It’s not often that we can watch the workings of our modern world with childlike glee. But glee might be the best word to describe the feelings of most as they watched the stunning safe return of the booster rocket from Starship X. The video showed how the arms of the Starship X tower grabbed the rocket from out of thin air as it slowly descended to earth, gently place it safely back on the launch pad.

In normal times the person who created such a company would be hailed as the pinnacle of human potential. Add in that he has also created revolutionary electric cars and Starlink satellite systems and the PayPal network and you’d probably nominate the South African/ Canadian in question as a permanent Nobel winner. He’s among the world’s richest people as a result.

But on his way to immortality Elon Musk made one critical mistake: purchasing the website Twitter, now re-branded as X. In doing so he fired 90 percent of the previous staff and instituted a policy of open speech for the Right on the site— starting with restoring Donald Trump’s account. Which put Musk on the Hit List for leftist plutocrats.

How? He hired prominent independent journalists such as Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberg and Matt Taibbi to show that Twitter, along with Facebook and other prominent social media sites, had been paid to censor opponents at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign during the 2020 election. He started posting about the disturbing contrast of America’s voting system (results up to three weeks after election) compared to Argentina (6.6 hours).  He pointed out that America is broke, saying things like “”The reason why I’m involved in politics this time, is because this time it’s a fork in the road. I think we’re doomed if Trump doesn’t win, so he’s gotta win.”.

From worshipful respect, Musk was suddenly met with scorn, derision and, in Europe, plans to censor him permanently. Brazil shut down X completely. British intelligence targeted his association with Trump. The radical Left in the U.S., accustomed to its version of truth, suddenly decided that Musk was in line with Nazis and the Far Right.

As blogger Mike Benz notes, the deep state targeted him for not playing along. “CCDH — whose explicit written goal is to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” — not only has its Chairman come from NATO’s Atlantic Council, its former Comms chief was a CIA operative who worked extensively in NATO intelligence ops… CCDH’s former Head of Communications is a self-described “CIA operative” in her own Twitter bio (!!) with an extensive history of NATO operations: ‘Covert operations, intelligence & disinformation’”

While admitting that he’ll likely be in jail within six months of Kamala Harris winning the presidency, Musk is unfazed. Here’s fired CNN talking head Don Lemon challenging— and losing— on Musk’s commitment to free speech. But Musk’s deft debating didn’t discourage the purchased media of the left from trying some more.

Here’s Vanity Fair excoriating Musk for veering from their catechism. Here is reliably lunatic NBC News saying Musk is— gasp— against DEI. For good measure here’s Reuters giving an airing of former Twitter employees grievances against Musk. Topped by president Joe Biden’s demand to “Politically, lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do,” said even as he president’s Justice Department was in fact trying to jail Mr. Trump literally.

When he realized that the Left was using him as a piñata Musk responded to the onslaught by making an alliance with former president Donald Trump, the Beelzebub of Woke folk and the bureaucrat’s nightmare. Because Trump, the braggart, was at least in favour of free speech for other braggarts, Musk agreed to join his team after the election as Efficiency Czar for government.

Musk began saying things like he’d reduce the approximately 340 agencies in the U.S. federal government to just 90. He also questioned the usefulness of most people in the DC bubble. He began asking why the government’s $42 B plan for rural internet, awash in delay and debt, shouldn’t be shelved for his Starlink system which already serves customers at a fraction of Kamala Harris’ white elephant.

While he was at it, Musk also eviscerated the DEMs pet cause of border reform. “If given 4 more years to do it, the big govt machine will legalize vast numbers of illegals, making all swing states permanently deep blue, just like they did with California. Every major Democrat politician has stated that their goal is to legalize all illegals. Believe them.

If you thought January 6, 2021, was a shock to Washington’s privilege, a Musk efficiency regime— combined with RFK Jr taking on the healthcare industry— will be tantamount to setting off a thermo-nuclear device beneath the Senate lunchroom. Democrats and the trained hamsters of the GOP establishment swore a fatwa on a guy whom they’d venerated not long ago.

Here’s the New York Times, party organ of the DNC, on Musk’s Efficiency commission. “That would essentially give the world’s richest man and a major government contractor the power to regulate the regulators who hold sway over his companies, amounting to a potentially enormous conflict of interest.” Yahoo calls him a threat to national security because something something something. MSNBC, the TV voice of Woke Washington, declarded that Musk is using his power to sue his critics into silence.

But such is the temperature of the DEI Left as it faces imminent destruction in the 2024 election. Having rationalized two assassination attempts on Trump they now nurse snuff fantasies about eliminating Musk the Menace. As legal scholar Jonathan Hurley writes, “It is all part of Musk mania and the need to break the only executive who has defied the anti-free speech movement.”

You can measure their panic by the employment of DEMs superstars like Barack and Michelle Obama and the odious Clintons. While the obsequious Obama laments division in the body politic, Kamala Harris states: “Trump is literally Hitler and he will use the military to kill US citizens.”

