Has Elon Musk Been "Red Pilled" like Neo in "The Matrix?"

 Kurt Schichter has a great piece at Townhall.com entitled Target: Musk It reads like a parody of a Cold War spy thriller in which our dashing hero, Elon Musk, discovers he has been lied to, and mounts a one man war against his former employers. Well, so Elon Musk doesn't actually work for the government. But you can almost feel the anquish that Musk must have felt as he slowly realized that the Democrats did not have the little guy's interests at heart after all. Indeed, that they were the party of tyranny and oppression, not of kindness. They are also the party of slavery and racism. It must have been a sad realization.

Of course, Schlichter must be Schlichter, and so we have humorous tangential tropes thrown off like a spinning wheel, but each comes back to the point;

Look, the guy dated Amber Heard and survived with his throat unslit and his linens undefiled. This trollop's trumped-up charges are not going to take him down. The fact is that what my mother – the judge – told me after she swore me in as a lawyer in 1994 remains true: "Everyone lies." Allegations in sex lawsuits are as reliable as Jen Psaki, and even bullSchiff claims get settled.

But the truth is not the point. Obedience is. They are terrified of Elon Musk because his money – combined with his iconoclasm – makes him dangerous. The thought that Musk would take over Twitter and allow free speech, thereby utterly undoing their last stranglehold on social media, filled the unelite elite with a cold terror. They know their ideas are garbage; they can only keep power by ensuring they control the marketplace of ideas. And they control it by ensuring it is not a marketplace at all but a Supermax prison where wrongthink is locked away in solitary with a lonely cellmate named Ox.

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Except Musk is not backing down. He's gone to the conservative medicine cabinet and gobbled a handful of red-pills. His Twitter feed is a non-stop chronicle of his ideological makeover. He talks about the truths he's learned since he popped the blue bubble surrounding him, he points out the hypocrisy he sees, and he refuses to back down in the face of the regime's full-court press.

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Musk has announced that he's taking the next step and forming his own legal Delta Force under his personal command. Nice. There's a lot of damage you can do using the courts. His bat signal to hardcore ambulance chasers focused on lawyers who win at trial, and trials are important, but winning at trial is not optimal. That's tactical thinking; strategic thinking focuses on results, and trials are but one way to get the result you want. If you are bringing a suit, trial may be the only way to get what you want – money. If you are defending one, you want to win without trial. Why? Because in a trial, you can lose. You can't lose a case bringing motions to dismiss or for summary judgment; you can only win.

In any case, this is not a column on litigation theory but on how a rich guy is owning the libs. And owning them, he is. He has gone from green demigod to reactionary demon in just a couple of months, all because he took seriously the principles the progs posed with. Hell hath no fury like a lib disrespected, and Musk's insult is really the basis of this backlash. Musk is publicly unimpressed by the left and the mediocrities who make it up. He sees they are unaccomplished. He sees they are liars. And he sees they are stupid. In his world, you have to perform. The car goes vroom vroom, or you go bankrupt. There's no excusing the car not moving because of structural racism or the male gaze or literal shaking or any of the other crap these quarterwits kick up to obscure the truth. The progs suck, and their ideology is a non-stop series of complaints and curated posturing. Musk's world is binary in an unwoke way; you either do or do not. Their world is not about doing but about being: woke, sensitive, whatever. You are what you pose.

I am not on the Elon Musk bandwagon, but I do think he may have had an honest conversion - that he may indeed have been red pilled. For younger readers, the allusion to being "red pilled" is to the movie The Matrix, which came out 23 years ago. And if he is truly putting a team of lawyers together to use the courts to give the Left a taste of its own medicine, good for him. I will pop some pop corn and sit down to watch.