The Insanity Of King Elon The First

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As soon as upon a time, an immigrant named Elon Musk got here to the US with a burning need to do good, and he did proper properly. After making a small fortune at PayPal, he purchased a startup referred to as Tesla Motors and a defunct manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, then proceeded to shock the world by making compelling electrical vehicles at a time when EVs had been typically considered glorified golf carts. Then he shocked the world once more by constructing a brand new manufacturing facility within the desert exterior of Reno, Nevada, which he fairly grandly referred to as a Gigafactory.

Longtime Musk watchers will recall how Elon bragged that his new manufacturing facility can be powered by photo voltaic panels on the roof and wind generators within the surrounding hills. He made it some extent to inform anybody who would hear that the Gigafactory wouldn’t also have a connection to a methane distribution system!

A Change Happens

Flip the clock forward 15 years and you will discover Musk is the proud proprietor of a mammoth knowledge heart in Memphis, Tennessee, that has expanded throughout state traces into northern Mississippi. It’s the place the place many of the computing energy for xAI is positioned, and the mixed campuses have a voracious urge for food for electrical energy. The native utilities can’t present sufficient electrons themselves, so Elon is counting on a number of dozen moveable methane-fired turbines.

These moveable items emit much more air pollution into the air than a contemporary mixed cycle producing station, however Elon is in a rush to make xAI one of many dominant AI firms. He has no time to attend for allowing or building of recent producing amenities and transmission traces. Because of this, he has transitioned from a clear power advocate to one of many largest emitters within the US — and is happy with himself for doing so!

Some might ask what occurred to the proto-environmentalist all of us knew and liked who has now turn into a giga-polluter? The reply just isn’t straightforward to seek out, however there could also be parallels between Musk and the legendary King Henry VIII of England, who was a grand fellow in his youth by all accounts however turned a bloated psychopath later in life. He even had one in every of his wives beheaded as a result of she didn’t give him a male inheritor.

Following the discharge of a movie entitled The Insanity Of King Henry VIII, NBC Information printed an interesting piece by Emily Sohn that speculated Henry might have belonged to a uncommon blood group referred to as Kell optimistic that impacts about 9 % of white males. When a Kell optimistic man impregnates a Kell damaging girl, there’s a 50 % likelihood of scary an immune response within the girl’s physique that assaults her growing fetus, resulting in the demise of the fetus within the fifth or sixth month of a being pregnant.

If the subject is insanity, Musk is an fascinating case research. New York Instances contributor Jamelle Bouie this week printed a searing evaluation of Elon entitled “Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?” He begins by discussing The Turner Diaries, a novel that appeared to South Africa — Musk’s ancestral residence — and its apartheid political system for inspiration. Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Constructing in Oklahoma Metropolis, killing 168 folks, carried passages from the e book on his particular person and as soon as offered the e book at gun reveals. Bouie wrote:

Right now, you don’t should look far or dig deep to see the ambient affect of The Turner Diaries on the far proper. You want simply to spend a bit of time within the on-line world of the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk (though to be clear there is no such thing as a direct proof that Musk has learn the e book).

The Musk of the mainstream media is an enthusiastic, if awkward, technologist, industrialist and would-be authorities reformer, as seen in his now-defunct Division of Authorities Effectivity. However Musk spends a lot of his time on X, his social media web site, the place he amplifies far-right accounts and shares his personal white nationalist, anti-immigrant politics for all of the world to see.

Over the previous month particularly, he has adopted the imagery of a current movie, Citizen Vigilante, through which the actor Armie Hammer spends the run time taking part in a Charles Bronson-esque character who targets alleged criminals, framed principally as Arab and African migrants. Musk makes use of that imagery to state his views about what should be finished to avoid wasting Western civilization.

“Sure,” replied Musk to a picture of a gun-toting Hammer clad in black with the caption, “First the traitors then the invaders.” He additionally shared a publish from a distinct consumer who defined that the purpose of Citizen Vigilante, through which the Hammer character “spends the primary half of the film murdering white folks not migrants,” is that you need to “all the time cling a traitor earlier than you cling an enemy.” Musk repeated this a number of occasions, together with in a publish that merely stated, “Traitors earlier than invaders.” Final week, Musk once more posted that we should “Cope with traitors earlier than invaders” after which stated just a few days later that “Anybody who opposes remigration is a traitor.”

