Oh my, my. Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk:
“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera this week. “He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person.”
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
Bannon’s still beating the H-1B visas conflict, obviously banking on being able to continue his grift on the hardcore racist MAGA base. And he’s cleverly doing it by turning the racism on to the tech-bro Mafia that’s infiltrated the upper reaches of MAGA.
Does he have his finger on the pulse? He said, “This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious. No blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs. Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans. He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
He’s playing the populist card hard here which makes sense for him but I can’t see how it makes sense for MAGA which is not only racist but worships a billionaire as their Dear Leader. But Bannon thinks he’s on to something, at least for the section of MAGA that takes this stuff somewhat seriously:
“He went out of his way to mock our movement as racist and retards, and he lost,” Bannon said. “We blew him out of the water. He won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a little boy.” Musk has had “tremendous loss of credibility here in the United States, and quite frankly, the people around Trump are tired of it,” he said. Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being self-serving, insisting that his “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.”
He says that Musk’s just protecting his companies and trying to make more money but his financial support for the extreme right is good and he should do more of it. However:
“What’s not positive,” he added, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”
If you read the DOGE post below and then this one it’s pretty obvious that all the leaders of the right are in the midst of a massive collective wet dream. It’s probably going to end up the way they all do…