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This is going to be written off the cuff…no planning…no fixed ideas.

Hands up who thinks the world is on the brink of a disaster. If you’re holding your hand up; you’re right. In a previous blog, I compared (semi-jokingly) to Blofeld, the arch criminal in many James Bond films. Now, I’m not friggin’ joking.

Musk is flexing his financial/megalomaniacal muscles now in a way that has gone way beyond any reasonable limit, and the danger to this world of ours is that he now has the backing of the Leader of the Free World (well, unless you live in Greenland or the Panama Canal Zone). Really, are no alarm bells sounding? A man who has so much money at his disposal that he could buy several countries, and who is the owner/CEO of a company whose satellites are saturating outer space, a company that is sending rockets to Mars and the Great Beyond, a hugely popular and influential social media site, of Tesla and…it could go on and on. The rumour is that he’s thinking of buying Tik Tok. Who is going to stop him? He is the John D. Rockefeller of our age, but at least Standard Oil was broken up to maintain competition in the oil industry. Would Trump even dream of limiting Musk’s monopolistic ambitions? He will certainly dominate AI and robotics in the near future. Philip K. Dick was only a few years out.

His political leanings are now so far to the right that I’m waiting for that little square moustache to appear on his upper lip. And, how long will it be until we see Trump with a ring through his nose, being led around by his ‘buddy’. The Man Who Would be King was once against electric vehicles and cryptocurrencies. Now, he loves them and, of course, he’s all for deregulation in the tech industry.

Can no-one in the Republican Party see or sense the danger in such an enormously wealthy and powerful individual having so much influence on the president and his policies? Does no-one understand the phrase ‘conflict of interest’?

In his barbed attacks on the governments of other countries, Musk has left out the very country that deserves to be attacked the most; China. And why, Elon, is that? Well, I think we all know. Will he have a word in Trump’s ear about placing tariffs on goods from China? If it hurts Tesla, then he surely will.

The next four years will be crucial for all of us, not just for Americans. I have a feeling that the next president of the USA will be a Democrat…or an android.