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Charlie Kirk Offers To Be Elon Musk's Ombudsman After Billionaire Takes Red Pills on Russia Hoax

Categories: Liberal Opinions
May 24, 2022

Charlie Kirk reacts to Elon Musk's tweets about the Clinton campaign lawyer creating what Musk called an "elaborate hoax" about Trump and Russia. Kirk offers his services as an advisor to help channel Musk's newfound conservative positions, celebrating that the billionaire is now agreeing with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. The commentary explores the desperation of conservative figures to claim Musk as one of their own, despite his inconsistent positions on issues like China and his questionable Twitter acquisition tactics.

Kirk Celebrates Musk's Red Pills

Charlie Kirk expressed enthusiasm about Elon Musk's transformation, offering to serve as the billionaire's ombudsman or advisor. Kirk noted that Musk has taken "a steady dose of red pills" and needs help channeling that energy effectively.

The conservative commentator highlighted a tweet from Musk stating that "most people don't know that a Clinton campaign lawyer using campaign funds created an elaborate hoax about Trump and Russia," adding "makes you wonder what else is fake." Kirk celebrated this as evidence of Musk's alignment with conservative media personalities.

Inviting Musk to the Team

Kirk acknowledged that Donald Trump had issued a critical statement against Musk, suggesting the billionaire only wanted to be involved because of regulatory problems. However, Kirk disagreed with this assessment, stating he believed conservatives should try to invite Musk onto their team instead.

Kirk emphasized his excitement that Musk was calling the Russia investigation a "hoax," noting that five years ago, only Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and others were using that term. He expressed amazement that "the billionaire industrialist from South Africa is agreeing with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson."

The Desperation for Cool Factor

Commentary on Kirk's reaction highlighted what was described as desperation within conservative circles to claim any figure perceived as cool or culturally relevant. The observation noted this pattern extends to other instances, such as featuring Clint Eastwood at conventions despite potential embarrassment.

Critics pointed out the irony that conservative figures typically hate Hollywood, athletes, elites, and electric cars, but eagerly embrace anyone from those worlds who shows any conservative leanings. The commentary suggested this stems from deeper cultural insecurities within the conservative movement.

Selective Accountability Standards

The discussion noted hypocrisy in how Kirk and similar commentators hold different public figures accountable. While they criticize athletes like LeBron James for not speaking out about China's human rights issues, they give Musk a complete pass despite his being "a massive wimp" when it comes to criticizing China.

This selective standard reveals how willing these commentators are to overlook inconsistencies when someone aligns with their political positions.

The Twitter Acquisition Debacle

Commentary addressed Musk's attempt to back out of the Twitter acquisition by claiming he just discovered the platform has bot problems. The absurdity of this claim was highlighted, noting that Musk, who benefits from Twitter bots more than perhaps anyone else on the platform, would suddenly be shocked by their existence.

The discussion examined Musk's supposed business acumen, questioning how a genius businessman would offer $46 billion for a social media company without doing due diligence on its primary asset: actual users. The failure to make the offer contingent on representations about user counts versus bot accounts was described as a fundamental business failure, suggesting the entire acquisition was never a serious endeavor but rather a PR exercise.

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[00:00] the more I read about Elon Musk there is

