The most depressing part to me is that a lot of his supporters don’t feel disrespected at all. They cheer him on without realizing that he is shitting all over the working class.
This is why I’m not at all surprised so many Americans are cheering on Luigi. Oligarchs are walking on thin ice. They might not make it the next four years unless they hop on that starship to mars
As much as I’d like to believe that this is all leading up to a moment in which Americans finally tell these dudes to fuck off, I would not be shocked if a good portion of the people cheering Luigi on also voted in Trump knowing full well what he was going to do. Us Americans are not very bright.
@@toastready3961 There are plenty Luigi’s out there I think. If all those people who raided the capital turned on the grifters who sent them there, bada bing bada boom
Him saying the working class should prepare to tighten our belts boiled my blood, not to mention his mom going on Fox to say we shouldn’t go out to eat/see movies and just procreate instead. The absolute fucking nerve.
I agree it’s blatant disrespect, like buddy ain’t even from here, but at the same time he’s been able to convince mainly working class yt men he’s a bro. A billionaire bro shouldn’t even be a thing but here we are. I’d have more grace to the working class if he was behind the scenes but he’s just moving his weight around and people are cheering
@ i see that online but a lot of those people to me don’t want to really engage with leftist politics outside of a liberal approach. I’m also basing this off of people i work with as well. I live in the south and work in a right wing dominated field and they all agree with Luigi but still think musk and trump are gonna turn this country around, i honestly don’t know how they do the mental gymnastics.
@@danupnorth6607umm yes? Having enough wealth that the normal limits applied to most human beings no longer applied to you will absolutely change you. You might not turn into an outright monster, but you’re definitely not going to stay the same. Because your perspective has changed
I blame Marvel for the Elon Musk problem we have right now. I feel like people didn't know him before he showed up and got a personal acknowledgement from Tony Stark in Iron Man 2. Then we got articles about how Elon is the "real life Iron Man" only to pull the rug out from everyone who wanted high-speed rail from LA to SF
I'm just watching Moonfall with my dad (trashy slop, but entertaining), and the one nerd character goes like "I love Elon", and later they're talink about a SpaceX fuel depot in orbit... which doesn't exist, even now, and won't exist in the near future either.
@open_mike_eagle it is. Even as far back as the Bush Admin, they had CEOs of companies leading the regulatory departments of the industries they used to work in. Former oil execs in the EPA. Former finance guys running the Securities and Exchange Commission. I mean even Obama installed these weasels in the chicken coup. It's just never been so *loud*.
I assume calling him the president is meant to drive a wedge between him and trump. We’ll see if that’s a smart play or cutesy poking like you said. Funny enough I wish we’d called them weird more, instead of hitting the liz cheney pivot.
as long as a worker can say "I'm male and/or white and/or cis and/or straight and/or able-bodied, therefore I'm worthy", they won't want to ally with their brethren against the people extracting material worth from them.
this started with one of my favorite points you've made. The bad taste left from all the (genuinely) funny jokes about the right is getting worse and worse. It doesn't mean be entirely humorless, just stop making it the goal.
I agree with a lot of what you say, I can only hope that the egos of the lawmakers will make some of them stand up to him, while others blindly follow... and then the Republicans will start eating themselves. It's Christmas, I get a wish...
I think that joking about all of it helps normalize and sanewash it. SNL, the Tonight shows and all the Trump impressions and whatnot, are part of the problem by making snarky jokes and grabbing low-hanging comedy fruit.
They are all in on it dude. The lawmakers and the business owners, they are all on the same team. If Musk made you look, they snuck something by you...
when something significant does happen will you join the cause or just talk about it? revolution won't be televised. hope you're on the right side of history
subtly & indirectly calling for the assassination of someone, then refusing to meaningfully respond to criticism of your reasons, & now you're deleting my responses to other people's comments? this is a really disappointing communication. i hope you're just in a mood & this isn't reflective of your character, Mike :\
@ you implied Elon might get whacked like Thompson if he continues seeking political power & based on the context it’s fair to assume that you think this would be a good thing. you also implied that if someone did whack him that Americans would respond positively, & context also makes it clear you think America would be better off if someone did. you don’t have to like the guy but bringing up his name with assassination is gross IMO. you also haven’t made any substantive responses to my critiques of your reasons for disliking Musk, or to my reasons for you being fundamentally misinformed on some of your anti-capitalist ideas
@@4ndjI don't owe you any responses. I dont need to change your mind. In have not called for any assassinations of anyone. aside from that point I don't need to clarify anything for you. if you like the guy keep liking him. I dont and I want him out of politics. thats all there is to it.
