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Elon Musk Has Some Thoughts About The Bulwark. They’re Not Nice.

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Elon Musk Has Some Thoughts About The Bulwark. They’re Not Nice.

Elon Musk is under intense scrutiny for making direct death threats and promoting racially charged, extremist ideologies, including tweets about white replacement and the death of vulnerable populations. Critics argue these actions, alongside his massive wealth and influence, make him a potential war criminal and a danger to democratic norms. A bipartisan effort in Congress is gathering to subpoena Musk for testimony, signaling serious political consequences. Meanwhile, in Iowa, a controversial Republican candidate, Joe Mitchell, is exposed for cringey and offensive behavior—including fabricating a "Man of the Century" award for Donald Trump and making racist, body-shaming remarks about Black women and biking culture. The district, once a Democratic stronghold, is now seen as a potential battleground, with progressive candidate Lindsey James standing against Mitchell’s outlandish claims. The segment also critiques Mike Rogers’ support for the Iran war and MAGA ideology, highlighting the growing public distrust in political figures who promote conspiracy theories and reckless foreign policy. The overall message emphasizes accountability, integrity, and the need for responsible political discourse in the face of extremism, misinformation, and personal attacks. Tim Moore uses these examples to call for greater vigilance in democratic processes and to challenge the normalization of hate and hypocrisy in politics.

