cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27301443
The New York Times reports that the Pentagon planned today for Elon Musk — currently the world’s richest man, who bought the presidency for Donald Trump, who secretly jibber-jabbers with Vladimir Putin about fuck-knows-what, and who is right now terrorizing the federal government like a ketamine-fueled nerdass version of Osama bin Laden — to get a top secret briefing on the US’s most closely guarded secret plans for what the country is going to do if war with China breaks out.
Now that this news has been reported — and not just by the Times — all the liars from Donald Trump on down are screaming AIYEEEEEE FAKE NEWS!
So that’s reassuring.
Would this be fine, if it were to happen? Haha fuck no.
Wouldn’t this be kind of weird, considering Elon has all these sweet contracts with the US government AND ALSO Tesla is basically a Chinese car company that happens to be controlled by a South African-born apartheid pubesack who now has American citizenship and somehow also is holding the American presidency by the balls? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
. . . Every country in the world is more serious than the United States right now.
The Times lays out, in as gentlemanly terms as possible, how fucked up this would be:
It would \[…] bring into sharp relief the questions about Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China. > >So our educated hypothesis on this remains “got caught, deny, deny, deny.” (Adding support to that hypothesis is that Elon is now [whining and promising](https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-new-york-times-briefing-china-war/) that “those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information” will be prosecuted. How does one “leak” maliciously *false* information, praytell, Mr. South African nepo dipfuck?)
. . . The *Times* notes that the *Wall Street Journal* also [independently confirmed](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/musk-to-receive-top-secret-briefing-on-u-s-war-plans-for-china-922eafdf?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that Elon was invited for the China Secrets briefing, and adds in the very next paragraph “Whatever the meeting will now be about …” as a transition phrase. So that’s funny. Also funny? Josh Marshall [notes](https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lkuavzmbss2i) that the *Wall Street Journal* confirmed the story *after* Trump denied it.
“Leak of lies” can’t be illegal as for something to be against the law it has to be real and material.
If it’s a leak, is it a lie or if it’s a lie is it a leak?