@@open_mike_eagle i appreciate you taking any time to respond at all, but if you had any good responses to my critique then you would have used your time to quickly & precisely give them instead of taking the time to tell me why you don’t owe me a response. so i can only conclude that your subconscious realized that your arguments fell flat in the face of mine which prevented you from responding meaningfully, yet your conscious mind isn’t humble enough to self reflect & be honest about it. again i appreciate any response but if you’re gonna engage in the public arena of politics then you gotta be able to respond to the most basic of arguments against yours 😌 🙏
@@4ndjbro I didn't even read all that jive you wrote. you think you're entitled that much of my time just because you had that much to write? I didn't make this video as an invitation to any random person to engage in debate. you can take my perspective or leave it like I take yours and leave it. miss me with all that subconscious talk. it's weird. I will repeat. if you like the guy keep liking him. if thats not enough of a validation of your worldview I don't know what to tell you but im not here to debate you. I don't know you to debate you.
I’m sorry you feel disrespected. I think perhaps one solution would be to redefine what it means to be respected. Like can someone that does not know you personally ever have the power to do that. Perhaps only an intimate relationship could have the power to disrespect you, or anyone. Maybe if we all hold our ground in our personal circles it’s enough. Also bro you do not have to fight for money… please
Why would anyone need to redefine what it means to be disrespected? These people are literally affecting our lives. They don’t need an intimate relationship with us, nor would they invite it, but their lack of respect for the working class is blatant.
Lol, that's the same mindset as changing the definition of a recession so we aren't in one. Doesn't change anything just because you don't use the word disrespect, you're still being mistreated and overlooked.
love your music Mike but let's be real with ourselves here. his being rich isn't the only reason why politicians are giving him power. he's an absolute genius in multiple fields of advanced innovation, his ability to build profoundly groundbreaking businesses while disrupting multiple key industries is unheard of, & his work ethic is insane on the 2nd point, Trump made it very clear that Elon would have political power if he won, with DOGE, less regulation on his AI & Aerospace companies, etc. & the majority of Americans still voted for him. so in a sense, he did receive votes. maybe not yours or mine, but millions of Americans voted for Trump with the intention of empowering Elon too. again, let's not kid ourselves here, & let's look at the facts if you seriously think Elon hasn't deeply studied how American politics works, then you truly don't understand him. watch any longform interview of him. his knowledge of subjects from political history to computer engineering is profound, he's not one of the wealthiest & most famous people on the planet for no reason people didn't vote NO on him being CEO of Twitter because they didn't think he could do it, Mike. the NO vote won because they wanted him to spend more time on Tesla & SpaceX where his input is more impactful. not to mention plenty of the people who voted were Tesla shareholders & thus were voting in the interest of their investment honestly i'm not really picking sides here, but i don't think we're doing ourselves any favors by either being willfully ignorant about Elon, or not putting the time in to actually understand him & thus looking like fools when we criticize him i say this with respect & love but this vid comes off as foolish & naive. i'm not sure you understand how capitalism works. you talk about him exploiting people, but if every Tesla employee put the remainder of their paycheck (after paying bills) into Tesla stock, they would have seen their investment return 100 PERCENT year over year. that's over 10x the average stock market. & the beauitful thing about it is that in America, non-employees can invest in Tesla too since it's a public company. so YOU or anyone else could have invested in Elon & received an average return of 100% per year. furthermore, since it's an American company, Tesla's wealth has made America as a WHOLE wealthier & therefore more powerful on the world stage, which indirectly benefits every American let me know if this all makes sense :)
@@open_mike_eaglei'd appreciate hearing what you disagree with. i'm not writing to you as an enemy, i've been listening to your music for 10+ years. i took some time writing that & it feels disrespectful to just "yeah nah" me on it
@@4ndj and this came off as respectul? "i say this with respect & love but this vid comes off as foolish & naive. i'm not sure you understand how capitalism works." yeah, nah to your veneration of elon. He inherited a fortune from mining and parlayed it into business investments that he didn't start or innovate in. Not to mention his re-platforming Nazis, etc etc etc. Riding this man's jock is foolish and naive.
@@metalfacemartinez criticism & disrespect are two different things, that's why when people criticize someone they love or care about they begin with "in all due respect". as for Elon, yea his dad doesn't seem like a great guy, neither is mine. doesn't make me or Elon a bad person. Elon doesn't talk to his & i don't talk to mine. idk where the last 2 arguments are coming from, he started SpaceX & OpenAI & PayPal (all massively innovated in their respective industries), & Nazis have not been replatformed as hate crimes on Twitter are still banable offenses & using racial slurs or calling for the harm of an ethnic group result in auto perm bans. idk what you're referring to with "etc etc etc"
Amen to end of imposter syndrome!
