Posted on 05/18/2020 7:21:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Greenie car manufacturer Elon Musk, who has 34 million Twitter followers, has effectively told them all to go vote for President Trump, using a popular vernacular:
Take the red pill 🌹— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2020
Fox News calls that a 'cryptic' tweet, but I suspect that's some leftist headline writer's doing, because the story itself indicates the writer knows perfectly well what is going on:
"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.
Leftists of all stripes bellowed their displeasure about this tweet, none more loudly than the movie industry people who created the original story. After all, it's their movie script line has become a rallying cry to 'join the conservatives' even though that wasn't their intention - and the analogy described by Fox is particularly interesting, given that Democratic standard-bearer Joe Biden wants everything to go back to the pre-Trump era (except more leftish), which is perfectly analogous with the blue pill, while Musk himself is famous for enjoying deep dives into the unknown, same as the red pill. The Tesla founder definitely thought that tweet through before he posted it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Improved.
As opposed to parallel?
I think it was the hotly contested 2000 Bush-Gore election, with the Florida hanging chad debacle. The infantile MSM, despondent at the outcome, decided to stop alternating the red-blue electoral map colors.
Tim Russert started it, I believe.
Trump and Musk are cut out of the same cloth.
Both think outside the box and both are extreme “doers”.
They’ll be on the same team soon.
This subject has been debated with some regularity here on FR. The networks in the sixties designated the states red and blue as a graphic means of making their election night images more exciting as color TV became the new normal. By agreement, the parties would alternate the “Red” and “Blue” tags so no one party would become attached to either tag. Remembering that no one wanted to be the “Red” party, especially the Democrats. That would be much too close to the truth. Sometime in the late seventies, the networks decided that the Republicans would be represented by the color ‘red’ and the Democrats ‘blue’, for all the predictable reasons.
Is he thinking about 2024 or is about MONEY?????
I find your post quite inspiring.
It has been very frustrating to see the advances in nuclear power generation apparently languishing when it comes to actual building such plants - which to me are the future of energy.
It got the name RED States from red necks...a lot of red states were in the the south...but were solid democrat states earlier
“But I do think quite a bit of good can come of the whole episode.”
I’ve been saying that for a while. I think this episode will cure people of the disease of “affluenza”, that is the lack of appreciation of how good they had it, which was afflicting the country.
It changed in the late 70’s or early 80’s when talk radio voices like Rush, compared the red to communism!
Minus a few conservative friends owning Teskas’, I’m LMAO libtards owning Tesla will be going bonkers.
But did you make the purchase be ause of the financial tax incentive?
since he’s a conservative now, will he denounce the global warming hoax and give taxpayers back the 5 billion he’s taken?
Musk is an erratic genius gadfly, but he’s a capitalist erratic genius gadfly and always has been.
Maybe we should call them Texlas now?
I think it changed in 2000, and yes it was by design. The media didn’t like the color red being associated with Democrats.
I’m on my phone, and apparently can’t type, haha, yes Texlas.
“Tim Russert started it, I believe.”
That’s correct and thank you, I was trying to remember his name.
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