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Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire who officially acquired Twitter last week, has been targeted by corporate media Presstitutes for committing the mortal sin of thinking for himself and questioning the accepted narrative.
The New York Times, in an unflattering report on Musk, called him a “geopolitical chaos agent” because he laid out a peace plan for Ukraine and suggested that tensions between Washington and Beijing can be resolved if China takes partial control.
The paper noted that it is not uncommon for billionaires to use social media to offer their opinions about certain topics, but Musk is different and none “can come close to Mr. Musk’s influence and ability to cause trouble.”
TRENDPOST: It is a sorry state for the so-called “Paper of Record” that spreads its bullshit line that what they report is “All the News That’s Fit to Print” to express worry about someone who does not believe or bow down to so-called authorities is causing trouble. It shows that editors there know what is expected of them, and who they have to please. So stories are designed to meet those expectations.
Erik Wemple, the media critic of The Washington Post, wrote this week that journalists came up short for not coming to the defense of James Bennet, a former opinion editor at The Times. He was forced to resign from The Times after approving an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., calling on the federal government to use the military to stop the violent George Floyd protests.
Bennet recently said AG Sulzberger, the daddy’s boy and publisher of the paper, essentially fed him to the wolves to try to win favor of the paper’s audience.
Bennet said Sulzberger “blew the opportunity to make clear that the New York Times doesn’t exist just to tell progressives how progressives should view reality.”
We’ve also seen so-called “progressive” Democrats withdraw a letter to President Joe Biden calling for peace negotiations to begin in Ukraine before the world gets pulled into a nuclear confrontation.
No debate is allowed in the media.
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The media embraces people it can control.
Musk took to Twitter to lay out what seemed like sensible steps to achieve peace. He said the referendums in the newly annexed regions could be done over, with UN supervision. Russia would leave if it is the will of the people. He noted that Crimea would be formally recognized as part of Russia, “as it has been since 1783 (until Khushchev’s mistake).”
Musk echoed what The Trends Journal has been saying since the beginning of the war: that Ukraine will likely end up with the same outcome, it is just a matter of how many people have to die before an agreement is reached.
“Also worth noting that a possible, albeit unlikely, outcome from this conflict is nuclear war,” he said. (See “ELON MUSK LEARNS THAT ANY TALK OF PEACE FOR UKRAINE IS TREATED AS AN ACT OF WAR IN THE WEST.”)
The Times noted that Musk made the comments while in Aspen.
Musk has been praised by Ukrainians for providing Starlink satellites for its military to provide internet. Russia has threatened to shoot Musk’s SpaceX satellites. Alas, no good deed goes unpunished and—even though these satellites have cost his company $80 million to run—he was criticized when he mentioned that someone else may have to start picking up the tab.
Musk seemed to take offense by Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, who told him to “Fuck off,” after he called for peace. Musk said he was just following Melnyk’s recommendation.
TREND FORECAST: Musk is a businessman so he seems to take a pragmatic approach to many of the world’s challenges, which often includes compromise. The U.S. State Department is comprised of academics and think-tankers with no real-world experience. We see how our top diplomat, Antony Blinken, shrinks when he is forced to talk to an adversary.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been celebrated by those interested in free speech, but there’s a good chance that companies and public figures will abandon the platform to protest the “chaos agent.”