[00:02] a book too that I was actually taking a

[00:04] look at I don't know if I sent that but

[00:06] it was called it's called ludicrous

[00:07] ludicrous

[00:09] the unvarnished story of Tesla Motors

[00:13] by Edward niedemeyer I I that is I just

[00:17] ordered that book it's been out for a

[00:19] while but um

[00:21] basically a very sort of like a deep

[00:23] dive into the uh into Tesla

[00:27] and

[00:29] deconstructing the the mythology I mean

[00:32] the basically the guy's like he's not

[00:34] he's just a PR person he's an impresario

[00:37] and uh

[00:39] they cut a lot of

[00:41] of corners on the the creation of their

[00:44] vehicles because

[00:47] it's easier to do that also like if you

[00:49] know anything about Nikola Tesla it's

[00:51] just ridiculous that this guy I know

[00:53] wrapped himself Nikola Tesla had like it

[00:56] was an actual genius with a whole bunch

[00:57] of different inventions elon's uh you

[01:00] know a Silicon Valley bro yeah and

[01:05] is ultimately gonna buy Twitter I said

[01:07] from day one I don't care if he does

[01:09] because it's just basically calling his

[01:12] and the right Wing's Bluff but

[01:14] apparently like at one point he woke up

[01:16] after getting high and deciding he was

[01:18] going to buy it or whatever happened and

[01:20] um uh realized like oh shoot I'm going

[01:24] to lose a lot of money well he

[01:25] understands that his like value or what

[01:28] he you know he's all fluff and all PR so

[01:31] if he can keep the story about him he

[01:34] felt I think he miscalculated that uh

[01:38] you know Tesla's price would still uh

[01:42] stay up even though like what that that

[01:44] book came out there's now a New York

[01:46] Times investigative uh docu-series on

[01:50] Hulu right now about the uh the

[01:54] self-driving technology being pretty

[01:56] well I think there's going to be a lot

[01:57] of stuff plus the accusation of sexual

[02:00] harassment that's coming out I think he

[02:02] understood he had to Stave off some

[02:03] things

[02:04] here's uh Charlie Kirk uh interviewing

[02:06] uh Elon Musk

[02:09] I'm sorry he's not I was just talking

[02:10] about sorry talking about it and um

[02:14] the other thing that strikes me is that

[02:15] Charlie Kirk does not seem to um know

[02:18] how to wear a hat

[02:20] it's the same hat every day and it's

[02:22] getting like bigger and bigger or his

[02:23] head is getting I think it could be

[02:25] something going on with his hat but I

[02:27] play his clip

[02:29] so Elon is going through something that

[02:31] I've experienced with other people

[02:34] and I just want to offer my services Mr

[02:36] musk

[02:38] I possibly can I'm happy to be your

[02:41] Ombudsman uh happy to be your advisor

[02:43] here

[02:45] um Elon has taken a let's say a steady

[02:47] dose of red pills and he needs to

[02:50] Channel that I think

[02:52] uh because he he's still going in a

[02:55] pretty I mean uh

[02:58] this this could be a tweet of Sean

[03:00] Hannity's

[03:02] quote Elon Musk says most people bet

[03:05] most people don't know that a Clinton

[03:06] campaign lawyer using campaign funds

[03:09] created an elaborate hoax about Trump

[03:10] and Russia makes you wonder what else is

[03:12] fake

[03:15] Mr musk God bless you now Donald Trump

[03:17] came out with a pretty nasty statement

[03:19] against Elon Musk I love the president I

[03:22] don't know I'm not right I'm not there

[03:24] with it uh the statement was like oh he

[03:25] only wants to be there because he's got

[03:27] all these regulatory problems there

[03:28] might be some truth there but I have a

[03:30] different view I think we should we

[03:32] should try to invite Elon on our team

[03:34] we should try to think God bless you

[03:36] Elon we're here to help man I mean he's

[03:38] he is he is dispensing red pills at

[03:41] every corner he's saying that the media

[03:44] he said a hoax

[03:49] five years ago

[03:50] the only people calling this a hoax was

[03:52] Sean Hannity and many others

[03:55] Tucker and other people

[03:58] I mean I

[04:04] Mr the billionaire uh industrialist from

[04:07] South Africa is agreeing with uh Sean

[04:09] Hannity and Tucker Carlson what a shocks

[04:11] flash Mr musk but there is something

[04:14] there's something so desperate about the

[04:18] right-wing mind that is like so

[04:21] desperate to have any type of factor

[04:24] that is cool yeah that like

[04:27] it's completely of course devoid from

[04:30] any like material reality about Elon

[04:35] Musk whatever I mean I don't know if

[04:38] Elon Musk was blue pilled before but we

[04:42] never thought because he's because he's

[04:45] garbage it's garbage in garbage out with

[04:47] this dude and but the desperation the

[04:51] Glee that he has yeah it's no longer

[04:53] just losers over here we got you know

[04:56] somebody who's like

[04:57] wait it's like a Reddit bro I mean it's

[05:01] very much in keeping with how they

[05:03] communicate he's a troll but he's a

[05:05] billionaire so and he's the fact that

