The NY Times has an article up today about the growing number of threats that Elon Musk faces and the increasingly large security force he uses to keep the crazies at bay.
On the same earnings call, Musk mentioned that two different assassination plots against him had been stopped in about 8 months.
There’s a subtle effort here to portray the threats Musk faces as “innocuous” though even the examples offered don’t sound that innocuous to me.
Yikes! But this strange person probably is the least scary thing Musk is facing.
That’s in addition to five terroristic threats at the Fremont factory in California and who knows how many at the plant in Germany which was attacked by a mob of climate nuts earlier this year.
The strangest thing about the article is what it doesn’t say. There’s no real mention of the waves of negative media attention Musk has received, especially since he purchased Twitter. It’s actually hard to keep track of the number of warnings, threats of arrest and other hostile comments Musk has received in the past two years from foreign governments and prominent liberals back home. And all of that is just the tip of the iceberg. The media has create a cottage industry of Musk bashing with new articles being added to the pile almost every day. For instance:
Elon Musk’s X feed becomes megaphone for his far-right politics – Washington Post
One Tech Tip: Ever wanted to quit Elon Musk’s X platform? Here’s how you can do it – Associated Press
‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ authors say platform is ‘a tool for controlling political discourse’ – LA Times
Elon Musk, government efficiency expert? That is one really bad idea. – Washington Post
I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. Send Help. – Mother Jones
Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups for anti-DEI posts – NBC News
How a single year of Elon Musk turned Twitter into a husk of its former self – CNN
Elon Musk’s messiah complex may bring him down – The Economist
Musk is a MAGA megaphone and a federal contractor. That’s a problem. – Washington Post
No matter how high he gets, Elon Musk shouldn’t be above the law – Washington Post
I could go on but you get the idea. Musk has been the focus of a tidal wave of news, much of it negative. He was Time’s Person of the Year in 2021 but since buying Twitter he really has become the left’s public enemy #2, just behind Trump.
All you really have to do is look at the comments on this article, which are full of righteous lefties scolding Musk to get an idea what is probably driving much of the hate against him.
Well, no. I don’t think he’s afraid of the people who largely agree with him. I think he’s afraid (justifiably) of the left wing nuts who don’t. He is everything they hate: Rich, productive and unafraid to speak up.
Again, I could go on but you get the idea. And to be clear, I’m not saying every threat aimed at him is directly connected to politics. There are plenty of apolitical nuts in the world. But it’s pretty telling that the Times doesn’t even mention all of the hate Musk gets from the left in and article describing why he can’t go out in the street alone anymore.
