The Idiot With the Digital Delusion

So, another week of techno jerk in chief Elon Musk doing his impression of a really crap super-villain.  According to some (completely unconfirmed and sketchily sourced) reports, he's now plotting how he can bring down the UK's democratically elected government - most specifically how he can somehow unseat Starmer as PM.  Well, good luck with that.  As I've noted here time and again, the UK's political system makes it extremely difficult to get rid of a government with a decently sized majority.  Bearing in mind the size of this government's majority, I don't see any prospect of it losing a confidence vote in the Commons, meaning that, regardless of any destabilising attempts by outsiders, it is likely to run the full five year term of this parliament.  (Which is why all those polls the right-wing press like to run supposedly showing how unpopular Starmer and the government - conducted exclusively amongst their own neo-Nazi readers, of course - are utterly meaningless at this point in time as we won't be going to the polls any time soon).  Even if Starmer could, somehow, be removed from Number Ten, what does Musk expect to happen?  Because all that would happen would be that he'd be replaced by another senior Labour politician, unlikely to be any more sympathetic to Musk's right-wing fantasies than Starmer.

But we shouldn't be surprised at Musk behaving in this way, as if he has the power to topple governments in foreign countries and bend their political systems to his will, regardless of local democratic processes.  What else could be expect from a man whose father was behind the smuggling ring providing South African diamonds to Ernst Stavro Blofeld back in the early seventies, in order to power his space laser, with which he held the world to ransom.  You've surely heard of that - they made a fictionalised account of it called Diamonds Are Forever (1971).  Now, I know what you are thinking - didn't Ian Fleming write the novel it was based on back in the fifties?  Well, it might have shared a title, but the film ditched the plot, replacing it with a new, ripped from the headlines, story.  Before you say it, I know that Blofeld had appeared as a character in Fleming's books back in fifties as well.  But, as was often the case, he used the name of a real would be super villain - back then Blofeld was pretty much a two-bit minor gangster, however, spurred on by the notoriety given him by Fleming's novels and his portrayal in the subsequent films, he decided to enter the big leagues and hatched his space laser plan.

His father's involvement with Blofeld obviously inspired Elon Musk to bankroll his own super villain in the form of Donald Trump.  Musk, however, has clearly concluded that he wants to be the villain himself, rather than being the shady sidekick providing the finance.  Which is why we need to be wary of all those rockets he keeps trying to launch - believe me, one day one of them is going to put a space laser into orbit.  He's obviously learned the lessons of Blofeld's failure - his new position in Trump's government will allow him to starve the US's intelligence services of finance, so that they can neither detect nor defeat his scheme, while his attacks on the UK are obviously designed to try and neutralise the threat posed by MI6's Double-O section.  Not that I'm worried that he'll succeed as I've no doubt that Musk will be every bit as crap as a super villain as he has been in his other ventures: the catastrophic mismanagement of Twitter, exploding rockets and electric cars that catch fire and/or crash when driving themselves.  Need I say more?  Most crucially, of course, he has absolutely no understanding of human beings and the fact that the majority of them neither share his own opinion of his own genius or his enthusiasm for undermining democratically elected governments.  We like being able to choose our own leaders, even if, as far as Musk is concerned, they are the 'wrong' governments.