Elon Musk has publicly announced today he can no longer vote for Democrat candidates and will instead vote for Republican candidates. [Tweet Link Here] This is a rather bold move for a man who is now putting himself in the forefront of the modern Democrat hate furnace.
He appears very aware of the level of opposition he will now face as a result of calling the Democrat party the “party of division and hate,” despite the bold truth expressed. In an earlier tweet he stated, “political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months;” and when Musk says “on me” he likely understands that means on all he represents, including his businesses.
Elon Musk looks more and more like John Galt every day.
Despite all the challenges, and perhaps because the righteous battle is always fought on the right side of history, we are alive in very remarkable times. This decision by Mr. Musk will embolden many more to join us….. Happy warriors.
Praise the Lord and pass the popcorn!!!
It is a bold move. He is fully aware of the price that will be paid.
He has that same rare quality that Trump has. He does not care what other people think. He is announcing himself a a free person and not a slave.
Gotta give the guy credit, he leads from the front.
There really is no other choice. If we view ourselves as eternal souls, then this earthly sojourn is but one chapter written into our Akashic record.
We already know how this will end.
Perhaps Mr Musk has discovered his eternal soul, and has resolved to nurture it now, with the utmost care. It’s either that, or else he risks losing it all.
Manna from Heaven or thirty pieces of silver? Hmm
Braveheart, Mr. Musk. He has made the call.
What will you do without freedom?
King Longshanks — ( paraphrased ) …. The trouble with America is that its full of AMERICANS…..
If we can’t drive them out ….. we’ll breed ( and invade ) them out ”
— You may not talk about ” Replacement Migration ” …. because Chuck Shoomer and MSM say it is hate speech.
The UN – Population Ministry , in 2001 , published a paper about –” MASS MIGRATION to replace ageing and older populations ”
WE are the news now , we cut through the LIES in real time.
WLCOME TO THE PARTY ….. PAL !
Musk is looking like the real deal. And I’ll happily take him on our side, even if he holds many personal democrat positions (in the 1980’s sense).
This guy is smart. I always said if I ran for president and got on the National debate stage, I would absolutely cal out the left, IC, and Republicans for their dirty and dangerous tactics. I would state, “Now I want all American citizens to pay close attention. Because in the coming days and months you will see me or somebody close to me either physically harmed, killed, or have trumped up legal charges brought up against me or them. And my fellow Americans, when that happens we will need to ask ourselves a very serious question about the government pols and bureaucrats we currently have in places of power.”
That’s how you cover yourself. AND you totally take those arrows out of the commies quiver which allows you to run a steamroller of a campaign that they couldn’t compete with when they are under a microscope on a level playing field. OR you expose them and wake the sleeping Giant that is the American public.
Go Elon!!!
Started already……..
Tesla removed from S&P 500 ESG Index.
He’s right, hate, corruption and pure evil and the world is awakening to the truth.
Bogeyfree: Well, whaddya know? The ESG Index turns out to be complete BS; nothing more than political virtue signaling.
Looking at it now, it’s just a tool to try to defund companies that don’t follow the leftist dogma. Musk even Tweeted a meme that highlights that. Many of the big mutual funds and retirement funds, etc, want to steer investments into funds on the ESG index.
If this all has the effect of delegitimizing the ESG Index, I’m pretty OK with that.
Bill, you beat me to it.
a classic fascist partnership; authoritarian government allied with corporations.
Makes one wonder if this might be the first volley in, as Schumer called it “death by a thousand cuts”
Somewhat difficult to hurt Musk too much given the SpaceX dependency but I’ll be watching future missions for faults not previously seen, nonetheless.
John Galt 👍👍👍
I wonder why it took so long for Musk and many others like him to see the light?
Because the entire PR machine for 50 years has claimed the GOP was the “Mean Spirited” party. The Democrat Party has now revealed it’s true colors; the party of the KKK, pro-aboretion, pro-slavery, anti-freedom and greed.
I know many artists who are naturally inclined to vote ‘liberal’ but because they care about truth, now see the GOP as the better choice. These are 30-somethings from left wing homes, but because they are truth seekers they can now see they’ve been lied to.
Very true, our sons are 30 and 32.
Both married with kids.
We see them daily one lives in the house next door ( literally) the other 10 mins away.
We interact several times a week with late twenties early thirty somethings.
The vast majority are seriously frustrated and because of school and MSM thought Conservatives were rich selfish war lovers.
Well President Trump and their own Social Media has changed that for I would say 70% of them..
The S and Ps action today was outrageous…truly insane.
A political gift for PDJT Elon, and anyone with an ounce of savvy.
Cheers!
Indeed, the left traditionally has excelled at propaganda. But also peer pressure in liberal circles is unforgiven, as they believe they hold the absolute high moral ground, it’s a dogma in the religious sense. And NPR deliver the homilies.
You are so right! In my close to 50 years of life here in San Francisco, everytime I get into a political discussion it always degrades into an attack on my character with Liberals. Whenever I’d shoot down one of their pre-programmed spiels it always goes to the next spiel. And that was before the rise of the SJW’s, where they took it to the level of an Inquisition!
The smug arrogance of the Regressives is thick and their understanding of reality thin… as their skins. The taming or destruction of Twitter is only the beginning.
Without Big Brother telling them what to think and feel they are lost. And they deserve to be so.
When they resort to name calling ….
I always look at that as — I made my point.
It’s the cult-like adherence to their dogma that always gets me.
