“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. F–k them.” Elon Musk – 11/29/23
What was that? It was the perfect definition of, and a long due condemnation of, virtue signaling.
If anyone is against this statement for its content – then this statement is directed at you. This is the entirety of wokedom. This applies to those who rail at misgendering, toxic masculinity, systematic racism, all the recent converts to anti-Semitism, and anyone who has ever attended a Woman’s March. Meanwhile, they are the first to riot over laws that protect children from medical or chemical sterilization, castration and disfiguration. These are the ones who lied, who committed perjury, about Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, just to protect the evil holocaust of abortion. It is for the nominally Catholic politicians and prelates who lead lives, and who teach contrary to the Church. They preen on publicly about mercy, forgiveness, outreach, and inclusion only to privately use words like punishment, enemy, and eviction. They are a brood of vipers.
He who agrees with this statement but inevitably believes it to be too crude – well then where the hell have you been? Take the lead. Why haven’t you ever done this, in whatever manner you wish? Use whatever nice and polite, diplomatic words you wish – as long as you express the same message. Why is this business man taking up the charge against those who do – his word – EVIL? Those effeminates who blushingly say “the sentiment is not far off, but it is harsh” are seldom close to the target.
Elon Musk has gone from a perch of being the world’s wealthiest man, idolized by all, sucked up to by politicians from every corner of the globe, loved by every Tesla and Prius driving environmentalist – to being a pariah whose company is losing advertisers, losing users, being investigated, attacked and besmirched. By buying Twitter, effectively ending and exposing the collaboration between the social media oligarchs and the leftist government, then by allowing conservatives a platform from which to exercise their Creator endowed right to speech, Musk has become the outlaw. Here is the unlikely chosen one to do what is right in the face of pressure and opposition. He doesn’t need any of this.
He probably did not want to be this guy. His character and ability to read his attackers pushed him in the direction of becoming the standard bearer for freedom and opposition to government and globalist control. In one corner we have the corrupt Biden administration, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and all the oligarchs, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the Davos Crowd, the Saint Gallen Mafia, The Clinton Foundation, et alia. In the other corner there is Elon Musk, and a bunch of recently freed, blue-collar, every man, conservative voices throwing rocks. Like Joe Rogan, and RFK Jr, he was forced into this position, but seems to have accepted it, even if he may not be relishing it. There are others who have paid a price. Why aren’t we asking the question, “Why is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò living in hiding”? Or, “who is he hiding from?”
In this valley of tears, there is a price to be paid for being a light in the wilderness. Hopefully those who do so have an internal disposition of pride, of courage, righteousness and faith for what they are doing. But Musk seems to be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the Book of Daniel, the three faithful men thrown into a furnace by Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon, for refusing to bow to the king’s image. By the power of God, they are preserved from the fire, not even to smell singed.
We are not all the richest man in the world. Would that we all had the financial independence to defend ourselves. But neither does anyone else have as much to risk as the automobile and space pioneer, Musk. His answer to those trying to intimidate him into compliantly bending the knee was crude. It was raw. It was emotional. It was perfect.
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