In a surprising move, Time Magazine has named Elon Musk as its person of the year, despite being one of the most outspoken opponents of lockdown measures and vaccine mandates. Last year, he proclaimed that stay-at-home mandates were “fascist” and refused to apologise for saying so, and has warned that the United States is quickly losing its liberty. Jeffrey A. Tucker, writing for the Brownstone Institute, examines the transition of Elon Musk into a liberty-loving American who fears the growing and unrelenting power of the state apparatus, and is not afraid to speak his mind about his concerns and beliefs.
The last two years have been transformative for him. He is a businessman above all else. When the Government told him that he had to close his factories for a virus, he balked. He began to look at the data (he is trained in economics and statistics). He saw that the infection fatality rate was not highly unusual for this type of virus, and he was clearly aware of the harms that would come from lockdowns to his company, the country, and the world economy.
On May 11, 2020, he tweeted: “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules, I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.” By the end of the year, he moved Tesla’s headquarters from oppressive California to emancipate Texas. Good on him. Remarkable really.
Two years earlier, his dust up with the SEC made a mockery of the agency. He believes that he should have free speech so he tweeted what he wanted to tweet. The SEC reminded him that this is not a free country and that he cannot do that. He faced their investigatory tribunal, and then resigned briefly as CEO so that he could say what he wanted to say. In the end, he outsmarted them all.
What’s happened to Elon is what has happened to millions of other people. He began to realize that the governing elites in this country are incredibly inept and unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. He noted the completely undemocratic methods and the unscientific rationale that were deployed to bring about lockdowns. For that reason, he has been smeared and put down as a promoter of misinformation. Anyone who has paid attention for the last two years knows exactly what that means: he is telling truths he is not supposed to tell.
Let’s address his relationship with China, which in many respects pioneered the lockdowns he despises. He has said that despite his good relations in China, he disagrees with many policies of the government, just as he disagrees with policies in the U.S. This opinion gets him in trouble with both Democrats and Republicans. But we do well to pay attention.
For all the controversy, the hypocrisy, and the mixed messaging over the years, Elon Musk has turned into a true American, a resistor, a revolutionary. His influence in business and philosophical outlook offers a real path forward. He deserves every congratulations for refusing to go along with ruling-class ideology and instead demand that most essential thing, the freedom to trade, speak, run a business, and innovate without government interference.
That he has been named Person of the Year portends more than Time Magazine knows. There is a new spirit of resistance alive in the land, and Musk embodies it as well or better than anyone else in his position. In that case, there are many people and institutions in this country and around the world that should be very worried.
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This is pretty much what a capitalist looks like.
He looks great to me. Anyone that doesn’t look like a drooling cretinous abject crawling cowardly muzzled zombie looks great to me.
I’ll just leave this here – not sure if you are in the UK but…
https://www.specsavers.co.uk
Please Note – this is an attempt at a “joke”…
His words on Biden were fantastic
Yep – just a shame about the Tesla bollocks!
I think it’s more like he just shouts his mouth off and occasionally something is good Gamestop (stonk), Biden (hardly difficult to nail that one), and lockdowns/vaccine passports (I’ll give him that one, but then he can afford the bad publicity from the MSM).
Bear in mind he (wrongly) accused a British cave rescue specialist of being a paedo and got away with it on a technicality (if I recall) to avoid being successfully sued, his cars regularly end up at the bottom of the reliability league tables, he appears to use his car firm (which mainly only makes money from carbon offset payments from other car makers and lost $Bns in car production for over 15 years) to bankroll his space business, and his financial dealings as regards his businesses are, IMHO, shall we say, ‘creative’ at best.
That all sounds very minor compared with a stance against lockdowns.
Musk’s Neural Lace technology also happens to dovetail perfectly with the plans for a human-AI interface. The latter is a key plank in the “Internet of things” or rather, “the internet of bodies” – a development that is heavily invested in and promoted by Gates and his vaccine-fascist friends.
