The Left’s Trillion-Dollar Nightmare – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Democratic heads exploded last week. It could have been for any of the typical reasons. A black teen who cruelly stabbed a white kid was convicted of murder. Congress passed the Secure America Act, providing an additional $70 billion in funding for immigration enforcement (every single Democrat voted against it). And House Republicans grilled school officials over their anti-parent pro-“transgender” policies. But these occurrences only increased the pressure. What blew up Democratic left brains was Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
By selling shares to the public on Nasdaq, Musk’s SpaceX raised a record $75 billion, rocketing (pun intended) past two-trillion dollars in value. The former billionaire’s forty-percent stake in SpaceX plus Tesla took him over the trillion-dollar threshold. This proved too much, literally, for the Democratic communist cadre, led by actual socialist Bernie Sanders.
“Trump wasn’t reelected,” says Harold. “He’s in prison, along with hundreds of thousands of his supporters, conservatives, Christians, traditional parents.
“Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500,” Sanders tweeted. “If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years.”
Sanders’ apparatchik Elizabeth Warren chimed in. “Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire,” she said. “The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk’s level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.” And Komsomolka AOC posted on X regarding Musk, “But taxing wealth so normal people can afford to see a doctor and not go bankrupt over inhalers is radical left. OK.”
That there exists a major American party ruled by such abject economic and historical ignorance not only boggles the mind but constitutes a clear and present danger to the country. Yet Sanders came within a hair’s breadth of locking the Democratic nomination for President in 2020. He had to be torpedoed by panicky party leaders, and replaced with a dimmer — eh, more deceptive — leftist zombie. And a recent poll put AOC as the Dem favorite for President in 2028.
I could waste my time arguing why the Democrat attacks on Musk are Marxist hogwash. That Musk’s wealth is tied to company growth which has created more than a million jobs, boosting the economy. That his technological innovations, like Starlink, help protect America by surpassing those of her foreign enemies, like China. And that he saved the country from Orwellian repression by rescuing free speech, pre-X under attack by the government — as it still is across the Pond. But, like Orwell, I’m a fictionist, who prefers storytelling to lecturing.
I’m also a realist. I know Hollywood elites hate Musk’s guts for helping reelect their antichrist, Donald Trump. The fact that he advanced their dream of gasoline-free cars means nothing by comparison. Absent the Trump factor, they would be making movies and miniseries about the greatest technological pioneer of this century. Now, the Financial Times calls him a real-life Bond villain.
I knew this a year ago, when I wrote a treatment about Musk’s SpaceX rescue of the two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. It’s an inspirational true story pitting American courage, skill, and perseverance against government incompetence (NASA) and political expediency. The fact that Biden rejected Musk’s offer to bring home the pair in an election year because he didn’t want Trump to get the credit made for great drama — and Hollywoke poison. I realized it before I wrote it, but couldn’t resist trying to tell a great tale.
When I become a movie mogul, as Hollywood continues to burn down from creative arson, I’ll write or greenlight (industry jargon for authorize) a different Elon Musk film — a loose variation on It’s a Wonderful Life. A Left-pounded Elon Musk, guilt-ridden about his trillion dollars, gets to see what the country would look like if he never got rich. Here’s one scene:
Scene 21. Angel Harold accompanies the confused poor Musk through a filthy Washington Mall hellscape, the dry Reflecting Pool a vast homeless encampment.
Musk balks, “This pool was full of clean water last week! President Trump saw to —.”
“Trump wasn’t reelected,” says Harold. “He’s in prison, along with hundreds of thousands of his supporters, conservatives, Christians, traditional parents. And no one dares to protest. Even if they had a media platform to do it on.”
“X.”
“X doesn’t exist. It’s still Twitter. And they ban anyone who criticizes the Ocasio-Cortez Administration.”
“No,” groans Musk.
“Or jail them.”
A black thug approaches them. So does a uniform cop but from farther back.
“Your wallet and phone, cracker!” barks the thug to Musk.
Musk pats himself and comes up empty. “I don’t have either.”
“Sh_t,” says the thug.
He punches Musk in the face, and leaves before the cop arrives. Harold helps Musk up.
“What’d you do to that guy to make him mad?” asks the cop.
“He tried to rob me,” Musk says.
“Why do you say that — because he’s black?!” snarls the cop. “You racist freak, you’re under arrest! Put your hands behind your back!”
Musk complies. The cop handcuffs him. Musk turns to Harold.
“I want my trillion back,” he declares. “I want my trillion back!”
Okay, maybe it needs some more work.
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