Elon Musk, chief engineer and CEO of SpaceX, made a passionate speech after the Dragon Capsule successfully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historic-nasa-manned-spacex-capsule-returns-to-earth-lands-in-gulf-of-mexico">splash landed</a> into the Gulf of Mexico, bringing home two astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley of NASA.
In his brief remarks, Musk suggested the success of Dragon Capsule, which was also nicknamed “Endeavour,” put humanity on  “fundamentally, a new era in spaceflight, a new era in space exploration.”
“We’re going to go to the moon, we’re going to have a base on the moon, we’re going to send people to Mars and make life multi-planetary,” he said. 
 
Musk, who has been open about his goal to colonize Mars, was also met with enthusiasm on Sunday from NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, who previewed a future of low-Earth orbit space flight with increased accessibility, thanks to innovations in the private sector. 
“We are entering a new era of human spaceflight, where NASA is no longer the purchaser, owner and operator of all the hardware. We are going to be a customer,” said Bridenstine. “One customer of many customers, in a very robust commercial marketplace for human spaceflight to low-Earth orbit.”
He continued: “We also want to have numerous providers that are competing against each other on cost, and innovation, and safety, driving down costs and increasing access to space in a way that&#8217;s never been seen before.”
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&#8220;We are entering a new era of human spaceflight.&#8221;
Administrator <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimBridenstine</a> comments on the historic nature of our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaunchAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LaunchAmerica</a> mission: this is the beginning of commercial transportation to and from the <a href="https://twitter.com/Space_Station?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Space_Station</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Gnc9D1JqIw">pic.twitter.com/Gnc9D1JqIw</a>
— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1290029046148075520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
Musk, still passionate but seemingly at a loss for words, added in his brief speech: “You know, I’m not very religious but I prayed for this one.”
“I think this is something that the whole world can take some pleasure in, and can really look at this as an achievement of humanity,” continued Musk. “These are difficult times when — you know, there’s not that much good news — and I think this is one of those things that is universally good no matter where you are on planet Earth, this is a good thing, and I hope it brightens your day.”
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&#8220;No matter where you are on planet Earth, this is a good thing.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpaceX</a> CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a> reflects on the success of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaunchAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LaunchAmerica</a> mission and what it means for commercial space capability: <a href="https://t.co/qYjBRd2GPO">pic.twitter.com/qYjBRd2GPO</a>
— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1290076167819669510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Hurley and Behnken splashed into the ocean shortly before 3 p.m. EST on Sunday, marking the end of their roughly two-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). 
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&#8220;Thanks for flying <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpaceX</a>.&#8221;
📍 Current Location: Planet Earth
A 2:48pm ET, <a href="https://twitter.com/AstroBehnken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AstroBehnken</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Astro_Doug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Astro_Doug</a> splashed down, marking the first splashdown of an American crew spacecraft in 45 years. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaunchAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LaunchAmerica</a> <a href="https://t.co/zO3KlNwxU3">pic.twitter.com/zO3KlNwxU3</a>
— NASA (@NASA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1289996966424907776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Dragon Capsule, which launched from a Falcon 9 rocket owned by SpaceX back in May, represented not only the first private launch of NASA astronauts, but also the first launch of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011. 
“We’re both super, super proud to have been just a small part of the team that accomplished bringing those spaceflights back to the Florida coast and bringing that capability back to America,” said Behnken after landing. 
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On Monday, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and founder of SpaceX, issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first was sure to confound members of the Left confident that their support for the current 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, “The left is losing the middle.”
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The left is losing the middle
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Musk followed twenty-five minutes later with another tweet attacking the father of communism, Karl Marx, writing succinctly, “Das Kapital in a nutshell,” followed by a picture of Marx with the statement in quasi-German, “Gib me dat for free.”
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Das Kapital in a nutshell <a href="https://t.co/mG44mMkitx">pic.twitter.com/mG44mMkitx</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1287824348460593154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Musk’s apparent rejection of leftist thought has been in evidence for some time; in May, he gave an indication of how fed-up he is with the leftist governance of his home state of California, apparently urging followers on Twitter to join the conservatives of America as he tweeted succinctly, “Take the red pill.”
