This is the first long-form piece I've written in a year:
Why this topic? Because, for starters, 250,000 girls were raped. Unimaginable and appalling though that is—the reality is much worse:
🚨 REPORTER: Your interventions risk making Europe worse
ELON MUSK: How?
REPORTER: You support people who are proto-authoritarians...very clear fascist tendencies
ELON: I think you're just completely MAKING THINGS UP. What you're saying is TOTAL FICTION. I am merely saying Europe needs to have SECURE BORDERS. It should not let in vast numbers of people with views antithetical to the accepted views in Europe. This is common sense.
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He's on a roll!
We love you. We hate her.
Thank you for sitting down with someone like her to remind people like us what we are fighting.
The woke is so baked in, she doesn’t even know it’s happening.
Her smug face says it all.
Journalist: the favourite career choice of high school mean girls?
What is it about certain British female journalists? Stunningly, even narcissistically confident in their often ill-informed opinions ("you know, everyone reasonable thinks like me"), surprised and offended at any hint of disagreement; unimpressed by the merely factual; purposefully and viciously reputation-savaging.
I've met many of them. GQ's Helen Lewis perhaps tops the list, although Decca Aitkenhead of the Sunday Times was a real contender on the deceitful manipulation side. Then there was the NY Times's Nellie Bowles-—not British, admittedly, but evil enough to be. She outright admitted some years after the interview that she spent her time at the New York Times, destroying people purposefully to elevate her own status.
Elon kept his composure and his wit.
Thank God for the cold blood of engineers.
Here is a list of false claims the reporter tried to push during the recent Elon Musk interview:
• Elon claimed Europe is overrun with “terrifying Muslim immigrants,” with “rape on every corner.”
➡️ False. Elon never said any of those things. He spoke about secure borders and the dangers of allowing people with values fundamentally opposed to Western principles to enter without proper integration.
• Elon portrays Europe as a “hellhole.”
➡️ False. Elon never called Europe a hellhole. He directly asked the reporter when he had ever said that, and she could not provide a quote.
• Elon believes grooming gangs and violence are “everywhere” in Britain.
➡️ False. He never made that claim.
• Elon is racist.
➡️ False again. His partner is Indian, and they have four children together. One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist. I have personally visited his companies many times and can confirm that people of all races work there. He also has friends from different racial backgrounds. He is not a racist.
• Elon is anti-Muslim.
➡️ False. Elon said he opposes rape, murder and the imposition of laws that conflict with Western values. Opposing harmful actions and extremist beliefs does not mean opposing all Muslims.
• Elon is against immigration.
➡️ False. Elon explicitly said he supports immigration, provided immigrants are honest, productive and respectful of the country they enter. He is an immigrant to the United States himself.
• Elon’s political beliefs are far-right.
➡️ False. His views are centrist. Secure borders, safe cities and sensible government spending are not extremist positions. They are common-sense policies.
• Elon is making Europe’s problems worse.
➡️ False. Elon is raising concerns about insecure borders, failed integration and threats to Western values because ignoring these problems will only make them worse. Warning people about a growing problem is not causing it. It is an attempt to address it before it becomes irreversible.
• Elon believes he has a special right to control European politics.
➡️ False. Elon never claimed any special authority. He was publicly expressing his political opinions, just as journalists, activists, politicians and public figures do every day.
• Elon is responsible for the collapse of trust in journalism on social media.
➡️ False. The media damaged its own credibility through years of biased reporting, misleading narratives. Trust in media is at an all time low.
The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people actually like me than don’t & a lot more people hate you & the media more than you realize. Do you realize the media is despised? The favorable view of journalists is 15%.
You’re the problem — the media! 🔥
REPORTER: “You support not just the populist right, but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties in some countries.”
ELON: “No, I support the NORMAL people.”
REPORTER: “Okay.”
MUSK: “What you call the far right FALSELY."
REPORTER: “You think is the normal person?”
ELON: “Yes! Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal. One thing that’s quite funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary and then go to someone who’s on the — sort of, what I call — the lunatic left, and say, ‘What do you think of the speech by Trump?’ ‘Oh, wow, he’s the worst person ever.’ Actually, that was a speech by Obama. Or actually, that was a speech by Hillary.”
