Elon Musk has joined the ranks of the greatest industrialists in American history alongside historical figures like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller. Just adding up Tesla, the Boring Company, Starlink, SpaceX, and XAi would place him in that company. But Musk’s contribution to free speech stands alone. Had Musk bought Twitter in 2020, Donald Trump might well be finishing his second term. As is, Trump very likely owes his return to the White House to X. Truth Social was never gonna have the reach to do that. Day after day as the election wound to its close, leftist untruths and attacks on Trump and Republicans at large burned up in the glaring spotlight of X truth.
Critics rail that Musk didn’t create Tesla, which is true – he took the unrealized commercial ideas of others and turned them into a juggernaut. They point out that Musk isn’t truly an expert at anything. They’re right, but wrong for the same reason the Swiss Army Knife is the best-selling pocket knife in history: it’s not the best blade, it’s the most versatile tool. Musk isn’t an expert programmer, but he knows enough about programming to have cut 80% of former Twitter staff, and made X better in the process. He isn’t an automotive engineer, but he knows enough about engineering to guide the people making the best cars in the world. He isn’t a rocket scientist, but he knows enough about rockets to be leading a revolution in the field. Ditto satellite communications. Ditto tunneling. Ditto robots.
Musk is, without a doubt, the greatest visionary of our time, and one of the greatest of all time. And he was all that BEFORE he became the greatest defender of free speech. Whatever the man says he’s going to do, he does. Now that he’s identified untangling America’s out-of-control bureaucracy as his next project, are you going to bet against him? My guess is a lot of bureaucrats are about to be X’d out of their jobs.
Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of Sam Stone only and not his co-host Chuck Warren or Breaking Battlegrounds’ staff.
