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Elon Musk stirs the pot with cryptic 'red pill' tweet
Fox News ^ | May 17,2020 | By Frank Miles

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bluepill; citizensovereignty; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; ivankatrump; mutinyonthebounty; pua; redpill; spacex; taketheredpill; tesla; thematrix; twitter
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To: datura

Amen!


21 posted on 05/17/2020 8:29:41 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: mass55th

I sincerely hope it’s for real, as Tulsa has been announced as one of the finalists for a new Tesla assembly plant. :-)


22 posted on 05/17/2020 8:31:46 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: Hojczyk
The Matrix - Red Pill Blue Pill scene:

https://youtu.be/6rrPP-QOF3k

The next scene:

https://youtu.be/fnVQlwKAuLk

23 posted on 05/17/2020 8:52:08 PM PDT by CtBigPat (2020 is becoming everything 2012 aspired to be.)
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To: Mr. Blond
Maybe becoming a father did something.

I believe he has five boys with his first wife. I think Musk is a Libertarian maybe leaning a little more conservative these days.

24 posted on 05/17/2020 8:52:46 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: Grimmy; MinorityRepublican
The Spectator:‘A liberal mugged by reality’
25 posted on 05/17/2020 8:57:56 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: datura

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.


26 posted on 05/17/2020 9:08:48 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: zipper

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.


27 posted on 05/17/2020 9:24:29 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Tuketu

Red pill refers to mens community about and dynamics between the sexes. Have been for years and years.


28 posted on 05/18/2020 1:00:41 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Grimmy
HA

Then you won't like this one either.

29 posted on 05/18/2020 1:07:44 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: Grimmy

And eventually, the leftists gain critical mass.

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Achieved during the reign of B.Clinton.


30 posted on 05/18/2020 2:30:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: KC_Conspirator

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


31 posted on 05/18/2020 2:41:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Elon will go for any political system that lets him build his personal pyramids (electric cars & rockets).


32 posted on 05/18/2020 3:52:49 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: Tallguy
elon musk I think believed that if he paid lip service to the left it would leave him and his business alone....it did not and now he is rethinking his relationship with the left.
33 posted on 05/18/2020 4:03:24 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

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.


34 posted on 05/18/2020 4:11:54 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.


35 posted on 05/18/2020 11:03:59 AM PDT by mowowie
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