Emperors, historically, usually achieve such a status either by military conquest or royal succession. Neither of which Elon Musk has achieved, and if things continue as they have done for the last fifty years, there is absolutely no hope that Elon Musk will ever be the emperor of anything. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Musk has many gifts. Common sense and wisdom just don’t seem to be a part of his repertoire of talents. The fact that he has appeared on stage on different occasions, severely impaired in his social and mental skills, while under the influence of intoxicating drugs, has done nothing to enhance his reputation.
As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities. Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it. It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview. At the same time, Mr. Musk’s family life has grown increasingly tumultuous as he has negotiated overlapping romantic relationships and private legal battles involving his growing brood of children, according to documents and interviews.THE NEW YORK TIMES: On The Campaign Trail Elon Musk Juggled Drugs And Family Drama By Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey May 31, 2025.
Over the years, Republicans have generally been less supportive of alternative energy sources, such as solar energy and electric vehicles. Traditionally, they have been big supporters of the Oil and Coal industries. As a matter of fact, they even go as far as denying the phenomenon of global warming.
With climate change in the news, it’s a good time to contemplate the unique position the Republican Party occupies in the global climate change debate. In a recent post, Jonathan Chait described it this way:
Of all the major conservative parties in the democratic world, the Republican Party stands alone in its denial of the legitimacy of climate science. Indeed, the Republican Party stands alone in its conviction that no national or international response to climate change is needed. To the extent that the party is divided on the issue, the gap separates candidates who openly dismiss climate science as a hoax, and those who, shying away from the political risks of blatant ignorance, instead couch their stance in the alleged impossibility of international action.
That’s about right. But it’s worth digging a little deeper into just why and how much the GOP is an outlier on this issue. We can glean some insights from a large-scale survey of global opinion on climate change released last month by the Pew Research Center.
Partisan differences over the urgency of climate change are not unique to the US. There’s no doubt that the climate issue is split along partisan lines in the US.
VOX: The GOP Is The World’s Only Major Climate-Denialist Party, By David Roberts, December 2, 2015.
How is it that Elon Musk was ignorant of the Republican stance on the issue of climate change? For several years, the Democrats had a policy that was friendly to the manufacturers and purchasers of electric vehicles. Such policies, however, weren’t enough for Musk. For some strange reason, he felt that it was in his best interest and in the interest of his companies to do his utmost to get the Grand Old Party and its presidential candidate elected to office. After his objective was achieved, Musk discovered that all government support for electric vehicles had been cut from the federal budget. His disbelief, consternation, and disappointment reached levels of paroxysm that were simply beyond words.
Federal proposals to end purchase incentives for electric vehicles, and a presidential halt to California phasing out gas-powered cars, are rattling that transition, but may not halt it, experts said. Federal changes around electric vehicle incentives may be too little too late. “A decade ago it might have been true that policy changes abandoning [electric vehicles] EVs could have choked off the transition, but at this point technology advances have brought down battery costs so much that EVs already have competitive lifetime cost and range,” Jeremy Michalek, professor of engineering and public policy and co-director of the Vehicle Electrification Group at Carnegie Mellon University, said via email. Provisions in the federal budget proposal passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now under consideration by the U.S. Senate would eliminate the $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle purchases, and charge EV owners an annual $250 fee to be paid into the Highway Trust Fund, which is generally funded by gas taxes. A number of states, like California, already charge EV owners an annual added registration fee. GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY: EVs Are On The Move, Regardless of Federal Roadblocks By Skip Descant, June 17, 2025.
After deciding that he had swapped a black dog for a monkey, Musk’s outbursts were fast and furious.
For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a “special government employee” working inside the Trump administration to slash what he said were wasteful government programmes and bloated departments. Now, after his exit last week, he is back on the outside. And it is the Trump administration – and the massive spending legislation the president is currently pushing – that is drawing the ire of this new, seemingly unshackled Musk. In a series of social media posts on Tuesday, he took aim at Trump’s signature tax and spending bill that is being considered by the Senate after House Republicans passed it last month. After saying he couldn’t “stand it anymore”, Musk called the bill a “disgusting abomination”. “Shame on those who voted for it,” he said. “You know you did wrong.” And on Wednesday afternoon he went a step further, calling on voters to contact their representatives in Congress to voice their opposition. “Bankrupting America is not OK!” he wrote on X. “KILL the BILL.” Musk’s diatribe against the Trump-backed bill, which includes huge tax breaks and more investment in defence, comes after he spent months pushing for cuts to government spending. BBC: Musk Turns On Republicans – And Gives Trump’s Big Bill A Harder Path, By Anthony Zurcher, 4 June 2025.
Typical of the behavior of a madman, Musk wasn’t satisfied with merely attacking the architects and promoters of the current budget “abomination”; he wanted to ruin every one of them and threatened to finance their political demise. Nor did he stop there; he accused the chief architect, Donald Trump, of being a central figure in the ‘Epstein pedophile scandal’. This kind of behaviour is typical of the conduct of a Manic Depressive Psychotic. His rage has no boundaries, and of course, his mental illness has been exacerbated by years of chronic drug abuse. The same wrecking ball technique that he had utilized against a plethora of governmental agencies, he was now ready to deploy against the towering heights of political power within the federal government.
Mike Johnson has spent his 19 months as speaker forging a close relationship with President Donald Trump — in part to avoid the social-media bombshells that derailed so many Republican priorities during Trump’s first term. Now he has to deal with another, perhaps even more unpredictable online bomb-thrower. Elon Musk’s decision to launch a sudden scorched-earth campaign against the GOP’s domestic-policy megabill has forced Johnson into a sudden scramble to save the centerpiece of the Republican legislative agenda. Starting in the moments Tuesday after Musk first called the bill a “disgusting abomination” through the tech mogul’s open breach Thursday with Trump, the speaker has mounted a multi-front rebuttal to the criticism — aiming to keep the backlash from spinning out of control. POLITICO: Mike Johnson scrambles to stop Elon Musk from torching the megabill
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