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Scoop: Musk tells GOP elite to be more compassionate
Axios ^ | 08/17/2022 | Hans Nichols

Posted on 08/18/2022 6:27:13 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

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To: Jan_Sobieski

“ Musk suggested that the country would prosper if Republicans “stayed out of people’s bedrooms”

I’ve been hearing stupid things all my long life.

But this is the most stupid thing I’ve seen a very long time.

Having money definitely doesn’t make you smart…or even aware of the world you’re living in.


41 posted on 08/18/2022 2:34:08 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; Lazamataz; vivenne; RoseofTexas; bk1000; mewzilla; dfwgator; Mr. K; bobbo666; ...
Musk isn't directly over target but he's close.

We don't need to be more compassionate in most instances. We need to explain why MAGA policies are compassionate and whey democrat policies are not.

How compassionate are Democrats now that gas is $4 a gallon and the country is headed into a recession which means lost jobs? MAGA energy policies helped rich and poor alike.

Transgender kids are more likely to commit suicide. But the democrat push to normalize transgenderism instead of getting them help is pushing more kids into that suicidal life style. Far more than they are helping.

Tearing down the rule of law, selective enforcement, a two tiered systems of justice is not compassionate and leads to chaos. Democrat policies supported the riots last summer. MAGA is for law enforcement equally applied which is the compassionate choice.

And nowhere is the rule of law so ignored by Democrats than in immigration policy.

Democrats have long painted Republicans as uncompassionate. It's time we change reframed that debate and show that they are the uncompassionate.

42 posted on 08/18/2022 4:30:26 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rlmorel; GOPJ; qaz123

I do believe we need [Musk’s] voice as an ally at this time, because in my opinion, Freedom of Speech is one of the blocks of the foundation of our country.

* * * *

Splendid reasoning. So he’s a crucial ally in the direction America needs to go. I can buy that. I can agree he’s gone much farther than any other corporate executive in the free speech area. He said, “I am a free speech absolutionist”.

Yes, if he sticks to this credo, he can be very valuable indeed. And the pressure to conform must be enormous at that high corporate level.


43 posted on 08/18/2022 5:42:38 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: DannyTN; conservatism_IS_compassion

A very well framed argument that our friends on the opposite side of politics need to hear.

Bookmarked that one. Well said, DannyTN.


44 posted on 08/18/2022 5:47:44 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit

PP,
IF this should prove to be true, Musk supposedly relayed his
comments to the GOP ELITES, not GOP Freedom Party or we Deplorables. Like most, feel he straddles the fence at times
with both good and bad vibes. To trust him or not, that is
your personal decision. I like the guy for his moxie, yet do
tend to disagree with him at times. Trust him completely, no. But when he scores
for our team, I do cheer!


45 posted on 08/18/2022 7:25:33 PM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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To: DannyTN

Thoughtful and insightful... thanks for posting.


46 posted on 08/18/2022 8:25:15 PM PDT by GOPJ (The “threat to democracy” is shorthand for a threat to Democrats. -- Daniel Greenfield)
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To: DannyTN

Thanks for this. Now if we could only get our Senate Leader to speak this way...........


47 posted on 08/19/2022 6:41:56 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: poconopundit
BS.

48 posted on 08/19/2022 10:02:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: poconopundit

Bump.


49 posted on 10/03/2022 6:40:27 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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To: Gen.Blather; qaz123; conservatism_IS_compassion

I agree with you about Musk scamming people about self-driving cars.

I remember seeing his mea culpa video, explaining how “people need to understand that real-time collision avoidance” was too hard to achieve. And the way he put it made you think it was other people’s hype that promoted that idea — not his own. Clever and deceitful.

My own take on Musk’s attempted takeover of Twitter is that he foresaw that electric cars are not sufficient for Tesla’s future. And that government funding the electric car pipe dream is going to end rather quickly as reality sets in.

Just a couple days ago we heard from the CEO of Toyota saying electric cars are never going to happen fast.

Tesla is a automated factory business looking for its next winning product. Robots? Who knows. We certainly know that electrically driven unicorns won’t be enough to save Tesla.


50 posted on 10/03/2022 11:22:51 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit

Nice


51 posted on 10/03/2022 11:28:55 PM PDT by qaz123
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