Rich Opinions

Musk, Mowbray, Taylor, and now Mike Pero?

Ooh, baby (ooh, baby)
It's making me crazy (it's making me crazy)
Every time I look around (look around)
Every time I look around (every time I look around)
Every time I look around
It's in my face

Songwriters: Alan Leo Jansson / Paul Lawrence L. Fuemana.

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Today, I’ll be talking about rich, middle-aged men who’ve made a lot of money and, for some reason, think this gives them the right to tell the rest of us what they think about all manner of things.

This is a problem because it allows an unelected individual whose sole qualification is typically having utilised capitalism to make themselves eye-water-ringingly rich to promote their view of the world, which is not typically aligned with the majority's interests.

I can only assume that some people buy into these views, promoting all sorts of narratives that would be vigorously challenged if they were spoken by someone based on their merit rather than their net worth.

Worse still, even if the general population was a bit too smart to fall for the kind of rubbish being served, and #SPOILER - they’re not, the politicians who receive large donations from said billionaires are hanging on every word and taking note.

We saw it in the US, where soon after the second election of Trump, Elon Musk began ruling the nation by tweet, pushing his views on his own platform. Every algorithm attuned to promote his words and with the power to silence and remove critics. Soon enough, sure enough, the politicians fell into line and did as they were tweeted.

It is as though Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, had bought the US presidency for himself—even though he wasn’t eligible to run. Furthermore, he didn’t stop there. He has had plenty to say, encouraging other Western nations to abandon democracy, embrace fascism, and rule by unelected billionaires.

Image: BeFunky.

It’s all a bit tacky, really. I mean, even the Illuminati and the ATLAS folks have the good grace to run the world from the shadows. It’s somewhat galling to see someone openly show how bought and paid for the politicians are in the US, and it makes you glad we don’t have the same sort of thing here. Right?

Except, of course, we do. Elon fanboy, fellow Billionaire narcissist, and someone who also espouses a worldview akin to feudalism, utter douchebag - Nick Mowbray.

I’ve previously written about Nick when discussing the merits, or in fact very much the otherwise, of wealthy individuals having a major influence on our elections due to their investments in certain politicians. Funnily enough, it’s never the ones that want to help people or build our society.

Someone else who has written about Mr Mowbray that I’m sure will be known by most of you is David Farrier, a successful Kiwi sub-stacker based in the US, very much on the right side of things. As illustrated in this image that I came across on Facebook yesterday, which gave me a laugh until I thought about the numbers indicated.

But I won’t focus on those today. Other than to say that there will be a wall shortly for paying customers, don’t worry—the monthly cost of a subscription is much lower than a single trip to the movies or the options on the right, in more ways than one, if you’d care to step in through the red door.

In his most recent newsletter, Farrier looks at the inordinate amount of time that Nick Mowbray, celebrated Balloon Billionaire and Ball Bag, has spent tweeting and retweeting things in defence of Tommy Robinson. A violent racist thug from the UK. Here’s David’s piece if you haven’t read it but would like to:

“It’s Sad Watching Desperate Dave”

After reading it, a friend commented, “Great work, thanks to David Farrier. Since when do Kiwis idolise wealthy jocks who destroy the planet and back right-wing fascists!” By my reckoning, that would be about the mid-1980s, and we haven’t looked back since.