On the plus side, many of the Libtards I know bought Telsas to “save the Earth” and now they have a choice of either going back to Gasoline fueled vehicles or get a EV Car that looks like a box! So much for “saving the Earth!” 😛
Well, I have a news flash. Even if the Republicans gain control of the house and the senate they will find a way to screw things up. Twelve Republicans voted to support the impeachment of Donald Trump! Back stabbers and RINOs with absolutely no loyalty to anyone but themselves. Watching people like Lindsay Graham in action is enough to gag a maggot….
Because he’s a crook himself (!!) or not very smart (!!).
Okay, he’s both!
The company this guy took over hasn’t made $4 billion in earnings, yet he’s cashed out $20 billion from the sucker shareholders of said fraud. And that is apparently enough cred for the RINOs at the treehouse and elsewhere to embrace him ($$ over God, again, I see)!
Is Hillary is jail, yet?
haha!!!
Go Scotty! Go Scotty! Go Scotty!
Love Scott Presler!
You go, Elon! 👍
Absolutely brilliant.
Most of us independent minded folks are disgusted with politicians and political parties.
President Trump. Savvy businessman, brilliant student, smart, witty, tough and loyal. ( five seemingly wonderful children) self made Billionaire..
Elon Musk, African😎( does count though 🤔) Autistic spectrum ( would think lefty wakes would be championing his successes and role model. does not count though. I wonder why?)
Worlds richest guy, has multiple children.
The leftists and media shills are a pitiful shower of shallow deviants
Cheers!
The Left can’t Meme ….. we know this.
The left can’t even begin to understand weaponized autism.
( Full – Spectrum – Tardation )
“Weaponized autism” – I like that, I think I’ll adopt it.
What we view as a flaw is often a feature. Many brilliant people have Aspergers.
They appear to be immune to the groupthink that grips the rest of us. While we’re all stepping and fetching in our mass formation psychosis, they will look on, shaking their heads.
Sometimes it’s good to march to a different beat.
In specific areas of their interest, people with aspergers can be very intelligent, perhaps even brilliant. It’s only the social aspect they have trouble with. Yes, I’ve been researching aspergers. I find Elon to be a very interesting individual.
My brother has Aspergers. Yes, they are very interesting people indeed!
Trump/Musk 2024
Trump gets the MAGA Half of the vote and Musk will bring in the walk away Liberal vote.
There is absolutely no way that ticket could lose fair election.
If Trump and Musk can buy out Dominion its game over.
👍👍
Holy smokes!
Honest, I was just thinking that.
Awesome!
Fantasy. Sure but imagine a new independent party headed by these two, and some truly independent brilliant Americans.
Unlimited money..media presence.
Name recognition. Own Jets.
Spaceships even😎
One can only dream.
eat your heart out Soros
We can get “ down in the dumps” at times.
However we are smarter, tougher, kinder, gentler and a heck of a lot funnier than them.
Never stop laughing..
Cheers!
Speaking of dreaming, I did the same yesterday after reading this which was posted by a “Martha from VT” on here, CTH.
BS? Probably, but a nice thought. Link below and a reply (BoulderQCowboy) underneath the main article.
https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/about-those-twitter-bot-accounts?s=r
BoulderQCowboy
“One last point – someone very close to me is connected to Larry Ellison of Oracle – check out oracles latest acquisition and Oracle Web Services…. Larry is a patriot and is fully on board with Elon…. rumor is they both hate Bezos, Zuck & Gates and pooling their resources to take them all down in coordination with Team Trump… oh, and Peter Theil is also involved bigly.”
Cheers!
Great information.
All the best!
Elon is not Natural Born Citizen.
why this craving for Government to do everything? or highest achievement in life etc?
😷😷
neither is Ilhan Omar. We need a powerful team like that to retake power and clean house. Its going to be hard to rely on our vote to overcome the election rigging. without something drastic
Natural born citizen required for President. Not for Congress.
that sucks
AGAIN read your US Constitution…NBC is ONLY required for the two heads of the executive branch per this founding document…Representative in the House requirements are in Article I
“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”
should you actually care to search the SOURCE document the Senator’s requirements are in the same Article……READ the document….it is not like War and Peace as it is a WHOLE 7 pages long with Amendments
Im just throwing ideas out there. I appreciate you checking the rules. BTW. We do not have a Republic at the moment. How do we get it back?
Try thinking of a way to Win. The enemy is not playing by the rules you live by.
Since 2020 Ive been thinking about who could stand with Trump as a running mate or even replace him when he leaves us. Although Musk is not technically eligible, this is the closest Ive come to filling that role. Can you think of anyone else? The duo of Trump and Musk is a powerful force to regain power.
Agreed. JMHO.
When did they begin to follow the rules? …….it all started with the one who wanted to transfer all the wealth in this country and force us all into communism although the corruption began much earlier. Seems to me, the administration has been filled with foreigners who have no love for America, the country I use to know until they brought us down to a third world country. As long as the current administration remains in power, I will not even fly my American flag.
Than again, OZero wasn’t either.
Where Obummer was born in the US or not, his mother was. So, he’s a citizen regardless.
citizen and NATURAL BORN CITIZEN are NOT the same….FFs were pretty smart men and were not liberal with their language the REQUIREMENT is there as a DISTINCTIVE class of citizen
so when the jewel thief gets away with his crime (PDJT’s analogy), it is now LEGAL for all to take the jewels….how silly DOES that sound…maybe think BEFORE speaking next time
Ya he was 🙄
Part of the natural sense of government is to have a responsible person in government. My feeling is that the democrats have perverted this into the “Glorious leader” iconic leader that is all powerful and typical of socialist governments. As americians we have the right of freedom of speech and can, will take potshots at our leaders. Not only do we consider it a right but also a duty. Government should be the servants not the masters.
The only way to get a government to please most of the people is NOT to promise or attempt to accomplish everything for the people (which is impossible). SO people have to do things for themselves unless they all agree.