In the film “The Matrix,” 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 “red pill” means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberals-sick-of-the-alt-left-are-taking-the-red-pill">opinion piece</a> in Fox News explained in 2017:
<blockquote>The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.”  People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing “red pill moments”—personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.</blockquote>
In late April, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urged governors across the nation</a> to start opening their states for business, tweeting, &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/">Texas Tribune</a> titled, &#8220;Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here&#8217;s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”
Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.” According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>, Musk stated:
<blockquote>We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk. The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!</blockquote>
He reportedly continued, “If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do&#8230; this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.”
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Elon Musk Smacks The Left With Two Tweets

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who famously named his baby X Æ A-Xii, drew ire from his partner Grimes on Friday when he tweeted a not-so-LGBT friendly statement.
&#8220;Pronouns suck,&#8221; Musk tweeted with no follow-up or clarification. Shortly thereafter, Musk&#8217;s partner publicly scolded him for being hateful.
&#8220;I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a dall [sic]. I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn&#8217;t your heart,&#8221; she tweeted in reply.
Keeping it real, Musk then followed up by saying, &#8220;Twitter sucks.&#8221;
Grimes, birth name Claire Boucher, deleted her tweet. Musk&#8217;s anti-pronoun tweet still remains as of this writing.
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Pronouns suck
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286869404874088448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Though Musk said nothing regarding transgenderism, leftist trolls immediately lectured him against transphobia.
&#8220;Transgender rights are important in a free and equal society that cares about everyone—from the very rich like you to the most vulnerable like them. This shouldn’t be in dispute. But cancel culture does suck, which is why we should educate people not futilely try to destroy them,&#8221; tweeted Dr. Eugene Gu.
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Transgender rights are important in a free and equal society that cares about everyone—from the very rich like you to the most vulnerable like them. This shouldn’t be in dispute. But cancel culture does suck, which is why we should educate people not futilely try to destroy them.
&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1286904392260579329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So do people with immense fortunes, huge platforms, &amp; incredible influence who use them to put pressure on a Gov to prematurely open his state &amp; subject people to a deadly virus. Also, someone who messes w a &#8216;friend&#8217; that is mentally ill. You&#8217;re being a terrible human right now,&#8221; tweeted Rachel &#8220;The Doc&#8221; Bitecofer.
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So do people with immense fortunes, huge platforms, &amp; incredible influence who use them to put pressure on a Gov to prematurely open his state &amp; subject people to a deadly virus.
Also, someone who messes w a &quot;friend&quot; that is mentally ill.
You&#39;re being a terrible human right now
&mdash; Rachel &quot;The Doc&quot; Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1287030457637511169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pretty disgusting to see from you. What&#8217;s so hard about calling someone a pronoun? It literally does absolutely nothing to you to call them it and it&#8217;s what they like to be referred as so why not just do it? I genuinely don&#8217;t understand why you people don&#8217;t like them,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Its_Revan/status/1286874647443714050?s=20">tweeted</a> another user.
Musk&#8217;s inexplicable strike against pronouns comes just two months after he rocked the halls of the Twitterverse <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-cancel-cancel-culture">when he said</a> &#8220;take the red pill&#8221; and &#8220;cancel cancel culture&#8221; with no further clarification.
Though it’s doubtful that Musk will ever be a friend to conservatives, it is fair to note that he has always marched to his own drumbeat and has never conformed to lockstep Silicon Valley leftism.
For instance, as billionaires like Bill Gates and others were actively pushing population control measures to help with climate change, typically in poor African countries, Musk went against the grain and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reiterates-global-population-is-headed-for-collapse-2019-6">said the world actually needs more people</a> on the planet, not less.
“The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care,” he tweeted in 2017 in response to a New Scientist article about a “population bomb” going off in 2076.
“Real issue will [be] an aging &amp; declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation,” <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1141977875567919104?s=20">he tweeted</a> in 2019. “Demographics, stratified by age, will look like an upside down pyramid with many old people &amp; fewer young.”
