Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Thank God for Elon Musk!

25 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dennis Prager reflects on his initial skepticism about Elon Musk but ultimately praises Musk’s decision to purchase the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Prager argues that Musk’s acquisition, despite financial loss and alienating friends, is driven by a commitment to innovation, freedom, and especially the preservation of free speech in America. He frames the purchase as a potentially historic moment that could help prevent the erosion of free speech and, by extension, safeguard the nation’s future, warning that without such protections America could eventually decline.

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Times are changing. Elon Musk— thank God for Elon Musk. I'll be honest with you, I was a little skeptical, wasn't sure. This is a guy that just wants to build, that just wants to be innovative, that just wants to be free, and he's willing, and he wants other people to be free as well. So he buys X, loses tons of money, loses tons of quote-unquote friends. But he buys X to make sure that free speech remains in America. This will go down as one of the biggest moments, him buying X, in American history that may have helped save the country. And I'm not saying America was going down right away, but you get rid of free speech, it's, it's not like it's going to take long. It's not like countries last forever. They don't. And eventually America may fall too, but not right now. Not right now.