“ SO people have to do things for themselves unless they all agree.”
Or are FORCED to agree, as witness the recent attempt to establish a governing board that would determine what is permissible information and may be published and what is disinformation and must be suppressed.
There is very little distance left between civil society and civil government.
Any problem, however insignificant, now falls within the purview of some elected official.
This is why hatred for successfully businessman such as Trump and Musk is central to the Democrat party.
If anyone were to “go Gault” it opens a sphere of independent action that threatens the absolute control over civil society by the civil government using its control apparatus—the administrative state.
We are just longing for a leader who cannot be corrupted by greed. Like PDJT, Exactly like Jesus Christ.
TRY reading your US Constitution pal and fathom out what it means….RE: especially Article II for duties and QUALIFICATIONS for POTUS (includes VP)
Constitution is useless. We dont even have the power to elect the representatives we want if the Uniparty decides to rig it.
Keep thinking inside the box buddy
Ha !No way some one like musk would ever agree to run as vp, He would go insane .
Keep an eye on your family pets, Elon. They often start there with their warnings to keep quiet. And if they fear you enough, well, just remember the guy on that badge.
Does he mean McConnell Republicans, or does he mean MAGA Republicans?
Please don’t browbeat someone newly come to his senses. He needs to be kindly and patiently led to understanding.
Musk has said he values kindness. Let’s show him a large measure.
And certainly the McConnell republicans do NOT endorse absolute free speech.
I work in the Aerospace industry. I am not a rocket scientist, but I have a fair amount of experience in designing real-time digital systems for determining attitude, position, speed, acceleration and using that high rate data for controlling “things”. In other words, I have a skill set that Elon Musk could have used in the early days of SpaceX.
While commuting to my job in the early 2000’s, I often found myself behind a car with a license plate that said SpaceX. This was long before anyone had heard of SpaceX. I was dissatisfied with my current job and was looking for a new one. I did a search on SpaceX and found that Elon Musk, someone that I had never heard of had taken his Paypal fortune and had just opened a startup to build rockets. This sounded very interesting, so I went to see if he was hiring.
I went to the jobs part of his website at the time (~2001) and discovered that he wanted nobody over the age of 30 to apply, unless it was a very specific skill he needed (which I think I had).
This left a really bad taste in my mouth (I was over 30).
But what made my mind up to never apply for a job at any Elon Musk company was his 10 or so page diatribe about how wonderful he was and how brilliant he was and how everyone should worship him.
I decided that the paypal $ had gone to his head and that he was a megalomaniac.
At this point in time, I am pretty sure that 99.99% had never heard of Elon Musk.
Had I applied for a job and got it, I would probably be a rich man, due to stock options that were part of the deal in the early days, but I am glad that I didn’t apply.
That being said, I think Elon Musk has matured greatly since that time. I have much more respect for him now, especially with his attack on Twitter that I think will ultimately be fatal to the communist corporation.
As a side note, I am near retirement age and work very close to SpaceX headquarters. The young engineers that I work with on a daily basis don’t seem to want to have anything to do with SpaceX, because their college friends report a somewhat nasty corporate culture. Other younger engineers have left my company and went to SpaceX and must like it, because they have been there for 5+ years.
I don’t know the truth, I have never worked there.
Musk made a fortune in PayPal in 2001? Was PayPal even in existence back then?
Musk was the founder of Paypal along with one other person.
In 2001? I knew he had something to do with it, along with Peter Thiel. But I’m shocked it was 2001 timeframe. I feel like it didn’t even pop on the scene until 2010/2011.
Was the technology and legality around back then?
It’s been awhile since I read an article about PayPal’s origin, but you are correct. Thiel merged his company with x.com founded by Musk in the late 1990s and the name changed to PayPal. eBay bought PayPal in 2001/2002 for 1.5 billion. I used PayPal mid 2000s. I read a lengthy article on the difficulty Thiel and Mush had working together. I believe Thiel is the one who worked behind the scenes to force Musk out – not exactly sure when he was forced out.
Also, I’m not trying to be flippant either. Genuinely curious about whether or not this timeline is correct.
I may not have the year correct, it was a long time ago. But I think it is within +/- a few years. I do know that I quit the job I didn’t like in 2003 and I had been looking for a new job for a couple of years. I think 2001 is probably correct.
Another fact unknown to most. Elon hired almost the entire propulsion department of TRW to create the nascent SpaceX. They were ALL over the age of 30. The average age was probably close to 60. TRW technology is what made SpaceX happen.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. Man I was internet obtuse in my early 20s. Didn’t know about any of this stuff.
His humility and drive come from the fact that he almost went bankrupt twice!
Bannon was a Paypal founder, wasn’t he?
From Wikipedia Founded
December 1998; 23 years ago (as Confinity)
October 1999; 22 years ago (as X.com)
March 2000; 22 years ago (as PayPal).
This is from Wikipedia.
Thanks, Ninja. Crazy that it’s been around that long. Time flies and so does technology apparently! !
My son has an application in with SpaceX right now, hopes to speak with them soon. He’s 22.
Well, as the Emperor of Green, he has wedded acolytes across the political spectrum.
By moving away from the Democrats, publicly, he will take a following with him.
By drawing everyone’s attention to the roasting he is expecting to receive from the Democrat Government machine, he will open more eyes to the fact that these in power are despots. Thereafter, more will follow him.
Elon is cool. The kids like him. Wanna be like him.
For a man like Elon to take up the banner for free speech makes a huge difference to the wokesters out there who are actually asleep.
You think Elon knows about the 4th Branch yet?
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Uh. Yes. Who do you think he worked with to get Starlink to Ukraine?
