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Elon Musk, Big Game RINO Hunter

Elon Musk is after bigger game even than his rocket ships: RINOs and radical left Democrats in Congress, which he threatens to “primary.”

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Elon Musk is as close to a Renaissance Man as our modern age has produced in recent decades. He started by building an online payment processor and now owns five companies, including one running its own space program. At last report he is worth $400 billion, more than any other man alive. Now he’s taken on another role: Big Game RINO Hunter. Today he has Democratic Members of Congress howling with rage at his power to sway votes. In fact they are not even his first targets. His first targets are establishment Republicans – Republicans In Name Only – RINOs. When he does attack the Democrats, they’ll know it – as he relegates them to a niche role at best.

How much power does Elon Musk have?

As another year draws to a close, Congress must pass another Continuing Resolution. If that does not happen, much of the government shuts down – which actually wouldn’t make too many ordinary citizens unhappy. Two days ago (December 18), Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Speaker of the House, announced the first of three proposed Continuing Resolutions thus far.

That proposal never came to a vote, because Elon Musk made sure no Republican would dare vote for it. This exchange lasted from late Tuesday night to Wednesday afternoon:

Vivek Ramaswamy: Currently reading the 1,547-page bill to fund the government through mid-March. Expecting every U.S. Congressman & Senator to do the same.

Elon Musk: This bill should not pass.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.): Hard NO!!

Musk found these parts especially outrageous:

A salary raise for Members of the House, from $174,000 to $243,000 a year, and

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The privilege of opting out of the “ObamaCare exchanges.”

How can this be called a “continuing resolution” if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?

Elon Musk wasn’t through. After his friend (and co-head of the “Department” of Government Efficiency, or DOGE) Vivek Ramaswamy finished reading the bill, Musk said this:

The more I learn, the more obvious it becomes that this spending bill is a crime. It even includes funding for the worst illegal censorship operation in the entire government (GEC)!!

GEC stands for Global Engagement Center, the nerve center of the Censorship Industrial Complex. The very idea that any Republican would sign off on the organization that threatened to lay a foundation for their imprisonment is final shame to the Republicans involved.

Then Musk and President-elect Donald Trump laid it on the line, each on his respective platform:

Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!

If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.

Speaker Johnson got the message, and canceled the vote he’d planned to take on the measure. Elon Musk quickly gave credit where credit was due:

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Your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed! VOX POPULI, VOX DEI!

Speaker of the House?

Yesterday morning (December 19), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recommended that the House Republican Conference united behind Elon Musk – as Speaker.

The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .

Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds)

Senator Paul is correct.

The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers;… Article I Section 2 Clause 4

It does not say “from the membership of the House.”

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was apoplectic. In a lengthy exchange he called Elon Musk a “co-President.”

An unelected billionaire was crowned co-President by the Republican Party. They’ve given him the influence to make a damn post that throws a spending bill into limbo cause House Republicans are scared of him. No greater example of oligarchy. Where the ultra-wealthy run the show.

And just like that, Republican Unelected Co-President Elon Musk has killed the bill to keep the government from shutting down on Friday. All he had to do was make a few social media posts.

Trump said he’d empower working people, all he’s done is empower the ultra wealthy.

In reply, Elon Musk predicted that Frost would fail of reelection inn two years. Frost, perhaps not realizing whom he was dealing with, posted a copy of a candidate registration form. Musk showed the kind of person he is, with this post:

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Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jackass.

Yesterday afternoon, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on ABC’s The View actually suggested that Elon Musk and Sen. J. D. Vance (R-Ohio), Vice-President-elect, were planning to assassinate Trump and take his place!

Later they tried to walk that back:

What was inexcusable, of course, is that ABC would let this go on after having to pay Donald Trump a $15 million defamation settlement.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) did her colleague Max Frost one better: she unloaded on the floor of the House.

They got scared, because “President Musk” told them. “President Musk” said, “Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Shut the government down.” Imagine! What does he know about what people go through is when the government shuts down? Are his employees furloughed? H*ll no. Is he furloughed? No. And when you shut the government down, people don’t get paid. And maybe if none of us got paid if the government shut down, some people on the other side of the aisle would feel differently about where we’re going in this effort. We had an agreement. But you know, this is not different from what we’ve experienced over the last year and a half or so.

She can spare us the hypocrisy – because she and all but two Democrats voted against a second continuing resolution that had Trump’s blessing.

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Analysis

That so many people are complaining about Elon Musk – and who those people are – speaks volumes. One can tell a lot about a person, from the quality (or lack thereof) of his friends – and enemies.

Thus far, all Elon Musk has done is to encourage his fellow citizens (yes, he is naturalized) to do what citizens do – call their legislators. People like Max Frost and Rosa DeLauro either don’t want to hear from their constituents, or assume (correctly or incorrectly) that their constituents are perfectly copacetic with the un-statesman-like games they play.

But now he speaks of financing two kinds of primary challenges: MAGA Republicans and moderate Democrats. An Elon Musk can afford to throw his weight around, because he has a lot of weight. Furthermore, he doesn’t wait to find suitable replacements; he goes out and gets them. After all, he’s the same man who builds rocket boosters that come in for soft landings, then take off again.

Shutdown or no, Elon Musk will have good hunting next Midterms. Those elections promise to be very interesting indeed.

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Terry A. Hurlbut
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Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.

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