Obama, who institutionalized the Racism® industry upon his winning the presidency, is accusing Trump and Musk of… you guessed it… racism for dividing Americans. From Henry Louis Gates to struggle sessions in the military to embracing race hustlers with ankle bracelets in the White House, Obama guaranteed the George Floyd America as it heads to the polls on November 5. Before Musk bought Twitter, he got away with it all, But a Musk X has exposed the glib Obama as a petty Marxist tyrant.

That a transitional figure such as Musk is being sacrificed to the altar of Woke politics is, regrettably, no surprise in these times. Which makes it no less reprehensible. The Obama motto regarding enemies is “No one gets out alive”. Perhaps Musk should heed A.E. Houseman who observed, “smart lad to slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay. For early though the laurel goes, it withers sooner than the rose.”

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

The prime minister arrived home from liberating SE Asia from itself to be confronted with a raft of problems, from disloyal caucus members to India’s wrath over Khalistan. His opponents relished the consequences as he testified under oath on Wednesday. But Justin Trudeau has entered his Sir Lancelot phase, where he rides about the countryside with a pure heart, his lance pointed at enemies of the PMO Round Table, hoping to make suburban damsels swoon again..

In the face of blistering criticism from within and 25 percent approval ratings he blithely offers a confident yes/ oui when asked if he plans to contest another federal election. Even his harshest detractors wonder at his serene confidence as the ship sinks around him. Like his father— who tried to create world peace in his last days as PM— Justin has gone to another plane.

Some suggest he can’t quit for reasons personal or for future employment in the globalist job market. But those expecting Trudeau to be burdened by the here-and-now miss his self-appointed mission. His divine task can be summed up as “What can be, unburdened by what has been”.

If that sounds familiar it’s because this chrysalis image has been Kamala Harris’ dreamcatcher in her run… er, her imposition upon the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Like Harris, who had 3.5 years as vice president to do something about her pet causes, Trudeau wants Canadians to ignore his scandal-plagued nine years as PM and envision a new tomorrow of his possibilities. He wants to lead them into the nirvana of a mankind unburdened by fact checking or Commons committees.

In his breathy incantation of change it’s a message of purity. It’s also the definition of Marxism. As author James Lindsay writes, “Marx’s ontology of man… is that man is naturally socialist. Indeed, being socialist, Marx says… is what makes him human in the first place. Man is not Homo economicus. Man is Homo socialismus, socialist man, but he’s lost his way…

“By calling it a “complete return,” he’s also indicating that man has lost touch with his true nature; he has forgotten who he really is, and socialism reminds him.

Enter gallant Trudeau as the hero to complete that conversion of Canada to a stateless, classless society with high economic standards and controlled speech. To do so, however, he must get Canadians unburdened by their icky past of imperial conquest and Constitutions. Like the climate hysterics, he wants you to return to an idyllic past by launching yourself like Elon Musk into the future. (Okay, Musk may be a bad comparison.)

To ascend with him into the heavens of socialism will require being Green and bisexual and vegan and DEI conscious. And denouncing those of your neighbours who stray from the narrative. While losing your notions of classic statehood and religion.

For Marxists that last bit has always been the rub. When sane people point to the hundreds of millions killed in the failed socialist experiments of the USSR, the Soviet Bloc, China, Cambodia and Cuba, Marxists contend it was because people failed the state religion, not the other way around. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution tried mightily to eliminate the Four Olds: ‘old ideas’, ‘old culture’, ‘old customs’, and ‘old habits’. No matter how many of his citizens Mao killed, they still were not worthy of the task. So Mao starved them to death.

For Trudeau, who came of age in a Quebec looking to replace the Roman Catholic religion as the moral force in their lives, his quest has a religious quality. It’s why, teddy bear in hand, he knelt before fake graves of fake murdered indigenous children. And told the UN that Canada must struggle against its genocidal past.

Nothing speaks more to this quest for purity than his promotion of a carbon tax to reduce emissions. While not even its most fervent supporters can say that it has curtailed any significant pollution in the atmosphere, the escalating charges serve a vital point. The suffering they inflict on Canadians is a test of their worthiness in the “what can be”. It’s why the government so strenuously contends that the tax actually benefits average Canadians. Canada must be made clean by suffering, even as China and India belch tonnes of pollutants into their air.

“What can be” is also behind DEI and ESG. The burdens they place on Canadians are meant to be painful, to unhinge them from their “olds”. Trudeau and his Glee Cabinet embrace the struggle-session motif of peasant versus pit boss (even as they live like pit bosses). He sees a day when, led by his selfless example of sending the Mounties against truckers, Canada can proudly take its place among her great postmodern states whose citizens surrender to an all-knowing state.

Where he can hang with Kamala’s Marxist Daddy, Barack Obama. Obama ran the master class in 2008 on the Woke notion of “You didn’t build that road. You didn’t build that bridge.” It was an admonishment to the creative class to know your place in a modern state where all must be shared. In his telling, slavery, feudalism, capitalism are history moving inexorably toward social organization without consciousness.

Obama later borrowed (stole?) from MLK Jr. when he said, “The arc of of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice”. Trudeau realizes that he’s been in charge for a long time, but dreams that, if hangs on long enough, justice will one day declare him the new man, unburdened.. Good luck with that.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.