The Empire Strikes back: U.S. Gov't retaliating against Elon Musk

In recent months, after it became a foregone conclusion that Musk would take over Twitter, is it any surprise that the government would go after Musk with investigations?

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Powerful people don’t like being challenged, and with the current contender challenging them,

In the wake of the supremely damning Twitter Files being released, it would be shortsighted to believe that the corrupt regime in power here in the U.S. would take this shot across the bow lying down.

1 head might have been cut off of this Hydra, in a manner of speaking, but 2 more have grown back in its place. Actually, scratch that — 3 more.

This Hydra seems to want to use investigations as a weapon, as 3 different investigations have been launched into Neuralink and Twitter, while an Obama-era appointee judge also denied Tesla’s request for a retrial in the lawsuit filed against the company by a disgruntled ex-employee. The accusations of racism hold about as much water as any anecdotal evidence does in a court of law — not much.

The city of San Francisco alone seems to have launched two separate investigations into Twitter: One involving the firing of unionized janitors without adequate cause, and the other involving the conversion of empty office space into makeshift sleeping quarters inside Twitter HQ.

The situation with the janitors is as follows: Twitter, as we know, has been laying off/terminating people from the top down as Musk’s vision for the company takes shape. Naturally, given the fact that Twitter, when Musk took over, was burning through $4 million a day, layoffs are an inevitability in a situation like that. In a company with such a bloated workforce as Twitter had under former CEO Parag Agrawal, culling the unnecessary workers is an effective and necessary cost-cutting measure.

Twitter locked the janitors out on Friday, as in response, the union organized a strike on Monday, protesting Twitter’s actions, which caused Twitter to terminate the contract with Flagship on Tuesday. Flagship is the company who was employing the janitors — who are allegedly part of the SEIU local 87 union — on behalf of Twitter. In essence, their bluff got called and they’re salty about it.

It’s a tough situation, but companies are allowed to do things to cut costs. In light of recent events and embarrassments for the power structure in this country, however, suddenly everything Musk does is illegal, according to his detractors. That might be true if the company hadn’t reportedly moved to provide severance, which effectively cancels out any instances of noncompliance. This one seems like a big nothingburger.

As for the situation with the beds inside Twitter HQ, apparently the company has run afoul of the building inspector mafioso in San Francisco, who are apparently using building codes to nitpick over something that many tech companies have inside them — sleeping quarters. But those other companies aren’t in the process of undoing a power structure built to subvert constitutional rights, so Twitter gets singled out, in this case.

“We need to make sure the building is being used as intended,” is the response from the mouth of Sauron Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspections, in response to The Washington Post about the frivolous investigation.

“There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays. These codes make sure people are using spaces safely,” Hannan concluded.

The other investigation has to do with Neuralink allegedly engaging in reckless animal testing of their products — according to more disgruntled former employees — that has resulted in a high rate of botched experiments, in turn causing the company to burn through an unusual amount of test animals. This has prompted the US Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General to open an investigation into potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act by the company.

In other words, a medical device company is accused of doing what every other company in that sector does: animal testing. But again, those other companies aren’t owned by Elon Musk.

While we’re at this whole charade, how far do you think the new, improved, and militarized IRS is from going after Musk for tax evasion? I should start a betting pool on that.

And let’s not forget the fact that we also got a seemingly half-baked sex scandal pending against Musk as well. Elon even responded on Twitter to those allegations back in May, calling them “utterly untrue”. He went on to make a good point, as well, stating, “In my 30 year career, including the entire MeToo era, there’s nothing to report, but, as soon as I say I intend to restore free speech to Twitter & vote Republican, suddenly there is …”

The powers that be are at least exhausting the playbook before trying to off the guy, which will be seen as incredibly suspicious by the public due to his recent comments.

During a recent Twitter spaces Q&A, Musk proclaimed that he is not suicidal and if he meets an untimely end, he was assassinated. He also seem to muse rather morbidly about the whole scenario of someone trying to end his life, getting the notion out into the ether, essentially.

”Frankly, the risk of something bad happening to me, of even literally being shot, is quite significant. I'm definitely not going to be doing any open-air car parades,”
Musk said, a significant dig at the intelligence community in the form of a tongue-in-cheek reference to the JFK assassination which many believe was orchestrated and perpetrated by hostile actors inside the intelligence community.

Musk continued to muse on this matter in a rather direct manner, ”It's not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to. So hopefully they don't, and that fate smiles upon the situation with me.”

”In the coming months, I think you'll see dramatic improvements in the transparency and trustworthiness of Twitter, you know. Hopefully you've seen at least some of that already, and it will get better, and I think it will get better in an accelerating way,” Musk said, then proceeding to make another macabre joke about how, if he does die, it won’t be by suicide, “provided I don't accidentally suicide myself, which I'm not going to do.”

In closing, I believe we’re seeing a civil war of a different complexion. This is a culture war between those who want free speech for everyone, and those who want to silence dissenters who present challenges to their power.