[Reporter stunned, left stammering]
MUSK: “Literally!”
REPORTER: “No, I agree that the center of gravity in this country has shifted. Certainly the Democratic Party shifted to the left, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about people like Rupert Lowe.”
ELON: “Not fringe right. Please! It’s actually just NORMAL people.”
REPORTER: "Many people in Europe don't think you're right."
ELON MUSK: "Because the media keeps ignoring reality and they're programmed by the TV and conventional media."
🚨 ELON MUSK JUST NAILED IT, SOROS PROSECUTORS ARE A THREAT TO THE WEST:
"You either incarcerate them, or PEOPLE WILL DIE."
"We fail to incarcerate repeat violent offenders. The Soros DA or judges that fail to prosecute repeat offenders. Someone gets arrested 50 TIMES, LITERALLY, for violent crimes, and eventually they're going to KlLL somebody!"
Hold them liable for m*rder!
ELON MUSK: “I’m in favor of immigration. I’d be hypocritical if I wasn’t since I’m an immigrant to the United States. I’m in favor of immigration if the person immigrating is going to be a productive member of society, if they’re going to be honest, and if they’re not going to mistreat people in that country.”
The legacy media attempts to label Elon Musk as far-right, but Elon Musk firmly rejects this label.
"Interviewer: What do you think people get most wrong about you?
Elon Musk: You have just gotten a whole bunch of things wrong about me. Pretty much everything in the last twenty minutes was wrong.
Interviewer: Let us not be repetitive. What do people get most wrong about your political side?
Elon Musk: My political views are centrist. They are not far-right. Calling them far-right is an insult to history, an insult to many people, and an outrageous falsehood.
It is completely absurd. I have been very clear: there need to be secure borders. If there is an influx of immigrants, they need to agree with Western ideals and values.
If there is long-term growth in the number of people who do not share, or are adamantly opposed to, Western values, you are setting yourself up for civil war. This is obvious. A child can see it. This is not a right-wing view; I am simply stating reality.
Interviewer: I think we can both agree that evidence will determine which of us is more or less right. We will find evidence for both of our views in different parts of Europe. The question is the overall picture."
Legacy media is furious over Citizen Vigilante. They call it dystopian, inaccurate, and irresponsible.
Instead of engaging with the film’s actual themes, a family allegedly shielding a rapist son, institutional failure, and a judge refusing to act, they reduce the entire debate to one accusation: that it “glorifies violence against a Muslim immigrant family.”
Elon fired back with the real question:
“Why aren’t you doing more to fight censorship in Europe? You’re doing nothing about UK arrests for social posts. Do you think that’s appropriate?”
The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes went to a private all-girls boarding school in Shropshire where fees run up to £45,000 per year (about $60,000).
She was born and raised in Shropshire, one of England's most affluent rural counties. She attacks @elonmusk saying he's wrong and the UK is thriving. Elon hits back that she lives a cloistered existence.
He's absolutely right. She's Oxford and Harvard educated. She doesn't live in the towns where migrant grooming gangs operate. She can't see the destruction from her ivory tower.
So many elites in this country and Europe are removed from the decay their leftist policies have brought. Good on @elonmusk for calling her out.
ELON MUSK: "Zero people died because of DOGE"
“USAID was a political organization. USAID funding was not stopped; it was moved to the State Department. There were claims that healthcare programs were shut down, but these claims are false. When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they’re going to say, ‘Please keep funding the fraud,’ or come up with a sympathetic story to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. The amount of funding we’re talking about is far less than what could be supported by private foundations like the Gates Foundation or MacKenzie Bezos’s foundation. They have tens of billions of dollars and are capable of acting very quickly. If they didn’t, I would say they’re equally responsible. Zero people died because of DOGE. Zero.”
🔥 Reporter tries LECTURING Elon Musk on being "divisive" and disliked, it BACKFIRES MASSIVELY:
REPORTER: The kinds of things you push make it worse
ELON: "I think you're the problem. The media."
"Speaking of loathing — YOU are loathed FAR more than I am, and you don't even seem to REALIZE that!"
"You're hated."
"Do you even know that? You probably don't."
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