As I reported earlier, the pitchforks are out for Elon Musk now that the Wall Street Journal has published a story (that CNN's Kaitlan Collins picked up) claiming that Musk ordered the slowdown of satellite internet, blindsiding the Ukrainian military. I bookmarked a post a week ago in which Musk addressed the throttling, saying that it wasn't Starlink that was slowed down, but Starfield, a military-grade satellite internet service that is owned and operated by the U.S. government. Still, The Wall Street Journal insists that it was Musk who ordered the throttling of service. To me, it seems strange that Musk would do so, considering how he gave free Starlink internet access to Ukraine at the beginning of its war with Russia.
As I reported, the controversy, whether ginned up or not, has all sorts of people calling for the next Democrat administration to nationalize Starlink as well as SpaceX. "It might sound communist, but …" Musk treated us to a flying car last Thursday — the fastest way to cripple that kind of innovation would be to nationalize his businesses.
I have a few Musk-related posts in my cache here, so I thought I'd roll them out together. The first plays off a quote from Kara Swisher on which our own Warren Squire published a VIP post:
Kara Swisher says Elon Musk might be in jail right now if Kamala Harris was in office and “he knows what’s coming” if Democrats take back power. https://t.co/s8cuK7lvW8
— ALX (x/acc) 🎃🇺🇸 (@alx) October 21, 2026
@alx Message received
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2026
That's cold. We know what happened the last time Musk posted, "Message received."
@elonmusk @Geiger_Capital @alx They obviously have learned ZERO https://t.co/XlCjp2qL95
— BlackApple (@BlackApple) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk @alx ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/pcKA6aklIh
— 300 Guns (@300_guns) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk @alx The last time Elon posted "message received" it did not work out well for the Democrats...
— Make America Free Again (@TErickson87) October 21, 2026
That was Lorena Gonzalez, former member of the California State Assembly. Musk is in Texas now … we have no idea where she landed.
@elonmusk @alx Actual Americans have your back.
— Texas Boomer (@TheTexasBoomer) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk @ThomasNuckles @alx If they come after Elon, he will have tens of millions of angry Americans standing next to him. It would be the beginning of the end for these DSA nutjobs.
— Jeff I (@The_Gooseinator) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk @alx I wouldn’t threaten a trillionaire. That’s just stupid. Especially the guy who’s advancing the entire human civilization off-planet. The Left are idiots now. Not even debatable anymore.
— Christopher Yerington (@chrisyerington) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk @alx Dems are fucking with the wrong dude. It’s like enjoying a beer in a bar, and watching the drunk dude take on a Navy SEAL. It’s not pretty. I’ve seen it. 🤣
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) October 21, 2026
But wait! There's more lawfare!
Capitol agenda: Dem gavels are coming for Elon Musk https://t.co/x7F6oWUtdE
— POLITICO (@politico) October 20, 2026
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk Drag them. Every last one.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk Elon, the time to crush these people is now, not when they come for you They've been clear that they intend to destroy you Don't make the boomer mistake of empty threats while your enemy plans real action
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk Unfathomably based.
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) October 21, 2026
@elonmusk I cannot possibly tell you how happy this post makes me.
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) October 21, 2026
As I reported earlier, idiot Rep. Pramila Jayapal is demanding congressional oversight of Musk. That's not fascist at all.
One more: Just a couple of days ago, Musk announced on X that starting next year, he'd be giving a share in SpaceX to every kid in the country.
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2026
Just because he has money, liberals think they can tell Musk how, on what, and when to spend his money. Liberal troll evan loves worf complained that Musk could do it today if he wanted to, and got hit with a Community Note saying, no, he couldn't.
You can tell this is a lie because he could just do it now https://t.co/mGpqN5m8rw
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) October 19, 2026
They don’t understand how things work. https://t.co/BKTDdvpjVk
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) October 19, 2026
They really don’t
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2026
Well, yeah, but … why doesn't he just give away Tesla shares then?
@elonmusk @grok if he can’t give shares of SpaceX, could Elon give every child in America a share of Tesla right now instead
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) October 20, 2026
UPDATE: They still don’t understand how things work https://t.co/1DnHRwPLih
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) October 21, 2026
@esjesjesj @elonmusk @grok What exactly are you offering to every American child?
— BenT (@PapPap_BenT) October 21, 2026
Yeah, what, smart guy?
I’ll never top this
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) October 20, 2026
@jarvis_best It’s a work of art. He’s like an Andy Kaufman provocateur right? Just pretending to be a retard?
— Kai (@KaiRedOak1) October 20, 2026
@jarvis_best There’s indisputably a talent to being this confidently wrong.
— Enkwel (@Enkwelos) October 20, 2026
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