Love your channel, Professor. What you contribute to online music discourse is really cool and unique
very much appreciate the shout out in your rap analysts video
The most depressing part to me is that a lot of his supporters don’t feel disrespected at all. They cheer him on without realizing that he is shitting all over the working class.
Because they don’t think he’s talking about them.
They’re gonna learn, of course.
This is why I’m not at all surprised so many Americans are cheering on Luigi. Oligarchs are walking on thin ice. They might not make it the next four years unless they hop on that starship to mars
I wish it was true, but the way things are going it's more likely we'll be living in a full-on Cyberpunk dystopia in 20 or 30 years.
They'll be perfectly fine and it's a damn shame. Wish there were more Luigi's out there.
As much as I’d like to believe that this is all leading up to a moment in which Americans finally tell these dudes to fuck off, I would not be shocked if a good portion of the people cheering Luigi on also voted in Trump knowing full well what he was going to do.
Us Americans are not very bright.
@@toastready3961 There are plenty Luigi’s out there I think. If all those people who raided the capital turned on the grifters who sent them there, bada bing bada boom
Him saying the working class should prepare to tighten our belts boiled my blood, not to mention his mom going on Fox to say we shouldn’t go out to eat/see movies and just procreate instead. The absolute fucking nerve.
i bet he said "procreate" too. these rich people are fucking weirdos
neither of the quotes you mentioned are true
I'm reminded of billy woods' line from Checkpoints, "No surprise the rich suggest you do more with less"
@@4ndj he absolutely said the first thing. Sit down, jr.
@@4ndjyes he did. He literally said under Trump there’s going to be hardship
I agree it’s blatant disrespect, like buddy ain’t even from here, but at the same time he’s been able to convince mainly working class yt men he’s a bro. A billionaire bro shouldn’t even be a thing but here we are. I’d have more grace to the working class if he was behind the scenes but he’s just moving his weight around and people are cheering
im seeing a lot of people in the working class with the opposite reaction but point taken
@ i see that online but a lot of those people to me don’t want to really engage with leftist politics outside of a liberal approach.
I’m also basing this off of people i work with as well. I live in the south and work in a right wing dominated field and they all agree with Luigi but still think musk and trump are gonna turn this country around, i honestly don’t know how they do the mental gymnastics.
@@WillieEarlSonsame here. A mechanic in the Bible belt.
"A billionaire bro shouldn't even be a thing" So you're actively saying money would change you?
@@danupnorth6607umm yes? Having enough wealth that the normal limits applied to most human beings no longer applied to you will absolutely change you.
You might not turn into an outright monster, but you’re definitely not going to stay the same. Because your perspective has changed
This guy going from eccentric ceo, to whatever the hell this is from 2016 to now is scary
He's always been like this
I blame Marvel for the Elon Musk problem we have right now. I feel like people didn't know him before he showed up and got a personal acknowledgement from Tony Stark in Iron Man 2. Then we got articles about how Elon is the "real life Iron Man" only to pull the rug out from everyone who wanted high-speed rail from LA to SF
honestly this is a rlly good take. they don’t get enough hate for their role in promoting the MIC also.
I'm just watching Moonfall with my dad (trashy slop, but entertaining), and the one nerd character goes like "I love Elon", and later they're talink about a SpaceX fuel depot in orbit... which doesn't exist, even now, and won't exist in the near future either.
you are speaking big time facts here. It's pretty much that simple as to why he caught with culture the way he did.
Richest guy in America granted special privileges. In other news.. grass still green
It's only gonna get worse from here.
The system is working as intended
didnt always work quite like this
@@open_mike_eaglei think it has, Elon seems to not care about hiding behind the scenes as much as past elected officials
@@WillieEarlSonnot true… White supremacy and hegemony got knocked off the grand chessboard, now they are flipping over the chessboard.
@@open_mike_eagle peep Gary's economics. He was already talking about this. The wealth inequality tower is gonna collapse somehow.
@open_mike_eagle it is. Even as far back as the Bush Admin, they had CEOs of companies leading the regulatory departments of the industries they used to work in. Former oil execs in the EPA. Former finance guys running the Securities and Exchange Commission. I mean even Obama installed these weasels in the chicken coup. It's just never been so *loud*.