Prior to his infamous “red pill” tweet, Musk had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urging governors </a> to reopen the economy and even went as far to call the lockdown orders “fascist.&#8221; On Friday, Musk also tweeted that he opposes another round of economic stimulus while expressing his support for Universal Basic Income (UBI).
&#8220;As a reminder, I’m in *favor* of universal basic income,&#8221; <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-another-government-stimulus-package-is-not-in-the-best-interests-of-the-people-2020-07-24">he tweeted</a>. &#8220;Goal of government should be to maximize the happiness of the people. Giving each person money allows them to decide what meets their needs, rather than the blunt tool of legislation, which creates self-serving special interests.&#8221;
&#8220;Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;These are jammed to gills with special interests earmarks. If we do a stimulus at all, it should just be direct payments to consumers.&#8221;
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Elon Musk’s Partner Grimes Publicly Scolds Him After He Tweets ‘Pronouns Suck’

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The Twitter accounts of multiple high-profile individuals, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and rapper Kanye West, have seemingly been compromised as part of an apparent bitcoin scam.
Those accounts, in addition to others, have been sending out tweets asking for bitcoin donations in exchange for a rapid return on investment.
For example, Kanye West’s account tweeted: “I am giving back to my community due to COVID-19. All bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised">The Verge</a>, corporate accounts for Apple and Uber also appear to have been targeted, “suggesting that someone has either found a severe security loophole in Twitter’s login process or has gained access to a Twitter employee’s admin privileges.”
Reports indicate that the Twitter accounts of former President Obama, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have also been affected.
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It looks like Joe Biden was also hacked&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/621SliPEiA">pic.twitter.com/621SliPEiA</a>
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1283513629409599488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
A spokesperson for the Biden campaign told <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahmucha/status/1283521925889896449">CNN</a>: &#8220;Twitter locked down the account immediately following the breach and removed the related tweet. We remain in touch with Twitter on the matter.&#8221;
Twitter has since stated that they are &#8220;aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter,&#8221; and said that some people may not be able to tweet while they &#8220;review and address this incident.&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-accounts-of-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-appear-to-have-been-hacked-11594849077?mod=hp_lead_pos1">reports</a> that the social media company started &#8220;limiting posts from verified accounts with the blue check marks, which Twitter generally designates for more prominent users,&#8221; around 3pm PST.
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You may be unable to Tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283526400146837511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-hacking-musk-obama-apple-biden-kanye/">Wired</a>, the apparent hackers started posting from the accounts of cryptocurrency-related public figures before moving on to more mainstream targets, some with tens of millions of followers each. While some accounts only posted the message once, others accounts reposted the message, or a variation of it, even after the first message had been deleted.
&#8220;These scams work because of a gambling mentality—give a little bit of money, get a lot of money,&#8221; Ronnie Tokazowski, an email security researcher at Agari, told Wired. &#8220;Just the idea of risk versus reward. It&#8217;s especially dangerous right now because so many people are struggling.”
The L.A. Times reports &#8220;the bitcoin address tweeted by the hackers has been sent over 12 Bitcoins, worth more than $110,000. It appeared that popular Bitcoin exchange Coinbase blocked its users from sending money to the address.&#8221;
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Twitter Accounts Hacked In Apparent Bitcoin Scam; Biden, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Others Affected

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk became the seventh-wealthiest person in the world on Monday, surpassing billionaire hedge fund investor Warren Buffet.
Musk’s net worth rose over $6 billion in one day on the tide of Tesla’s stock price, which jumped in morning trading and hit a new high later in the day when up 14% from its Friday closing. The electric car company later lost all its gains and then some, ending the day down 3%, according to <a href="https://www.investors.com/news/technology/tesla-stock-soars-to-a-record-high-as-price-reduced-on-model-y/">Investor’s Business Daily</a>.
Still, Tesla’s surging stock price, which has skyrocketed about 70% in a month, has put Musk’s net worth seventh on the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/">Bloomberg Billionaire Index</a>, placing him between Google’s cofounders Larry Page in sixth and Sergey Brin in eighth. Since the start of 2020, Musk’s net worth has risen more than anyone else’s in the world except for Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’s.
