by Frank Holmes, reporter
It’s already been the most violent year in politics since the Vietnam era—and now a foreign power has made a threat against billionaire Elon Musk.
It’s not the usual suspects: China, Russia, or Iran.
Believe it or not, it’s America’s historic ally, the United Kingdom.
The UK is currently run by Prime Minister Keir Starmerof the left-wing Labour Party…and the party has the Tesla founder in its cross-hairs.
The party’s leaders aren’t even doing their own dirty work; they’re acting through left-wing think tank associated with the party, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
An investigative report from journalist Paul Thacker of The Disinformation Chronicle uncovered secret emails showing CCDH lists a unique goal among its “annual priorities”: “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”
2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter"
This is their internal monthly planner. Their goal is to also trigger regulatory action, although they are a tax-exempt nonprofit. pic.twitter.com/b3TFMA5LLm
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) October 22, 2024
The left-wing pressure group was so hyper-focused on killing Elon Musk’s social media platform—which he renamed from Twitter to X—that it coded the phrase “Kill Musk’s Twitter” into its email template, according to Thacker.
The Left has gone ballistic that Twitter—which was the Left’s favorite social media platform—has, under Musk, redefined itself as an outstanding forum for freedom of speech.
CCDH plans to kill the platform through “advertiser focus”…that is, pressuring and possibly boycotting advertisers X.
Some people might be willing to give the Democrats the benefit of the doubt: After all, Kamala Harris can’t be held accountable for what friends of friends are doing. But this isn’t a six-degrees-of-separation story.
Kamala Harris’ campaign staff met with the CCDH founder personally—and asked for the group’s input on her tactics and policies.
“Both the CCDH and Labour Together were founded by Morgan McSweeney, a Svengali credited with piloting Starmer’s rise to Downing Street, much as Karl Rove is credited with guiding George W. Bush to the White House,” wrote Thacker.
But the group isn’t just tied to the UK Left; it’s intimately bound up with the highest levels of leadership in the Democratic Party in the United States.
CCDH’s “founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign,” reported Thacker.
McSweeney actually met with Harris-Walz campaign officials over the summer.
“Several of Starmer’s closest and most trusted Downing Street aides attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week to speak to members of the vice president’s campaign team,” Politico reported in August.
“Among them were Labour’s election mastermind, Morgan McSweeney, and Downing Street Director of Communications Matthew Doyle. Also along for the ride were a host of Labour MPs, aides and strategists who met with Democratic Party aides to help them understand how they managed one of the largest landslides in British electoral history.”
The meeting of the transatlantic Left has raised questions from astute political commentators.
“Nothing to see here: just foreign consultants of the Harris campaign urging a plan to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ in the event of victory,” wrote Curt Mills of The American Conservative.
Nothing to see here: just foreign consultants of the Harris campaign urging a plan to “kill Musk’s Twitter” in the event of victory pic.twitter.com/1tVVSUy0p0
— Curt Mills (@CurtMills) October 22, 2024
Elon Musk has said he’s not going to take the left-wing bullying and censorship campaign lying down.
“This is war,” replied Musk.
This is war https://t.co/tesncwEoXE
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2024
It’s not even just targeting Musk—this UK Left’s political class seems to be all-in for Kamala Harris.
The Labour Party has reportedly sent 100 advisers to the United States to help Democrats win swing states.
The British workers will focus on the states Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
So much for “foreign collusion”!
The move has so angered Republicans that the Trump-Vance campaign has filed a lawsuit with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the British Labour Party of making “illegal foreign campaign contributions” to the U.S.Democratic Party.
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against 'far-left' Labour helping the Kamala Harris campaign for ‘illegal foreign campaign contributions’ and ‘interference in our elections’
[@e_casalicchio] pic.twitter.com/gRRz8R5Wpa
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) October 22, 2024
“Good,” replied Elon Musk.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 23, 2024
The Democrats know all-to-well that shutting down free speech, like they did during the China virus, will be pivotal to maintaining their permanent grip on power.
“If the platforms—whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are—if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” admitted 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“And it’s not just the social and psychological affects, it’s real life.”
“If they [social media companies] don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control” – Hillary Clinton
When they tell you who they are, believe them. pic.twitter.com/9OjTXYi5r1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 5, 2024
“You can always count on Hill Dawg to say the quiet part out loud,” wrote Gage Klipper on The Daily Caller.
But if she, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party get their way, you won’t get to speak your views out loud.