I don’t say Musk is a conscious participant in this process, but his work will facilitate what the Gates-WEF-WHO alliance actuallly wants.
There’s nothing wrong with that technology like any other. It’s how it’s used that matters. Guns can slaughter or protect liberty.
This is pretty much what a
Jew, facistcapitalistmurdererlooks likeDo you have any sort of evidence for any of that?
So you tell me, just what does a typical capitalist look like?
Same bollocks used by the nazis, ‘this is what a typical Jew looks like.
Well, for starters, if you’re going to call someone a “
Jew, facistcapitalistmurderer“, I would at least expect you to back that up.As for my opinion, an average capitalist believes in individual freedom and does not like state control.
Think you mistake his meaning.
For many of us that isn’t automatically bad. Anyway, what is happening is a common enemy of freedom that threatens 99% of us from unemployed to moderately wealthy.
LOL censorship?
Elon Musk needs to put his money where his mouth is and support the anti-lockdown cause.
He did. He kept his businesses open. He’s been speaking out against this. What would you like him to do?
Fly to Mars & never come back.
Yay a bonus downvote, flak incoming.
Look i’ve never forgiven musk for paypal. Stop discriminating against me i’ll report you for hate crime.
Racists!
I used PayPal a couple of times many years ago. Decided I didn’t like it, can’t remember why, so moved on
What’s to forgive?
Dude where have you been, paypal facilitates censorship!
It’s nothing compared to what the central banks are planning.
Give money to anti-lockdown organisations.
Hire an assassin to take out Gates.
He’s a well paid orchestrator, it would have little real impact, probably just make them crazier. Getting nailed by the Epstein-Maxwell stuff would be better.
He could . . .
If he did those three things with real intent then, IMO, this whole shit show could be over by early New Year – Easter at the latest.
Hi C.N,
Hi C.N,
Well, we can go around in circles debating the merits or otherwise of manipulating the media, bribery and benevolent dictators etc. but, at the end of the day, if (one of) the richest man in the world can’t do something with his billions to affect positive change – then we’re all doomed!
I think his nose was put out of joint because he made a load of ventilators and soon discovered they were only needed to terrify the population. That puts him in the same category as James Dyson, another inventor I feel kind of ambivalent about!
Or maybe he would be over. Who knows.
Maybe he is.
this catastrophic rise in cases to 2 million a day by xmas. is this complete bollox or what?
there’s a rise in cases here but just because there’s a rise in tests
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
moderate linear rise here
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#vaccinations
been told there are tens of thousands of daily omicron cases – has delta collapsed at exactly the same rate?
seems like a load of nonsense to me
2 million “cases” a day which will probably result in about a dozen deaths…i.e. an extremely mild cold.
I wonder how many cases per day of the common cold you get in a normal year – if you can remember what a normal year looks like…
Maybe we could get Tim Spector to count them for us?
from BBC
“There are now 14 people in hospital with Omicron in the UK, the House of Commons has been told. Previously, there were thought to be 10 people.”
I think the 10 gave it to the next 4. Better to put hem in the Nightingales if this is as infectious as you are pretending
Here we go again. ‘With’. And where’s the evidence anyway?
Wonder why they dont add on a few zero’s, we’d never know the truth anyway
Wotsisname did, said it was 250 until health dept officials contradicted him.
Did they call it a 40% increase?
Nightingale is gone, they need another tax money blackhole so non-critical hospital patients are being moved to hotels to make space for the expected ‘tidal wave’ of ‘omicron victims’.
And Time’s readers actually chose another anti-lockdown icon, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro:
https://yvymaraey.blogspot.com/2021/12/medical-freedom-champion-jair-bolsonaro.html
It was a foregone conclusion, though, that the magazine’s editors were not going to follow their readers’ choice in this matter.
Like when the public voted Maradona as the best ever and so FIFA decided to create two awards and give the “official” one to Pele and let Maradona have the public’s choice award.
Lol. I hadn’t thought of it like that. So, Elon Musk is Pele?