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-is-now-pricier-than-shares-of-googles-alphabet-2020-07-13">MarketWatch</a> reported:
<blockquote>Tesla Inc. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/TSLA?mod=MW_story_quote">TSLA, -3.08%</a> shares on Monday rose more than 14%, headed for a record high and trading above shares of Google&#8217;s parent Alphabet Inc. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/GOOG?mod=MW_story_quote">GOOG, -1.97%</a> <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/GOOGL?mod=MW_story_quote">GOOGL, -1.74%</a> and Priceline.com&#8217;s Booking Holdings Inc. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/BKNG?mod=MW_story_quote">BKNG, -1.20%</a>. The stock&#8217;s one-day gain is its best since a 16% jump in March. The rally has pushed the Silicon Valley car maker&#8217;s market value to around $321 billion, the most valued car company in the world after Japan&#8217;s Toyota Motor Co. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/TM?mod=MW_story_quote">TM, +0.06%</a>. Tesla shares are up nine out of the past 10 sessions as investors await the company&#8217;s second-quarter results next Wednesday, and the possibility of a surprise quarterly profit that would set the company to joining the S&amp;P 500 index. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/SPX?mod=MW_story_quote">SPX, -0.93%</a></blockquote>
Tesla’s stock price is up about 300% on the year. The electric car manufacturer’s rise has fueled investor confidence that the company may post its fourth straight quarter of profits, the first such streak in the company’s history and a necessary milestone that makes it eligible to be considered for the S&amp;P 500, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/elon-musk-is-now-worth-more-than-warren-buffett.html">CNBC</a>.
If Musk’s company continues climbing at the rate it has in recent weeks, the stock price will meet the final threshold in the CEO’s performance ladder of incentives. Musk would earn 1.69 million stock options, which if he chose to sell immediately, would give him a 10-figure payout, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-13/tesla-s-elon-musk-nears-2-4-billion-haul-as-stock-keeps-soaring">Bloomberg</a>.
The company’s stock price may be severely overinflated, some Wall Street analysts warn. Tesla&#8217;s surging stock price has confounded experts who are trying to make sense of the sudden and meteoric rise of the electric car company.
The Bear Traps Report editor Larry McDonald said that Tesla’s stock price is destined to drop.
“By buying up Tesla [stock] now, front-runners are forcing the S&amp;P Indexes to give the stock a higher and higher weighting,” McDonald wrote in a recent note, according to <a href="https://observer.com/2020/07/tesla-stock-surge-wall-street-analysis-elon-musk/">Observer</a>. “Thus, ETFs / Indexes will be forced to pay up, buying even more shares. Then the hot money exits, leaving indexes holding the bag.
Morgan Stanley transportation analyst Adam Jonas also urged caution on Tesla’s stock price, saying on Friday, “the days of Tesla’s virtually unchallenged dominance may be numbered.”
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Musk Net Worth Rose $6 Billion In One Day, Overtakes Warren Buffett

On May 29th, Dr. Cornel West was being interviewed on CNN. In that interview, he referred to America as “a failed social experiment.” The next day, Elon Musk launched Bob and Doug into orbit using his revolutionary Falcon 9 rocket, and the equally stunning Dragon capsule, which Bob and Doug named Endeavor, after the now-retired Space Shuttle that had given them both their first ride into space in what was, in comparison to the Dragon capsule, a remarkably 20th Century-looking vehicle. You could hardly call that a failed social experiment.
So which one of these two visions of America is true? Well, the sad reality is that they both are.
Cornel West’s rage-fueled Blue America is a land divided by racial hatreds which, according to West and his colleagues, continues to get worse with each passing year. And yet, the SpaceX Demo-2 launch showed men and women from all racial backgrounds pulling together, their very lives quite literally in each others hands. Musk and his Red America had done something that the entire governments of China, Russia, the European Union and even the United States had failed to do: usher in a 21st Century Space Race II using what used to be called Big Dumb Rockets, but which now delicately (if spectacularly) alight on what is essentially a floating postage stamp in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, named Of Course I Still Love You. That was not just a success; it was, as Elon Musk pointed out after Bob and Doug had reached orbit, a uniquely American achievement. Endeavor is, after all, private property.
