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How California Turned Elon Musk Into the Most Dangerous Conservative Since, Well, Ever
Flopping Aces ^ | 10-03-24 | Jeff Childers

Posted on 10/03/2024 8:49:32 AM PDT by Starman417

The Wall Street Journal ran an unintentionally hilarious story yesterday headlined, “Elon Musk Gave Tens of Millions to Republican Causes Far Earlier Than Previously Known.

It’s not news that the world’s richest (and most productive) man donates in large amounts. How is that news? Where are all the exposés about Bill Gates’s donations? Or George Soros? One hint may be that the WSJ called Elon “one of the biggest donors to conservative causes.” That, combined with Elon’s Twitter reach, led the Journal to deem the space entrepreneur “one of the most influential figures in U.S. politics.”

Indeed.

A more interesting fact from the article, which will encourage some of you, is that Musk was apparently one of the largest donors to Governor DeSantis’ short-lived presidential campaign. I think that particular fact evidences both Musk’s intuition and intelligence, especially considering that SpaceX relies heavily on certain resources located in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Journal also breathlessly reported that Musk gave $50 million in 2022 to a 501c named “Citizens for Sanity.” Sanity? Say no more! Where do I sign up? (It’s an anti-castration group.) There was lots more about various Musk donations, but at the end of the day, the Journal’s exposé said nothing we don’t already know. Musk is active in politics. Ho hum. But that’s where things got really funny.

Behold! One part of Musk’s personal political progress baffled the Wall Street Journal’s crack investigative team:

Hahahaha! Talk about burying the lede. True, Musk “seemed” to undergo a rapid political transformation. But why? Why did Elon undergo a rapid political transformation? Why does the Journal use the mysterious word “seemed?” Why was it hinting that it doesn’t believe in the transformation?

What happened?

What happened was Elon was a lifelong Democrat until California’s power-drunk, out-of-control, barely-literate state politicians chased him out of California. Full stop. Musk was painfully red-pilled by the pandemic.

That’s the real story. The headline should have been, “How Democrats Created The Most Influential Conservative Figure in U.S. Politics.” My old journalism professors are surely spinning in their graves. Well, they’re spinning unless they’re still alive, in which case they are prudently protecting their careers by rationalizing the controlled demolition of journalistic ethics, which is a whole different and less complimentary sort of spinning.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: musk

1 posted on 10/03/2024 8:49:32 AM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

I love that he has the means to say...SY....I’m outa here. Costing the state billions....lol


2 posted on 10/03/2024 8:58:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: Starman417

It’s bad when we need billionaires to prop us up. Democrats have it over us.


3 posted on 10/03/2024 8:58:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Starman417

Didn’t Elon have his realization when he kinda lost his son from wokeism?


4 posted on 10/03/2024 9:14:36 AM PDT by paudio (Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame much better than Christian churches do...)
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To: Starman417

The FAA’s current attempts to slow SpaceX’ rocket technology developments will certainly further piss off Musk!


5 posted on 10/03/2024 9:18:27 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s the difference - many people feel the same way but don’t have the power to send such a strong message, or the means to leave. He’s done both.


6 posted on 10/03/2024 9:31:20 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Starman417

Since John Galt ?


7 posted on 10/03/2024 9:32:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Starman417

He could a stared his own social media company.....why was it necessary to buy twitter?. Could have outcompeted them by offering freedom of speech. They would have gone bankrupt.


8 posted on 10/03/2024 10:02:17 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Starman417

Is Elon really a conservative?


9 posted on 10/03/2024 10:59:24 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Starman417

If the communists don’t kill you, they make you stronger.


10 posted on 10/03/2024 11:51:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Antihero101607

I don’t think he’s conservative at all; I think he’s ultimately self-serving and will do what’s best for Elon Musk, but he also understands that the Democrat thieves will steal every dollar he has if they can get away with it. Imagine where we’d be if we DIDN’T have this guy on our ‘side’ right now. Gates, Bezos and Cook certainly aren’t.


11 posted on 10/03/2024 12:20:52 PM PDT by lado
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To: Starman417

Seeing what the deep state did to his company in 2020 would be enough to cause a “quick political transformation” in any person who is not willfully blind.


12 posted on 10/03/2024 1:07:16 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Getready

“He could a stared his own social media company.....why was it necessary to buy twitter?. Could have outcompeted them by offering freedom of speech. They would have gone bankrupt.”

X’s customer base is HUGE. The bigger the customer base, the more value is provided to new users. It would be very difficult to build a similar user base with a new company,

It’s a little like ebay was. The more users it had, the more value it gave to new customers—both sellers and buyers. That’s why products like this generally end up with a semi-monopoly when they are the first successful company in the space.

Plus, it was obvious that X had a huge amount of dead wood which meant that cost cutting was going to be easy.

Finally, by buying X, he got access to to shenanigans by the DOJ et al to bully social media into censoring information that doesn’t fith the deep state narrative.

Any one who reads Matt Taibi’s expose of the twitter files in that regard would have to be willfully blind not to be incandescently outraged.

And finally, he ended X’s role in censoring people whom the deep state did not like.


13 posted on 10/03/2024 7:44:52 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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