Try telling me how much he loves freedom when you’re logged into the Metaverse with his Neuralink sticking out of your melon.
Methinks it’s his freedom he loves.
Is it possible you’re confusing Musk with Zuckerberg? Zuckerberg who is most definitely no friend of freedom
No. Neuralink is a Musk invention to chip your brain and connect it to the internet.
The Metaverse is a Zuckerberg invention and it’s where the sheep will be herded into. But they’ll connect to the Metaverse via Musk’s Neuralink.
Don’t believe this guy speaks from his own free conscience. He’s got a carefully curated persona and it creates an obviously fake pantomime in the media. There is a very sinister agenda (Agenda 2030) that these people have to farm off and eventually eliminate us and he’s very much a part of it.
The Future
How many more children will be murdered by their parents before they realise that lockdowns do not work and make matters worse. And, their slogan is, ‘If it saves one life’ !!!
Dan. Lockdowns aren’t for saving lives or managing an epidemic. They were the beginning of the roll out of a new social control system. Lockdowns are so 2020. They’ve moved on now. It’s jabs and vax passports now.
Lockdowns are like a big stick. They were used initially to get everyone’s attention and to focus minds on getting jabs and the digital vaxports.
And they’ll only use them now when too many within the population start getting boisterous and refuse the jabs. Like in Austria or Germany. Two thirds of the population jabbed is obviously below the threshold they’ve worked out is required to move things along. In place where the population have been compliant and jabbed in higher numbers they haven’t bothered with new lockdowns.
In the UK they want everyone on the 3rd jab. If too many people refuse, then they’ll bring some lockdown measures in. But if the population behave and do as they are told, it’ll be fine.
Spot-on observations there.
But why?
), it was essential that the remaining unvaccinated members of the population came forward for their jabs at once. But this is not what they’ve done. Instead they have thrown everything at boosters, pissing off a good proportion of previously compliant members of the public in the process. Most adverse reactions are after the second dose, so there will be many, many jabbed individuals who will not go for a booster (especially if they’ve had covid in the meantime, as millions of them have, and have therefore witnessed the stunning uselessness of these drugs. We are left with few options here:
quizzical emoji. what are they up to?
The Covid coup continues to go from weird to weirder. As sceptics, I think the most pressing question we need to address right now is: Why the focus on ‘boosters’?
By this winter, I expected and predicted that unjabbed scapegoating would be in full swing, as seems to be the case elsewhere. Given that logic and coherence are no longer required by the media and the public, it would have been very easy for the government to say that in the face of omicron (
A) They are acting in good faith and genuinely see the boosters as a way of saving lives in the face of a highly mutated virus. Yeah, right.
B) They are panicking about ADE, have realised they have made a terrible mistake and hope to get through the winter without a large and conspicuous vaccinated death toll.
C) The economic collapse many have warned about (and I think is the real emergency) is at hand and this is a final push to syphon off massive amounts of cash, and cause economic ruin, confusion and chaos before the fall.
”Before they realise….” Haven’t YOU realised yet that ‘they’ know EXACTLY what they are doing?
Elon Musk has created a lot of wealth and been consistently anti woke.
His only mistake IMHO was calling the Thai cave rescue guys ‘pedos’ just because they rejected his technology.
Yeah but Musk has always struck me as kind of autistic, hence the Thai cave incident.
Great post from The Daily Sceptic ! This is more like it ! Although the Brownstone article says “he’d better watch his back”. Are they trying to be amusing? If not it just comes across as more cowardly fear. In my experience its the weak and timid that hide in the shadows who get “knocked off” not the bold and outspoken. The bad one’s never go near them because it would expose them too much. So keep going Elon. Let’s launch more of those rockets. With the new exoplanet imaging space telescope going up we might need more of them (but maybe replace the chemical rocket with a proper hyperdrive mate).
Not true at all. There was nothing weak or timid about John Magufuli, or Pierre Nkurunziza or Dr. Andreas Noack or Brandy Vaughan.