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Hey, everybody, it's Tim Moore from the book. We're taping this on Saturday morning. Look, here's the deal. When Elon Musk fantasizes about your death and a Republican congressional candidate cries about his dick size, and this is stuff that can't wait till Monday. All right. It just isn't. And so you're getting a Saturday solo Tim update. We'll get into the Michigan Senate race and, uh, and some craziness in Iowa that I should have been covering because it's a district that I lived in once for a little bit. So we'll get there in a second, but obviously we've got to start with this Elon. Ooh, so scary attack from Elon. Um, a gentleman named Western Linsman, who knows my might be an Elon sock puppet or whatever, uh, posted a bit of our Atlanta live show where JVL gets on one a little bit about how people don't hate Elon enough. And, um, hard to argue with that. Hard to buoy uh you know if you are doing ketamine fueled tweets about white replacement all night as a south african um and then simultaneously instituting the biggest cut in funding in history for food for the poorest black and brown people in the world like people are going to wonder a bit about your motives and your ideology you know it's like if you're tweeting pepe memes you know and then going to work at the gas station and you're nice to your colleagues people are like okay that's bad but you're just blowing off some steam steam if you're tweeting some pepe memes and then also responsible for the deaths of the most vulnerable black children in the world people are going to think well this is a coherent white nationalist ideology of this man has so you know i don't i don't understand why everybody you know people i was watching cnn panel last night where people like oh oh don't don't you dare call elon a white nationalist it's like a white supremacist it's like well do you see the dude's tweets i mean like he tweets about brown invaders constantly tweets about the death of the white race it's like okay i mean he is david duking himself on his own social media feed you know that's something that is kind of legitimate so anyway jbl's talking about that we're talking about that in atlanta we're talking about um the way that he's responsible for the deaths of the ukrainians because he like you know arbitrarily throttled um internet access for the people of ukraine talked about the kid in the stroller dead because ukraine didn't have their defenses you know all because of this one addled freak and and so yeah yeah we've got some hate given all the death that he's caused and given the fact that he's like trying to buy the most corrupt senator in history right now in texas um and so at the atlanta show we had a little discussion about this um western lensman did did us a solid actually and and clipped kind of highlight reel of our discussion of elon in atlanta let's watch that however mad you are about elon musk it's not enough and he's the one i want and i want being a part of the discussion of elon musk and he's the one i want and i want being a part of the before congress to be just the start because this guy has a body count like a fucking war criminal we start with the u.s congress and it ends at the fucking hague for elon musk hey you got a trillion dollars asshole great you start spending it on lawyers because justice is coming so uh we got to talk a little bit about elon musk uh we talked Oh you don't hate him nearly enough. There has been a series of meetings among House Democrats. Do you know what they're doing? They're carving up Jurisdictions for who is gonna ask him. Sorry ask him. Subpoena him To testify before which of them for what? Get a townhouse big guy Got a lot of nice brownstones right there on Capitol Hill Elon you motherfucker. You better pack a lunch Because your ass is gonna be living in the Capitol starting January of 2027 I feel like my guy Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin are fucking ready They're loaded for bear What's gonna happen on the policy something? I don't know about that part But I think Jamie and Robert are gonna be ready loaded for bear and I just I hope that Elon and Jared You know should they should start texting about property right now? I think they should get a real estate agent Elon sees this which is kind of interesting in itself because you don't doesn't get tagged on this He I guess maybe he just follows Western lensman Which is like a mega meme account probably that feels right Or again, maybe it's his sock puppet account who knows Elon sees the tweet and he replies thusly If you want to live by the sward that is how they will die, too It's important to say sward because that's how Elon is hearing it in his head He is a Monty Python 13 year old posting this if they want to live by the sward That is how they will die, too richest man in the world Posting that about myself three of my colleagues I Know who knows I don't know if you know says that phrase means a more podcasting here So I like are we we're gonna die by podcasting or he's just saying that other people are gonna say mean stuff about us I don't know but the and it's also not the phrase the but I mean it's kind of a He adjusts the phrase a little bit to make it more menacing or to try to like make it seem like it's more menacing That is how they will die, too You know I'm not scared. Okay? I ain't scared of old Elon But you know for a guy that was like cracking down on Charlie Kirk speech after he was killed and Claimed to be like very sensitive about that. It's pretty strange to like do a direct threat of death to another podcaster Yeah, I mean Like and that's what that's what that is right like I don't know how I'll shoot you can read it That's how they will die, too. That's what he said So I don't know you get some crazed Yeah, I kind of Tesla bro out there. There's a reply guy for Elon always posted rocket ship moon Yeah One of those rocket ship moon guys Who knows like, you know gets a bad batch of meth next thing you know, they're hunting I don't know like you never know in this crazy ass world you never know and and so I On the one hand he's a 12 year old street. He's about sword and death on the other hand This is the richest guy in the world like tweeting a direct threat to us So I just I think that's bad. I think that's irresponsible. I was think it's funny, you know, I'm not gonna cry But I think it's funny that he's like such a pathetic little boy You know what else I think is funny I just was thinking about this like the degree to which he is grew You know from despicable me from the minions. Okay, and it's all his body is exactly like grew You know, he has this like huge chest and belly and that kind of tiny legs Like he never has done leg day once in his life And so it's like his body is like torso teeters on top of the little spindly twig legs So it's kind of like drew in that sense he's like growing in the sense that he's like he like is making all these threats and thinks that he's He's a doctor evil evil genius and like and actually he's just like kind of a pathetic Pathetic sad man, you know, I grew like sees himself as a super villain. He has all these little minions Elan's got his little bots and the parallels are kind of are kind of funny Don't the saddest is that there's like a weakness in it, which is like in the end. We find out that grew as a heart whereas like in the end Elon will probably like be Alone on his deathbed without any of his a hundred children because they all hate him so Kind of end of the story isn't really the same with Elon Saturday nights with my wife and friends Sunday mornings with my kids. Those are both non-negotiables I'm intentional about both and zbiotics pre-alcohol fits right into that mindset Zbiotics pre-alcohol probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered prebiotic. 