

Trump has helped to expose the establishment for better or for worse.  Sometimes it has been done inadvertently, but he really does know how to draw out things that were previously hidden.

I think Musk is doing the same thing here.  He is no hero of mine, but he is disrupting things.  He is helping to further expose the agenda of the powers-that-be.  He is making it clear that the censorship is not about stopping “misinformation”.  It is about shutting people up.  And sometimes the people being shut up are the ones who are actually telling the truth.

First we have to see if this deal goes through.  I was skeptical whether Musk could even afford to buy Twitter.  I am still skeptical.  Just because you are worth a couple of hundred billion dollars on paper, it doesn’t mean you have that money sitting in a checking account.  It’s hard to say how much of the money that will be used to buy Twitter is from other sources.  I could definitely see people handing over their money to Elon to make a bet.  They are betting on Elon more than on Twitter.

If the sale does go through, don’t expect any of this to be smooth.  There are a lot of leftist flakes who work for Twitter who won’t want to work there any more.  Some of them might try to do damage on the way out of the door.  Some of them might stick around to try to sabotage things from the inside.

Let’s also consider what other establishment companies might do to try to take down Twitter.  I recently heard an episode on the Tom Woods show where Tom interviewed the founder of Gab.  Gab is a competitor to Twitter, except it generally promotes open speech as long as it isn’t used to make threats of violence.  Gab has been hit by the establishment by losing servers and payment processors.  The company has had to practically build everything on its own to survive.

I don’t know if Elon is ready for what is coming.  The establishment is gunning for him.  They will go after Twitter.  They will go after Elon Musk personally.  Nothing is off limits.  They will engage in character assassination.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk really do have a lot in common.  The big question is, if and when Musk obtains control over Twitter, will he allow Trump back on the platform?

Heads are going to spin.  Trump may be back on Twitter just in time for the 2024 election.

The power elite will not go away quietly.  Just as they gave us COVID (and probably hyped it largely to dethrone Trump), they will come at us with something else.  All sides are digging in, and it isn’t going to be pretty.

Elon better watch his back.  He has just made a lot of enemies.