Posted on 05/17/2020 7:25:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, may have come out as a conservative on Twitter Sunday. "Take the red pill" the Tesla CEO wrote in a cryptic tweet to his 34 million followers.
Some followers saw it as a sign that Musk was pushing for the conservative cause. Adviser to the president and first daughter Ivanka Trump later retweeted it, adding the word: “Taken!”
Take the red pill" is a line from the popular 1999 movie “The Matrix” about seeking the unvarnished truth: "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
More recently, it's been slang for people abandoning the ways of liberalism for the values of conservatism. People of all ages and ethnicities posted online videos describing "red pill moments" — personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.
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Amen!
I sincerely hope it’s for real, as Tulsa has been announced as one of the finalists for a new Tesla assembly plant. :-)
The next scene:
I believe he has five boys with his first wife. I think Musk is a Libertarian maybe leaning a little more conservative these days.
Trump was a solid conservative in the late 70s who dreamed of running for President. Or at least that is what Roger Stone insisted to me at the time.
The Spectator:‘A liberal mugged by reality’
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Standard issue poetic nonsense that gets repeated so often that some come to believe it has actual meaning.
Red pill refers to mens community about and dynamics between the sexes. Have been for years and years.
And eventually, the leftists gain critical mass.
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Achieved during the reign of B.Clinton.
Red pill refers to mens community about and dynamics between the sexes. Have been for years and years.
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“The Matrix” came out in 1999 - 21 years ago.
Likely the modern idea came from “White Rabbit” - 1967, Grace Slick And the Jefferson Airplane:
“One pill makes you larger,
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you,
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice ...”
Which comes from the even older “Alice in Wonderland” - 1865, Lewis Carroll
Elon will go for any political system that lets him build his personal pyramids (electric cars & rockets).
Bill Gates, when he was in charge at Microsoft, never made political contributions to any political party. Eventually Clinton’s DNC paid him a visit and showed him the error of his ways. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was established and now Bill can’t STFU when it comes to his liberal crack-pot ideas.
He needs $$$ to get to Mars that is what Tesla, Boring Company, the satellites, the Battery stuff are all about.
Going to Mars is his life’s ambition.
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