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San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of Elon Musk’s X headquarters: ‘Good riddance’
NY Post ^ | August 25, 2024 | Eric Revell

Posted on 08/25/2024 3:28:35 PM PDT by billorites

X owner Elon Musk’s plan to move the social media platform’s headquarters out of San Francisco has some city officials eager to bid farewell to the billionaire’s business.

The outlet noted that San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she had met with Musk “several months ago” but that she didn’t extend offers aimed at keeping X in the city, saying, “I’m not going to beg anybody.”

The report comes after Musk announced last month that he will move the company’s headquarters to Texas in response to a new law enacted by the state of California that prohibits schools from notifying parents if their children want to change their gender identity.

Musk said at the time that X’s headquarters would move to Austin, Texas, while he also announced that SpaceX would relocate its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.

A pedestrian photographing the new stylized 'X' Twitter logo at the company's headquarters in San Francisco 3 “I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” city attorney David Chiu told The New York Times.

He cited the gender identity law as being “the final straw” and attributed the move to “this law and the many others that preceded it...

The billionaire has been critical of policies enabling gender transitions for children and in a recent interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson said he was “essentially tricked into signing documents” for his child Xavier, who now goes by Vivian Jenna Wilson, to be treated with puberty blockers.

“I lost my son, essentially. They call it deadnaming for a reason. The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” Musk said. “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York; US: Texas
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I don't blame Musk for taking it personally.
1 posted on 08/25/2024 3:28:35 PM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

The SF Doom Loop has started and they just won’t recognize it or acknowledge it.


2 posted on 08/25/2024 3:32:38 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: billorites

SF is nuts That’s a huge junk of their tax base


3 posted on 08/25/2024 3:32:41 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: billorites

“I’m not going to beg anybody.”

I bet she would if it was a CCP business.


4 posted on 08/25/2024 3:33:06 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: billorites
Yeah, who needs all those pesky tax dollars from his business? /sarc

THE EMPLOYEES WHO NO LONGER HAVE A JOB PROBABLY HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT OPINION.

F'in idiots.

5 posted on 08/25/2024 3:33:32 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: billorites

City officials are going to be doing a lot of bidding farewell to businesses that are about to leave the city. The place is a s___hole that isn’t going to rebound.


6 posted on 08/25/2024 3:34:00 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: billorites

Good riddance to San Francisco...it’s a goner.


7 posted on 08/25/2024 3:34:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: billorites

Welcome to Texas Elon Musk. California’s loss and Texas’s gain. I also like your rockets now based in South Texas. It is time to give Musk Texas citizenship.


8 posted on 08/25/2024 3:35:56 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: billorites

Whatever comes to San Francisco as a result of this, congratulations. You arrogant bastards deserve it.


9 posted on 08/25/2024 3:36:03 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
City officials are going to be doing a lot of bidding farewell to businesses that are about to leave the city. The place is a s___hole that isn’t going to rebound.

San Francisco is the next Detroit.

Giants baseball players are complaining about having to play in the city. Even though it's at a beautiful location.

10 posted on 08/25/2024 3:36:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” city attorney David Chiu told The New York Times.
When the zombies run out of drugs or the illegals decide to take over, and get rid of the mayor and the attorney, "Good riddance" will be the overall sentiment of the country.

11 posted on 08/25/2024 3:37:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: billorites

“Suck Francisco” - former home of “She Whose Fellatio Must Not Be Named”...


12 posted on 08/25/2024 3:39:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Skywise

London would literally breed chinese micropenis for a few shekels.


13 posted on 08/25/2024 3:40:50 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: billorites

Children are easy to indoctrinate. It’s in their nature. The Left takes advantage of this to destroy them.


14 posted on 08/25/2024 3:44:40 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
The SF Doom Loop has started and they just won’t recognize it or acknowledge it.\

Atlas is shrugging - but they never read the book so they don't understand what is going on.

15 posted on 08/25/2024 3:50:22 PM PDT by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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To: Bonemaker

I once lived not far from San Francisco. I liked the city’s old architecture.

My wife and I went out to Alcatraz, after the movie. It was disappointing. There were photos of the beautiful little fort that was there before the hippies destroyed it.

I expect the same to happen to San Francisco. It will be burned to the ground once it is full of sh_t and the toilets no longer work.


16 posted on 08/25/2024 3:50:37 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: billorites

Austin isn’t much better


17 posted on 08/25/2024 3:52:50 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Yeah, I remember going to Nordstroms from Fisherman’s Wharf on the trolley and the city was PACKED. Businesses everywhere.

Now it’s all gone.


18 posted on 08/25/2024 3:53:50 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Used to be a magnificent city...more of an “experience” thwn a city. Started long downhill fall in 60’s with flower children, hippies etc.


19 posted on 08/25/2024 3:57:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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If you’re a California greenie, there are a lot of positive aspects to making San Francisco exactly like Detroit: lower “greenhouse gas” emissions, less light pollution, more unpaved streets/less runoff, more affordable residential & business real estate, and likely a far more racially diverse & less oppressive society...


20 posted on 08/25/2024 3:57:47 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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