Right throughout history, there is a long line of bold and outspoken rebels and champpions for truth who have been brutally murdered.
Of course there have been. I was generalising based on my own experience.
Hang on. The article blames Trump for everything. Trump started reigning in China on trade and human rights. Then what did China do ? This proves Trump was correct. It does not lay blame at his feet. Clearly China has lot to answer for although actually I think the real problem is pharma.
Time magazine doesn’t have much credibility when it comes to this ‘award’, given they’ve previously awarded it to:
Greta Thunberg
Bill Gates and his (ex) wife
Dubbya
Bill Clinton (twice, just before his impeachment)
Putin
Tricky Dicke (twice, including just before he had to resigned because of Watergate)
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri Andropov
Stalin (twice!)
and, of course, Adolf Hitler
What next, Xi the Pooh and Putin for invading their neighbours and the former for giving the world COVID?
Sweet Mother of God.
You beat me to it. Was about the post similar. Remarkable how they can get it wrong so many times!
You’re going to force me to defend TIME magazine here but, regardless of your or their opinion of those people, they were some of the most widely discussed people and received the most media coverage in those years and therefore, rightly or wrongly, deserve to be ‘Person of the Year’
They’ve also featured Donald Trump and believe me when I say they despise Donald Trump. Doesn’t stop them from naming him Person of the Year
Normally ‘person of the year’ awards go to people who have done something memorably good, not just because they are infamous for something. If that was the case, surely Osama Bin Laden deserved it for 2001? We he did was certainly memorable.
Just another (IMHO) media outlet with too high an opinion of itself and it’s own place in history.
Hey, Richard Nixon did nothing wrong
Other than Watergate…
I have had a soft spot for Elon since the early days of Space-X. In many ways he embodies the things I love about humans; his ambition, ingenuity and general visionariness. Unlike shysters Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, he is a true inventor, engineer and physicist. He seems to have a utopian vision of the future and has the power to bring about real change. On the other hand, wry tweets will never challenge the status quo and he clearly needs to do more with his tremendous wealth. I do not like the sound of his neuralink brain interface nonsense at all but he claims that this will be necessary to keep humans in the game when AI eventually try to kill us all or something. I don’t know; I keep saying it but I suspect the oncoming economic collapse will render all such concerns moot anyway. Rambling comment with a pessimistic ending. Yeah, he’s OK.
Giving a bit too much credit to Mr. Trollmelon Musk
Jury is out – to me he’s another fanatical space baron with a maverick vein… probably got a streak of AI transhumanist utopianism as well – my heros are the stand in the park people who help write/ distribute the light paper and hold up yellow signs etc etc in their time off. Salivating over ‘freedom loving’ celebs is easy.
Expess:Queen cancels Royal Family Christmas plans ‘with regret’ as Covid erupts in UKQUEEN ELIZABETH II has scrapped her pre-Christmas family gathering as a “precautionary” measure amid the rise of Omicron cases in the UK.By ALICE SCARSI
11:18, Thu, Dec 16, 2021 | UPDATED: 11:51, Thu, Dec 16, 2021
So it’s best to stop living normally then, and enjoy one’s final years or months – just in case we die – or, actually, in case we catch a bit of a cold.
Like the rest of us I don’t know if he is genuine. But he does have a different background to most Billionaires albeit there are some similarities with Gates! I get the impression he is more focused on building than owning. My sincerest hope is that his satellite based comms system is an attempt to keep one open and free.
At the moment most censorship and propaganda is happening at endpoints of the Internet (e.g. Twitter) but that leaves scope for the creation of off narrative endpoints such as local.com and Substack. Sooner or later traffic will get intercepted and cancelled in transit to close the loopholes. Elon’s satellite system will be a lot harder to shutdown if he builds a distributed control system in free countries. That will force the use of expensive and brutal military might and I hope that step is a few years away. It may also start WW3 if they aren’t very careful.