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{{quotebox-float|"Ukraine is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat...Trying to retake [[Crimea]] will cause massive death, probably fail and risk [[nuclear war]]...This would be terrible for Ukraine and [[Earth]]...How am I in this [[war]]?...Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars...It was so people can watch [[Netflix]] and chill and get online for [[school]] and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”.<ref>https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz</ref>}} | {{quotebox-float|"Ukraine is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat...Trying to retake [[Crimea]] will cause massive death, probably fail and risk [[nuclear war]]...This would be terrible for Ukraine and [[Earth]]...How am I in this [[war]]?...Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars...It was so people can watch [[Netflix]] and chill and get online for [[school]] and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”.<ref>https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz</ref>}} | ||
Musk tweeted in agreement as "accurate" a posting on X by David Sachs stating, "The longer this goes on, the better Russia will do...Citizens of [[Western civilization|Western countries]] are being told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing...We are told that there is no opportunity to make [[peace]] when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement...When the [[war]] is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say: 'Well we tried”.<ref>https://alethonews.com/2024/02/18/musk-agrees-ukraine-conflict-is-war-of-lies/</ref> | Musk tweeted in agreement as "accurate" a posting on X by David Sachs stating, "The longer this goes on, the better Russia will do...Citizens of [[Western civilization|Western countries]] are being told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing...We are told that there is no opportunity to make [[peace]] when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement...When the [[war]] is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say: 'Well we tried”.<ref>https://alethonews.com/2024/02/18/musk-agrees-ukraine-conflict-is-war-of-lies/</ref> | ||
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==Controversies== | ==Controversies== | ||
Revision as of 22:20, February 11, 2025
- See also: Conservative of the Year 2023 - Musk finished in the top 6.
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, in South Africa) is an American businessman and inventor ranked as the wealthiest man in the world, who ostensibly supports freedom of speech and opposed tyrannical lockdowns during COVID-19. Musk campaigned tirelessly for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election,[2] such as holding a town hall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on Oct. 26, 2024, which was viewed by 5.9 million times on X.[3] One commentator dubbed Elon Musk the "African American of the Year" for 2022.[4]
Musk apparently does not hire conservatives in key positions, and is a cheerleader for giving foreigners top jobs in America. He wants expanded use of visas to import foreigners, and most of his Tesla cars are made in China. This is contrary to the America First position of MAGA supporters.
While Musk is increasingly conservative, there are still liberals running his companies. "Personel is policy,"[5] yet Musk has not hired conservatives in leadership positions in his companies or projects. In later December, Musk's platform X reportedly downgraded a prominent critic of Musk's pro-immigration, pro-H-1B visa stance.
His immense wealth is based mostly on the meteoric rise in value of the Tesla Motors electric car company, and also the privately held SpaceX. He is also a co-founder of PayPal, a CEO for SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity. His purchase of Twitter ushered in an era of glasnost from globalist totalitarian control of the social media platform. He supposedly is "socially liberal and fiscally conservative"[6] but endorsed hyperinflationist Andrew Yang for the Democratic party nomination in the 2020 presidential election. He believes in man-made global warming. Musk was born in South Africa, raised in Canada and resided in Los Angeles before moving in 2020 to Texas. As of 2022, he is the wealthiest man in the world, and he likes to comment on chess and debate Gary Kasparov.
To his further credit, Musk describes himself as a "free speech absolutist,"[7] and Musk ended Twitter's ban on Donald Trump, despite not yet personally endorsing Trump.
Political leanings
Despite his good cheer towards liberals, they were quoted as boycotting Twitter after he purchased it. Joe Biden ranted against Musk at a fundraiser on Nov. 4, 2022:
"Now what are we all worried about? Elon Musk goes out and buys an outfit that sends and spews lies all across the world."[8]
On May 18, 2022, Musk tweeted:[9]
In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold …
On May 18, 2022, Musk announced that he is switching to the Republican Party, because Democrats "have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican."[10] The Democrats, however, have always been the party of division and hate, since their history as the party of racism, racial supremacy, the first Confederacy, Jim Crow and racial segregation with the same name, Ku Klux Klan, to their "modern" and not less divisive and hateful political correctness and wokeism, neo-puritanism , feminism (misandry), anti-America and West rhetoric, narrative and propaganda, Critical Race Theory (or simply "racism"), "reverse racism" (again, just "racism"), "anti-racist" racial segregation, promotion of pedophilia, child grooming, child transgenderism and puberty blockers, and support, creation and funding of terrorist and marxist/Islamic/racial supremacist groups and organizations (Antifa, BLM, ISIS).
