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Interesting, the banker thinks "Major Democratic donor" is a positive selling point for Musk. I thought he is red.

josefresco 4y ago
I found that odd too, but I would guess it was meant to show that he was a "major player" and thus had political connections that might be useful to Musk/Twitter.
corndoge 4y ago
Many people can’t be quantified with one of two colors
n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
The entire offer is embarrassing. “Let me add useless, wasteful, and costly blockchain “tech” to your money-losing CRUD app. By the way, did you know we’re massive Democrat donors?” Like offering poop flavored ice cream with vomit sprinkles.
nu11ptr 4y ago
Elon isn't red or blue. He has leaned to voting dem in the past and now leans to voting gop for various reasons. It could change tomorrow. In the end, he thinks what he thinks and doesn't care how it aligns to a "party".
stefan_ 4y ago
The guy doesn't even vote, he's an opportunist that would pretend to be orange if it curried favor with small minded people.
paganel 4y ago
And finished it off with with “second to Bloomberg when donating to Biden”. If any of this had happened in a non-rules based world or even at the periphery of our “civilized” world, a whole bunch of US-financed NGOs and “civil society” thingies would have been up all in arms about it, with cries of corruption and the like. But the moment when it turns out that the second largest financial donor to the US President is basically a crook and a fraudster all those voices are suddenly silent.
rchaud 4y ago
That's certainly who he started pandering to once the deal looked likely. "Democrats are the party of division and hate" in May 2022 [0]. BTW, searching for this tweet on Google is fruitless, whereas DuckDuckGo brought it up straight away (from my US-based IP). If that was to set the stage for reinstating Trump, it seems to have backfired massively, as Trump (of all people), called him out as a BS artist and RINO. Still, on what should have been of the busiest weeks in Twitter's history, he found time to use his Twitter bullhorn to advocate voting Republican in every race. [0]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658

I found that odd too, but I would guess it was meant to show that he was a "major player" and thus had political connections that might be useful to Musk/Twitter.

corndoge 4y ago

Many people can’t be quantified with one of two colors

n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago

The entire offer is embarrassing. “Let me add useless, wasteful, and costly blockchain “tech” to your money-losing CRUD app. By the way, did you know we’re massive Democrat donors?” Like offering poop flavored ice cream with vomit sprinkles.

nu11ptr 4y ago

Elon isn't red or blue. He has leaned to voting dem in the past and now leans to voting gop for various reasons. It could change tomorrow. In the end, he thinks what he thinks and doesn't care how it aligns to a "party".

stefan_ 4y ago

The guy doesn't even vote, he's an opportunist that would pretend to be orange if it curried favor with small minded people.

paganel 4y ago

And finished it off with with “second to Bloomberg when donating to Biden”. If any of this had happened in a non-rules based world or even at the periphery of our “civilized” world, a whole bunch of US-financed NGOs and “civil society” thingies would have been up all in arms about it, with cries of corruption and the like. But the moment when it turns out that the second largest financial donor to the US President is basically a crook and a fraudster all those voices are suddenly silent.

rchaud 4y ago

That's certainly who he started pandering to once the deal looked likely. "Democrats are the party of division and hate" in May 2022 [0]. BTW, searching for this tweet on Google is fruitless, whereas DuckDuckGo brought it up straight away (from my US-based IP). If that was to set the stage for reinstating Trump, it seems to have backfired massively, as Trump (of all people), called him out as a BS artist and RINO. Still, on what should have been of the busiest weeks in Twitter's history, he found time to use his Twitter bullhorn to advocate voting Republican in every race. [0]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658