Actually, several of them. And of course, being Elon Musk, it has to be in the form of tweets.
Sidenote – He’s a brilliant guy – Telsa, SpaceX, Boring Machine, StarLink, and now Twitter. And with the latter, who knew he could be an insightful and amazing great comedian? He takes on all sorts of stuff-shirts and hands their heads back to them on a silver platter with just a word or short phrase. It’s glorious!
From this post at RedState, he takes a more serious side though. HE GETS it. While so many Republicans just keep prattling on about lowering taxes and getting rid of regulations, he shows how brilliant of an engineer/entrepreneur he is when he switches to politics. He goes right to the root cause as an engineer and as an entrepreneur, figures out a solution. In this case, the war against Free Speech so he buys Twitter and starts to remake it. But that’s just a tool in what really matters – the regressive repression that the Democrats, Progressives, Totalitarians, and other regressives (like most of the Mainstream Media, but I repeat myself) that demand a single fealty to their ideology (as Steve wrote about the Burlington, VT’s Gardening Loyalty Oath).
Anyways – the quotes from Nick Arama and Elon Musk. Hate to quote most of the post but it all “hangs together” as a single piece (reformatted slightly, emphasis mine).
Quote One:
Elon Shows Just How Much He Gets the Culture War in a Stunning Thread
…When Musk asked, “What do you think of the culture war?” Musk revealed in his responses that he understood things far better than even some people on the right do. He noted that the media is only allowing one narrative.
Go ahead, ask some of the NH GOP Establishment what their take on the Culture War is doing to Republicanism; I’m betting you’ll get a look of disgust and simply walk away (re: former Republican Speaker of the NH House Doug Scammon (who was elected by Democrats and abortion) never having a clue about Breitbart’s observation of “Politics is downstream from Culture” meaning that if the Culture changes, it also changes the Politics in that culture. Most Rs have not clue one that the Left has worked hard for decades (since the 60s) to change the culture right out from underneath the underpinnings of Republican blatherings.
Quote Two:
Accurate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022
“Accurate” – acceptance of a root cause. And Quote two realizes the legitimacy of Brietbart’s observation.
I am neither conventionally right nor left, but I agree with your point.
The woke mind virus has thoroughly penetrated entertainment and is pushing civilization towards suicide.
There needs to be a counter-narrative.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022
BTW, next time you see your Elected Representative, ask him/her (yes, the ONLY correct pronouns!) if they can tell you Breitbart’s words. If they cannot, you’re screwed because they don’t understand the root cause.
“…pushing civilization towards suicide…counter-narrative”. Not only in just providing a media outlet for that counter-narrative as he has done with the purchase of Twitter but telling the REST OF US to develop and express what that counter-narrative must be. You know, as we do here at GraniteGrok each and every day with every post – you all need to do the same!
Quote, Three – from Arama:
…That’s a pretty amazing response if you think about it. He gets that this is an existential fight, that our civilization as we understand it, is at risk in this fight. That’s a huge point to get when we see folks in the Republican establishment not seem to understand that (1), when we see folks who claim to have been on the right or “conservative” helping the left (2), thus helping that movement toward chaos. Would we even have imagined a few years ago that the Democrats would refuse to even define what a woman is? But here we are, with them denying even that order in life, that there is nothing you can point to that defines a woman. That’s chaos.
Although I would add there is a counter-narrative. We saw it being pitched perhaps prominently for the first time in Virginia during Glenn Youngkin’s race last year — that’s we’re on the side of sanity, the parents and the kids, of not indoctrinating children. That we support freedom and the individual, not the chaos. I suspect Musk means that counter-narrative needs to be heard more.
The above was going to be THE Notable Quote all on its own but the more I kept staring at it, the less sense it made IF the entire context was not presented at the same time. Sure, the gestalt of it is there but details count.
“(1)” – added by me to point out that I’m not the only one believing that the Republican Establishment just doesn’t get it. At all. And if they don’t get it soon, it’s lights out on the GOP. Fortunately, there is so much grumbling that just like when the Whigs died out because THEY became irrelevant (and the GOP took its place), the GOP is trending down that same path. No, I don’t think that the Libertarian Party would take its place as it is currently constituted (some great ideas but extremely lousy campaign execution) but something will take the GOP’s place. After all, the Dems aren’t going to be able to fill that vacuum on the Right and the Good Lord above knows that, like Nature, Politics abhors a vacuum.
And because I’ve been on a tear about our sorry state of Education, I HAVE to put this up as it, too, is a root cause problem that if we don’t fix it, it’s lights out – permanently:
— Déborah (@dvorahfr) November 25, 2022
Look at who this depicts defending the ramparts (in a manner of speaking). Yes, the Parents. Why else would the Left be doing all it can to cancel them and the idea of the Traditional American Family?
From “Screw DC, save New Hampshire” to “Screw Wokeism, save Civilization”. I guess that pretty much covers the gamut.
BTW, how many Woke TEACHERS would know what that image stands for? I’m betting they have no idea of history that far back. Can they even identify who the warring civilizations were at the time? And what was the purported reason for the conflict?
I doubt it.
Your thoughts?
