New Years Prediction: In 2026 Musk Will Spend Money Helping Elect GOP-Lite Conservative Democrats

Greed, Selfishness & Avarice Unbound Must Be Controlled

Trump seems to have settled— at least for now— what Adam Lashinky termed the spiteful bickering between Trump’s Silicon Valley enablers and his MAGA acolytes. The Silicon Valley tech bros, of course are, he wrote “a selfish bunch who have shown time and again that what interests them most is themselves.” Meanwhile, the MAGA true believers, represented by Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer mixed knee-jerk xenophobia with “a bit of racism by highlighting the sanitation challenges of India, prompting Musk, also an immigrant, to weigh in at length in favor of supporting non-U.S. job seekers. Musk also showed his true colors in the debate by advocating a position so uncontroversial in Silicon Valley that it echoes what Apple CEO Tim Cook has been saying for years: Tech companies need to look abroad because of a paucity of qualified talent at home.”

Lishinsky offerered his readers some context: self-interest is a foundational ethos in Silicon Valley, a place where boys who read science fiction in their bedrooms and then Ayn Rand in their college dorms grew up to be today’s Masters of the Universe. For years, the tech crowd tried its best to ignore Washington, barely acknowledging that their industry was built on government contracts— first to supply electronic componentry for Cold War defense, then to nurture the internet, which began as a government communications initiative. Musk is a case in point. Little of his success would have been possible without government largesse, from electric-vehicle subsidies for Tesla buyers to NASA and other federal contracts for SpaceX. Musk and his crew aren’t interested in Trump’s MAGA supporters. They care about eliminating regulations that make it difficult for them to do business. They are renegades, sure, but only to the extent it serves their bottom lines. Musk, for example, was outraged about covid work restrictions, but only because he didn’t want to shutter a Tesla factory… The tech crowd, by and large, are people who built their companies on benefits from publicly funded programs and who fly on private jets, eat meals prepared by private chefs, and send their children to private schools. They care about access to the best workers for their companies and about smoothing the way for cryptocurrency, a farcical confection that the Biden administration was standing in the way of their foisting on a gullible public.”

So what about the wretched MAGAts? Lashinksy gives them some credit, even a crackpot like Loomer who, he wrote, “understands this and told off Musk in a few words: ‘You bought your way into MAGA 5 minutes ago… We all know you only donated your money so you could influence immigration policy and protect your buddy Xi Jinping.’ Trump loyalist Stephen Bannon went further, calling Musk a ‘toddler’ for his views on H1-Bs.’”

All this is a reminder that the fight over the visas is the shape of scrapes to come. Trump’s new tech backers harbor decidedly different— and much more establishment-minded— instincts about trade, tariffs and foreign policy than the folks between the coasts who gave Trump his start. The fissure between these two branches of Trump’s coalition is only likely to grow.

But there is little doubt about which side will win. Four of the top founders of what became known as the PayPal Mafia— Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Roelof Botha— are immigrants. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, hails from Taiwan. The CEOs of Google, Microsoft and IBM are all Indian-born. Musk was born in South Africa and came to the United States from Canada. “The reason I’m in America,” Musk wrote to his critics on Twitter “is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”

Strap in, America. A fabulously talented crop of rich guys is now very close to the levers of power. As a result, they stand to enrich themselves even further. I never thought I’d say this, but I liked it better when Silicon Valley ignored Washington and focused instead on inventing the things that made them so wealthy in the first place.

Musk’s threat to go to war against the MAGAts— “the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend”— seems to have been comprehended enough to:

a- prompt Trump’s intervention on Musk’s side;

b- shut Loomer and Bannon up but fast (albeit just for a day).

It’s worth remembering that Musk had already said he plans to flip the Democratic Party in an even more corporate-obedient direction by financing primaries on behalf’s of New Dems and Blue Dogs against progressives. It’s still unclear how much Musk spent on electing Trump and congressional Republicans; $277 million— not counting gargantuan in-kind expenditures— is the figure being most frequently tossed around. But that’s a floor, not a ceiling. It probably was a lot more than that. Congressional MAGA-Republicans who we know benefited the most from Musk’s direct intervention in their races includes neo-Nazi Joe Kent in southwest Washington state, who ran a losing race against Blue Dog chair Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is far more in sync with Musk than Kent is. Musk, still a novice at this, spent $513,937 bolstering Kent and $321,422 tearing down Perez. Similarly, in Maine, Musk spent $552,897 trying to help Austin Theriault, while spending $374,196 against his rival, Blue Dog Jared Golden. It isn’t hard to imagine Musk spending millions to re-elect conservative Democrats like Perez and Golden next year.