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Elon Musk musk threatens us with death richest man in the world threatens us with death also didn't really seem like a argument from a place of confidence about how things are going in the midterms i mean bro's spending a quarter billion dollars to try to prop up more than that try to prop up like ken paxton's droopy eye and and pen a pen thief he's trying he's spending a quarter billion dollars trying to prop up a pen thief so he has a puppet in the senate and it ain't gonna work and instead he's lashing out at videos of live podcasts telling people he wants them to die that's elon former shadow president biggest donor to the president of the united states um speaking of pathetic guys i have to talk about this guy joe mitchell now too okay have to obligation it's in my contract with you the viewer that anytime a republican candidate video emerges where he's crying about his dick size i have to talk about it but before we get to that let's just like meet joe mitchell because i haven't really talked about him that much this is a a tweet he posted yesterday today at age 29 i can be certain that 40 years from now 50 years from now 60 years from now we will look back on president donald trump as the president who saved america agree to disagree interesting thing about that is he puts up a picture here of uh i don't know there's four people in the picture basically where he says today at age 29 and i'm looking at the picture i'm like which one is he but there are two young guys there you can see i don't think either of them are 29 you know they look like maybe they're like 18 or something and then there's this bald guy behind you can't really see him and there's a guy in a cowboy hat then the guy in the middle of the frame is that joe mitchell i because that guy looks my age right i mean like he's got to be 40 44 no i mean the outfit look at the face i i don't really scroll to the next picture and there he is on stage that is him actually supposedly 29 year old joe mitchell with trump behind him and i don't you know i mean he has the haircut of a 1980s dad at the skin care routine i you can tell joe mitchell is not a bulwark listener because he has not supported our sponsor one skin you know one skin takes care of the senescent cells and make sure that you can moisturize and stay fresh and helps with the wrinkle relief that's not really working for joe um and so i guess this is him i maybe let's say they're they're right it's all obsessed right now with the skin care routine that like ilhan omar lied about her age are we sure joe's not lying about his age i don't know well i'd like to see the long form birth certificate that's all i'm saying otherwise he needs a new skin care routine stat um but joe was at the rally with trump and there are a couple things he had to say um that i don't agree to none too much and there are a couple things he had to say that i want to watch because it's just like pretty cringe um pretty cringe uh before we get to those videos i just want to kind of level set here about what this district is um because as i aforementioned i live there this is iowa too it's an r plus four which means four you know four points more republican than the median district so that's you know up in the high single digits gap that needs to be bridged between the democrats and the republicans um the district is in eastern iowa which is one of the more interesting districts in the country from a political science standpoint uh just the like looking at the past 25 years like looking at the 21st century because um eastern iowa you know you always hear about the like rust belt towns as the as the big um obama trump flip areas but like rural eastern iowa um was bigger than a lot of those places um you know dubuque right there on the mississippi river was this catholic uh union you know town that was super dim for a long time like one of the democratic strongholds in iowa um and that flipped um during the trump years and so you have here uh the field of dreams is in this district um you've got uh cedar rapids um in this district uh i think i think hillary did pokemon go to the polls in cedar rapids so that's notable um you've got waterloo cedar falls where i live shout out mulligan's bar in cedar falls um that's where i went every night when i lived there as a young man uh working on a campaign in this district um i came it was from shell rock it's a tiny little farm town anyway uh mason city the day the music died in this district so um you know this has been kind of traditional democratic territory flips to trump has been strong r now for i don't know probably a decade um and and what you have here is like an interesting flip opportunity back for the democrats you do you know it is an older community so i you have some you have some people that remember voting democrat in the district um in addition to a couple of college towns cedar rapids so um it'll be interesting to watch the democratic candidate it's yet another um uh pastor uh lindsey james went to divinity school um was a faculty member at university of dubuque uh director of laura's peace institute um so just a just a good person running for office as a democrat and uh and let's take a look at her opponent the 29 year old joe mitchell why don't we pull up here him giving trump the man of the century award and they've never given you the nobel peace prize by the way which is a disgrace so what i came up with mr president is a new award it's called the man of the century award okay it's the man of the century award and i'm going to hold this up for the artificial media to see cnn zoom in right here cnn okay because this man has been more for humanity and for america than any other president ever thank you mr president for being here thank you for supporting iowa and thank you for being the greatest president we've ever had he just like went to michael's it's just like a little like piece of paper with a frame on it he went to michael's and got him a man of the century award i like this is this is like you know my daughter got the stellar sharpshooter award on her soccer team last year shout out and and it is like this basically you know the coach just kind of went down to the local michael's made made a little certificate fake certificate for all the kids like this guy's giving the president of the united states a fake certificate that he just made up you're trump you gotta be like what what is this what this is pathetic like why are you i want trump i wanted the real nobel beast prize award trump trump's like i wanted a real award if you're gonna make up a fake award like fifa did at least like create a trophy like i want some gold i want some pomp i want some circumstance you know i want something that lights up the room something that that i can trick people with when they come by the oval office and i can walk them around the room and say here's the winston churchill bust and here's all the gold shit i bought from home depot and put on the wall and oh here's the man of the century award look at that this isn't this doesn't look good this looks like what you give a kindergartner so bad execution pathetic groveling humiliating really to make up a fake award and give it to donald trump and on top of that the execution was really really bad like horrible so oh for one for joe mitchell i want to play one other clip um that allows me to flex a little bit of iowa knowledge here's joe mitchell talking about bikes thank god you're building the ballroom thank god you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes by the way we don't ride bicycles and i we ride harley davidson's isn't that true this gentleman up here he's not riding a bicycle more are you you're riding a harley why is he doing the trump voice bike lanes but like he's doing he's doing a bad trump invitation he's doing like jack cacciarella's trump invitation we're getting rid of the bike lanes you like what why why is he doing that that's fucking strange like you're running for congress you're not a d-list trump impersonator i guess you are i guess that's how you run for congress as a republican now but just on the facts i mean does it really matter but i just think it's important to point out that and you heard a tepid clap there and he's like we