‘Musk Unmasked’: My Latest ‘Hot Type’ Column in Byline
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Today’s Hot Type column just dropped in Byline Supplement, and it’s a doozy.
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Below is an excerpt from today’s Hot Type:
Hot Type: Musk Unmasked
In her latest exclusive column, Heidi Siegmund Cuda investigates Elon Musk's attempts at election interference and why he should now fear being caught out
Elon Musk is scared.
One of the world’s richest and most powerful men told pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, Tucker Carlson, that he’s “fucked” if Trump loses. In an interview with Carlson earlier this week, he brought up the assassination of Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, again, having tweeted about it two weeks ago, and then he questioned how long his prison sentence might be if Trump loses.
Frankly, he should be worried.
We used to have more patience for quirky captains of industry, but over time, we’ve grown wiser. Men like Henry Ford and Charles Lindburgh, who did great things in their lifetime, tarnished their own legacies with their anti-semitism and ties to Adolf Hitler.
We are evolving in our thinking and now know that a man can do impressive things and still be a criminal. Two things can be true at once.
As investigative reporter Dave Troy tweeted of the Tesla and Starlink owner on Friday: “Musk belongs in a cell.”
Troy was responding to a report that Musk’s X reportedly worked with the Trump campaign to censor material harmful to Trump’s re-election. Musk is accused of participating in election interference on a massive scale.
And as a former Twitter executive Bruce Daisley wrote of Musk: “If he keeps stirring unrest, get an arrest warrant.”
By now, it should be clear that Musk is part of a networked group of oligarchs using the fascist playbook and modern technology to encourage people to overthrow their own Government.
Robert Mueller III warned us there’d be days like these…
I quote from Mueller’s Iron Triangles speech of 2011, which predicted the precise situation we find ourselves in.
As I wrote: “I’m tired of this show. I want a return to decency, integrity, and reality. Trump is not running a political campaign. He is starring in his own unreality show, where men like Musk help him assault all that is decent. In their world — which is devoid of facts — cruelty and lies are for sale, along with gold shoes, bibles made in China, and weird roided up trucks that mine your data.”
And then I cite the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson, who wrote about the intent of deliberate lies in her recent substack newsletter:
“They are part of a well-documented strategy to overturn democracy by using modern media to create a false political world,” wrote historian Heather Cox Richardson. “Voters begin to base their political decisions on that fake image, rather than on reality, and are manipulated into giving up control of their government to an authoritarian.”
Cox Richardson reminds us of the Russian roots of these tactics.
“Russian political theorists who were key to the rise of Russian president Vladimir Putin after the collapse of the Soviet Union called this manipulation ‘political technology’. They developed a series of techniques to pervert democracy through this virtual political reality,” she wrote. “They blackmailed opponents, abused state power to help favored candidates, sponsored ‘double’ candidates with names similar to those of opponents in order to split the opposition vote and thus open the way for their own candidates, created false parties to further splinter the opposition, and, finally, created a false narrative around an election or other event that enabled them to control public debate.”
Cox Richardson wrote how Putin’s political technologists, by perverting democracy, turned it from “the concept of voters choosing their leaders into the concept of voters rubber-stamping the leaders they had been manipulated into backing.”
After I submitted my latest column, I finally found the words I had been seeking for years. These men, these dangerous men running on fear and treachery, are reality assassins. I wrote about that last night.
No place is safe until they are neutralized.
We have treated lies as nuisances. We know now they are being detonated to create fake realities, where the brainwashed destroy their own democracies.
Now that we have better framing, we got this America.
As I wrote in Hot Type:
“As goes America, so goes the world.”
The world is relying on us
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