Elon Musk has once again called for a San Francisco supervisor to be put in prison, the second time in the span of a week.
On Tuesday, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, that Board President Aaron Peskin should be locked up: “Prison for Peskin,” he wrote.
Musk was replying to a post from Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, a fellow tech executive who had written that Peskin had “done his part to doom spiral this city” and that the supervisor should retire.
Peskin, in a brief statement, said the incident was beneath him: “My intelligence is insulted by having to talk about Elon Musk and his friend Garry Tan.”
Peskin is a long-time city politico who became the president of the Board of Supervisors in January. He is well-known as a political operator with a Rolodex filled with city bureaucrats and commissioners, contacts gained over decades in San Francisco government.
Musk’s post was prompted by an article speculating on the possibility of a Peskin mayoral run next year, a prospect Peskin has thus far shot down.
Five days ago, Musk had called for another San Francisco supervisor, Dean Preston, to be put into jail. Musk’s comment last Thursday was made in response to a Mission Local article detailing Preston’s legislation to ban security guards in San Francisco from unholstering their weapons to protect against shoplifting and other property crimes.
The billionaire at the time wrote that “Dean Preston should go to prison.” Preston, like Peskin, is on the progressive wing of the Board of Supervisors. He is the lone democratic socialist on the board.
Musk had earlier pledged $100,000 to a campaign to unseat the District 5 supervisor next year, but his post last week seems to have backfired: The political pressure group organizing the “Dump Dean” campaign said it would not accept any donations from Musk after his comments, saying he was not aligned with their values.
Musk has a propensity for spurious and quickfire online posts dating back several years, in which he replies to all manner of people online at all hours of the day. He has frequently made outlandish and unserious remarks, as when he pledged to fight Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match that never materialized.
Tan, the tech executive to whom Musk was responding, is also on the board of Grow SF, the group campaigning to unseat Preston. Tan has a history of online vitriol against leftists and progressives in San Francisco and has spent almost $300,000 in local political races to back moderate candidates and measures.
Not every Elon musk tweet is newsworthy. This is reminiscent of the “Trump Tweets” Chirons from 2017 CNN.
Do we think he knows that Peskin and Preston are two different people?
I’m pretty sure he thinks Peskin and Preston are the same person. Also I think part of the problem is us as readers/commenters for reacting every “x” Elon posts. He doesn’t spend 10 seconds of thought on it, does it for fun, and is probably laughing at how annoyed people are with him.
Run, Aaron, run!
Musk and Tan should both be placed in a secure mental health facility. These sort of threats should not be ignored just because they are made by tech billionaire.
I say tax these rich tech bros billionaires into millionaires and make them think twice about attempting to buy elections.
If anyone should go to jail. It should be you Musk, in what you have done to this city. I thought you were getting away from Twitter but yet you changed it iconic sign for that God awful big X shame on you.
Coupla things to remember about Elon:
1) He’s a waste of food and water.
2) He promotes shit that does the City no good.
If the two points could be combined to produce mulch, the City’s garden spaces would benefit indefinitely.
Gary Tan should run for office or be quiet. He’s never served the public in any way, shape, or form. Giving money is not doing the work.
If the Musk Rat’s trying to avoid looking like a fascist POS cult leader, he’s obviously losing the image war.
Prison for Elon musk and his defected cars fix your leather seats they squeak in every single vehicle. He should be sued for that and his prison facility he calls a workplace. And he’s a racist republican Texan. He ain’t even American.
If the seats squeak stop wearing polyester. And buy a Ford electric piece of crap.
The Ketamine kicking in……..but what is rabid Garry Tan’s excuse? Parental abandonment? High blood pressure? Explosive brain syndrome, aka EBS or just dicky Techbro spew? Move to Austin boys. We dunna wantcha.
There is a difference between jail and prison. I think if Elon said Peskin and Preston should go to prison, it would be most accurate to say Elon Musk called for imprisoning the San Francisco supervisor – in both articles. Don’t let Elon off the hook so easy, he’s calling for something worse than your headline suggests.