Elon is leveling up to being a supervillain of epic Lex-Luthor-type proportions and used a front of being pro-people to get there.
Lex had charisma at least. Dr. Doom had charisma. Trump and Elon have the combined charisma of uncooked oatmeal.
@@DenOfViperswell, Trump surely had charisma, he’s washed now. Elon on the other hand …
Dark Times indeed. Support any workers on strike nearby you. Anything helps!
thats real as hell
this has killed my imposter syndrome 🤣 appreciate the reminder
I assume calling him the president is meant to drive a wedge between him and trump. We’ll see if that’s a smart play or cutesy poking like you said.
Funny enough I wish we’d called them weird more, instead of hitting the liz cheney pivot.
I dont think the weird thing works for voters that were more concerned about whats going on in gaza than making fun of the other side for instance
Talk about weird and I can't believe I have the following opinion , but dude isn't American! Why is he all in our government???
Scam Artist 👨🎨 🎨
(he wants us to buy the story that he’s an innocent tech geek that earned his billions through being good with his tech skills 😬)
Billionaires have always wanted to oligarch openly. And they're moving to a time period where they can
as long as a worker can say "I'm male and/or white and/or cis and/or straight and/or able-bodied, therefore I'm worthy", they won't want to ally with their brethren against the people extracting material worth from them.
this started with one of my favorite points you've made. The bad taste left from all the (genuinely) funny jokes about the right is getting worse and worse. It doesn't mean be entirely humorless, just stop making it the goal.
Thanks for saying it because it's the truth.
YAY, class awareness !!!!
We have fed them for a thousand years.
whoa I didn't realize you started doing streaming and political commentary, love to see it! love your music!
The mushroom kingdom gonna send they're best shooters stg. Get it cos Luigi, nah fuck y'all.
If the millionaires lived in fear of the peasants they would eventually turn on these billionaires
feels like it might come soon
Definitely, it’s happening though now. He has 20 body guards on duty 24/7. /free Luigi 😈
Say that, Open Mike Eagle
I'm on board with calling him "president Elon" because Trump is so goddamn petty and I'm down for driving a wedge wherever we can.
Thank you Mike 🙏❤️
OME on a serious tear on this one!!!
PREACH !!!
Never enough
Great video 🗣️
I agree with a lot of what you say, I can only hope that the egos of the lawmakers will make some of them stand up to him, while others blindly follow... and then the Republicans will start eating themselves. It's Christmas, I get a wish...
Open Mike Eagle for president.
Or oligarch, or whatever...
I love your Song Pretty Bridges as hell!
More Autobahn Churches!
Good morning to the gang
I think that joking about all of it helps normalize and sanewash it. SNL, the Tonight shows and all the Trump impressions and
whatnot, are part of the problem by making snarky jokes and grabbing low-hanging comedy fruit.
They are all in on it dude. The lawmakers and the business owners, they are all on the same team. If Musk made you look, they snuck something by you...
when something significant does happen will you join the cause or just talk about it? revolution won't be televised. hope you're on the right side of history
He doesn’t affect me. I don’t buy his product or services and he’s useless in an atrocious government.
must be nice
subtly & indirectly calling for the assassination of someone, then refusing to meaningfully respond to criticism of your reasons, & now you're deleting my responses to other people's comments? this is a really disappointing communication. i hope you're just in a mood & this isn't reflective of your character, Mike :\
I haven't deleted anything. RUclips auto mods some comments so maybe thats what happened
I haven't called for the assassination of anyone.
@ you implied Elon might get whacked like Thompson if he continues seeking political power & based on the context it’s fair to assume that you think this would be a good thing. you also implied that if someone did whack him that Americans would respond positively, & context also makes it clear you think America would be better off if someone did. you don’t have to like the guy but bringing up his name with assassination is gross IMO. you also haven’t made any substantive responses to my critiques of your reasons for disliking Musk, or to my reasons for you being fundamentally misinformed on some of your anti-capitalist ideas
@@4ndjI don't owe you any responses. I dont need to change your mind. In have not called for any assassinations of anyone. aside from that point I don't need to clarify anything for you. if you like the guy keep liking him. I dont and I want him out of politics. thats all there is to it.
