Elon Musk Gets in One Last Face Plant Before Voters Go to the Polls

Fresh disconnected his victory successful the courtroom yesterday, tech billionaire turned governmental operative Elon Musk logged connected to X and posted a QAnon video.

The sixty-second video has a fash-wave aesthetic, an creation benignant fashionable with the online far-right that mixes fascist memes with a retro scanline-infused style. In the video, clips of Donald Trump from the 1980s and contiguous premix with subject imagery and scenes of docile suburban American life.

At the 36-second mark, the connection “Patriots” appears connected the screen, fuzzes, and becomes “PATRIQTS.” The different letters slice away, leaving lone Q. “We volition thrust retired the globalists…we volition formed retired the communists,” Trump says successful the fuzzy images portion Van Halen’s Jump plays. This is an overt notation to the QAnon conspiracy. One fashionable portion of the conspiracy mentation is that Trump volition 1 time accidental a magic codification connection that activates Trump’s loyal sleeper cells crossed the state who volition apprehension and execute his governmental enemies.

Musk got the video from the West Bestern account, a bluish cheque X idiosyncratic who has spent the past fewer weeks stumping online for Trump and posting akin content. The account’s banner references some an anti-trans and antisemitic conspiracy theory. In January, the relationship shared a racist meme astir Amazon transportation drivers and called the institution AmaZog, different notation to an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

These are the kinds of radical Musk is promoting connected his level connected the last time of the election.

Musk’s X provender has been awash with pro-Trump messaging and rocket pics for days. Since the billionaire threw successful with Trump during the Summer, he’s spent a batch of clip and wealth boosting his preferred campaigner connected the website helium owns. According to a survey from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Musk’s posts person generated astir 17 cardinal views since July. The survey said that’s the equivalent of spending $24 cardinal connected advertisement campaigns. Musk paid $44 cardinal to bargain Twitter.

The prime of those views remains to beryllium seen. Not each eyeball is an endorsement and, for galore of america inactive utilizing X, there’s a consciousness that we are trapped connected the tract with Musk. Anyone who scrolls the For You tab volition beryllium algorithmically forced to spot immoderate dumb crap Musk has posted.

Currently, Musk’s provender mostly consists of clips taken from his caller Joe Rogan appearance. Last nighttime the fashionable podcast dropped a freshly recorded occurrence with Musk and officially endorsed Trump for president. Rogan posting the Musk video and giving his endorsement this adjacent to November 5 is simply a small odd. More than 78 cardinal Americans person already voted and though aboriginal voting is down overall, it’s mode up successful important plaything states similar North Carolina and Georgia. Tens of millions of radical person already made their determination and are wholly unreachable by a last-minute stunt similar this.

Among the curated clips Musk chose to stock were videos of him talking astir P’Nut the squirrel, rants astir immigrants and elector ID laws, and the assertion that should Kamala Harris win, this would beryllium the last predetermination America ever conducted. Another fashionable fixation successful these clips was misinformation, the lies of the mainstream media, and the powerfulness of X arsenic a bastion of truth. That’s each beauteous affluent from a feline who reposted a video of an anonymous bluecheck spreading bullshit astir a Zionist Occupied Government.

As predetermination eve wore on, Musk was expected to look successful a unrecorded municipality hallway hosted connected X arsenic a last rally for Trump. It didn’t spell well. Scheduled to commencement astatine 8 p.m. EST, the lawsuit started 20 minutes late. The moderator attempted to instrumentality questions from the audience, but they couldn’t beryllium heard. “Well, I deliberation if radical vote, we’re decidedly going to win,” Musk said connected the call.

Then helium called the full happening off. “Let’s cancel this, since we look to beryllium having immoderate method issues.” Then helium posted passim the night.