It’s clear that Two Americas exist today; not side by side but each inside the other. And that got me wondering what made them so different. Listing the attributes of Team Red vs. Team Blue showed me just how far Team Blue has departed from the historical American norm; it was actually kind of fun — and kind of sad — to stack the attitudes and motivations of Red America and Blue America against each other.
When Cornel West refers to this country as “a failed social experiment,” he’s right. His Blue vision for America is an utter catastrophe. But Red Team is alive and kicking. And, I might add, we are actively recruiting. If sharing this video helps you swing people into a happier and more productive life, feel free to use it in any way you can. That’s what it’s there for.
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A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company roared into space with two Americans on board on Saturday, the first time U.S. astronauts have launched from U.S. soil in nearly a decade.
In a flawless liftoff and flight, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are now hurtling toward the International Space Station at more than 1,500 mph in the bullet-shaped Dragon capsule, a flight that will take 19 hours. The Falcon 9 rocket that launched them into space also returned to earth successfully.
“Let’s light this candle,” Hurley said just before the rocket fired up, using a phrase uttered by astronaut Alan Shepard on America’s first human spaceflight in 1961. The last U.S. launch came in July 2011 and became the final mission of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle program. The SpaceX Dragon capsule is the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the U.S. since STS-4 in 1982.
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence attended the launch. Within seconds of the launch, Elton John’s “Rocket Man” — a Trump rally classic — began to play over speakers. 
From an observation platform, Trump said he asked NASA officials: &#8220;Would you hear anything? because we’re a good distance away and then all of a sudden you hear that roar.” 
“I’m so proud of the people, of NASA, public and private. When you see a sight like that, it’s incredible. When you hear that sound — the roar — you can imagine how dangerous it is,&#8221; Trump said.
American astronauts have continued to go to the ISS, but on foreign rockets – and at a hefty price. Russia, for instance, charged the U.S. $85 million per astronaut.
The first attempted launch of the SpaceX rocket on Wednesday was scrubbed with less than than 17 minutes left on the the countdown clock because of stormy weather around the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Saturday didn&#8217;t look much better, with weather.com predicting scattered thunderstorms in the area, and a 55% chance of rain at the time of liftoff.
But the skies opened up shortly before the 3:22 p.m. launch, and the rocket blasted into space.
With COVID-19 sweeping the U.S. and riots exploding in cities across the country after the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis, NASA officials said that perhaps Americans could rally around the SpaceX flight.
“Maybe there’s an opportunity here for America to maybe pause and look up and see a bright, shining moment of hope at what the future looks like, that the United States of America can do extraordinary things even in difficult times,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said before launch.
Said Trump: “I think this is such a great inspiration for our country. Our country is doing well&#8230; We suffered something that was terrible. It should have never happened — it should have never come out of China&#8230; That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to be here today and I think any one of you would say that was an inspiration to see what we just saw.” 
The astronauts said they&#8217;re happy the U.S. is back in the space business. &#8220;It&#8217;s a real honor to just be a part of this program and to launch American rockets from Florida one more time,&#8221; said Hurley, 53, who was also on that last space shuttle flight in 2011.
Hurley, the mission commander, and Behnken will conduct experiments while on the ISS, where they are scheduled to stay for one to four months, until the next Crew Dragon launch. They will then return to Earth for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX, founded by Musk, became the first private company to launch people into orbit, a feat so far achieved by only three governments – the U.S., Russia, and China.
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Elon Musk and Canadian singer Grimes have changed the name of their newborn baby boy, seemingly to comply with a California law that prohibits a legal name from having numbers in it. And unfortunately for Musk and Grimes, baby “X Æ A-12” contained two. 
Grimes revealed the change in a reply to an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlmYlknL4E/">Instagram</a> user over the weekend, sharing that the baby’s new name was “X Æ A-Xii,” essentially a new spelling of the same name, but with roman numerals, which Grimes said actually “looks better.” 
The singer did not elaborate on why the name was changed, and it remains to be seen whether the Latin “Æ” symbol will hold up, considering that California also doesn’t allow symbols, other than apostrophes and dashes, outside the 26 letters of the English alphabet. 
