Alien vs Predator Requiem: Elon Musk Takes the Knee
Earlier this year I wrote about the strange fact that Elon Musk had yet to endorse Donald Trump for president, even though their politics match up in just about every significant way.
Musk, though he claims to have voted for Obama, has been a die hard Republican for some time, and for reasons I guess known only to him, although I think one of his kids coming out as transgender probably did 90% of the legwork on that.
(Late edit: This is now confirmed by the man himself in an interview with whatever noodle-shaped network of prions remains of Jordan Peterson’s brain. According to Musk, his journey to full 4chan chud began with his trans child who is now “dead to him” because she can’t procreate).
Notoriously his first child died in infancy so he’s spent the rest of his life trying again until he gets another one he likes, like rolling perfect stats first time on a random character generator and then losing the save file. He won’t blame his own perfect genetics so he blames this nebulous wokeness concept instead.
Everybody knew from the very outset that Donald Trump was going to be the GOP nominee. The primary was a Vice Presidential talent contest and the joke is on all of them because J.D. Vance wasn’t even playing. Nevertheless, Elon Musk spent the first half of the race throwing his entire energy behind Ron DeSantis for some goddamn reason. When it became clear that DeSantis’ campaign ended the moment Trump came up with a funny nickname for him, Musk switched to Vivek Ramaswamy, even though Vivek was wedged so far up Trump’s urethra from day one that he would have done a protest vote against himself for Donald in the miraculous event that he was selected instead.
Two things were notable after Vivek dropped out: Number one, Musk didn’t switch to promoting Nikki Haley, proving the hypothesis that women are below dark-skinned people on the hierarchy of minorities that Musk is willing to tolerate in positions of power. Number two, Musk still did not endorse Donald Trump.
My theory, to recap, which I hesitate to call a theory because I know it to be absolutely true, was that Musk’s ego and need for control are so powerful that he wasn’t going to endorse a candidate who wouldn’t subordinate themselves to him. Both DeSantis and Ramaswamy are nauseating sycophants who would eagerly explore quid-pro-quo arrangements with Musk and his businesses in exchange for access to his immense personality cult.
Trump, though, shares the exact same belief as Musk that everybody in the entire world is beneath him on every metric against which a man’s worth can be measured, from intelligence to fitness to virility, and that presents a problem for both of them because even though their personalities are virtually identical it only means that they’re like two magnetic poles facing each other. They can’t both be North.
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