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 …”
” ... so he is an African-American!”
Early in my career, my department wanted to hire a white South African for a recently posted vacancy. There was a hiring initiative by the central administration that essentially subsidized the salary of any African-American who was hired. We petitioned HR for the subsidy, but they were having none of it!
I registered as GOP down here in FL so I can help primary out people like Marco Boobio and Rick GOPee Scott when their terms are up. Otherwise, I would have had nothing to do with the GOPee, except supporting DeSantis, Gaetz and other strong conservatives.
Winston!
Voting Republican once doesnt make him a Republican. Even if he registers that way. Hes just pissed at the way things are being run right now. I would expect him to swing either way depending on how it affects business for him.
That being said, I still like the guy and wish we had more billionaires with his brain and willing to call out the silliness of libs.
Isn’t he South African?
Yes, a real African American!!
Republican has never really meant conservative despite neocon and talk radio blather
Here in NC after the last SELECTION I switched from Rep to Independent!
Welcome Home...
Hah! You just gotta know that he and Trump talk/e-mail each other often...plotting and scheming and laughing like hell.
I sure hope so, I have to wonder how much it would benefit Truth Social (Trumpet) if Musk were to just up and walk away from Twitter?
Road to Damascus.
It does happen.
Could Musk have been setting ‘em up the whole time?
good point. advertising rates would plummet.
So my having touched a dick once doesn't make me gay? What a relief.
He has had an increasing number of hostile run-ins with the bureaucracy. The ultimate seems to be that he has been effectively banned from further development and testing of the largest SpaceX rocket, the Starship. It seems unlikely that they will ever get regulatory approval to resume launches. They can block him in perpetuity.
He has made a bitter enemy of the regulatory bureaucracy and of the corporatist state, and vice versa. The political switch, I think, reflects this increasing, terminal enmity. He probably believes their purpose is to destroy him.
Recently listened to this (before all the twitter stuff started) He’s very determined.
https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Desperate-Early-Launched-SpaceX/dp/0062979973
Also read this (again before the twitter sale and the resulting entertainment). Good read.
Have you listened to his interview with the guys from The Babylon Bee....
Here is the FreeRepublic thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4023633/posts
And his Tedtalk interview...
https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_a_future_worth_getting_excited_about?language=en
LOL-I am not a groupie,and dont own a Tesla but he was one very interesting and complex person....
Hope you enjoy.
“Lots of virtue signaling leftists will be dumping their Teslas.
TSLA= sell, sell, sell”
Darn it. The snowflakes won’t go to Mars with him. I was ready to donate money to help send them.
Thanks for the links, definitely will follow them later.
trump/musk revenge tour 2024...
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