Citations Needed podcast did a Patreon members-only segment about it: News Brief: Musk Goes Full Alex Jones as Media Belatedly Mentions the Dreaded “I” Word

In this Patreon-only News Brief, we discuss the latest in Elon Musk’s rightwing coup of the regulatory state, how a couple of outlets are beginning to slowly, coyly mention DOGE’s ideological agenda, and how Musk and Trump have successfully built an alternative faux populist universe propped up by dishonesty and conspiratorial mud-slinging—exploiting Democrats’ insistence on being the party of legal formalism and the status quo.

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    6 days ago

    So. When and If the Liberals can ever take back the Senate and House. They should deport Leon and nationalize all of his businesses and sell them off to the highest bidder.

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        They’re absolutely not going to do that. What they’ll actually do is buy a couple of shares in his companies, then offer him a big government contact.