Kent and Theriault lost despite Musk’s enormous injections of cash into their races, but his biggest successes included helping corrupt corporate whore Ken Calvert defeat Blue Dog Will Rollins ($1.6 million) and mainstream Republican David Valadao beat corrupt conservative Blue Dog Rudy Salas ($983,484). If Republicans in Congress want to understand what Must meant by “the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend,” they can disobey him and watch his millions— form pocket change— flow into campaigns of conservative Democrats like Perez, Golden, Rollins and Salas, as well as other right-of-center Democrats he spent against this year, like Yadira Caraveo (CO), Mary Peltola (AK), Lanon Baccam (IA) and Tony Vargas (NE). “You want to keep that precarious little majority you’ve got now?” is something congressional Republicans certainly can comprehend... and lose sleep over.

As former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, wrote yesterday, “Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy have announced plans to cut $2 trillion— about 30% of the entire federal budget. There's no way to slash the federal budget by one-third without devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other vital programs that millions of working Americans rely on.” The few Republicans reluctant to go along with draconian cuts like that in swing districts will be staring down at career-ending opposition from Musk.

We accessed some of yesterday’s Laura Loomer tweets and we're presenting them here in narrative former, without changing any words or the order Loomer presented them in. Keep in mind that she equates Musk with the Chinese Communist Party:

What is going to happen if any of the tech billionaires side with China? Will they pressure US politicians with donations to side with China? Now that Xi Jinping has declared nobody will stop reunification with Taiwan (aka Invading Taiwan), how will the new pro-China, Big Tech advisors in the incoming Trump administration respond to this? Will they side with Xi and the CCP, or with Trump’s China policies? Disgusted! I am absolutely disgusted by the silence from Republican lawmakers on the national security threat posed by Big Tech advisors linked to CCP/China that have been tapped for the Trump admin now that Xi Jin Ping has said “nobody will stop reunification with Taiwan.” I am disgusted. Get ready for WW3. Seems like nobody in the GOP wants to speak out about how our party has been captured by CCP sympathizers under the duress of primary threats. Everyone is too scared to talk about this. Our party has been captured by Silicon Valley elitists. Very dangerous.

The base has really been alienated. Not a good way to start off the New Year. I’ve just been told by a US Senator that they are too afraid to speak out about the national security threat posed by China affiliated technocrat advisors heading to the Trump admin because of threats. They admitted to me they are too afraid to speak out about the CCP conflict.

This is how censorship starts on every platform through every avenue throughout history. They deplatform the “worst” people so that people do not speak out because they don’t want to be associated with them. Accounts are being suspended without reason. Ability to purchase Premium removed. Subscribers removed. If you are going to demonetize them, whatever. But to remove subscribers who are individuals choosing to support someone privately? Very bad precedent. If you don’t agree with  Elon Musk, could  Tesla lock you out of your vehicle, and could Starlink disable your internet access? Important questions we should all be asking. What if you have a neurlink brain chip in your brain? Could Elon turn it off?

She also went on the air with right-wing extremist Eric Bolling on Monday and accused the right of selling out to Musk’s donor money and control of Twitter the way a “junkie” would. She even seemed to be echoing Democrats’ call for campaign finance reform to save the country and the GOP from “technocratic elites... This is the problem when you when you when you allow for a billionaire to make a $200 million donation. And so maybe we really do need to have campaign finance regulations in this country. I mean, essentially, what is happening— and I love President Trump, I’m not saying that President Trump is bought and paid for— but it sounds like people are scared of crossing the king, the king of the world, Elon Musk, the monarch. Okay? Nobody wants to cross this guy, the richest man in the world who controls access to social media, the digital town square and is now basically has everybody in a codependent abusive relationship like they’re a bunch of junkies. Because he’s been able to monetize the platform so that all the conservatives using his platform are essentially addicted. They’re a bunch of addicts now. Addicted to social media because their voices were silenced for so long. And it’s like cutting a junkie off cold turkey, okay.”