"We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West."
Marketing professor and author Scott Galloway appeared on his Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and called for the execution of tech mogul Elon Musk. Musk runs several tech companies: SpaceX, X, Neuralink, and Tesla and was called by Galloway “a traitor to the west.” Musk gave $455 million to support Republicans in the midterm elections, much of it going to Texas.
As the election results rolled in on Tuesday night in a complete defeat for Republicans, Elon Musk, who had once worked with the Trump administration overseeing DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency designed to find and eradicate fraud and abuse in government spending, posted “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”
“I think the idolatry of innovators has gotten out of control,” Galloway said of America, which has long supported technological innovators, their innovations, and has prospered incredibly because of that. He said the problem was that these innovators blame government regulations for “their failures” while taking pride and credit in “their grit and their character for their success.”
Galloway apparently credits the US government with the success of the “multi-trillion dollar companies” that dot the west coast tech landscape.
“The fail,” said Galloway, “is that we have begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.”
Galloway went on to talk about Charles Lindbergh, the American mogul and Nazi sympathizer, who did not want to see the US enter another war in Europe.
“We had spent tremendous capital, a lot of loss of human life of young men in World War I, and we thought you can understand we don't want to go back, right? And he was his view was we should partner with Germany and Hitler. What if and this could have very easily happened? He was a hero.
“What if he'd raised the capital to buy Boeing? He probably could have done it. And then when we lent B-17s to run bombing runs over Germany to the RAF, what if he had figured out a guidance or a flight system, and then mid 1940, before we were involved in the war, decided to throttle back those guidance systems, and the Blitzkrieg in London got worse, and more homes and more civilians were destroyed and killed, respectively. What would we have done to Charles Lindbergh?
“But it's uncomfortable and weird because we've decided someone who's a trillionaire and makes a great EV and can land a rocket on scissors is held to a different standard. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West,” Galloway concluded before a scheduled commercial break.
Musk moved his space company to Texas from California to get away from the leftist policies implemented by leftists in the state. On Tuesday, Texans delivered the formerly red state to Democrats up and down the ballot.
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