On June 15, 2022, Elon Musk announced that he voted for Mayra Flores in Texas, and that was the first time he voted for a Republican candidate. He also said that he supports Red Wave in November,[11] and he is leaning toward Ron DeSantis in 2024 presidential elections.[12]
Free markets
On April 2024, Elon Musk and Argentina's Javier Milei met In Texas, and discussed boosting free markets.[13]
Depopulation crisis
“One of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and rapidly declining birthrate.” - Elon Musk[14]
Corporate cronyism and the Ukraine war
- See also: NATO war in Ukraine
Musk companies are thriving due to government subsidies. Tesla Motors and SolarCity have taken a huge financial hit in 2016. Both these companies are based on the green energy movement and are being punished by the markets due to extremely low oil prices. Musk lost a personal fortune upwards of $4 billion. In 2017, Tesla Motors would acquire all of SolarCity stocks. The highly anticipated Tesla Model 3 starts shipping at the end of July. The stock valuation of Tesla, which may be due to its software development, far exceeds that of GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
Despite how Musk quickly donated communications equipment worth many millions of dollars to Ukraine's regime, Zelenskyy turned sharply against Musk when in October 2022 he proposed terms for peace in the Russia-Ukraine war.[16] Musk ended up continuing to provide his Starlink service longer than he wanted to, at an estimated cost to Musk of $400 million over the next 12 months:[17]
| “ | The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.[18] | ” |
The Washington Post reported Musk saying,
| "Ukraine is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat...Trying to retake Crimea will cause massive death, probably fail and risk nuclear war...This would be terrible for Ukraine and Earth...How am I in this war?...Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars...It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”.[19] |
Musk tweeted in agreement as "accurate" a posting on X by David Sachs stating, "The longer this goes on, the better Russia will do...Citizens of Western countries are being told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing...We are told that there is no opportunity to make peace when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement...When the war is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say: 'Well we tried”.[20]
Controversies
In August 2018, reporters at leftist rags like The New York Times and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on Jeffrey Epstein to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive. Editors at the Times sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote that Epstein said, "criminalizing sex with [barely] teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."[21][22] However, not only the victims he was talking about, when they weren't prepuscent children,[23] were barely teenagers pretty under the average age of consent in US and North America, but accuser Virginia Robert Giuffre revealed that Epstein kept her and other girls on extreme diets to keep them looking still "prebubescent" so to abuse them.[21][22][24][25][26]
Despite being a proponent of freedom of speech online, Musk has tweeted support for the Chinese Communist Party and has even published articles in a magazine run by China's internet censorship agency.[3][4]
He smoked the marijuana during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast.[27]
Elon Musk indicates that he does not pray to or worship any divine being. However, he asked "any entities that [were] listening" to "bless [the] launch" before the important Falcon 1 launch by SpaceX, a company he founded in 2002.[28]
During California's Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, according to The Verge Musk said,
If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their g*****n freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.[29]
In 2021, he mocked far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren and called her "Senator Karen."[30]
In 2022, Musk acquired a 9% stake in Twitter, and subsequently its Board accepted a buy-out offer by Musk. After discovering that Twitter has been underreporting the number of its "false and spam accounts," Musk tried to terminate his deal to purchase Twitter on July 8, 2022.[31] But judicial activism then forced Musk to buy Twitter at a high price, for an enormous monetary benefit to liberals, which had the unintended beneficial effect of ending the grip of liberal censorship over this social platform.
