{"id":1012986,"date":"2021-11-14T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T04:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012986"},"modified":"2021-11-14T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T04:58:31","slug":"elon-musk-trolls-socialist-bernie-sanders-over-fair-share-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-trolls-socialist-bernie-sanders-over-fair-share-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Trolls Socialist Bernie Sanders over &#039;Fair Share&#039; Remarks"},"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\">20<\/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-trolls-socialist-bernie-sanders-over-fair-share-remarks%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=1012986&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elon-musk-laugh-dec-1-2020-gettyimages-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Never one to back away from his detractors, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit back at socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for demanding the wealthy pay their \u201cfair share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Bernie Sanders tweeted yet another one of his garden variety \u201cfair share\u201d hot takes that have become as synonymous with the openly socialist senator from Vermont as \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d has with former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period,\u201d Sanders tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded on Sunday, \u201cI keep forgetting that you\u2019re still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4367816091954\">\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<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sanders and Musk previously engaged in a Twitter skirmish this past March when the socialist senator criticized the billionaire for focusing on space travels instead of planet earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a moment in American history where two guys \u2014 Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos \u2014 own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable,\u201d Sanders tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4945848375451\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are in a moment in American history where two guys \u2014 Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos \u2014 own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1372641707829829632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary &amp; extend the light of consciousness to the stars,\u201d Musk responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.16\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary &amp; extend the light of consciousness to the stars<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1373507545315172357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sanders disagreed with Musk, arguing that the inequality in America is too \u201cobscene\u201d to be brushed aside in favor of space travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don\u2019t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.641242937853\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don&#8217;t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbMWYnPFUx\">https:\/\/t.co\/CbMWYnPFUx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1373699911783477253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s latest spat with Bernie Sanders came just days after he sold $6 billion in Tesla stock in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/elon-musk-sells-6-9bn-in-tesla-shares-after-twitter-poll\/\">response<\/a> to a Twitter poll, according to the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p>Musk\u2019s selloff came days after he created a Twitter poll \u2014 in which millions voted \u2014 asking whether he should sell 10 percent of his huge stake in the electric carmaker.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Musk tweeted: \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<\/p>\n<p>In the poll, almost 58 percent of the 3.5 million votes cast were in favor of him proceeding with the sale.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla shares had plummeted at the Wall Street opening on Monday and have fallen further since.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, after moving his company from California to Texas, Musk advised the liberal city of Austin to not go the way of San Francisco by instituting destructive policies like \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustin should be its city, not a&nbsp;San Francisco&nbsp;copycat,\u201d the billionaire tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5154639175258\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austin should be its city, not a San Francisco copycat<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1454894791444111360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to back away from his detractors, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit back at socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for demanding the wealthy pay their \u201cfair share.\u201d On Saturday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-1012986","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\/1012986","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012986\/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=1012986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}