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 ...
Absolutely, MM. Sometimes they are there to help you.. and other times you are there to help them. That is what it is all about. Helping each other get through this life on Earth.
“and other times you are there to help them.”
Really. In the last five years I’ve had two old friends tell me that I had literally saved their lives by helping them at a certain point in each one’s life. One was 30 years ago. I had no idea.
I can relate to not even knowing having helped someone. My ex-boyfriend told people I had saved him.. Before that I had no idea he felt that way.. I know one thing for sure.. it wasn’t me.. it was God putting us in the right place at the right time with the tools needed to help.
That said, to borrow a phrase from John McClain (Bruce Willis), "Welcome to the party, pal."
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