A very ugly man, both inside and out, Elon Musk has flown onto my radar and left a terrible stench there more than a few times of late. I think that while many of us have disliked Elon for a while now, we have underestimated him. We long since pegged him as a greedy, opportunistic ‘man’ without an ounce of humanity, but today I have the sense that he is much more dangerous than that, that he believes his money can buy him ownership of the world. I’ll let Robert Reich take over from here …
THE SECOND WORST PERSON IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE IS …
We can fight Trump with our votes. But what to do about his newfound ally?
By Robert Reich
08 August 2024

In yesterday’s Office Hours, I said I’ve started to imagine we can relegate Trump to the dustbin of history along with some of the other horrible people in American public life today.
I asked you to vote on the second-worst person. I nominated JD Vance, Clarence Thomas, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk.
Over 4,800 of you participated in the poll (as of midnight ET).
JD Vance garnered just 3 percent of your votes. Tucker Carlson, 4 percent. Clarence Thomas got 32 percent.
But the winner by far, with 57 percent, is Elon Musk.
Several of you explained that although Thomas is powerful and unaccountable, he’s just one of nine powerful and unaccountable justices. But Musk is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth — he’s the richest person in the world — into a huge source of unaccountable political power that’s now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world.
Musk owns X. He recently released an AI chatbot that told hundreds of millions that “the ballot deadline has passed” in several states, including the battlegrounds of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, among others.
Secretaries of state in five states have urged Musk to “immediately implement changes” to his chatbot, but Musk hasn’t done so.
In the last few days, Musk has also reposted a faked version of Kamala Harris’s first campaign video with an altered voice track sounding like Harris and saying she doesn’t “know the first thing about running the country” and is the “ultimate diversity hire.” Musk tagged the video “amazing.” It’s got 135 million views, so far. It’s still up…
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