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Yes, Elon appears to be on “our side” now, but he cannot be trusted. Every action must be analyzed/vetted.
The Apostle Paul’s conversation to Christianity was met with similar suspicions.
Let’s give this fella a chance to demonstrate his sincerity. Trust but verify.
Roughly $65 billion in money is indexed to or benchmarked against the S&P ESG index. That is a lot, but it is relatively small in the asset-management world. The comparable figure for the S&P 500 —Tesla is a component—is more than $13 trillion.
tesla down 6+ percent today..but the entire trading sector globally had a haircut today.
forcasts are being trimmed for the next tesla “target” (read: guess)
prediction: telsa takes a big hit over the next 6 months…..
why?
global markets are contracting.
credit and liquidity are being forced tightened.
ev cars are STILL a luxury in the sense that buyers are generally mid to high middle class.
middle class mid and high are most vulnerable to serious recessionary forces.
a recession (deep) complete with food scarcity, stale markets, inflationary pressures will continue for at least 2 years.
The bubble is popping.
What if the kids on the short bus are there because THEY ….. are the smart ones. ?
Being kept away from the rest of us ” Normies “
I’m confused about this part:
“In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.”
When was that?
I think he means their fake positions. You know, equality and tolerance for all. Except for anyone that is a white male or disagrees with the most minute of their policies. In that case they are mostly violent anarchists that kill at will.
But mostly kind, ya know??
Perception not reality. Symbolism over substance as Rush used to say
Martin Luther King’s political views throw a long shadow over the Democrats.
King was an apostle of the Social Gospel, a Protestant social movement, the ethos of which was exemplified by the Great Society.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/social-gospel
Elon Musk was born in South Africa. South Africa was colonized by Dutch Protestants.
It would only be natural for him to (wrongly) assume that the “Social Gospel” party typified Christian kindness.
George W Bush made the same mistake when he directed Treasury funds to religious groups with the expectation that they would be well suited to promote the Social Gospel and disburse “charity”.
Instead, the monies were used to facilitate illegal immigration.
Elon Musk owned up to his mistake; George Bush did not. For this, Musk is to be commended.
Poppy Bush is The Godfather of the New/One World Order.
He is calling out to the dems who think they are virtuous by supporing Democrat policies and politicians. Elon is no fool.
I wonder if it will affect Tesla sales? Where I live, its pretty much Dems buying them.
https://electrek.co/2022/05/16/tesla-top-3-electric-cars-us/
Methinks Mr. Musk has looked over the horizon and seen the future.
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Yeah. Well, when you’re already the richest man in the world, built yourself rocket ships and satellites and cool toys, have a bunch of gorgeous kids, dated actresses, even your mother on the cover of SI, and you live in a country in which you can’t run for president… maybe you’re in a good position to take on a few invigorating conflicts against the idjits just because. 🙂
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Cheers to Mr. Musk. If you continue to do the right thing you will be given love that is even more substantial than your riches.
Elon has joined in the fight to save our Constitutional Republic. More power to him.
Some time back the democrats were the party of big government, corruption, etc. Then they morphed into decisive items, racial justice, gay rights, environmental issues, muslim rights, womens rights and they became a party of special interests that overrode the common interests, they were taken over by the democratic socialists of america. Then they became the party of hate and division whose purpose was to destroy america.
Everyone is hailing this man as some sort of Jesus Christ Superstar…the savior of free speech. Anyone going to ask him if he’s still going to offer his employees in Texas to be driven to other states and pay for their abortions?
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-abortions-roe-v-wade-marco-rubio-2022-5
everyone is desperate for a hero
I’m sitting back eating corn pop before I make any bold judgments
been let down too many times not to hit the hopium pipe
A lot of companies have insurance plans that pay for travel to obtain all types of medical procedures if it can’t be done locally. They view abortion as a medical procedure.
I disagree. Am pro life. However, it is not that they are pushing abortion, it is a decision by the health insurance plan (most are negotiated and contracted out with insurance companies) to cover it as a medical/health event in their policy).
That is basically the context.
Two totally different issues.
Our freedom is teetering on the precipice…. I’m grateful for any ally, and not going to give him a list of political checkboxes.
No one is hailing him as Christ. We are simply welcoming a very prominent citizen to our reality. If you don’t think he can help, then that’s your prerogative but do not put words in other people’s mouths.
The party of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now populated by people who practice the ideology of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Yes. The Democrats of today are more like Lee Harvey Oswald than JFK.
I guess its our Musk and Trump vs their Gates and Soros?
Elon Musk is an out of the box thinker and a national treasure.
That being said, there are many things he supports that I oppose. So be it.
However, he is red pilling many young people on two critical issues right now…
ESG and free speech.
I fully support his efforts and am very grateful.
Assuming that ESG means “Environmental, Social and corporate Governance” There are to to many acronyms running through all threads.
👍👍
We had a saying on our competitive soccer teams back in the day.
We Scots were nasty soccer folks, and when a new player came to our team, the question as to his suitability to the team was a simple one.
Would we want him playing for us or against us. Little if anything else mattered.
Noble? Nah! But is anything that is going on politically now noble?
I know who’s team I want Elon to be on.
Cheers!
Exactly right, the abortion issue has become a diversionary tactic of the establishment GOP. They utilize it in their splitter strategy.
Well said!
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Musk knows which party likely is coming into power.
I admire the man a lot, especially because he builds real things and has a snappy personality. That said…
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#Balls
I honestly think he just doesn’t give a damn. He’s got the money to weather whatever they throw at him. He’s trolling, plain and simple. He’s lit a firecracker, thrown it into the middle of the mob, and now he’s sitting back to watch the show.
Think that it would be a brick, with a remote control or timed ignition, e.g. a punk stick, lite cigarette etc.
