Elon Musk Called Us "Parasites"

 

 "Why 90% of Americans love DOGE: Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn't affect you because you're not a member of the Parasite Class."

--Elon Musk, February 2025, reposting and commenting on Twitter 

By "Parasite Class," Elon evidently means anyone on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or any other form of Federal assistance -- especially food stamps. I'm a recipient of both Social Security and Medicare. I am not a parasite.

You wanna see a parasite? Elon Musk and his various businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits -- nearly two-thirds of that grand amount contracted in the last five years (according to analysis by the Washington Post). He's now maneuvering despite notable conflicts of interest to make himself considerably richer via his BFF Donald Trump's illegal and frankly just plain dumb dismantling of government.

The icing on this cake is how little Musk cares that we know these things. He doesn't care that we care. And he sneers at the very concept of "empathy." “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan in a 3-hour interview. “[T]hey’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” He doesn't feel for us. He doesn't feel for much outside his own meat. I imagine his thanking whatever god he acknowledges for saving him from the bother of caring.

Celia Rivenbark, whose tart opinions I enjoyed reading once a week over at NCNewsline, has jumped to a Substack platform (hasn't everyone?), and she's now officially a replacement for my favorite Texas spitfire, the killingly sarcastic "Juanita Jean" of The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon Inc.  (real name Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. She lost her husband and announced in January of this year that she was retiring from the blog business -- and I gather from writing altogether -- after so many years of beating politicians about the head and shoulders. We miss Juanita Jean!)

But we have now the always quotable Celia Rivenbark. She posted about Musk (on "Celia Dishes"):

Elon Musk, who has frequently and nauseatingly spoken out on the “dangers” of being empathetic to others this week, whined about his mistreatment by Democrats whom he always thought were the nice guys.

After a tough week of having his Teslas set on fire and dealerships clogged with protesters, Elon petulantly told Fox News he thought the Democrats were supposed to show empathy.

“I thought the left, you know, the Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy and caring. And yet they are burning down cars…” That was the real quote.

But what I think he meant to say was: “I thought the left, you know, the Democrats, would always let me tear off their heads and pee down their bloody neck-stumps. I mean there really should be some things you can depend on in this life.”

The stones on this guy, am I right?

Elon, you thought all the heinous, illegal, wildly unjust, deeply disruptive, greed-monster shit you’ve been pulling since the inauguration of President Donald Jimpeachment Trump should go unnoticed? Hmmmm?

Because we, the Democrats, are empathetic???

And now YOU are disappointed in US?

That’s rich as 2 feet up a bull’s ass is what that is.

Elon Musk is Jethro's bronze monkey, the current curio in Trump's other cabinet, a monkey so shiny and strokeable, yet whose shine is already diminished among many. It will take at least one election cycle -- the midterms of 2026, say -- to prove just how short a shelf-life Elon has.