Posted on 08/18/2022 6:27:13 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Elon Musk told GOP congressional leaders and big-dollar donors on Tuesday that Republicans need to present a more compassionate front to voters and appeal to immigrants like himself, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: While Musk has been publicly flirting with the Republican Party all year, his attendance at an exclusive GOP retreat in Wyoming marks a new level of involvement in helping the party define its agenda and prepare for its potential takeover of the House.
Driving the news: Musk offered a robust defense of capitalism in addition to some political advice at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's annual donor retreat in Jackson, where the billionaire CEO of Tesla was a personal guest of McCarthy’s.
With the Grand Tetons behind them, the potential next Speaker of the House led a Q&A session with the potential next owner of Twitter. McCarthy has built a relationship with Musk over a decade and introduced him as the "Thomas Edison of our time," framing the discussion around how he built successful companies like Tesla and SpaceX.
Across the state, primary voters were rejecting Rep. Liz Cheney, who by the end of the night would be overwhelmingly defeated by her Trump-backed challenger.
What they're saying: Musk suggested that the country would prosper if Republicans "stayed out of people's bedrooms" and Democrats stayed "out of people’s wallets," according to attendees…
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
“ 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.
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.
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.
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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.
A very well framed argument that our friends on the opposite side of politics need to hear.
Bookmarked that one. Well said, DannyTN.
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!
Thoughtful and insightful... thanks for posting.
Thanks for this. Now if we could only get our Senate Leader to speak this way...........
BS.
Bump.
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.
Nice
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