Sit back and watch the fun. Sipping a Cold one of course 😊🤗
Or a 🥃. 😉
even IF this turns out how things shape up, there is no question that twitter as we know it, and arguably all other social media companies are going to be changed. It may not be obvious, but elon has touched a nerve among commercial banks, fund managers, hedge and global investment groups: we deserve better returns and less the political idealogue that does not move the bottom line for anyone who HOLDS AN INTEREST! (key relevance)
it’s the money thing that he has hit at.
why are there bots and how much of the ad revenue fraud is built on it?
what are the implications of filing bad paper with the FTC/SEC?
what are the implications of billions upon billions of law suits from shareholders AND COMPETITORS!?
I don’t think elon is sitting back watching some show. He did not light this fire just to be amused.
when people tell you something you should listen to what they are saying and not be surprised when they actually do the things they have said they will do.
elon has expressed his interests are not involved with money…economics.
his passion and drive to to pursue projects of great interest. This is what makes him operate. It also happens to be a rare business codon shared by all very capable engineers, planners and applied scientists. It’s not about the money. It is doing something that has valued interest. Chasing dollars doesn’t cut it at a certain level. There must be something else.
when elon is taking twitter to the woodshed, it’s for a much broader and strategic SET OF GOALS. (not one, but many).
you get a platform that you can operate freely and speak your mind. Elon of all people understands the importance of this valued interest.
you get a platform that is more about making money and serving an actual town hall experience that marketers will latch on to as soon as they see how vibrant the users can be in this new experience. This shifts the goal from money to something that is sound and reliable, capable of existing for many generations.
you get a political lever that the central state has now got to respect and fear. Because that is the only way for free americans to operate and it most certainly must apply to very rich independent minded smart people too! Elon is looking out for the little guy, because it is directly related to looking out for himself. community! unity! very smart political strategy.
elon understands the value of being a role model. He embraces it. And for all his minor flaws and there are many, he knows that no one else seems to want to do the job. That makes this one very interesting. How could other not see a unprofitable social media company of no other equal for what it does with a peak 300 million users as a turnaround opportunity? Why are others not interested?
what we are seeing is a man who has just walked up to a door that has intrigued him. How can a company operate so poorly for shareholders and not make changes to improve? How can that actually happen?
some will say that elon should stay with tesla and space x…but here is what they fail to recognize..he is not driven to build anything in particular. he is driven to find projects interesting…transformative…paradigm shaping ventures…things that actually do shape the world that we live in.
he has chosen to spend some much needed time examining how twitter is operating at all!!!!
even IF elon fails to acquire this company…the questions raised in just a short several weeks have serious investors very very nervous about how these companies are actually managed.
what they are realizing is that even IF half of what elon has suggested is true, then social media execs are essentially screwing over the shareholders.
stay tuned…next week elon will be discussing who the individual shareholders actually are and why they might seem more than comfortable investing such a vast wealth on a company that has not produced a single good quarter!
he’s isn’t lighting fireworks.
he is igniting his interest in knowing things and pushing to find out why things are not what they are described.
the effects are going to be enormous.
He understands this. He knows the benefits and rewards of someone to roll back the curtains are located in the most important element of true power:
trust
he is establishing trust. a priceless coin. One that is often founded in the fires of passion.
I think this is one of those times where someone who didn’t want to get involved in a fight looks around and realizes they are pretty much the only one that can fight so effectively. He has plenty of money, although the fight may result in attacks against it, and he’s quite sharp at what he’s doing. If not him, then who?
I believe he has been gradually getting red-pilled over the last decade or so. He had a certain worldview but began to see all of the cracks in the facade. As Sundance often says, once you start seeing the workings of the machine, you can’t unsee it. That’s where it looks like he is. He sees the cracks, and that civilization is on the brink, and that there are few others to really have the means to punch – and most who have the means to do so are happy to be on the other side, feeling like a Master of the Universe.
He’s like PDJT that way.
He’s gonna be disappointed when he realizes that Republicans despise their own voters even more than the Democrats.
Yup
He doesn’t seem to grasp that the Republicans are on the same team
As the democrats yet.
Well I wouldn’t be so sure about that. As PDJT, Ellon Musk has been invited to many of the Big Club parties, Just Saying.
I think also, like PDJT, he sees that his excess of money can make a difference in how the repug establishment operates, for the betterment of humankind. I think he looked at both parties and thinks the Dems are incapable of reform, and the base is a mess, whereas the repugs just need to ditch their leadership and the base is already spun up to support freedom restoring reforms. In the Dem party he’s just another billionaire, in the repug party he’s one of only a few.
BAVO!
One illustrious very big fish to join the exodus of ex-Democrat voters away from the insanity that the current Democrat Party stands for.
It started for many of us when they tried to ram Hillary down our throats in 2016…
{{{{Heavy Sigh}}}}
I didn’t learn about Andrew Breitbart until after his assassination.
He seems like a man I would have had a great time hanging out with. I even live in his old neighborhood.
It makes me so sad.
sundance, you need to start look at the background of this picture, it started today with baby formula,
“Andrew fundamentally misunderstood the culture war and has engrained a losing strategy. Power drives culture, not the other way around. 200 years of history demonstrates this.”
If culture is agreement on a set of social standards, then the power to enforce those standards occurs as a result of common consent.
Using political power to force consent is what has been wrong with politics for millennia. 200 years of history demonstrates that severe restrictions on power is what allows culture to flourish.
Dare I float the Presidential ticket for Trump and Elon as VP? That would literally incite left for this civil war they have been begging for.
Isn’t he an immigrant? Or do I have that wrong? Of course it doesn’t seem to matter when the Dims do it. He can just get someone to fake his birth certificate.
