THE GREATEST HUMAN MIND IN HISTORY …ELON MUSK MAKES EINSTEIN LOOK LIKE A LEARING SOMALIAN
OF ALL THE ASTOUNDING THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW THIS HAS TO BE THE “ASTOUNDINGEST ”
Jeff Childers has the rundown on Musks Latest Adventure
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OF ALL THE ASTOUNDING THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW THIS HAS TO BE THE “ASTOUNDINGEST ”
Jeff Childers has the rundown on Musks Latest Adventure
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Welp, scratch off yet another historic record. I hope you are enjoying life here in Surreal City. The BBC ran another major breaking story this morning, headlined, “Musk’s SpaceX and xAI merge to make world’s most valuable private company.” The world’s richest man just made the most audacious corporate move since Rockefeller realized oil wells work better when you own all of them. SpaceX has acquired xAI (which owns Twitter/X and Grok) in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion — making it the most valuable private company in human history.
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Musk is playing chess against himself, on a board in orbit around Jupiter. The online chatter confirms the obvious— the space billionaire is preparing for something. One obvious next step everyone is talking about is taking the newly-merged company public in what will be the biggest stock debut in history, yawn, another record crushed. Some wonder whether he’ll merge SpaceX into Tesla as part of the deal— a mega-corporation worth more than the annual gross product of most countries on Earth.
You can’t make this up: a man who already owns a rocket company, an electric car company, a brain implant company, a tunneling company, a social media platform, and an AI company has decided what he really needs is to put the AI company inside the rocket company. Because why have data centers on Earth where you can just, I don’t know, plug them in, when you could put them in space where the only things you need to worry about are the cold vacuum of death and occasional space debris traveling at 17,000 mph.
The SEC is going to need a bigger org chart.
? With appropriate humility, it seems to me that corporate media’s speculations on Musk’s plans —characterized as whimsy, impulse, or an erratic OCD— are far off the mark. SpaceX already owns Starlink — the satellite network providing internet to 100+ countries. When SpaceX acquired xAI, it didn’t just acquire artificial intelligence. It acquired the global public square. 500 million daily active users. The place where news breaks, trends start, and narratives are born.
Let that marinate: One company now owns the internet delivery system and the platform people use when they get online. That’s not vertical integration; it’s diagonal integration — across industries that nobody else imagined would touch.
But wait— there’s more. Musk’s $1 trillion comp package at Tesla requires two things: building a million robots and increasing Tesla’s stock value tenfold. How do you 10x a top-priced auto company already worth $800 billion? He can’t do it with cars, even self-driving ones. He can’t even do it with robots.
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But what if he next merges SpaceX into Tesla? Think about it. xAI goes into SpaceX. SpaceX goes into Tesla. Suddenly, Tesla isn’t a car company. It’s not even a tech company. It’s a civilization-stack company. Cars, robots, energy, space, AI, global internet service, social media, and payments (xMoney, long teased).
The truth is, we can’t even imagine the possibilities. Take just one— advertising. Tesla has famously spent exactly $0 on traditional advertising. Zero Super Bowl ads. Zero billboards. Zero “Built Tesla Tough” jingles. They’ve relied entirely on word of mouth and Elon’s Twitter feed. But what happens when Tesla owns the Twitter feed?
Ford, GM, and Toyota are paying millions to advertise on X— paying rent to their competitor’s platform. Tesla’s competitors are literally funding the Tesla empire. It’s as if McDonald’s had to buy commercial time on a network owned by Burger King. How do other carmakers compete with that? They can’t out-advertise them— Tesla owns the platform. They can’t out-tech them— Tesla owns the AI. They can’t out-infrastructure them — Tesla owns the satellites.
I could be wrong about all this. SpaceX might not go public. It might not merge with Tesla. But Musk must have some kind of plan to earn his $1 trillion bonus, no? Let me know what you think.
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Yesterday, furious Congressional Democrats officiously demanded to know why DNI Tulsi Gabbard attended the weekend’s Atlanta ballot raid. Reuters reported, “Tulsi Gabbard says Trump requested her presence at FBI raid in Fulton County.” Checkmate, morons.
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Democrats are very concerned that the Director of National Intelligence showed up to oversee an FBI operation related to national election security. This is apparently a huge scandal because the DNI’s job is to … checks notes … coordinate intelligence related to election security. I know what you’re thinking: “Jeff, surely there’s more to Democrat arguments than that?” And the answer is: No. That’s literally it. She showed up to her job, and corporate media acts like she was caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel wearing a Nixon mask.
Democrats spent four years claiming our elections were compromised by Russia, demanded investigation after investigation, impeached the president over a phone call, and launched three separate criminal cases over “election interference” — but when President Trump actually sends someone to investigate election integrity? Suddenly, investigating elections is “authoritarian.”
The only thing more predictable than Democrat double standards is their inability to count them.
Gabbard calmly replied to hysterical demands from Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees with a soothing letter. “The President specifically directed me to be present for the execution of the search warrant,” the DNI explained. “My presence was requested by the President and executed under my broad statutory authority to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence related to election security, including counter-intelligence, foreign and other malign influence, and cybersecurity.”
Shifting it straight to Trump was genius. Democrats, even those on the intelligence oversight committees, can’t demand that President Trump answer their silly questions, thanks to the separation of powers. They don’t oversee the President.
Reuters, of course, quoted nobody who agreed with Gabbard’s involvement, despite there being about 150 million of us. Fake news alert! Instead, the paper quoted a random former government lawyer, who now has no access or personal knowledge, but still squeaked, “The DNI has authorities set out by statute, and they don’t include investigating past elections for potential fraud.”
It was the dumbest argument I’ve ever heard. Why don’t past elections provide useful intelligence for securing future elections? It just shows that anybody can be a former government lawyer. Probably a DEI hire.
The Fulton County operation is just the latest example of masterful Trump operational surprise. Democrats and their media allies never saw this coming, and now they are desperately playing catchup, trying to figure out what Trump is up to. He’s running rings around them.
But I thought AOC said Musk was stupid.
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