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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRitchie Torres blaming Democrats and sucking up to Musk
I do not know Elon Musk, never met him, and therefore have no personal feelings about him. But I never quite understood how he came to be the favored punching bag of the far left.
Whether you approve of him or not, whether you agree with him or not, the man is leading two of the most innovative companies on earth. But for SpaceX, the US would be losing the space race against China. But for Tesla, the EV industry in the US would be a shell of itself.
The country thrives on intrepid innovators like Elon Musk. Why antagonize him so intensely that you drive him into Trumps corner and make a permanent enemy out of him? Politics should be a game of addition, not subtraction.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ritchie-torres-59536a30a_i-do-not-know-elon-musk-never-met-him-and-activity-7263658915903500288-gfZs
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Keepthesoulalive
(585 posts)His nonsense is out there, he has taken other peoples ideas and passed them off as his own.
The things he has said and championed on twitter are disgraceful and that hideous cybertruck. He takes money from government and craps on his employees. Hes a mental midget with a god complex.
Stop believing in fairy tales , this man is toxic and racist .
elleng
(136,071 posts)Good that he's an innovator; hope 'safety' improves.
SunImp
(2,336 posts)Silent Type
(6,675 posts)after a trump rally, Musk is a prancing Dipchit. Or, something like that.
Mike 03
(16,812 posts)I was inclined to appreciate what he was doing until the Twitter fiasco and his gradual alignment with far right politics. Musk did this. Nobody recontextualized who he was. He revealed himself, or dramatically changed.
Skittles
(159,374 posts)WTF
Blue_Tires
(55,787 posts)Skittles
(159,374 posts)who the fuck cares?
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Blue_Tires
(55,787 posts)And he'd pepper the lounge with his regular catchphrase "WHO THE FUCK IS (new pop culture phenomenon or fad) AND WHY SHOULD I GIVE A RAT'S ASS?!"
I think it was "OldAndInTheWay?"
Abolishinist
(1,969 posts)I have a very fast internet speed so it didn't take long!
Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. The district covers most of the South Bronx and is by one measure the poorest congressional district in the United States, as well as one of the smallest districts by area in the country, covering only a few square miles.
Torres served as the New York City Council member for the 15th district from 2013 to 2020. He was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to legislative office in the Bronx, and the council's youngest member. Torres chaired the Committee on Public Housing and was a deputy majority leader. As chair of the Oversight and Investigations Committee he focused on predatory lending associated with taxi medallion procurement and the city's Third Party Transfer Program. In 2016, Torres was a delegate for the Bernie Sanders campaign.
In July 2019, Torres announced his bid for New York's 15th congressional district to succeed Representative José E. Serrano. The district is one of the most Democratic-leaning congressional districts in the country.[citation needed] Torres won the November 2020 general election and assumed office on January 3, 2021. This made him and Mondaire Jones the first openly gay Black man elected to Congress. It also made Torres the first openly gay Afro-Latino elected to Congress. Torres was one of nine co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus in the 117th United States Congress.
Blue_Tires
(55,787 posts)That's what I call "available"...
And I know everyone is required to have their own shitty, intellectually lazy finger-pointing postmortem after the election, but for someone who has zero fuckin' idea of what us Dems in the purple and red states are going through, he needs to zip it.
Crunchy Frog
(26,978 posts)SharonClark
(10,323 posts)Cha
(305,428 posts)Nazi fan Musk. I Know Many Dems who knows what he is and hate the Fucker, too.
Shame on you.
In It to Win It
(9,616 posts)Skittles
(159,374 posts)it drove him to become a Trump whore
Cosmocat
(14,963 posts)It has already started that all the crazy and cruel things they are going to say and do will be due to "the left" for some vague and baseless rationale.
And, the media and most of our fellow citizens will not bat an eye at it.
Cha
(305,428 posts)that's "antagonistic" like when we do it to TSF.
Cha
(305,428 posts)until this moment.
jalan48
(14,394 posts)oasis
(51,705 posts)jalan48
(14,394 posts)peregrinus
(223 posts)She just couldnt run as one in Hawaii. She is in a cult so she is used to lies and manipulation. Look at her record in the Hawaii state house.
oasis
(51,705 posts)one of them can stand Tulsi. Not a a single one.
atreides1
(16,386 posts)Ritchie is trying to get paid for jumping ship and turning Republican!
AloeVera
(1,950 posts)Here is my surprised face:
Solly Mack
(92,820 posts)Snort
Passages
(1,066 posts)Musk has proven he is a danger to our democracy and any lawmaker who doesn't recognize that should seek rehab.
RandiFan1290
(6,407 posts)BootinUp
(49,024 posts)Stop winning elections and forcing billionaires to do their worst democrats !!! Just shut up and sit down!@
ThePartyThatListens
(88 posts)He's a product of AIPAC.
The only solution is his constituents.
I hope they do the right thing when that time comes.
AloeVera
(1,950 posts)I was too chicken-shit to say it outright.
You're the better person.
Sundance1220
(105 posts)Without them, he'd be just another rich nepo boy.
Historic NY
(37,859 posts)and invested in them
Walleye
(35,672 posts)Cherrycheeks
(160 posts)Just about everything I have heard about him or heard him
discussing he seems to always agree with the republicons.🤔