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At last Elon Musk makes sense. He was a bad drug dream

The Observer

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June 01, 2025

It's a truism that drug addiction does terrible things to the individual's soul. What is less discussed is what it does to the communal soul. I was unsurprised to hear that Elon Musk - he of the wonky Hitler salute and can-I-be-your-sperm-donor-please offer to the world - is, as the New York Times reports, a ketamine head who was wasted for some of the 2024 American general election campaign. It's almost a relief to know for sure, isn't it? Because if they're mad, we are not; truth is the greatest high of them all.

- Tanya Gold

At last Elon Musk makes sense. He was a bad drug dream

Now Musk, so strange to watch, makes sense at last. We can name the technical term for his time in the White House - his job was to make the boss look sane, and he did - with some accuracy: he was the K-hole with the A-hole.

It was all a bad drug dream, and now it is over: Musk has stepped back, and there are dregs of hope in that. Even so, he punched a hole in the American state with ketamine, ecstasy and 'shrooms. He played video games, binge ate and posted things on X like: “Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix” and “This is not something on the chessboard, so they will be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

He wore two baseball caps in the White House - drug addiction is the disease that demands more of everything - and appeared with a mystery bruise on his face (which he has blamed on one of his children). Who did it? If I had to guess, I would say, with total conviction: he did.

Musk has the instincts - the personality - of the tyrant: the

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