The Globe and Mail tells readers how to 'properly hate' Elon Musk
The article is an embarrassment on the facts, too.
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, The Globe and Mail tells its audience that it should hate Elon Musk!
Here is an actual headline published by Canada's self-declared newspaper of record, the paper we are all apparently supposed to treat as the gold standard of serious journalism: "Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here's how to properly hate him."
After a full day of being mocked mercilessly, the Globe quietly changed the headline and issued a brief note: "The previous headline on this article did not meet The Globe's editorial standard. It has been replaced." It took them an entire day to figure that out. They weren't sure. That tells you everything.
Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him https://t.co/qAQVdquwCP
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) June 11, 2026
The new headline asks: "SpaceX is set to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Is that a bad look for capitalism?" The word "hate" was swapped for "despise" inside the article itself. The Globe apparently decided that "despise" is more respectable than "hate." It isn't.
The article is an embarrassment on the facts, too. It gives examples of billionaire excess — super-yachts, conspicuous consumption — but the examples aren't of Elon Musk, because he doesn't have those. He doesn't own a yacht. He dresses plainly. All he seems to do is work. So to make sure readers come away with the appropriate contempt, the Globe talked about other rich people's excesses and hoped no one would notice the bait-and-switch.
Then there is the claim that Musk "bought" political power and sits "at the centre of government." Really? Which part of government? Musk helped launch DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — which found a significant amount of fraud before being wound down in less than a year. It was never a cabinet position. Total staffing never got much above 100 people, in a federal government of two million. When Musk complained publicly that his ideas weren't being followed, President Trump dismissed him immediately. That is not what it looks like when someone is "at the centre of government."
As for the accusation that Musk gorges on government contracts — he sells services to the government. He sends more cargo into space than every other space company or country combined, times ten, at a fraction of the cost because he pioneered reusable rockets. Without Musk, China would be the dominant space power on Earth, unchallenged. NASA knows it, and has resented him for it for years.
Now, consider who is delivering this lecture. The Globe and Mail is owned by the Thomson family, Canada's wealthiest dynasty, worth more than $80 billion. And how did the Thomsons earn their billions? They inherited them. From a grandfather who built something. Today's Thomsons, whose sole accomplishment was being born after their grandfather rather than before him, are the ones telling you to despise a man who just completed the largest IPO in history — money raised not from manipulated politicians, but from ordinary investors who believed in what he built.
That IPO, by the way, made the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan roughly $11 billion in a single day.
And the Thomson family's newspaper — despite being backed by one of the richest fortunes in the country — still collects annual media bailout subsidies from the federal government because it cannot run a newspaper profitably. Their grandfather made money in newspapers, and now his descendants need Liberal handouts to keep the lights on. These are the people explaining how capitalism is a bad look.
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain https://t.co/ArBReYYGsv
— Financial Times (@FT) June 12, 2026
The Financial Times joined in as well, calling Musk a "real-life Bond villain" and accusing him of "stoking racial hatred in Britain." The FT has long billed itself as the newspaper of UK business. Going woke and despising the man who just did the biggest IPO in history is a curious way to serve their readership.
This is nothing more than envy. And, given the climate in which a health care executive was assassinated on the streets of New York City as part of an explicit murder campaign against millionaires, whipping up personal hatred of wealthy individuals is not merely stupid. It is dangerous.
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COMMENTS
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-06-13 09:59:21 -0400Someone posted a compilation talking heads video on X and everyone in it (which included AOC, Joy Reid, Elizabeth Warren, and former astronaut Mark Kelly) trashed Musk. Among the comments that were made was that EM really isn’t so smart.
OK, geniuses, YOU build a brand-new rocket from scratch, starting with YOUR ideas, YOUR money, and the work of people before you. Design the entire system (propulsion, fuel, guidance), get to work and work reliably, get it to work repeatedly and make money from it.
But you know who else might not have been “smart” by your standards? Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Neither of them had graduate degrees, but the work that both of them did defined entire industries and benefited the world at large.
Funny how none of them are disparaging Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak or Bill Hewlett and David Packard….. -
Tony Salotti commented 2026-06-13 09:16:07 -0400Keep at it Elon .I’ve watched you from day one and saw those first rocket launches . All young people should look up to him for inspiration . Everything he does is for the betterment of the human race .
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Paul McCulluogh commented 2026-06-13 09:08:57 -0400The Globe and Mail has gone full communist parasite. This shouldn’t be a surprise, since they’re basically stenographers for the Liberal party. Liberal ‘values’ on display. It’s hard to tell with the gun grab, if the Liberals are trying to save face. If nobody is cooperating with it, it could make them look weak and foolish. Then again, globalist leaders seem to be pushing their people to the brink of rioting these days. Their puppet masters seem to want chaos these days.
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Susan Ashbrook commented 2026-06-12 22:57:57 -0400Good advice, Bernhard! We can all share in Elon’s success. Then we all benefit!
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-06-12 22:44:13 -0400SA:
Thank you.
I don’t own any SpaceX stock. I might think about it once the share price settles down after the initial excitement has subsided.
But people can still profit from what happened today. Stock prices have risen significantly during the past few days and I’m sure that market sentiment over SpaceX had a lot to do with it. A rising tide raises all boats.
If SpaceX shares are too expensive, then invest in funds that have them in their portfolios. Buy stock in companies that supply SpaceX or firms that are in the same business but operate in a niche market (e. g., Rocket Lab). Remember that Levi Strauss got rich as a result of the California gold rush not by mining but by making pants that the miners wore and wanted to buy. -
Susan Ashbrook commented 2026-06-12 22:32:53 -0400Great point Bernhard! Elon definitely contributes to the benefit of America.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-06-12 22:27:32 -0400Two decades ago, I watched on the Internet how SpaceX attempted to get its first rocket, the Falcon 1, into orbit from the launch site at Kwajalein Atoll. The first three launches failed, and there wasn’t much money left, so Musk asked his employees if they were willing to gamble once more. They enthusiastically agreed and were successful.
Look at ’em now, eh?
On another website that I check, someone posted an anecdote about a welder who crossed the border with Mexico about a decade ago and went to work for SpaceX. Today, he’s a millionaire. Is the U. S. a great country or what?
But here’s something for the Mop and Pail detractors and Avi Lewis types to consider. Thanks to the IPO, Musk is now worth more than 1 TRILLION dollars (presumably greenbacks and not loonies). If he was to liquidate his assets, he could easily wipe out Canada’s federal debt.
Musk is in business to make money. His companies produce revenue. That revenue is taxed. From that revenue, his employees get paid. Those employees pay tax on their wages and spend their money on groceries and rent. Those stores and landlords make a profit from that and pay tax on that money. What’s not to like for a government?
Somehow, the Grope and Flail and the elbozos can’t figure that out. -
Matt Abrahams commented 2026-06-12 22:20:41 -0400Does anyone still read that commie rag?
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Susan Ashbrook commented 2026-06-12 21:12:35 -0400Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is wonderful news! He works hard doing what he is doing, for the benefit of mankind, yet I suspect that money is not the first thing on his mind… unlike others who will do anything to make more money, including harming ordinary people, and more than a few million/billionaire’s names come to mind in that category.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-06-12 20:38:17 -0400Notice how socialists prey on the basest and most diabolical human traits? Notice that they never mention good traits like frugality and generosity? Notice how envy, jealousy, and lust are used to rile up the people? Notice how pure logic is NEVER employed in their criticisms?
