The day before yesterday I said that Musk had a bad year, the acquisition of Twitter was shelved, the launch of the starship was blocked, the S&P index deleted Tesla, the Biden administration wanted to charge him more taxes, I did not expect that all these were small cases, yesterday Business Insider exposed a mega gossip, Musk had sexually harassed a flight attendant and paid $250,000!
A stone stirs up a thousand piles of dung! This huge gossip caught everyone on the network by surprise and immediately detonated a nuclear bomb, the entire social network was flattened, even the Russian-Ukrainian war is temporarily no heat, Tesla's stock fell more than 10% in response, directly shrinking $66 billion, more than Russia's military spending of $48 billion this year is nearly half.
Musk immediately and forcefully denied it, saying the alleged sexual harassment never happened and challenged the flight attendant to point out where he had scars and tattoos on his body. In the U.S., such scandals largely do not automatically die down unless one party admits to it - either by admitting it or by dying - or by social death, or by a person does die. For example, former President Clinton was pursued, and finally could not stand, had to admit; and Epstein also hanged in prison, only to temporarily put the scandal to rest. So, Musk this matter, it is estimated that it will also intensify, must be the truth out and have a conclusion, I'm afraid it will slowly calm down, so what is going on here?
Musk's claim that it was a political persecution against him, and he issued a warning before the incident occurred. Let's look at the timeline.
First, on May 17, Musk said at a tech summit in Miami that he planned to vote for Republicans in the upcoming election after voting "overwhelmingly" for Democrats in the past.
On May 19, Musk said the Democrats are a "party of division & hate" and that he will no longer support them and will vote for Republicans instead. Then he immediately predicted, "Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold”.
A little earlier the same day, Tesla was dropped from the S&P 500 ESG index, and Musk said angrily that “Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!” Musk predicted that the political attacks on him would escalate dramatically in coming months.
On the morning of May 20, Business Insider exposed big gossip that a flight attendant on Musk's private jet said that while she was massaging Musk on a flight to London in late 2016, Musk exposed himself to her, stroked her thighs and propositioned her for sex in exchange for buying her a horse. In 2018, she struck a deal with Musk and SpaceX in which SpaceX paid her $250,000 in exchange for her silence on the matter.
Musk then denied the matter and launched an intensive counterattack via email or on Twitter:
If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light, calling the story a "politically motivated hit piece."
The attacks against me should be viewed through a political lens – this is their standard (despicable) playbook – but nothing will deter me from fighting for a good future and your right to free speech.
Finally, we get to use Elongate as scandal name. It’s kind a perfect. If there’s ever a scandal about me, please call it Elongate.
those wild accusations are utterly untrue, But I have a challenge to this liar who claims their friend saw me “exposed” – describe just one thing, anything at all (scars, tattoos, …) that isn’t known by the public. She won’t be able to do so, because it never happened.
But Business Insider investigative editors say they contacted Musk at 9 a.m. EDT on May 18 for his opinion. If that's true, then Musk's so-called "political attacks" and "dirty tricks" came out after he knew Business Insider was about to expose them, which doesn't seem like an early prediction.
Of course, Musk was also honest, saying that the story was written before they talked to him, with the only goal was to hit the price to interfere with Twitter's acquisition.
From this timeline, it appears that Musk has really suffered a frame-up. It all started when he was going to buy Twitter, transform it into a completely free speech platform and unleash Trump, and even more so afterwards to change direction and switch to the Republican ticket, moves that meant the landscape of American public opinion could change dramatically and be fundamentally reconfigured. So finding ways to interfere with Twitter's takeover seems like a reasonable motivation.
But Musk is not a political figure and can't run for president of the United States because his birthplace is not in the U.S. So framing him with sexual harassment doesn't seem to make much sense, instead it's mostly entertainment. Then it would be good for him instead, allowing him to appear every moment in front of the eyes of the whole planet, firmly attracting everyone's attention and keeping the enduring heat, thus reaping super benefits.
Trump wants to stay in the presidency at all costs for what, but not to want this huge attention. Previously on social media is Musk and Trump bipolar competition, now Twitter closed Trump, there is only one Musk, multipolar world becomes unipolar, Musk profit the most, so there is no need to release Trump out.
Musk must also know this, because I happen to like Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" five-part series, in which the President of the Galactic Empire, Zaphod, is to rely on strange and bizarre statements to attract public attention, the President as increasingly popular, even if not to speak, on an exclamation of "wow", can set off an uproar.
In fact, this is how the mind is, the essential difference between humans and animals is that humans have thoughts, animals only simple neural reflexes. While neural reflexes cannot connect with other individuals, ideas can easily intersect with other individuals through language and gradually converge to the top of the pyramid, and inevitably to the top of the tower, because no matter how many people there are in the world, how many different ideas of all shapes and sizes, the overall evolution of human civilization will only have one direction. Musk's ideas and the future direction of human civilization is completely consistent, and can resort to implementation, so that he squeezed to the top of the tower.
As for the others, such as the "Elongate" scandal, whether it is true or not, he may not have much impact on him, but probably let him consolidate his position at the top of the tower, because he would have been very controversial, not many people take him as a saint.
But Musk may still be a little nervous because he's saving for a rainy day with a job posting today that says he's building a core litigation department at Tesla and that the team will report directly to him. Reflecting his idealism and perfectly illustrating his vow above that "nothing will deter me from fighting for a good future and your right to free speech," Musk also promised in the job posting that:
We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win.
We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose.
So he's hiring hardened street fighters, not white-shoe lawyers like Perkins or Cooley who thrive on corruption, white-shoe lawyers are primarily upper-class elite lawyers who graduated from Ivy League schools.
So after all the gossip, let's worry about how human civilization will evolve in the future.