Donald Trump And Elon Musk Panic The Planet

(August 13, 2024) President Trump marked his return to X (formerly Twitter) with a conversation with Elon Musk on Spaces Monday evening.

Spaces is the live-streaming part of X, and was what Ron DeSantis used to launch his campaign all those months ago. Of course, that Spaces was a disaster—the platform couldn’t handle the load—and was a tremendous embarrassment for both DeSantis and Musk.

It was a portent of things to come for DeSantis’ campaign. Musk apologized, and moved on, and promised to do better in the future.

The specter of the DeSantis Debacle loomed over the Musk/Trump Space, and those of us who are suspicious by nature suspected this one wouldn’t be any different. Sadly, we weren’t disappointed.

Despite the system having been tested for 8 million participants earlier that day, a massive DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack shut down Spaces just as Trump and Elon were about to start.

Not just the Trump/Musk Space. ALL Spaces, that entire portion of the X platform.

A DDOS attack floods a target’s servers with incoming traffic requests from multiple sources, overwhelming the servers and preventing them from carrying out their legitimate function. Think of the crowds at Black Friday just as the doors open. The servers are the doors and the attacks are the rabid bargain seekers trampling each other trying to get inside first. Too much traffic, not enough capacity.

Musk & Co. did everything they could to ensure the platform could handle the load. Having a million people in a Space at once would be astounding. To have a DDOS attack overwhelm a system that had been set up for eight million would require LOTS of resources. Like, nation-state-level LOTS of resources. This wasn’t a couple of kids in a basement somewhere, goofing around for fun.

I’m guessing we’ll be told in a few days it was “Iran,” or maybe “Russia” or “China.” It might be interesting to know where the FBI’s cybersecurity people were around 7 PM EST Monday night, or if any of them were paid overtime this pay period. No reason, just wondering.

Things did get straightened out eventually, and the event had a record 1.3+ million people listening live. A recording was also posted after it finished. By shortly after midnight (less than four hours after the Spaces ended), the numbers were 16.4 million people who listened, 84 million views on the post, 319K comments, 111K RTs, 374K likes, and 46K bookmarks. Impressive numbers all around.

The recording of the event is linked below. I didn’t hear anything surprising or new, but I didn’t expect to. That wasn’t the point of the Space. Trump and Musk didn’t do it to announce any grand new policy initiatives. They did it to bring Trump back to X with a bang and introduce him to a new audience. They did it in such a way as to target some of the Democrat’s critical demographics, and judging by the numbers and the degree of panic-posting from the Harris/Walz campaign, they succeeded.

The pictures and videos of Trump sitting at the table leaning over his phone? We’ve all been there. It was real in a way Kamala’s fake phone calls aren’t, and never will be. Trump talked without a prompter and was the same Trump we’ve seen and heard for years now. Compared to the inane ramblings of Kackling Kamala? Night and day.

This Space brought Trump back to his political roots—using X (aka Twitter) to connect directly with the people. Having Elon Musk, who’s arguably the greatest champion of free speech alive today in the conversation? Oh, yeah; there was panicking before, during, and afterwards.

There was panic earlier in the day at the White House press briefing. Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson asked White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre if the Regime couldn’t censor that evil Orange Man on X. “One more, Elon Musk is slated to interview Trump tonight on X. I don’t know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It’s a — you know, it’s an America issue. What role does the White House or the President have any sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter — intervening in that. Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but you know it’s a wider thing, right?”

KJP responded by saying, “Yeah, no, I mean, you’ve heard us talk about this many times from here about the responsibilities that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation, disinformation. I don’t have anything to read out from here about specific ways that we’re working on it, but we believe that they have the responsibility.”

Yes, that’s right. The WaPo minion asked the Biden minion if the Regime shouldn’t “intervene” to prevent Trump from spreading “misinformation” on Musk’s platform, but the White House minion didn’t have any tea to spill. Did the WaPo guy really expect her to tell him, “yes, we’re going to have a Deep State group running a DDOS attack op tonight, so don’t worry about it”? More importantly, why did he ask the White House spokesperson this question about censoring a rival political candidate’s event? Desperate, much?

The panicking wasn’t limited to this continent, either. Interestingly enough, earlier in the day Musk received a letter from Thierry Breton, a Member of the European Commission and the current EU Commissioner for Internal Market. The letter was a masterpiece of small font, small margins writing that managed to cram an inordinate amount of bureaucratic drivel, posturing and blatant threats onto a single page. Yes, it’s the kind of one-page wonder only a self-righteous, sanctimonious, unelected apparatchik could generate, much less love. In brief, Breton threatened Musk with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) unless he censored Trump. Breton invoked the recent unpleasantness in the UK and warned Musk about “the amplification of content, that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation.“ He also threatened Musk, saying “As you know, formal proceedings are already ongoing against X under the DSA, notably in areas linked to the dissemination of illegal content and the effectiveness of the measures taken to combat disinformation.”

Musk’s response? I can’t tell you exactly what Elon said, because it involves an anatomically implausible autoapplication of the acronym of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. (The link is below, if you can’t figure it out.)

Despite panic and threats both foreign and domestic, followed by a massive cyberattack, Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump successfully reached out to millions of people in a direct way the Harris campaign can only dream about. For those of us who follow both Trump and Musk, there weren’t any surprises Monday night.

What those who listened to the Trump/Musk Spaces heard were words of hope and determination from two men who are determined to save this nation.

No wonder the Democrats and globalists are panicking.

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Trump/Musk Spaces: https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1823144316014911820?s=46

Gateway Pundit’s coverage of the Wootson/KJP exchange: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/washington-post-reporter-wants-joe-biden-intervene-stop/

Elon Musk replying to Thierry Breton, including Breton’s letter to Musk: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114?s=61&t=aYyv3kAAQ2aPqsgKFbnvZw

Dr. Bill Chitwood is a retired Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist who does political consulting and media relations. He is the author of Beyond Maga, available on Amazon under his pen name, Doc Contrarian. He can be found on Substack and social media as @DocContrarian.

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