Musk, who has fathered seven children, shared during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience earlier this month that Grimes was mostly the mastermind behind the name, and broke down the pronunciation of the name as follows:
“It’s just ‘X,’ the letter ‘X,’ and then the ‘Æ’ is pronounced ‘Ashe,’ and then A-12 is my contribution,” said the Tesla CEO. “Arcangel 12, the precursor to the SR-71: The coolest plane ever.” 
Grimes provided a similar explanation for how to pronounce the baby’s name on May 5, the day after he was born. 
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•X, the unknown variable ⚔️ 
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &amp;/or Artificial intelligence) 
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍 
+ 
(A=Archangel, my favorite song) 
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)
— ꧁ ༒ Gℜiꪔ⃕es ༒꧂ 🍓🐉🎀 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1257836061520101377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tells-reporters-he-may-attend-spacex-launch-jokes-id-like-to-put-you-on-the-rocket">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Musk has been receiving widespread attention for his criticism of government lockdowns and his upcoming SpaceX rocket launch, a commercial collaboration to send NASA astronauts to space on a privately built rocket. 
Earlier this month, Vice President Mike Pence commended the project at a meeting for the National Space Council, remarking that the mission was ushering in the &#8220;trailblazers of a new era&#8221; of space exploration. In addition, President Donald Trump has expressed interest in attending the launch, having previously told reporters at the White House that he hoped they would join him so he could put them on the rocket. 
“I’m thinking about going, that will be next week, to the rocket launch. I hope you’re all going to join me,” said Trump. “I’d like to put you on the rocket, and get rid of you for a while.”
Last Thursday, Musk retweeted a video from SpaceX showing Falcon 9, the rocket, and Crew Dragon, the human capsule, going vertical on the launch pad in Florida.
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Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon are vertical on the launch pad <a href="https://t.co/2nw9h0jxde">pic.twitter.com/2nw9h0jxde</a>
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1263565023915343873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he was considering attending the upcoming SpaceX rocket launch, which will feature the first NASA-manned mission to space on a privately built ship. In the brief remarks, the president also encouraged reporters to join him on the trip, joking that he’d like to put some of them on the rocket.
“I’m thinking about going, that will be next week, to the rocket launch. I hope you’re all going to join me,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn on Thursday afternoon. “I’d like to put you on the rocket, and get rid of you for a while.”
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President Trump tells media he&#8217;s thinking about going to the SpaceX rocket launch next week:
&#8220;I hope you&#8217;re all gonna join me. I&#8217;d like to put you in the rocket and get rid of you for a while.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/rvTK2yZnKh">pic.twitter.com/rvTK2yZnKh</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1263547564483379201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
The launch, which is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 at 4:33pm Eastern Standard Time, has also drawn buzz from Vice President Mike Pence, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nasas-human-spaceflight-chief-resigns-ahead-of-upcoming-launch">commended</a> the mission for ushering in “the trailblazers of a new era” of space exploration while meeting with the National Space Council on Tuesday.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who has received widespread attention for his role at Tesla and his recent critiques of government lockdowns, has been hyping the launch on Twitter. On Thursday afternoon, Musk retweeted a video from SpaceX showing Falcon 9, the rocket, and Crew Dragon, the human capsule, going vertical on the launch pad in Florida.
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Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon are vertical on the launch pad <a href="https://t.co/2nw9h0jxde">pic.twitter.com/2nw9h0jxde</a>
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1263565023915343873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Washington Post recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/16/spacex-biggest-challenge/?arc404=true">described</a> the historic nature of the mission, not only for its potential implications for the future of private space flight, but also because of the gamble Musk took to get the company to its current form over the last eighteen years.
<blockquote>The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10.
But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $100 million of his own money, over the protest of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur with no experience in spaceflight shouldn’t start a rocket company.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-lists-seven-california-properties-for-sale?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Musk said that he abandoned his plans to build a dream house, in part, to fulfill part of the company’s mission to help people live on other planets.
“Does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house?” remarked Musk. “Or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the latter.”