[05:08] they think he's cool I mean geez well

[05:10] but that's the point is that like the

[05:12] they're so desperate I mean it's like

[05:14] it's sort of the same thing with like

[05:15] we're gonna put Clint Eastwood up on our

[05:17] uh you know for our convention even

[05:19] though he's gonna like do some weird

[05:22] thing with an empty chair it's gonna be

[05:24] something that we get laughed at but

[05:26] he's a star they hate Hollywood they

[05:29] hate you know they hate athletes Elites

[05:31] they hate electric cars but once they

[05:33] get like a you know a part of it without

[05:35] a doubt or athletes are right exactly

[05:37] and this Cantor this was the the

[05:39] ultimate like uh Breitbart uh reality

[05:42] Breitbart hated Hollywood because he

[05:46] grew up in Brentwood and none of the

[05:48] Hollywood kids cool kids would hang out

[05:50] with him and he wasn't allowed to hang

[05:52] out with Ariana and so they're horrible

[05:56] what is funny is seeing how uh Crowder

[05:59] and Kirk will hyperventilate if like

[06:01] LeBron James misses an opportunity to

[06:04] talk about like what China's doing on

[06:06] the human rights front but Elon is a

[06:08] massive massive like wimp when it comes

[06:11] to speaking out about particular things

[06:13] in China and these guys will not uh hold

[06:15] him accountable at all I also it's funny

[06:17] Elon is using the uh his I guess

[06:21] discovery that there are bots on Twitter

[06:22] to maybe back out of it that Elon Musk

[06:26] of all people in like of all single

[06:28] individuals in the entire world wouldn't

[06:30] know that Bots exist on Twitter when he

[06:33] benefits more than anybody of course

[06:35] it's a lie it was all a PR exercise of

[06:37] course you can't lie I mean first of all

[06:40] you do he never ever

[06:43] just give you a sense of his business

[06:44] acumen

[06:45] what is the asset that Twitter has to

[06:49] the extent that it has an asset what

[06:51] does it have one thing one thing

[06:55] the technology you could replicate

[06:57] easily

[06:59] the logo what is the one genuine asset

[07:04] of a social media platform it is users

[07:11] and you make an offer to buy this for 46

[07:13] billion dollars

[07:16] and you don't make it contingent upon

[07:18] certain representations as to how many

[07:21] users you have

[07:25] I'm not you don't have to tell me how

[07:27] many users you have I'm going to give

[07:28] you 46 billion dollars for it I only

[07:30] have 10 users

[07:33] oh I have I have 100 million users

[07:36] you just you have to like you have to

[07:38] make a representation as to how many of

[07:40] these users are actually not how many

[07:41] counts

[07:43] how many users

[07:45] and this genius businessman supposedly

[07:48] did not

[07:50] um do his due diligence he didn't do his

[07:51] due diligence that due diligence is like

[07:53] literally like

[07:55] it's because it was never real I've I've

[07:57] done more due diligence in ordering a

[07:59] pasta dish from a restaurant right like

[08:01] what is is this the one with the bow

[08:03] ties or is it like a thick pasta what it

[08:05] what is this what's in this one what is

[08:08] that uh you know like I I don't

[08:11] understand I've never heard that uh that

[08:13] meat or whatever that's in there I mean

[08:15] honestly

[08:16] yeah

[08:18] I I didn't even put this in the sound

[08:20] sheet because it just seemed like so

[08:22] trivial to to even talk about but just

[08:24] like there was a clip of Ted Cruz with

[08:26] Michael Knowles over the weekend talking

[08:28] about Pete Davidson the comedian and

[08:30] people should just look it up it's the

[08:32] same so desperate so desperate um and he

[08:36] you know Ted Cruz then gets horny in the

[08:38] middle of his conversation but

[08:40] um yeah why are they talking about it uh

[08:42] because uh Pete Davidson has become a

[08:45] vehicle for uh men who like only

[08:49] perceived because he's kind of like more

[08:52] of a they think he's a beta but he's

[08:54] with Kim Kardashian these babies Ariana

[08:57] Grande who yeah she went from Kanye to

[09:00] to like a nice to a guy who's gonna let

[09:03] her take the lead whatever but the PO

[09:05] yeah exactly but they just no it's it

[09:07] extends beyond the conservative movement

[09:09] they see him as a guy who he's sensitive

[09:12] he's skinnier and he's not the

[09:15] traditional like Alpha that's gonna go

[09:17] after when and so it breaks their brains

[09:20] that he's with these famous women and

[09:22] it's like just an extension of you know

[09:24] their own toxic masculinity in my

[09:26] opinion yeah he can't he can't unders

[09:28] grasp the concept Ted Cruz of someone

[09:30] having an attractive personality it's so

[09:32] far so far from his reality yeah uh also

[09:36] I think they'd find their masculinity

[09:37] lacking compared to Pete in a few from

[09:40] what I've heard from what from yes I've

[09:42] I've heard that too yes

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