No you are correct, he was born in South Africa. So on forms under race, he can claim African. Triggering more of the WOKE crowd. Hehe
HOW about NO?…when the Dimm/commies violate the law it DOES not make it OK for the rest to do so after….so many politically ignorant
Well, while I’m at it, I thought that I’d throw out another possible Elon Musk encounter, which was entertaining.
At the time, Mr. Musk lived not far from my home.
I was working insane long hours and was returning to home ~ 2 am or so. I live in a hilly area near Los Angeles. At the base of the hill that I live on, I had to stop at a red light.
There were 2 lanes at this light and there was a high end BMW in the fast lane and an early red Tesla Roadster in the right lane. I stopped behind the roadster. The Roadster had a license plate that said “SpaceX”.
The guy in the BMW started revving his engine at the light like he wanted to race. The Roadster did nothing.
The light changed to green. In about 2 seconds the Roadster was about 2 football fields up the road and the BMW had gotten off the line maybe 100 feet.
The Roadster slowed down to ~ the speed limit and continued up the hill. The BMW gave up.
I sped up and followed the Roadster to verify that whomever was driving was heading to where I knew Mr. Musk lived at the time ( another executive lived in my neighborhood that had a Roadster, the car didn’t head to that house. My daughter was friends with her daughter.)
I am pretty sure that it was Elon Musk that was driving that Roadster that night.
Tesla is now basically a Texas based company, which is where my daughter’s friend’s family moved to about 4 years ago.
Thanks for the interesting insight into Elon Musk’s character.
He seems to be a confident man, ready and willing to take on a challenge.
No wonder he has no home in the Democrat party. They despise individualism and prefer to cultivate the loyalty of collectivist losers.
“Aim small, miss small. May the lord make me fast and accurate.”
Great movie!! During the aftermath of 11/3, I used the gif of Swamp fox grabbing the flag and running back into the fight to hold the line. After about a week, Apple disappeared the gif from their gif finding search app.
The censorship is very real.
so many “smart” people are politically ignorant….if Musk had any awareness in this arena he would KNOW the Dimm/commies only put on a facade of “kindness” when their TRUE aim was oppression and control.,…Marxism always ends with a small minority of “elites” who wants to impose their wishes for EVERYTHING on the supermajority
More like the party of hate and fear.
Many of us have been praying for him and his family. The Lord is moving quickly.🙏😇
The doomsdayers are anticipating situations and using theories that are actually fairly narrow.
As a convert from liberalism, one who did not get the opportunity to change my mind like Musk did, but was kicked out unceremoniously, much of my learning of what the Democrat liberal machine is has been in hindsight.
And curiosity and willingness to uncover their shenanigans due to a very definite anger at how a non-oppositional liberal was treated, merely because she asked a few innocuous questions, having no idea that these would be used as weapons to marginalize, discredit and oust her from the party.
They must have forgotten that liberals are taught to adopt grievance and victim status like no others.
And when you mix that initial liberal grievance with a wrathful pursuit of dirt on the accusers, the liberals I had steadfastly defended for years, there is a powder keg waiting to explode.
Because conservatives not only have an open trove of information about their goals and their beliefs, but they also have a mammoth sized storage of old liberal talking points and tactics.
Conservatives use rebuttal, not character assassination.
REbuttal requires doing research, checking out history, addressing the statements of the opposition and determining if they are valid.
Character assassination requires none of that. It’s a lazy tactic that until we all lost our collective minds USED to be understood as the move that will give the win to the opponent in a debate.
Point, counterpoint.
That is the sequence of debate.
The debate is declared over when one side stoops to personal attacks.
Of course nowadays that is not brought up because those overseeing these debates are pretty much just looking for triumph through character assassination so that any valid information will be rejected as mere partisan lies.
Character assassination and projection.
99.99999999% of the time when you see a liberal attack a conservative and make a wild accusation against them, it’s the liberal who is pointing the arrow away from itself (why insult them with pronouns as if they were part of the insipid species, humanity?).
Rich liberals crying out for the poor are a case in point
Scratch the surface beneath most regulations that hurt small businesses and you will find a swarm of liberal elite who pushed the regulation while screaming that compassion for small businesses is lacking.
See a sued baker or wedding photographer being sued for homophobia?
Same thing.
Be a righteous liberal inciting riots for women not being able to abort their babies?
Go check out the proportion of black babies who are killed and thus contributing to a increasingly rapid genocide of a race.
Be a righteous liberal screaming for gun control.
Check out the black on black and drug cartel executions by people who ely to gdon’t give a damn about gun control, easily get guns and deliberately seek gun controlled areas where victims are sitting ducks.
You want racism?
With abortion proponents and gun control proponents and defunding police and vaccine mandated military proponents, you got it.
So what Musk is doing and what black music channel reactors suddenly watching Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Candace Owens, Shelby Steele, Milton Friedman and Jordan Peterson interviews are doing, is actually not unexpected.
The power of ‘redpilling’ includes the power to unify with common goals, something that the doomsdayers have pretty much written off as a lost trend.
I’m a reformed liberal and I’m watching it happen. What is more it is happening outside of the social media spheres where they are so certain of their control of the narrative.
Panic and payback.
Get the popcorn and re-ignite those flames of hope.
“…because they were (mostly) the kindness party.”
This is the problem – highly intelligent people, who you would think should know better, are actually easily bamboozled by the left when young, then get too obsessed with building heir empires so they never grow up from their childhood misplaced idealism .
I think it’s more a matter of them not paying the same attention to politics (ultimately boring compared to their all work).
Elon appears to be just starting now to understand that they were NEVER the “kindness party”.
