thependulumswings

Here are two simple questions, but they come with one qualifying request.  The request is to put politics aside to answer them.

Question one: Do you believe freedom of speech is one of our most important rights?

Question two: Do you prefer a smaller but more efficient government than we have today?

Would anyone answer “no” to either question?

We strongly suspect that Elon Musk would answer with a loud “YES” to both. He’s at the center of both questions as the 2024 presidential election draws near.

Once upon a time, Musk was loved by the left.  Then he bought Twitter.  Now he’s not loved so much.

What happened?  What happened goes to the very core of both questions above.

Musk quickly ended the imbalance of censorship from the left on Twitter and in the process unwound the one-way definitions of disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech.

Along the way he kept asking employees at Twitter what they did for the company.  What is your job?  Incorrect was the answer “Umm.”

He quickly slashed a ton of dead weight on the payroll.  The social media platform now has only 1,500 employees, down from the 8,000 employed at the time of the acquisition.

Late last week he was drawn even nearer to the crux of the questions.

VP and Prez want-to-be Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “he has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.  You can’t have one rule for Twitter and another for Facebook.  These social sites have to understand their power.  They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any oversight and regulation and that has to stop.”

Isn’t freedom of speech a right, not a privilege?  Who has oversight and regulates what Kamala says to millions and millions?  Maybe she doesn’t like Musk’s resistance to conform to government-approved narratives?

Marc Zuckerberg admitted last week that he wished that Facebook would have more overtly pushed back on the Biden/Harris administration’s multiple requests for FB to censor jokes or dissents to be published about the government’s position on Covid 19 back in 2021.  Well well.

Former President Trump is reportedly eyeing a plan to involve prominent business executives, including Elon, in auditing federal agencies to identify programs to cut.

Elon’s blue checkmark tweet response was,  “I can’t wait.  There is a lot of waste and needless regulation government that needs to go.”

Back up the Waste Management trucks to DC and start managing the waste.

Real free speech and real government cuts.

New Texas resident Elon Musk says “Giddyup!”