After lending aid to Ukrainian Nazis in early 2022, Musk withdrew his support in October amidst much criticism and controversy.[32]
On October 31, 2022, Musk dressed up as a gladiator and attended Heidi Klum's Halloween party.[33]
In December 2022, Musk announced that one of his companies, Neuralink, will be ready to implant microchips for people with disabilities to eyes and spine into human brains within six months.[5]
2024 Auschwitz visit
After a visit to the Auschwitz death camp site Jan 2024, Elon Musk, calls Himself 'Aspirationally Jewish.'[34]
Quotes
- “The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter.”
References
- ↑ https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/elon-and-the-nazis
- ↑ Musk previously urged Americans to vote Republican in the 2022 midterm elections: "I recommend voting for a Republican Congress." [1]
- ↑ https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoJMyBnkvXJQ
- ↑ https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/19/elon-musk-african-american-of-the-year/
- ↑ https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/personnel-is-policy/
- ↑ Elon Musk: The Way Of The Future
- ↑ https://nationalpost.com/news/free-speech-absolutist-musk-says-he-would-reverse-twitter-ban-on-donald-trump
- ↑ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-buys-outfit-that-bidens-first-remark-on-twitter-layoffs-3493054
- ↑ Elon Musk Tweeted (May 18, 2022):
In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold …
- ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/elon-musk-vows-to-vote-republican-calls-democrats-the-party-of-division-and-hate/ar-AAXrmMv?cvid=d61c2c6e41454aa98a3b6ac75a876ae7
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musks-first-gop-vote-triggers-dem-congressman-musk-supports-white-supremacy
- ↑ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/15/elon-musk-says-leaning-towards-ron-desantis-2024/
- ↑ Elon Musk And Javier Milei Meet In Texas, Speak About Boost Of Free Markets. One America News | April 13, 2024
- ↑ Demographic winter: The plague of the century, Washington Times, 2021
- ↑ Demographic winter: The plague of the century, Washington Times, 2021
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11276531/Elon-Musk-gets-Twitter-spat-Ukrainian-President-Zelensky-war-Russia.html
- ↑ https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-spacex-keep-funding-ukraine-starlink-satellite-internet-075616416.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581345747777179651
- ↑ https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz
- ↑ https://alethonews.com/2024/02/18/musk-agrees-ukraine-conflict-is-war-of-lies/
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 https://nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/08/12/epstein-called-criminalizing-sex-with-teen-girls-a-cultural-aberration/amp/
- ↑ https://inews.com.uk/news/world/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-jeffrey-epstein-decorated-home-photos-prepubescent-girls-1333780
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/sections/publisheditor/2019/07/15/741965493/women-girls-children-reporting-on-epstein-kelly-charges
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-i-was-14-years-old-and-still-in-braces-when-abuse-began/
- ↑ https://newzandar.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-kept-girls-on-extreme-diets-to-keep-them-looking-prepubescent-accuser/
- ↑ https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/356305
- ↑ Elon Musk - biography
- ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/elon-musk-calls-elizabeth-warren-senator-karen-in-spat-over-taxes/
- ↑ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/08/elon-musk-terminates-twitter-purchase-deal-citing-material-breach-of-agreement-by-company-refusing-to-provide-access-to-data/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/7_so5paN1qE
- ↑ https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-heidi-klum-halloween-party-twitter-controversy/
- ↑ Elon Musk, on Rehabilitation Tour, Calls Himself ‘Aspirationally Jewish’, NYTimes, Jan 22, 2024.
By Andrew Higgins, Reporting from Krakow, Poland.
His remarks, part of an effort to atone for comments many called antisemitic, came after a visit to the Auschwitz death camp site. [2] Elon Musk in front of austere brick buildings. Elon Musk during a visit on Monday to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.Credit...Yoav Dudkevitch/European Jewish Association, via Reuters. Pushing back against accusations of antisemitism, Elon Musk has in recent months visited Israel, hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Tesla factory in California and repeatedly insisted he bears no animus toward Jews.
On Monday, he took his penitence tour to a new level, declaring himself “aspirationally Jewish” after a visit to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland, where he lit a candle in memory of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Mr. Musk, the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, stirred outrage — and an exodus of advertisers — in November when he endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth.” The post accused Jewish communities of pushing “hatred against whites” and supporting the immigration of “hordes of minorities.”