Time To Address The Elonphant In The Room

 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/17/tech/lionsgate-suspends-advertising-x-musk/index.html

Using my amazing predictive powers, sharpened by years of practice with gematria, I long ago predicted that Musk was a perfect candidate for super stardom.  Even that didn’t prepare me for the current state.

If one digs into the background he’s got all the worst characteristics of Trump.  Obviously any attention, even being outrageously controversial and getting called out for, is good attention.  His acclaim as a businessman is not non-existent, but way overrated.  The same model is there - do the hard work of being born into wealth, sit on massive amounts of passive income, find convenient smart people to do the actual heavy lifting.  Throw them under the bus when the shit hits the fan.  Enjoy the talk about the overrated genius since people with the intellectual capacity of a toddler are more interested in his hateful content than objective evidence like his rockets blowing up and how his policies on Twitter have made his billions of dollars vanity project be worth less than half of what he bought it for.

But he’s got the money for lawyers, so he can do whatever he wants.  And no doubt my X account will soon be an Ex account after this post.

Numerous times I’ve covered how people pick shitty heroes, and this is the same here.  There’s always going to be somebody like a Trump, Musk, Santos, etc… who people question (far too late) how they got into a position of power based on the questionable decisions made on a daily basis.  And actually, as much as I’ve complained about Musk ruining his own pet project, I don’t give a damn if it crashes and burns.  However it plays out, so be it.  It has happened before, it will happen again.  Information, hatred and money have been going on for so long, I have a historical example to share.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_von_Braunhut

Buried amidst my comic book pages were loads of advertisements for fun products.  And Harold here was one of the all time kings of false advertisement.  And getting away with it.  And using his wealth from products for promoting his political ideology.

The Sea Monkeys are the most famous.  And they weren’t too bad.  Although not actually monkeys leading a happy life in the sea, there is an actual product with a good case of having some entertainment and educational value.  Score one point for pro Harry.  The Invisible Goldfish - not so much.  That was likely the inspiration for the novelty value of concepts like the pet rock.  Call that one a draw.  The X-Ray specs is a loss.  There’s no way these cheap optical illusion producing spectacles did anything remotely like the claims made in the comic book pages.

Although nowhere near the scale of Elon, having acquired some notoriety and the associated income, he did what any bored, narcissistic, conspiracy minded dictator wannabe would do.  Spend money on funding extremist groups.  As the news stories surrounding the state of Twitter suggest this could be considered a big fail.  And likely it will be, just not in the time frame people are preaching about now.

Musk has invested in his image by associating in long term projects, which on the surface are good things.  Space travel building towards future colonization outside the planet.  Electric cars.  Artificial intelligence.  And social media politics.  Each of these have the downside of the mind numbing costs involved and the near impossible to control concept of getting a planet on board with the whole program.

We really don’t need more atmospheric debris falling on people’s heads in the future.  We don’t need more wasted dollars by Big Oil to keep their climate changing heavy train flowing.  We don’t need deep fakes and misinformation spambots muddying the waters on social media.  And as for X itself, every single policy is either sensible and hypocritically ignored (his war on spambots that are thriving more than ever) or directly aligned with making it easier for internet grifters.  (Welcoming back every deleted questionable account because free speech is absolute.  Except when it calls Elon a poopyhead, that gets you sued.)

And again, like Trump, we have the failed relationships.  Of course they failed.  Being in close contact with an enormous hypocrite is psychologically draining.  Like Twitter tanking there’s simply too much money left over after a financial hit to care about a divorce settlement or the welfare of children involved.

As my thoughts stray towards what should be depressing I find myself at times like this numb to caring.  At least too much.  Taking solace in the knowledge that my life span is going to miss out on the super rich trying to figure out how to water golf courses, stop overpopulation and what do to about housing, the next war that interrupts the food chain where people complain about the cost of gas more than how they can’t feed their kids.  But mostly how there won’t be gematria predictions on sports when they can’t be played safely outdoors anymore.