There’s an exposé in the New York Times today about Elon Musk’s rampant drug use on the campaign trail and in the White House.

Here’s a free link to the story, unlocked. Aside from Musk’s baby-mama drama, he engaged in the kind of drug use that is completely insane and disqualifying for anyone with a national security clearance.

The New York Times reports

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

… He plays video games for hours on end. He struggles with binge eating, according to people familiar with his habits, and takes weight-loss medication. And he posts day and night on his social media platform, X.

In an interview in March 2024, the journalist Don Lemon pressed him on his drug use. Mr. Musk said he took only “a small amount” of ketamine, about once every two weeks, as a prescribed treatment for negative moods.

“If you’ve used too much ketamine, you can’t really get work done, and I have a lot of work,” he said.

He had actually developed a far more serious habit, The Times found.

Mr. Musk had been using ketamine often, sometimes daily, and mixing it with other drugs, according to people familiar with his consumption. The line between medical use and recreation was blurry, troubling some people close to him.

This last statement - that people find his use of ketamine “troubling” is the kind of understatement that drives people crazy about legacy reporting.

Musk is a a U.S. defense contractor who has had access to the entire workings of the U.S. government through DOGE. He’s not just a regular political maniac, he’s a drug-addled one, which makes him a threat to U.S. National Security, and the security of the world.

When I heard about Musk’s drug use, I thought right away about this video.

It offers one of the clearest insights into the relentless corruption and lawless criminality of the Trump Administration: they are basically low-rent neighbourhood gangsters who are high on their own supply, trying to shake everyone down.

I intend this as a message of hope. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against Crackheads in High Places.

If you have lived in any hood in America, you are more than prepared to deal with these bastards.

Because you know how they move.

And I got to give it to the Project 2025 people - sending crackheads in to mess stuff up first, and then sending in non-crackheads? I did not recognize your game. I did not recognize your game.

But I promise you. We will organize.

Because I believe that people who use substances deserve housing.

But not the White House.

This is a message of hope.

Even the Blitz - that the German Army perfected - it was their Phalanx. A fighting style that they created that no one could top?

The Blitz was just crack. It was just crack. [She knows it was meth, but can’t say meth on TikTok]

They would smoke up (It was the other stuff I can’t say). They would smoke up and they would run and charge and attack people. And it became the craziest fighting force of the 20th century.

We can take ‘em. Don’t be scared.

We can take ‘em.”

Trump is Not Going to Last

There is an enormous amount of “catastrophizing” and doom saying, predictions of various kinds of collapse: economic collapse, depressions, war.

Are things terrible? Yes, but the do-nothing explainers aren’t helping, and that includes all the people who want to talk “playbooks” or who explaining why this situation is just like some other event in history.

Instead of focusing directly on the events of the here and now, it is taking people’s attention and focus away from what is happening.

If we stop using two-dollar words to describe what is going on (like authoritarian, fascist, unconstitutional, unlawful, violation of national security. Even corruption isn’t up to fully describing it.

Trump has enriched himself by billions of dollars with crypto-currency scams that allow foreign states and criminals to bribe him directly. There’s the $400-million Qatari jet as a gift to the President.

Howard Lutnick runs a cryptocurrency company that launders money for international criminal syndicates, including human traffickers and drug traffickers.

Yes, these people can be taken. They are criminals. They are openly and blatantly breaking the law.

Who benefits from opposing them? Every single person who is not a criminal, and who does not want to be ruled by them.

Lots of people love to talk big about revolution, and the intensity of their passion and outrage is usually in inverse proportion to the presence of any practical plans or workable solutions.

Let’s be honest, the problem with revolutionaries - especially radicalized bourgeois - is that even when you align with them on matters of principle, the reason they get such pushback is because they have crazy ideas and they’re the last people you want to have in charge. What they mean by “revolution” is not a transformation in society, so much as a substitution. Its deemed that suffering under the previous leadership was because they were wicked, and virtuous people will do thing the right way.

It’s just a matter of replacing the bad people with good people - who were, conveniently enough, always themselves.

And you don’t have to have policy about how to do things, because you intend to just fire everyone.

And intellectualizing everything or arguing about whether it fits into this explanation or that is a distraction from what is actually happening.

It’s a way of avoiding reality. Wittgenstein wrote “look, don’t think” to encourage philosophers and scientists to keep an open mind and not start with preconceived notions.

The simplest way of putting it is this:

Trump and many of his supporters think they can break any law they want and get away with it.

They are treating politics as if it is a win-lose sporting match

This is is not going to last.

So every one should keep that in mind. Trump, and Vance and Musk and the tech bros can all be taken down through peaceful and legal means.

The MAGA Revolution in real, and it is lawless. A successful counterrevolution entails enforcing the law.

The problem is corruption, including corruption in the administration of justice.

People are either breaking the law or the want to legalize crimes and make it impossible to prosecute.

That is what is happening in the US and it is what formerly conservative parties have now all become. They are anarchists and crypto fascists - crypto in both senses of the word, because they want to be able to plunder without opposition.

So commit to rooting it out. Enforce the law. Refuse to be part of the corruption. Root out the corruption.

Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court is also corrupt, and their decision to allow sitting presidents to commit crimes is one of the most disgraceful decisions in U.S. history. It is a gross violation of the very principles the United States was founded on - the principles of a liberal democracy and the rule of law.

This is also part of the American tradition.

It’s what all your goddamn great movies were about, and a lot of it represented the very things that people loved about America. When the good guys won. A war to end slavery ended slavery, though it never dismantled or defused slavery’s poisonous influence.

All these people who are surrendering to Trump now for some short term financial gain, or financial reprieve - will be remembered and it will affect not just their brand, but how they will be seen by history - as greedy cowards and spineless enablers, or as people who took a stand on the side of right.

I have never in my life seen such a disgusting orgy of brazen criminal corruption and self-dealing, and the total moral collapse of critics - from Marco Rubio to J.D. Vance to many other GOP mouthpieces.

We can take ‘em.

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