This is a good thing, albeit a tad late.
After focusing his attention on inventing interesting stuff and getting rich the last couple decades or so, seems like he’s only now “coming up for air” so to speak, and noticing how much the world has changed in such a short time.
Musk is just in the early stages of getting redpilled, so let’s give him a little time and enjoy the show and be cautiously optimistic. 🍿
How does that old saying go -something like if you’re not a communist at 20 or 30 you haven’t got a heart, if you’re a communist at 40 you haven’t got a brain.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Twit’s executive board meeting today.
Imagine, Musk has just performed the perfect flanking operation:
He made an offer they couldn’t refuse. Then he demands the receipts for Active Daily Users proving
they have less than 5% bots. Board refuses. Threatens him with a lawsuit.
He stops proceedings. Then drops the latest statement about the conmunist, racist demoncrats.
The gatekeepers can’t ban him without exposing the Twit to a lawsuit.
He has money to burn , he’s smart and imho is playing 4D chess with a bunch of morons at this point.
Popcorn indeed! lmao
In other words he switched to the ‘other side’ that is equally as corrupt.
AKA …
Uniparty.
Trump is still your Presidente!
I wonder if Joe Manchin and Tulsi Gabbard will follow?
All aboard! Converts are welcomed and especially ones as esteemed and accomplished as the world’s richest and most successful man!
Now, if I hear one conservative say well this or that is wrong with Musk, I will slap the crap out them! Stop the purity tests! No, he wasn’t always conservative and you know what? That’s ok!
Again, if Paul was rejected by the disciples of Christ on account of his past, where would Christianity be today?
Elon I salute you! And I will likely buy a Tesla in the near future now!
I have huge respect for Elon Musk for the name he chose. Nikola Tesla is smiling down, as the world now knows who he is/was. Sadly he was used and abused by the country US he lived in and did so much good. I will wish Elon the best of luck. Nikola Tesla Vjecnaja Pamjat. Memory Eternal.
well they’re already blocking all of SpaceX’s launches for some bureaucratic garbage…they’ll keep doing it until he gets in line I think.
Which leave them depending on the Russians for replenishing the Space Station. Or is that even still operational?
I know how musk feels. I can no longer support republicans and will only vote MAGA.
Remember… turn blue to purple, and purple to red.
Greg, red stands for Republican. But we are Ultra MAGA. Gold, perhaps Gold-Red, must be our color now, doncha think?
I thought it wad orange 🍊
I’ll go with blood orange.
Many colors can be used to make gold, but BLUE is not one of them! ha!
“Color Theory and Gold Colors… gold can be located somewhere between yellow and orange. The more yellow it contains, the brighter it will be. To decrease the color saturation, more of the color orange should be present. Common warm colors are oranges, yellows, and, of course, reds. Since gold is situated close to these colors, all of them can be considered analogous, or a group of colors located together. When adding red to your gold color, it will make it warmer. However, if you have added too much red, a little yellow can help to even it out.”
You need red first to make the blue purple then even more red to make purple red.
The electric free speech god made his billions off of the climate change/green energy hoax with taxpayers’ money. His cars are crap. He voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Hillary in 20216. The Obama Administration gave him billions for green energy crap. He was the electric god of the left yesterday and the free speech god of the right today. He is punking everyone but me.
More than 23% of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers are spam or fake accounts, research groups say
More than 23.42% of billionaire Elon Musk’s 93 million followers on Twitter are likely fake or spam accounts, according to a joint audit by two research groups published Sunday.
The two groups, SparkToro and Followerwonk, said their definitions of “fake” and “spam” accounts might not be the same as Twitter’s.
They said they used a system of 17 warning signals, based on an algorithm that ran through 35,000 fake Twitter accounts bought by SparkToro and 50,000 accounts the teams marked as non-spam.
If one of Musk’s followers was flagged for multiple spam signals, they graded it as low quality or fake, they said.
When factoring in inactive users, which the researchers defined as accounts that haven’t tweeted in 90 days, a total 70.23% of Musk’s followers were unlikely to be “authentic” or “active users who see his tweets,” they said.
And from the electric free speech god:
The Tesla CEO and founder recently acknowledged that his own Twitter account’s numbers may be inflated.
Speaking on Monday at a tech conference in Miami, he pointed out that one of the most-liked tweets on the platform (his own tweet about buying Coca-Cola) has 4.8 million likes compared to Twitter’s estimate of 217 million total active users.
You are right, people need not put this guy on a pedestal. I saw him with Jack Dorsey and Cathy Wood extolling the virtues of ESG scores. Now Tesla is dropped from the S&P 500 ESG and he’s complaining. lol He’s learning a Trumpian lesson that just because you played nice with these people and they took your money, doesn’t mean they will continue to be nice. We will see how he responds but I’m not in a rush to claim him a saint of anything.
Our reception of people like this ought to be a cool welcome.
Never ever a Saint, but respect for his works, his God given gift.
What works? He has never invented anything.
His cars are NOT cr@p and his SpaceX is making more money than Tesla.
One can be a visionary without being an inventor.
Gotta give him credit for jumping into the fire this week.
His stepping up to “the modern Democrat hate furnace.” – Sundance
Tesla has a little over 1.5 million cars that are on the road. Over half of them have been recalled some more than 3 times. Customers complain about poor quality and poor customer service. Consumer Reports has down graded the Model 3. You might want to talk to the guy in Denmark who paid professionals to blow up his Model S because it was going to cost $12,000 to replace the dead battery – the Tesla was less than 8 years old.
Elon himself tweeted out in December 2021 that if the Raptor engine did not come on board soon that SpaceX would go broke. Just a few days ago in McGregor Texas at a SpaceX launch the engine blew.
