During a long interview sitting on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which attracted more than 1.2 million viewers in the first two hours, Musk explained how he thought it was important to buy Twitter after observing the growth of censorship and deplatforming on Twitter. social networks.

He admitted that acquiring the platform was “a crazy decision” and that it was “way too expensive.”

The X executive said he was still grappling with “advertiser boycotts” by “left-wing NGOs” with “Orwellian names”.

“Some of the boycott is starting to lift and I think if Trump wins, I think we’ll probably see most of the boycott lift,” Musk told Rogan.

He added: “But if Kamala wins, we will see this boycott strengthen. And they’re really going to stop (X).

“There is no way the Kamala Harris puppet regime would allow X to exist,” Musk noted.

Rogan asked Musk: “Do you really think they’ll be able to shut it down?” Is there a path to achieve this?

“Um, yes,” Musk replied.

“What would they do?” » asked Rogan.

“Well, they can contact the DOJ on (X). They’ve had this whole history of hate speech or misinformation or whatever, but they’re the ones pushing the misinformation. That doesn’t stop them from filing massive lawsuits and using the DOJ,” he said. said.

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Rogan praised Musk for purchasing the social media platform.

“If you hadn’t bought this and changed Twitter, I don’t think we would be where we are right now,” Rogan told Musk on the eve of the election, adding: “It was a pivotal moment. I think historically, when people look back on it, it will be a pivotal moment in this very bizarre fight for freedom of information.”

“At the time, I think I said, ‘Look, this is existential for the United States. It’s existential for democracy,” Musk responded.

“Without freedom of expression, there is no democracy. Without freedom of expression, people cannot vote informedly. If they are just fed propaganda and there is no freedom of speech, democracy is an illusion,” Musk explained of why he bought X.

The SpaceX CEO gave the example of how the DOJ targeted his spacecraft and satellite company because it “does not hire asylum seekers.” He explained that it was illegal to hire asylum seekers due to the sensitive nature of his company’s weapons technology. It’s only legal for his company to hire permanent residents in the United States, but the DOJ still decided to launch “a giant lawsuit” against SpaceX.

“This Orwell situation is becoming insane,” he said. “You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.”

Musk told Rogan that the growth of the “vast, stifling federal bureaucracy” is expanding each year with about two new federal agencies per year. He added that bureaucracy would eventually make it impossible “to do anything” in our country.

Musk won a legal battle Monday, when a Philadelphia judge ruled to allow Musk to continue handing out $1 million daily to voters in the state who signed his free speech petition.

His mother, Maye Musk, said on Fox News that her son had been targeted by Democrats.

“They go after Elon every problem he gets a court order,” Maye Musk said on Fox Monday. “A lot of it is Democratic judges or court orders. The Democrats are really after him, and most of the judges are Democrats.”

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Entrepreneur David Sacks warned in a recent podcast that a Harris administration would lead to “legal war everywhere.”

“I’m definitely not at the top of the list. Elon is at the top of the list,” Sacks said. “He has no choice but to go all in. They’re already waging a legal war against him.”