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5 min readElon Musk told Asmongold that he did not expect the level of violence that followed his political shift. People shot up Tesla stores and burned Tesla cars. He framed this as a predictable response from those who benefit from government waste and fraud: "the people that are receiving the billions of dollars waste and fraud want to keep receiving it." If they are already committing illegal acts to get the money, he argued, it is logical that they would respond with illegal acts when stopped.
The turning point: from uneasy feeling to direct observation
Musk said his concerns began about three years ago, starting as an "uneasy feeling" about censorship. He was the most interacted-with account on Twitter before buying it, which gave him a fine-tuned sense of what the algorithm showed or suppressed. Twitter, he said, was being run as a "far left" platform. Buying it was the only thing he could do to make it a platform for free speech.
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- 1 Timestamped Outline: Elon Musk calls out the Left's political blood sport | Asmongold TV
- 2 (00:00) **The Political Blood Sport Opens** - Musk describes the violent backlash against Tesla and himself after entering politics
- 3 (02:16) **The Immigration Argument** - Musk explains his belief that mass illegal immigration was a Democratic strategy for permanent one-party rule
- 4 (04:23) **When Musk Turned Against the Left** - He describes the moment he realized something was fundamentally wrong with the country
- 5 (05:31) **Buying Twitter as a "Gamer Move"** - Musk frames the Twitter acquisition as a watershed moment for free speech
- 6 (06:44) **Defending Free Speech Accusations** - Musk pushes back on claims he bans critics on X/Twitter
- 7 (07:22) **Seeing the Border Firsthand** - Musk describes traveling to Eagle Pass, Texas to verify border claims himself
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