{"id":1012356,"date":"2021-11-14T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012356"},"modified":"2021-11-14T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:29:20","slug":"elon-musk-drags-bernie-after-attack-on-wealthy-i-keep-forgetting-that-youre-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-drags-bernie-after-attack-on-wealthy-i-keep-forgetting-that-youre-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Drags Bernie After Attack On Wealthy: \u2018I Keep Forgetting That You\u2019re Still Alive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-drags-bernie-after-attack-on-wealthy-i-keep-forgetting-that-youre-still-alive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Sunday, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk dragged radical leftist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after Sanders snapped, \u201cWe must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1459584250668331011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk responded on Twitter, \u201cI keep forgetting that you\u2019re still alive,\u201d adding, \u201cWant me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I keep forgetting that you\u2019re still alive<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1459891238384115722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1459904966194253824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latter comment referred to Musk\u2019s sale of a combined $6.9 billion worth of shares as of Friday. On November 6, Musk created a Twitter poll asking whether he should sell 10% of his&nbsp;stock in Tesla, tweeting, \u201cMuch is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this?\u201d Roughly 58% of the 3.5 million votes cast said he should.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock.<\/p>\n<p>Do you support this?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1457064697782489088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk added, \u201cI will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes. Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1457067398712942592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk created the aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company SpaceX in 2002; he became the CEO of Tesla, Inc. in 2008. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, which develops brain-computer interfaces. He <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/532745\/traits-work-for-elon-musk\/\">reportedly employs<\/a> roughly 110,000 people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, on the other hand, has made his living as a politician supported by citizens\u2019 taxes for decades.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, Musk issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first likely confounded members of the Left confident that their support for attacks on America, whether physical (riots, looting) or philosophical (the 1619 Project) was shared by everyone in the so-called center of the political spectrum. Musk tweeted, \u201cThe left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk dragged radical leftist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after Sanders snapped, \u201cWe must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.\u201dWe must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 13, 2021Musk responded on Twitter, \u201cI keep forgetting that you\u2019re still alive,\u201d adding, \u201cWant me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word.\u201dI keep forgetting that you\u2019re still alive\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2021Want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word \u2026\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2021The latter comment referred to Musk\u2019s sale of a combined $6.9 billion worth of shares as of Friday. On November 6, Musk created a Twitter poll asking whether he should sell 10% of his\u00a0stock in Tesla, tweeting, \u201cMuch is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this?\u201d Roughly 58% of the 3.5 million votes cast said he should.Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock.Do you support this?\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2021Musk added, \u201cI will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes. Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.\u201dNote, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2021Musk created the aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company SpaceX in 2002; he became the CEO of Tesla, Inc. in 2008. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, which develops brain-computer interfaces. He reportedly employs roughly 110,000 people around the world.Sanders, on the other hand, has made his living as a politician supported by citizens\u2019 taxes for decades.In July 2020, Musk issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first likely confounded members of the Left confident that their support for attacks on America, whether physical (riots, looting) or philosophical (the 1619 Project) was shared by everyone in the so-called center of the political spectrum. Musk tweeted, \u201cThe left is losing the middle.\u201dThe left is losing the middle\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2020Musk followed twenty-five minutes later with another tweet attacking the father of communism, Karl Marx, writing succinctly, \u201cDas Kapital in a nutshell,\u201d followed by a picture of Marx with the statement in quasi-German, \u201cGib me dat for free.\u201dDas Kapital in a nutshell pic.twitter.com\/mG44mMkitx\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2020In May 2020, Musk famously tweeted, \u201cTake the red pill.\u201dTake the red pill \ud83c\udf39\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2020In the film \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d the hero, Neo, is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill would free him from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality. Some conservatives aver that taking the \u201cred pill\u201d means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an\u00a0opinion piece\u00a0in Fox News explained in 2017:The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it\u2019s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance\u2014 the growing number of liberals \u201ctaking the red pill.\u201d\u00a0 People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing \u201cred pill moments\u201d\u2014personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}