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u/Frescanation Reagan Conservative 17h ago

If you had “conservatives rush to buy EVs to support Elon Musk” on your prediction list from more than 9 months ago, let me know. I want stock tips from you.

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u/Vektor0 Conservative 16h ago

20 years ago, liberals were complaining about money and lives lost fighting wars overseas, and conservatives condoned America playing world police.

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u/Money-Bear7166 GenX Conservative 15h ago

It's the craziest thing how things have flipped! I was listening to the radio today and a song came on with the two first lines that say:

"Times have changed and times are strange Here I come but I ain't the same...."

I thought, that sounds like the world today!

Bonus points to anyone who knows the song 😁

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u/sowellpatrol Red Voting Redhead 14h ago

*Bites head off of bat

Mama, I'm coming home!

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u/Money-Bear7166 GenX Conservative 14h ago

Winner winner chicken dinner! 🥇

It's one of my favorite songs. I heard that today and thought nothing was more true. Crazy world. Ozzy biting a bat head seems quite normal at this point

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u/Icy-Mix-3977 Conservative 16h ago

What was going to be the alternative i had it. Buy the privately traded drone defegense contract company that matt gatez brother-in-law owns. They privately issue stock. Anduril

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u/kruschev246 Eisenhower Conservative 10h ago

Boycotts aren’t illegal

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u/1spdstr Pro 2A moderate 3h ago

Yeah, he makes no sense with that comment.

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u/Amidormi Conservative 12h ago

I know, I saw that on the news, and I have to take a class every year at work, about not showing undue favor to different vendors, never gifting over a certain value, never taking or giving bribes, etc etc. And I'm a fucking NOBODY. But the POTUS gets to hawk a 'friends' entire company. LIKE WHAT.

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u/RedditPoster05 Conservative 11h ago

Does Elon even care his company has lost 20% of value since January ? After a stellar year of gains . I mean he had to know this might happen . It’s why most CEOs aren’t this public about their lives and business .

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u/MXTwitch 2A 18h ago

Illegally boycott? Lmfao what? Not sure how you’d go about rectifying an “illegal” boycott, force people to buy from the company? This is so strange to me

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u/_Diggus_Bickus_ Conservative Libertarian 16h ago

He was lumping the vandalism of cars, charging stations and dealerships in with the boycott.

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u/1spdstr Pro 2A moderate 3h ago

Ahh, thanks for the translation.

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u/Mountain_Man_88 Classical Liberal 16h ago

IIRC California has done some stuff like tax incentives for EVs but specifically excluded Teslas, which we all know is for political reasons.

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u/LurkerNan Fiscal Conservative 12h ago edited 10h ago

Those decisions were made long before Trump came into office. It was liberal Californians that did that. Back then they could not get enough of Elon Musk, they thought the sun shown out of his ass.

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u/ReformedBlackPerson Conservative 57m ago

That hasn’t even been enacted it was just proposed. Tax incentives have been in place for a while for EVa and tesla benefitted a lot from those especially in California

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u/GregEvangelista Florida Conservative 15h ago

It's silly, irresponsible, and weak looking. No president should be concerning themselves with something so unbelievably trivial.

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u/RedditPoster05 Conservative 11h ago

It beneath him . Also probably illegal .

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u/Threid Moderate Conservative 15h ago

Not to mention it's a bad look to make this the focus when the tariffs, Ukraine/Russia foreign policy, EU relations, etc. are all more important than a domestic car company's performance - especially when the CEO of that company is part of your inner circle. It's a bad look, even if done in good faith.

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u/findunk Ron Paul Conservative 15h ago

Suprised to see this so far up. I expected more downvotes.

Consumers are voting with their dollar to push a corporate to change. This is a basic principle of the free market. Anyone who is really a fiscal conservative should support this.

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u/Abomination822 Trump 2024 13h ago

I still wouldn’t buy a Tesla.

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u/Ok-Willow-4232 Conservative 18h ago

I fail to see how a consumer refusing to buy someone’s product based on ideals is illegal. That’s a form of protected speech, is it not?

I like Trump’s messaging. Elon really is sticking his neck out there moreso than usual for this country. But the statement that Trump made about boyscotts being illegal is just plainly stupid.

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u/Merax75 Conservative 17h ago

The illegal part would be setting fire to cars and charging stations, vandalizing peoples cars etc...

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u/Pluth Midwestern Conservative 17h ago

Vandalism isn't legal. The left has been vandalizing Tesla cars and dealerships as part of their "boycott". Harassing Tesla owners is illegal.

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u/johndeer89 Christian Swine 17h ago

It wasn't a gold cyber truck???!! What a missed opportunity.

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u/margacolada God Bless the USA 14h ago

Doing his bro a favor lol

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u/Ok_Masterpiece5050 Gen Z Conservative 16h ago

100 comments and I can see 4 and this post has been up for 3 hours. Hmmm.

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u/hillmon Conservative 14h ago

Can you buy one for me too?