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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,969 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 01:30 PM Monday

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller Don't Fear Extinction. They Fear Sharing.

Kristoffer Ealy

A few weeks ago, Roland Martin and his panel — Dr. Greg Carr, Reecie Colbert, and Dr. Larry Walker — went somewhere that most mainstream political commentary refuses to go. They dismantled one of the most carefully maintained lies in Western political discourse. I did a deeper dive into the data after watching. And what I found confirmed everything they were saying — and then some.

The segment starts with what looks like a conversation about fertility rates. Fox News clips. CDC data. Teen pregnancy statistics. For a few minutes, you might think Elon Musk had decided to become America’s loudest OB-GYN. But Roland and the crew make the turn quickly and cleanly: this was never really a conversation about fertility rates. It was never really about population at all. What the panic is actually about — what it has always been about — is the declining population of white people specifically. And the Western political and media establishment has spent years talking around that reality, dressing it up in the language of civilization and demographics and birth rates, rather than saying the quiet part out loud.

Let’s look at the numbers, because somewhere in America Elon Musk just felt a disturbance in the force and opened another fertility spreadsheet. The demographic shift is real and it is significant. The white share of the United States population has been in long-term decline since 1950. In 2020, non-Hispanic whites represented about 59.7% of the country. By 2030, that figure is projected to drop to 55.8%. Demographers at the Census Bureau project that white people will fall below 50% of the total U.S. population around 2045. White children under 18 crossed that threshold already — they are already in the minority.

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Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda in both the first term and the current second non-consecutive term, is the most important figure in this conversation because his language is the most carefully coded. He speaks as if he is the final guardian of Western civilization, when in reality he often sounds like the last surviving member of a homeowners association whose neighborhood changed fifteen years ago and he still hasn’t recovered.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/they-dont-fear-extinction-they-fear

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Elon Musk and Stephen Miller Don't Fear Extinction. They Fear Sharing. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
I think Stephen Miller will kill more than Elon Musk Turbineguy Monday #1
To paraphrase Elie Mystal, they want to keep white men rights all to themselves dlk Monday #2

Turbineguy

(40,302 posts)
1. I think Stephen Miller will kill more than Elon Musk
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 01:41 PM
Monday

Musk does it as part of something else, Stephen Miller enjoys it.

dlk

(13,463 posts)
2. To paraphrase Elie Mystal, they want to keep white men rights all to themselves
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 01:59 PM
Monday

For them, sharing any little thing is always a zero sum game.

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