don't do bike lanes in we don't ride bicycles in iowa like famously false um the world's largest multi-day bicycle tour rag bry in iowa many iowans ride it many islands i know i have friends who do it they post it every year i see it on their instagram lot of bike riding touches the whole state actually it goes around well not obviously every corner of the state but but just it's very long covers a lot of ground across iowa a lot of bike riders in iowa there are bike riders in the rural parts bike riders in the cities i this whole like you're oh this guy down here doesn't ride a bike pussy it's like i don't know joe looks like you could get on a bike a little bit i don't know are you doing any calisthenics i think it's kind of it's nice you know get out there right it's healthy it's good allows you allows you to kind of enjoy the scenery the beautiful scenery of your state that you're supposed to like weird thing to be like hey great job with those bike lanes in dc that's what i care about that's kind of weird thing to care about the bike lanes in dc it's okay guys i'm running to represent you the people of mason city and waverly and dyersville and manchester you are an old wine waterloo cedar falls told you i lived in this district like he's supposed to represent those people and he's like you know what mr trump great job getting rid of the bike lanes in dc we hate bikes here we have the biggest bike ride in the world here but besides that i'm not a pussy i'm not a pussy i don't ride bikes are you not a pussy let's watch actually here's an old video that dropped um of joe mitchell including college again it makes me suspicious he's not 29 because his video like quality looks like it's very old and so i don't i don't know whatever i i think joe mitchell might be my age and pretending but that's neither here nor there he gets a little upset he gets a little upset when when he when he realizes that that's not as good down there as he thought i don't have a big dick you don't i have a big dick do you like bone oh my dick might be bigger than yours nobody would be crying right now no one let's fucking measure them prove it to me prove it to me right now you guys are racist you just turn the button off good good now you can't go out yeah you deserve that you guys are fucking assholes i don't like black women is that what this is about i'm not documenting the fact that you want to fuck a black girl because i can get you a black girl i only want to fuck wow is that what this is really about yes yes that's what it's about okay that's what that makes a lot more sense you'll you'll find a black woman have sex with you don't worry i want i want to marry one wow you want to marry why are you talking about marriage right now dog you're not you're 19 years old i want my kids to not be white okay why because i don't like fucking white people okay u.s there are female fucking black women snacks that fucking ghost women they're fucking bitches and they're selfish and they're fucking split fucking brats that list their dads they get fucking yacht rides from them okay joe chill you take a deep breath you guys are fucking assholes you guys are assholes you made me take my dick out and it was smaller than i realized joe mitchell doesn't know what to do he gets so emasculated he also takes a random racist attack of black women you know usually i don't bring up people's videos from college thank god i was in college in the before times but i i mean when a guy like this gives trump the man of the century award and talks about he's such a big man for a bike and then simultaneously some old video leaks of him crying because he realizes dick is small and doing racist attacks on black women i feel like it's worth sharing i feel like it's worth sharing i hope lindsey james beats the pants off this guy i hope lindsey james just crushes him i want to see that cry again oh i want to see him crying on stage that's a fucking assholes you're a fucking asshole tim live by the sword die by the sword joe mitchell one more not as funny as the others but it's just i hate i just love saying i told you so i get so few chances um mike rogers on with brett bear last night gets asked about his support for the iran world let's see how that goes just to wrap up on the war was it a mistake at the beginning yes or no no well i don't know what They had I assume I knew what I saw when I was a chairman. They had all three of the components. They had weaponization. They had enrichment. They had missile capability. Back in 2014, I haven't been in Congress since 2014. They were saying, is it six months, 10 months or 18 months to put all three parts of the program back then? That's that was 10 years ago. If they had that capability, you want to pay $8 a gallon of gas. You let Iran get a nuclear. So shut it down. Shut the race down. Sorry. Abdul El-Sad is going to be the senator. Abdul could not have asked for a better opponent. All the pundits talking about how Mike Rogers was going to speak to the big middle. He was going to do well in the Detroit Burbs and black people are scared of Abdul. And it's like, no, guys, this race is simple. This race is simple. People did not sign up for stupid Middle East wars. They did not sign up for higher gas and grocery prices. And Donald Trump started a war of choice. And his biggest cheerleader is Mike Rogers. All the other shit that everybody wants to talk about the racist attacks on Abdul, the pretending that he's a socialist, whatever, like all of that sort of stuff. It's nothing. The race is about one thing. Mike Rogers doesn't seem to know it. And Mike Rogers doesn't seem capable of getting out of the sour spot where he's a MAGA conspiracy theorist. You know, a still a reckless national security hawk. He's both. He loves stupid wars and he is on board with Trump election conspiracies. Sorry, that's not a person to reach the big middle in Michigan when people are upset with Donald Trump. Ain't going to work. That's the clip. That's all you need to see. Was the Iran war a mistake? No. Next. Next. So good luck to Mike Rogers and his wife and all their endeavors. And Elon. Chill out. Chill. Chill. It's a little it looks it's unseemly to be doing death threats on your own platform. Chill. Everybody. Subscribe to the feed. Subscribe, please. What are you doing? Where else are you getting stuff like this? Elon's threatening us. We'll be back. We'll be seeing you soon.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Elon Musk is criticized for making direct death threats on social media, including a tweet referencing "living by the sword" and "dying by the sword," which is seen as reckless and irresponsible.
  2. Musk’s actions, including funding efforts to support a controversial Texas senator and restricting internet access in Ukraine, are viewed as evidence of a harmful and incoherent ideology, raising concerns about his moral and political accountability.
  3. A group of House Democrats is preparing to subpoena Musk to testify, reflecting growing political pressure due to his influence and controversial statements.
  4. Joe Mitchell, a 29-year-old Republican candidate from Iowa, is condemned for a series of cringey, inappropriate videos, including a fake "Man of the Century" award for Trump and offensive comments about race and body size.
  5. The Iowa district Tim covers is a historically Democratic, rural area with strong cultural ties, now seen as a potential swing district for Democrats, especially with a competitive candidate like Lindsey James.
  6. The video content highlights the disconnect between political rhetoric and reality, especially in rural areas where bike culture and local traditions are misrepresented by candidates.
  7. Mike Rogers faces criticism for supporting the Iran nuclear war and being a MAGA-aligned national security hawk, making him a poor fit for the mid-level electorate in Michigan.
  8. The segment underscores the need for accountability and transparency in politics, using Musk and Mitchell as examples of how unchecked power and personal attacks undermine democratic discourse.

