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Elon Musk says he won’t take coronavirus vaccine, calls Bill Gates a ‘knucklehead’
NY Post ^ | 29 Sept 2020 | Ben Cost

Posted on 09/30/2020 3:42:26 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

“I’m not at risk, neither are my kids,” Musk told host Kara Swisher about the rationale behind his decision.

...During the bizarre exchange, the Tesla CEO decried the nationwide lockdown as a “no-win situation” that has “diminished my faith in humanity.” Musk previously called widespread quarantines “unethical” and “de facto house arrest,”

Swisher criticized his suggestion, adding that humans could potentially die in the process.

“Everybody dies,” quipped Musk.

“Gates said something about me not knowing what I was doing,” Musk told Swisher. “It’s like, ‘Hey, knucklehead, we actually make the vaccine machines for CureVac, that company you’re invested in.'” He was referring to the fact that Tesla manufactures equipment for the German biopharmaceutical firm CureVac.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: again; billgates; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; gatesfoundation; spacex
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Electric cars don’t excite me but I’ve always liked Musk. He’s not as whacked out as most genius level people.

That’s funny about Gates, like it.


21 posted on 09/30/2020 4:27:50 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ghislaine Maxwell lives and Joe Biden is losing.)
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To: BusterDog

I figure Musk is about 5 years away from becoming John DeLorean

No need for Musk to mess around trying to raise funds in drug dealing.

He receives a far better return from TSLA than any drug dealer could dream of.
Just look at TSLA’s P/E!
And he is leveraged to infinity and beyond!

And DeLorean gave his kids regular names.


22 posted on 09/30/2020 4:29:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

how refreshing to hear! ty elon


23 posted on 09/30/2020 4:31:16 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Musk is probably reacting from anger about the outrageous hindrances against productive businesses in Democrat states. He should have established facilities in the less stylish but more conservative states.


24 posted on 09/30/2020 4:41:00 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: datura

I wish Musk success but he needs to decouple from China. He needs to understand his Shanghai factory means squat. Move it elsewhere or get tariffed.


25 posted on 09/30/2020 4:47:36 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: familyop

He should have established facilities in the less stylish but more conservative states.

They made him an offer he could not refuse on the former GM/Toyota plant in Fremont Ca.

Such a deal!


26 posted on 09/30/2020 5:21:26 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m liking this Elon guy more all the time. :)


27 posted on 09/30/2020 5:22:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (In all things ... trigger discipline.)
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To: libh8er

“He needs to understand his Shanghai factory means squat.”

BIG MARKET SALES, CHINA!!!

A Siren’s song and they play it so well.

The CEOs that put wax in their ears, they suddenly retired for family reasons...

A few had their board of directors lash then down so they could hear the sales pitch, but not respond, they are doing Doing OK after wu-flu...


28 posted on 09/30/2020 5:32:09 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

nearly everyone i know isn’t going to take the vaccine, myself included ...


29 posted on 09/30/2020 8:21:32 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dp0622
if he keeps talking like he has the past several months, that’s be my next car and I never DREAMED of buying one before.

Did you see his sportscar, Tesla Roadster #1, launched into interplanetary space? The guy is a visionary marketer. He's also a technical genius, who routinely follows up on what his engineers are doing and astonishes them. He burns the midnight oil of micromanagement, yet he's astonishingly capable at finding smart people and turning them loose on problems worth solving.

He's coming for you and you'll go willingly because his value proposition will make perfect sense to you!

People here grouse about him because he sucks up to liberal eco-enthusiasts and got massive subsidy. What they don't realize is he was just playing in the same field as a bunch of con artists only he had a viable product and they didn't, and he was sincere where they were just glib. That money for solar and eco-friendly causes was flying into the pockets of Obama-administration-connected fraudsters (cough, Solyndra) and he siphoned some of it off into actual productive enterprise.

30 posted on 10/01/2020 5:46:52 AM PDT by no-s
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