Elon Musk's therapy is to starve children

If there were ever an argument for seeking therapy and against having children to have children, it would be Elon Musk.

Elon Musk’s fake departure from the Trump regime woke up The New York Times, at least for a day.

On the same day, they decided to give him a taste of the way they could have covered his assault on our federal government the whole time.

First, we got this telling us what they’ve long known about Elon’s attempts to manage his dysfunctions with lots and lots of drugs of the sort that would get any other immigrant deported:

And then Michelle Goldberg presented a lovely eulogy for Musk’s work in the Trump regime:

Goldberg doesn’t note that even the amount Musk claims to have cut from government spending is piddling compared to the trillion or so dollars his and the regime’s efforts have cost taxpayers. But she does rightly name his key successes:

He did indeed shred the United States Agency for International Development. Though a rump operation is operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Another estimate of the deaths from the fulfillment of Elon's DOGE vision finds that 25 million will die.

Whatever you think of foreign aid, the sudden and completely unnecessary yanking of lifelines from children around the globe cannot be described as anything but an atrocity and one approaching the Iraq War in its death and small-minded malice.

Notably, because this is how The New York Times abuses its “outsized influence” on American politics and life in general, the paper of record also featured, on this same day, a trash op-ed bashing people for both seeking therapy and not having children.

Don’t be Elon

If there were ever an argument for seeking therapy and against having children to have children, it would be Elon Musk.

We know Musk proudly touts his opposition to seeking any treatment for his mental health, except, it seems, pharmaceuticals. And we have no idea how many children he had. And we have no idea if he knows how many children he has.

All that we know is he claimed one of his kids, presumably the one he drags along like an accessory at photo ops, bopped him, leaving him with a black eye at his Oval Office appearance to tout his fake departure from the regime.

That black eye is the sort of perfect distraction for Musk.

It’s the sort of injury a hero of a Noir film might sustain to reflect inner turmoil. It also looks faint enough that you could imagine Stephen Miller’s sweaty, soft fist manifesting it as revenge for Musk acquiring his wife. And it, along with his goofy baseball cap and swap meet t-shirt that celebrates Elon Musk, exemplifies precisely the kind of thing that doesn’t belong in the Oval Office—marking him as an overgrown child determined to please his daddy Trump while also asserting his ownership of the presidency he bought.

He’s in the center ring of the circus, waving his broken cane, mocking the damage one can do to so many while also expecting sympathy.

We all need repair

I’m a believer in the obligation of “tikkun olam,” which loosely means in Hebrew “repair the world.” And the first obligation of this responsibility, to me, is to “fix your heart or die.” In other words, we’re all in therapy whether we like it or not.

By this, I mean we’re all driven to find ways to help us cope with this heavy load. And if we don’t get actual qualified help, we’ll seek substance and other distractions—like starving children or becoming the biggest popularizer of Nazism since Hitler or taking so much self-prescribed ketamine that you can’t pee right—to manage our emotions.

I am no expert on mental health, but I do have some experience with my own.

I am in therapy, I have one child, and I have mental health struggles that are closer to what Elon Musk suffers than either of us would like to admit, though I just admitted it because I’m in therapy. And good therapy makes you at least want to be honest. I wish everyone could get as much as they need.

So I am both a huge advocate for therapy, especially therapy focused on Adult Attachment Repair. However, I also believe that we are all in therapy, which Merriam-Webster defines as “therapeutic medical treatment of impairment, injury, disease, or disorder.” Musk and others skip the “therapeutic medical” part.

Not all therapy is good; some is worse than nothing at all, which isn’t an option. Shock therapy was and is still, to some degree, therapy. And cruelty often finds a way to be medicalized.

We all find ways to fix ourselves or to punish others for our own need to be fixed.

We can only fix that which we admit is broken

Becoming a father forced me to confront the failings I developed from my childhood. I believe it’s the best thing I’ve ever done, and my wife agrees.

Despite being nowhere near the father my kid deserves, the ratio of fun to angst in our home has improved at an almost steady incline as I learn how to be human in a way that doesn’t substitute hurt for feeling or meaning.

If I were a better person, I might wish that for Elon.

I suppose I wish him that, so he can stop taking out the horrible fathering he received on the world. He’s likely to be rich and alive for a long time, unfortunately, and his frying of his senses seems to be demanding greater and greater harm for others.

Which is why I more so wish him accountability for his atrocities:

I believe that America will not allow Elon Musk to get away with what he’s done. Everything he and this regime have stolen from us must be returned. Our survival as a functioning democracy depends on it.

Propaganda as therapy

However, the terror of knowing this individual is a role model to tens of millions of men can be overwhelming. And it makes me doubt everything I think I know.

I’ve expected Americans to reject the horrors of Dobbs, the assault on the good our government does, and the choice to murder children around the world while assisting the murder of 15,000 children in Gaza. But I also know from growing up in a conservative temple that worshipped Israel as our only hope for salvation, how effective we can be conditioned to see the world through a veil of convenience.

What Elon and Donald understand is that many of us would rather be lied to than ever know the truth. The truth is hard. It demands change. It demands repair.

Lies are easy. They’re fun. They match and feed our trauma. Having someone to blame for the hurt you can’t name may be history’s most destructive narcotic.

Our challenge is to break through the lies people want to believe and the hurt they’re driven to inflict. We must do this on an individual level. And we must do this nationally, knowing that we’ve allowed our democracy to be warped to the point that the whims of one sick dude can doom multitudes.

I doubt that The New York Times waking up for a bit will be enough to drive Elon Musk into the kind of quality therapy he can afford and so desperately needs, not just for himself but for his XXX children.

However, it should also wake the rest of us up to a simple fact that the great crises of our time—climate change, inequality, and disinformation—are trying to teach us. What one of us breaks, we must all repair.

Musk Must Fall

We said it before Trump did: Elon is really not leaving.

He's saying he's backing off because that's what he's been told he should do to preserve Tesla's ridiculously bloated stock price, and so he can gobble up more taxpayer grift with less scrutiny.

#TeslaTakedown made the case that "hurting Tesla is hurting Musk," and Friday's Oval Office performance is a testament to that theory of change. Letting up now would be to reward Musk for the atrocities he has sparked and will continue to seek until he's stopped.

That's why we all have to get ready to join the #MuskMustFall Global Day of Celebration on June 28th. See you there. Let's give Elon a little therapy for his birthday.

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