You might want to research your feelings about Musk. I have and I know lots more than you do.
You apparently have an axe to grind. Something about property values and his land aquisition in South Texas maybe? And really don’t care about “some guy in Denmark.” His cars are no worse than the rest of the stuff coming out of Detroit. He’s transferred his HQ from Cali to Texas and that was also a good move.
So you don’t like the facts I posted so you call it my axe to grind. You cannot refute my facts so you try and disregard them. Elon is punking you!!! And Elon and Twitter will be destroyed by Truth Social and Trump – Trump is never going back to Twitter – Trump doesn’t need Twitter…
Give him a welcome, indeed. A cool and distant one is acceptable. But give him a chance.
Wonder if he really did undergo some sort of “Paul moment”? We need to be open to those wanting to change. But yes, we must cautious. Both eyes open. Ask questions. Read. And remember his previous actions.
Miracles can and do occur.
Thank you. Thank you. Elon is not punking you neither.
He has not punked me from the beginning and nothing he has done lately has changed my mind. The very fact that he STILL thinks the Democrat Party has EVER been mostly the kindness party shows how warped his thinking is.
With that kind of thinking, who knows what ‘freedom of speech’ means to him. If he VOTED Democrat, he WAS a Democrat; and, in my opinion, he is still more Democrat than anything else.
Democrats remind me of something Humpty Dumpty told Alice (of Alice in Wonderland) in Lewis Carol’s second story about her, ‘Through the Looking Glass.’ “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
I suspect Humpty would probably agree with Elon about the Democrats being the party of kindness, too.
It’s also duly noted that Elon claims to be changing his voting pattern only after the Democrats started harassing him about buying Twitter to (supposedly) turn it into a free speech zone.
If I were a betting man, I would bet he won’t stop asking for and accepting government grants, either…
OMG – I am on the same page as you are – probably the only two people on the planet. Kudos to you and your post is on Target – 100 percent agree with you!!! Right on.
His SpaceX company would be broke if the government cancelled its sole source contract with it. Like his Tesla operation Musk has sucked at the US and China government teets since his companies founding, without which his Tesla and SpaceX would be close to worthless pie in the sky nonsense. He is an example of corporatism depending on the government for its business. He is a carnival barker at the Circus sideshow who depending on which way the political winds are blowing will say what is necessary to appease those controlling the levers of his customer, big government. He sees the Red wave coming in November and is laying the ground work to keep sucking on the government teet by saying what the RINO, Republican conservatives want to hear.
Without Spacex we’d still be begging Russia for rockets. That’s why he’s got a sole-source. I’d much rather pay an American businessman for his groundbreaking rocketry than to pay the RF for their old, used rocketry.
Not just begging . . . . paying BIG bucks for rocket rides to and from the ISS space station.
And to Musk we say:
Not my party. My party is on Truth Social. Musk can have Twitter – worthless.
An American business man who lives off government handouts…. By the way he has three citizenships – Canada, America and South Africa – He is really not an American Business man.
Y’all are just coming out of the woodwork today eh? Because Musk has personally done you wrong? Cmon shills, we ain’t falling for your games.
Your employer just made a huge advertisement for you:
https://www.newsobserver.com/latest-news/article261482067.html
Wierdest damn army recruitment video of all time
You can’t refute my facts so you disregard them and think I have an axe to grind. I do facts and no feelings. Your link above is an idiotic, pathetic response. Get a life pal.
That’s not a recruitment video. It’s a warning to us peons as to what they are capable of and willing do to their ‘adversary’ and there is no doubt that their adversary is… us!
AMEN AMEN – he is not punking you neither.
Mind you, I’m not necessarily sticking up for him, but everyone was something else before what/who they are now. I used to be a democrap years ago, too. I will never entertain THAT idea again. But it really doesn’t matter because we really only have a UNI party anyway. So many RINO’s infest CONgress that it’s hard to tell who’s for what anyway. These rich people all have one common goal, it seems. That goal is to rule you and me and make serfs out of us all. It will happen, too. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will happen, sadly, in the lifetime of my children and their children. If there are “republicans” out there who wish for it not to happen, they better damned well speak up loud and soon.
Elon Musk is not going to help Republicans or America. He cares only about himself.
he is a trojan horse
Love it – You are correct!!!
I don’t want to disdain anyone’s moral right to vote one’s conscience. All voters are entitled to that courtesy.
However, there is much good to be said, in the midst of all the emotion of a crumbling world, for keeping one’s focus on the consequences of one’s passions.
How often we’ve had the experience of driving along the road and feeling frustrated by the slow pace of the driver in front of us, and then feel a sense of relief by angrily deciding to pass that driver by a quick maneuver that was not properly evaluated, merely as a protest of some sort!
Well, just like making a quick, angry move into another lane of traffic may provide a particular satisfaction, the objective truth never changes that this quest for satisfaction is likely to bring a price tag well beyond any conceivable value of that satisfaction.
Therefore, the unavoidable, objective truth always remains that in an election that pits candidates of one party against candidates of another, a single vote that is withheld from a given party’s candidate will always result in the addition of one vote to the benefit of opposite party’s candidate.
But it’s also true that frustrated drivers can and do lose their lives in their rash attempt to teach the slow poke driver in front of them a lesson.
I maintain, and have always maintained, that the high price of a protest vote per se is way out of proportion to the value it purports to bring, and the consequences can range from the mild to the catastrophic, just like a quick, angry decision to change lanes.
The beauty of the truth is that it is always true.
You got it!!
I am so disappointed in the Idaho Republican voters who re-elected our RINO governor, Brad Little! The only excuse some of them have is they just moved here from CA, OR or WA and figure he’s better than the one they left.