[echelon]

> Jim Baker is a double agent for the FBI.

Geopolitical hat on.

Elon Musk is getting close to the Saudis (Twitter), China (Gigafactory Shanghai), and Russians (necessary industrial inputs). In the past few months he's casually suggested a handover of Ukraine and Taiwan. Now he's turning on the Democrats and the FBI, or at least certain members of those organizations.

My mind wonders if the DoD will sour on his role at SpaceX. We've recently seen lawmakers impact the valuation of Tesla vis a vis tax incentives. Are Musk's foreign ties and obligations a risk to a defense company that services classified national interests?

Perhaps he or the company he keeps have enough friends within the DoD chain of command that there won't be any issues. Or maybe none of this matters. But I am half expecting to see sparks fly.

(I'm 100% reading between the lines here, and I don't have any evidence for any of my suspicions. Feel free to dismiss outright, though I would appreciate additional commentary if anyone has anything interesting to add.)

[ethanbond]

Yeah even going so far as replying “Epic thread!!” to Medvedev’s propaganda tweet thread with 2023 predictions like “the US will experience civil war and Musk will win the presidency in states that have been given to (?) the GOP.”

4 hours later he tried to backpedal, which is perhaps the only move more pathetic than having boosted the propaganda in the first place.

[jacquesm]

I'm pretty sure that conversations along those lines have already taken place. This is no trifle matter and Musk may think that he can shitpost himself out of any hole he digs himself into but that may well be an illusion on his part.

[concordDance]

I'd bet good money Musk is no more entangled in those countries than any other big Corp or billionaire. Everyone has Chinese suppliers and Saudi investors.

[ETH_start]

You're forgetting that Elon Musk's SpaceX is providing critical StarLink Internet access to the Ukrainian armed forces.

The much more reasonable explanation for Musk's behavior with respect to the Democrats and FBI is that he does not like the censorship going on with the gradual fusing of the US security sector and US Tech companies.