Summary:

Elon Musk is under intense scrutiny for making direct death threats and promoting racially charged, extremist ideologies, including tweets about white replacement and the death of vulnerable populations. Critics argue these actions, alongside his massive wealth and influence, make him a potential war criminal and a danger to democratic norms. A bipartisan effort in Congress is gathering to subpoena Musk for testimony, signaling serious political consequences.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, a controversial Republican candidate, Joe Mitchell, is exposed for cringey and offensive behavior—including fabricating a "Man of the Century" award for Donald Trump and making racist, body-shaming remarks about Black women and biking culture. The district, once a Democratic stronghold, is now seen as a potential battleground, with progressive candidate Lindsey James standing against Mitchell’s outlandish claims. The segment also critiques Mike Rogers’ support for the Iran war and MAGA ideology, highlighting the growing public distrust in political figures who promote conspiracy theories and reckless foreign policy.

The overall message emphasizes accountability, integrity, and the need for responsible political discourse in the face of extremism, misinformation, and personal attacks. Tim Moore uses these examples to call for greater vigilance in democratic processes and to challenge the normalization of hate and hypocrisy in politics.

FAQs

Elon Musk is criticized for making death threats against podcasters, tweeting about white replacement and the death of the white race, and arbitrarily throttling internet access in Ukraine. Critics argue these actions show a lack of coherence and a dangerous ideology, especially given his wealth and influence.

Yes, House Democrats are planning to subpoena Elon Musk to testify, splitting jurisdictions among themselves to question him about his policies and social media actions. The discussion suggests he may be facing legal scrutiny in early 2027.

The phrase is interpreted as a direct, menacing threat, likely a reference to Musk's online rhetoric and actions. It's seen as a provocative and irresponsible statement, especially from someone with immense wealth and influence.

He is accused of killing vulnerable children in Ukraine by arbitrarily cutting internet access, which critics say weakened Ukrainian defenses. This is presented as a war crime, especially given his role in supporting controversial policies.

The district is an R+4 area, historically Democratic, but flipped to Republican under Trump. It's seen as an opportunity for Democrats to reclaim ground, especially in rural areas with strong historical voter loyalty.

Mitchell has been criticized for giving Donald Trump a fake 'Man of the Century' award, making racist remarks about Black women, and falsely claiming Iowa doesn't have bike riders, despite the state's large cycling culture.

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