@@open_mike_eagle i appreciate you taking any time to respond at all, but if you had any good responses to my critique then you would have used your time to quickly & precisely give them instead of taking the time to tell me why you don’t owe me a response. so i can only conclude that your subconscious realized that your arguments fell flat in the face of mine which prevented you from responding meaningfully, yet your conscious mind isn’t humble enough to self reflect & be honest about it. again i appreciate any response but if you’re gonna engage in the public arena of politics then you gotta be able to respond to the most basic of arguments against yours 😌 🙏
@@4ndjbro I didn't even read all that jive you wrote. you think you're entitled that much of my time just because you had that much to write? I didn't make this video as an invitation to any random person to engage in debate. you can take my perspective or leave it like I take yours and leave it. miss me with all that subconscious talk. it's weird. I will repeat. if you like the guy keep liking him. if thats not enough of a validation of your worldview I don't know what to tell you but im not here to debate you. I don't know you to debate you.
I’m sorry you feel disrespected. I think perhaps one solution would be to redefine what it means to be respected. Like can someone that does not know you personally ever have the power to do that.
Perhaps only an intimate relationship could have the power to disrespect you, or anyone. Maybe if we all hold our ground in our personal circles it’s enough.
Also bro you do not have to fight for money… please
Why would anyone need to redefine what it means to be disrespected? These people are literally affecting our lives. They don’t need an intimate relationship with us, nor would they invite it, but their lack of respect for the working class is blatant.
Lol, that's the same mindset as changing the definition of a recession so we aren't in one.
Doesn't change anything just because you don't use the word disrespect, you're still being mistreated and overlooked.
I agree w/ you both. ❤️
I think I was taking a self empowerment perspective.
And probably a lil drunk
love your music Mike but let's be real with ourselves here. his being rich isn't the only reason why politicians are giving him power. he's an absolute genius in multiple fields of advanced innovation, his ability to build profoundly groundbreaking businesses while disrupting multiple key industries is unheard of, & his work ethic is insane
on the 2nd point, Trump made it very clear that Elon would have political power if he won, with DOGE, less regulation on his AI & Aerospace companies, etc. & the majority of Americans still voted for him. so in a sense, he did receive votes. maybe not yours or mine, but millions of Americans voted for Trump with the intention of empowering Elon too. again, let's not kid ourselves here, & let's look at the facts
if you seriously think Elon hasn't deeply studied how American politics works, then you truly don't understand him. watch any longform interview of him. his knowledge of subjects from political history to computer engineering is profound, he's not one of the wealthiest & most famous people on the planet for no reason
people didn't vote NO on him being CEO of Twitter because they didn't think he could do it, Mike. the NO vote won because they wanted him to spend more time on Tesla & SpaceX where his input is more impactful. not to mention plenty of the people who voted were Tesla shareholders & thus were voting in the interest of their investment
honestly i'm not really picking sides here, but i don't think we're doing ourselves any favors by either being willfully ignorant about Elon, or not putting the time in to actually understand him & thus looking like fools when we criticize him
i say this with respect & love but this vid comes off as foolish & naive. i'm not sure you understand how capitalism works. you talk about him exploiting people, but if every Tesla employee put the remainder of their paycheck (after paying bills) into Tesla stock, they would have seen their investment return 100 PERCENT year over year. that's over 10x the average stock market. & the beauitful thing about it is that in America, non-employees can invest in Tesla too since it's a public company. so YOU or anyone else could have invested in Elon & received an average return of 100% per year. furthermore, since it's an American company, Tesla's wealth has made America as a WHOLE wealthier & therefore more powerful on the world stage, which indirectly benefits every American
let me know if this all makes sense :)
yeah nah bro
@@open_mike_eaglei'd appreciate hearing what you disagree with. i'm not writing to you as an enemy, i've been listening to your music for 10+ years. i took some time writing that & it feels disrespectful to just "yeah nah" me on it
@@4ndj and this came off as respectul? "i say this with respect & love but this vid comes off as foolish & naive. i'm not sure you understand how capitalism works." yeah, nah to your veneration of elon. He inherited a fortune from mining and parlayed it into business investments that he didn't start or innovate in. Not to mention his re-platforming Nazis, etc etc etc. Riding this man's jock is foolish and naive.
@@metalfacemartinez criticism & disrespect are two different things, that's why when people criticize someone they love or care about they begin with "in all due respect". as for Elon, yea his dad doesn't seem like a great guy, neither is mine. doesn't make me or Elon a bad person. Elon doesn't talk to his & i don't talk to mine. idk where the last 2 arguments are coming from, he started SpaceX & OpenAI & PayPal (all massively innovated in their respective industries), & Nazis have not been replatformed as hate crimes on Twitter are still banable offenses & using racial slurs or calling for the harm of an ethnic group result in auto perm bans. idk what you're referring to with "etc etc etc"
@@open_mike_eagleI shut down the moment homeboy started yapping about Elon being a “genius”.