Posted on 05/17/2022 11:52:48 AM PDT by billorites
Elon Musk, admitting he had voted “overwhelmingly” for Democrats in the past, has changed his mind.
Musk is registered as an independent voter; he announced the switch over video link at a tech summit in Miami, Florida, hosted by the All-In podcast.
“I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically,” Musk acknowledged. “Like I’m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election I will,” Newsweek reported.
Musk’s metamorphosis from voting Democrat to voting Republican could have been documented by actions over the last two years.
In July 2020, Musk issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first likely confounded members of the Left confident that their support for attacks on America, whether physical (riots, looting) or philosophical (the 1619 project) was shared by everyone in the so-called center of the political spectrum. Musk tweeted, “The left is losing the middle.”
Musk followed 25 minutes later with another tweet attacking the father of communism, Karl Marx, writing succinctly, “Das Kapital in a nutshell,” followed by a picture of Marx with the statement in quasi-German, “Gib me dat for free.”
In May 2020, Musk famously tweeted, “Take the red pill.”
In the film “The Matrix,” the hero, Neo, is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill would free him from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality. Some conservatives aver that taking the “red pill” means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an opinion piece in Fox News explained in 2017:
The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.” People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube 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.
In April, Musk expressed his repugnance for those who would address war by using catch-phrases or words rather than action, reacting to a nightclub in Berlin that posted the word “PEACE” in giant letters while the war between Ukraine and Russia raged on. Musk tweeted, “They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter.”
He continued, “Peace. Peace? I hate the word. Those who do care about peace (myself aspirationally included) don’t need to hear it. And those who don’t care about peace? Well …”
Better late than never. Even if he’s a RINO, it’s one less vote for a liberal.
Talk about your impactful endorsement !
Can anybody recommend a good biography or book about him? I'd like to learn more about how he got to where he is today.
In what country? Isn’t he South African?
He didnt need to tell us. As long as you don’t register as a GOP, it’s still good.
He also isn’t interested in Trump 2024. Not sure what Republicans he has in mind to vote for.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/13/elon-musk-less-divisive-candidate-preferable-trump/
Hah! You just gotta know that he and Trump talk/e-mail each other often...plotting and scheming and laughing like hell.
I believe he has American citizenship ?
Anyone that is not a liberal by the age of 20 has no heart. Anyone who is not a conservative by the age of 30 has no brain.
Notice its soon after he left the Bay Area and its constant Left Wing slant to the news.
I think he is a U.S. citizen now.
.. seem to recall reading that in here somewhere.
Unfortunately, his biographies are puff-pieces and his background was well scrubbed by his CIA handlers.
He is South African but you might not like his life story. But then again there are parts of it growing up where you can feel sympathetic towards him but in business dealings especially with women he’s a bastard. But we all change
I wonder if we can use his Twitter operation as an example to take down and expose some of the other left wing bulwarks.
Attempt to buy them, then in discovery expose how loaded with bots they are.
Great, now we have the wealthiest African-American on our side!
Elon Musk has been a US Citizen for 20 years.
In what country? Isn’t he South African?
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