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Now Musk says he will leave his role in government and return to Tesla. This is also a blatant lie. One does not simply give up the kind of power Musk bought for himself with his quarter-billion-dollar contribution to the Trump election. If anything, Musk’s nefarious meddling with government is only just beginning.

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Elon Musk believes he is the most important human being in history. He will only escalate in his quest for power. Anyone who thinks otherwise has not been paying attention — or is playing by outdated rules of journalistic objectivity that do not work in this era of weaponized lies.

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Vice President JD Vance has long been a follower of Curtis Yarvin, the San Francisco software programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, Vance made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter (X).

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Vance's public association with Yarvin normalizes his extreme anti-democratic ideology. It signals to others in elite or political circles that such views are now acceptable within the new power structure. Unsurprisingly, Yarvin gained 1,000 new followers in the day after Vance followed him.

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