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Laying out the stakes, Elon Musk’s chat with Joe Rogan included a dire prediction about the future of X, free speech, and elections should Vice President Kamala Harris win.
In yet another blow to legacy media, the world’s richest man opted to spend the eve of Election Day on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” raking in over 6 million views in little more than half a day’s time as the host officially endorsed former President Donald Trump.
Among their topics of discussion over the span of nearly three hours, Musk spoke with certainty about the likelihood that “a Kamala puppet regime” would shut down his social media platform, the implications for free speech, and a high probability that there would never be another free and fair election in the United States.
Like a snowball rolling down a mountain, Rogan brought up the billionaire’s purchase of the platform formerly known as Twitter for far more than it was worth, especially when taking into account an ongoing advertiser boycott.
After criticizing the Orwellian censorship efforts under the establishment, Musk expressed, “I think if Trump wins, we’ll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will lift.”
“But if Kamala wins, we’ll see that boycott get stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [X] down. There’s no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist,” he added.
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ELON MUSK: “There’s no way the Kamala regime would allow to exist… They can sick the DOJ… say they have this whole thing about ‘hate speech’ and ‘misinformation’ except they’re the ones pushing the misinformation but that doesn’t stop them from filing massive lawsuits” pic.twitter.com/XgYM40OOnN
— America (@america) November 4, 2024
“You really think that they’ll be able to shut it down, though? Is there a pathway to that? What would they do?” wondered the host as his guest explained, “They can sic the DOJ on, you know, and say like, you know, they have this whole thing about like hate speech, misinformation or whatever, except that they’re the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn’t stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ.”
As an example, Musk explained how his company SpaceX was sued for not hiring asylum seekers despite it being illegal to hire non-permanent residents, “So, we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.”
“The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a total scam organization, you know, ’cause they’re like the Ministry of Truth type of thing in Orwell,” he said in calling out the groups that had pushed advertisers to boycott X while Rogan had brought up issues viewers had in accessing his sit down with Trump during the interview.
“I think YouTube throttled [the visibility of the interview]. They did something where they won’t say what they did, but they did something weird with the Trump interview that I did where you couldn’t find it. It made no sense,” he told Musk.
While they also touched on issues like illegal aliens on voter rolls and California’s prohibition on checking IDs at polling locations to verify voters are who they say they are, the self-styled “free speech absolutist” made one final pitch on the importance of this election.
“I view this election as a turning point, like a fork in the road of destiny that is incredibly important. I’ve not been politically active until this election. And the reason I’ve been politically active this election is because I think if we don’t elect Trump,” asserted Musk, “I think we will lose Democracy in this country. We will lose the two-party system.”
“This is it. This is the last chance,” he argued. “Go out and vote. Vote like your life depends on it, vote like your future depends on it, because it does. This is the last chance man.”
ELON MUSK: “I view this election as a fork in the road of destiny. The reason I have been politically active this election is because if we don’t elect Trump we will lose Democracy in this country and the two party system”
— America (@america) November 5, 2024
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