A Lent Challenge to Elon Musk and Substack

Those who support freedom and free speech MUST get along.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.  Lent is a time of 40 days before Easter in which Christians are penitent for our sins and strive to amend our lives.  And I have already begun attempting at least to do so.

But this post is a bit backward.  Lent is generally not a time in which we confess other people’s sins and challenge them to amend their lives.  But I’m going to do so anyway.

Those of us who oppose the current illegitimate treasonous Regime are too busy undermining each other.  Instead of aiming our fire at the enemy, we have a circular firing squad.

For example, I love Ron DeSantis and hope he wins the 2028 election. For a while he was my favorite candidate for 2024.  But now that it is clear Trump will be the 2024 nominee, we need to support him.  That includes you die hard DeSantis people.  Instead, some of you continue to trash Trump.  And you Trump people need to stop trashing DeSantis and realize that some (most?) of the flack coming from DeSantis people are actually from bots or those who have been bought.  Both camps need to remember who the real enemy is and join together.

I could go on with other examples of willful friendly fire, but most on my mind is Elon Musk and the Substack team not getting along.  (And I will post versions of this on both X and Substack.)  Both X and Substack are vital and necessary in this year’s fight for American freedom as both support and enable free speech.  This is a significant difference between now and 2020.  Back then pre-Musk Twitter heavily censored and suppressed speech that opposed Biden and exposed the Deep State behind that puppet.  And Substack was much smaller, though growing.  I thank God both are much stronger for free speech now.

Are there other free speech platforms nearly as large and influential?  Outside of those that produce mainly their own content (as important as some of them are) I cannot think of any.  So we need both X and Substack to do well.  And I am among those who provide a lot of content to both and spread around others’ content from both platforms.

Yet Elon Musk and the Substack team have been undermining each other even though both have free speech missions.  I am not up to date on any efforts behind the scenes for them to make up and play nice.  But, among other hindrances, one cannot embed tweets on Substack and X has suppressed content from Substack.

And it’s only hurting both platforms.  Matt Taibbi famously helped expose the Twitter Files at Musk’s invitation.  Yet Taibbi has since left X because his Substack posts were so suppressed on X that he saw no point in remaining on X.  So X just hurt itself by suppressing Substack content.

Even for small content providers like me who might love both platforms — and I do — when our Substack content is suppressed on X and X content is clunky to share on Substack, both platforms lose.

Musk and Substack need to realize that they are on the same team, freedom team, the free speech team.  And they are among the biggest players on the freedom team.  They need, we need for them to work together, not undermine each other.  X alone or Substack alone will not be enough to give us the free speech we need to defeat the Regime of lies with the truth.

So my challenge, my plea to Elon Musk and the Substack team is to get together during Lent and work things out so you support each other in your free speech missions instead of undermine each other.  There’s enough need for free speech that both of you can win by cooperation.

And get things worked out by Easter.  The need for the free speech team to work together this year is that urgent.  We must defeat the anti-free speech Regime.  We must work together to do so.