Remigration

“Remigration” is the decision from far-right European political events to forcibly take away nonwhite residents to their supposed nations of origin, no matter whether or not they’re immigrants or native-born. It’s basically a type of ethnic cleaning and it’s envisioned as a response to the supposed “Nice Substitute” of white Europeans with nonwhites, an thought originating from a distinct work of far-right fiction, The Camp of the Saints, printed in 1973.

As Musk sees it, opponents of remigration are traitors to “the West.” And as “traitors” their correct destiny, in keeping with the logic of his posts, is to be killed as punishment for his or her position within the demographic transformation of majority-white nations and, presumably, as a warning to those that may pollute the nationwide bloodstream by welcoming nonwhites into their lives and into the nation.

Musk’s preoccupation with demographic “traitors” flows straight from his obsession with inhabitants collapse, which he frames when it comes to shrinking European and white American birthrates. “White persons are a quickly diminishing minority of the worldwide inhabitants,” Musk wrote in September 2025. “Low delivery fee,” he later stated, “is the primary menace to the West adopted carefully by migration. There might be no West if this continues.”

One may even see his destruction of the US Company for Worldwide Growth — accountable, to this point, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as constant together with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to these in locations comparable to sub-Saharan Africa, the place U.S.A.I.D. was energetic. In any case, one solution to safe a future for Western kids, on this zero-sum view of the world, can be to starve African ones. Musk, it must be stated, insists that nobody has died due to his cuts.

In a current interview with The Economist, Musk denied that he was a racist, at the same time as he defended his far-right views of immigration. …

Musk’s Battle On Individuals Of Shade

Properly, Jamelle Bouie definitely doesn’t sugarcoat his views. He makes Elon Musk out to be a monster who is devoted to expunging folks of shade from society. It’s a view paying homage to the Spanish conquistadors, who gladly slaughtered the Indigenous folks they encountered in Central and South America as a result of they believed they had been higher off lifeless than being non-Christians. How Jesus Christ would have felt about such habits was by no means a part of their considering.

From my early indoctrination on this planet of faith at Sunday faculty, I are likely to assume Jesus wouldn’t look favorably upon the marketing campaign to vanish folks of shade from the US and the UK and different nations both — particularly since he himself was an individual of shade. Oddly sufficient, I do know somebody who emphatically proclaims Elon Musk might be generally known as the second most vital man in human historical past, second solely to Jesus himself.

Yesterday, I had a dialog with a person who’s taken with shopping for an electrical automobile. I advised him I assumed the Tesla Mannequin Y was the most effective electrical automobile accessible in America. He stated that was in all probability true however he refused to do enterprise with Elon. Personally, I don’t blame him. My spouse and I purchased our Mannequin Y within the fall of 2021, earlier than the entire DOGE fiasco and his embrace of far-right lunatics in Germany and the UK. If we had been out there for a brand new automobile right this moment, Tesla wouldn’t be on our purchasing checklist both.

Musk, after all, just isn’t alone. Stephen Miller and JD Vance are absolutely onboard with the “scary darkish skinned folks” insanity, however Musk controls the narrative together with his iron grip on X, his private anti-social media platform. Has his meteoric rise to turn into the wealthiest particular person in human historical past reached its peak? The share value of Tesla is down by about 30 % this yr, and the a lot ballyhooed SpaceX IPO can also be down 29 % from its opening value.

Does Musk undergo from a bizarre genetic defect like Henry VIII that makes it inconceivable for him to really feel compassion for others? Or is he only a loser who has blustered his solution to the highest by hitching his wagon to the forces of hate? Both approach, there is no such thing as a one I might fairly see flame out and fall again to Earth in spectacular vogue. Does that make me a foul particular person? I don’t assume so, and I strongly suspect I’m not alone.