“You can only do so many things,” said Musk. “Allocating time to building a house, even if it was a really great house, still is not a good use of time relative to developing the rockets necessary to get us to Mars and helping solve sustainable energy.”
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After demanding governors &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW&#8221; and declaring war on California officials for their clampdown on his Tesla factory, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk encouraged everyone on Sunday to &#8220;take the red pill,&#8221; prompting cheers from the right and moans from the left. Now, the SpaceX founder is calling for the end of &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — and finding that a lot of people are with him, including, at least partly, former President Barack Obama.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-take-the-red-pill">Take the red pill</a>,&#8221; Musk tweeted Sunday. While the debate was still raging over Musk&#8217;s Matrix reference, he dropped another context-less, politically loaded comment on Tuesday. &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-cancel-cancel-culture">Cancel Cancel Culture!</a>&#8221; the billionaire wrote. &#8220;More fun, less shun!&#8221; he added in a follow-up post.
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More fun, less shun!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1262789254117314560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Like the &#8220;red pill&#8221; post, Musk&#8217;s &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; tweet inspired a flood of responses. Among them was a flashback to a similar comment made by &#8220;The One,&#8221; former President Obama, that made some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">headlines</a> at the time. Musk has since responded succinctly to the flashback post.
In a speech to a young audience at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago in October last year, Obama offered his thoughts on &#8220;woke&#8221; culture&#8217;s puritanical attitude and reductive worldview.
&#8220;This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and you know share certain things with you.&#8221;
&#8220;One danger I see among young people particularly on college campuses — Malia and I talk about this — I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or use the wrong verb then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, ‘Cuz man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out! Let me get on TV, watch my show, watch Grown-ish.'&#8221;
But, Obama concluded, &#8220;That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.&#8221;
When a fan tweeted a clip of Obama&#8217;s comments to Musk, the likewise &#8220;woke&#8221;-critical entrepreneur replied, &#8220;True.&#8221;
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True
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1262901748777340934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Musk&#8217;s &#8220;political transformation&#8221; began in earnest in late April, when he began to publicly push back on overly restrictive social distancing mandates from governors and counties. In a series of tweets, Musk called on officials to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">FREE AMERICA NOW</a>.&#8221;
“Give people their freedom back!” Musk tweeted in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No.&#8221; He also made a point of cheering Texas for being more aggressive than most states in its reopening plans.
The technology entrepreneur made the case in more complete terms during a Tesla earnings call in late April. &#8220;The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>. &#8220;If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their godd*mn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.&#8221;
Musk has also gone to war with Alameda County officials over reopening his factory, choosing to do so without their consent. But after the governor signaled that he might back Mush, county officials begrudgingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-wins-california-will-allow-tesla-plant-to-reopen-with-safety-precautions">allowed</a> him to continue to operate.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-owners-freak-out-at-elon-musks-transformation">Tesla Owners Freak Out At Elon Musk’s Transformation</a>
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Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX is set to launch Dragon Demo-2 next Wednesday, a mission that will send NASA astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will launch from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 and fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. The last such launch came in July 2011 and became the final mission of NASA&#8217;s space shuttle program.
Crew Dragon Demo-2 will also be the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the U.S. since STS-4 in 1982.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just been an incredible journey to get us this far, and in some ways it&#8217;s really hard to believe we&#8217;re gonna launch next week, but it&#8217;s incredibly exciting,&#8221; Hurley said on Tuesday during a meeting of the National Space Council, a policy-steering body led by Chairman and Vice President Mike Pence.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a real honor to just be a part of this program and to launch American rockets from Florida one more time,&#8221; said Hurley, 53, who was on board that last space shuttle flight.
Hurley, the mission commander, and Behnken will conduct experiments on board the ISS, where they are scheduled to stay for one to four months, until the next Crew Dragon launch. They will then return to Earth for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral.
The first stage booster on the launch will also attempt to land autonomously in the Atlantic Ocean on a SpaceX floating barge called &#8220;Of Course I Still Love You.&#8221;
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NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the launch of Demo-2, the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.<a href="https://t.co/0ASWz0h0LK">pic.twitter.com/0ASWz0h0LK</a>
&mdash; