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Elon Musk was in US illegally per Washington Post

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorJMDZ, Oct 27, 2024.

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  1. Oct 29, 2024 #41
    GatorJMDZ

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    Elon has pissed off the Wall Street Journal. Reporting now that Musk has had dozens of direct contacts with Putin since 2022. Provision of Starlinks to Taiwan and Ukraine have been discussed. Musk reportedly has given his Starlink technology to Russia to use against Ukraine. Musk gets $3 billion/year from the US. If this reporting is true, he has at best been acting as an unregistered foreign agent, which is a crime.



    Edit Note: I initially indicated this was a Washington Post Story. That was incorrect, it's from the Wall Street Journal..
     
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  2. Oct 29, 2024 #42
    OklahomaGator

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    I thought the Washington Post was for Trump, isn't that why over 200,000 cancelled their subscriptions? Why would they put this piece out on a very big Trump supporter?
     
  3. Oct 29, 2024 #43
    GatorJMDZ

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    I believe the cancellations were due to the Posts refusal to endorse Harris over the rapist/thief/serial liar.
     
  4. Oct 29, 2024 #44
    OklahomaGator

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    yeah, so in everyone's eyes, the Post is for Trump. Why would they cancel if the Post was neutral?
     
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  5. Oct 29, 2024 #45
    demosthenes

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    A newspaper isn’t monolithic. They often allow editorials that go against the grain of the organization and the same goes for news articles and various journalists. An endorsement is different since it’s the official position of the paper.

    I don’t really care one way or the other. The Post has “voted” with its wallet to not endorse a candidate and it appears 200,000 users have now done the same. So it goes.
     
  6. Oct 29, 2024 #46
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    Are you thinking of the NY Post? The Wash Post has never endorsed a Republican candidate for president. Starting with Carter it's been all Dems except for Dukakis and, now, Harris.
     
  7. Oct 29, 2024 #47
    gator_jo

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    How do you not understand?

    In many people's eyes, this clearly demonstrates that Bezos will allow the role of the post to be abnegated in the face of Trump's criminality and bullying. In order to preserve his own profit margin.

    There's really nobody who should be happy with this. Trump has basically promised to use the power of the federal government to go after his political opponents. And they, apparently, believe him.



    The most astounding part, as always in this theater of grotesquery, is that appx half the voters don't care.

    Edit : "You thought we'd care about Trump potentially threatening political opponents as President, when we didn't and don't even care that he literally ALREADY tried to overturn an election as a sitting President?"
     
  8. Oct 29, 2024 #48
    VAg8r1

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    Gotta love Elon Musk. In an ad apparently intended to mobilize young male voters for Trump may or may not accomplish it's intended goal but it will definitely alienate female voters who already predisposed to vote for Harris even more.
    Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC attacks Harris with ad referencing vulgarity
    The 35-second ad, posted on October 25 to Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter), opens with a disclaimer: "contains multiple instances of the c-word." This label is subsequently directed at Harris, described as a "tax-hiking, regulation-loving, gun-grabbing communist" with visuals of the Democratic presidential nominee and a caricature of a cat in a Soviet-style military uniform.​
     
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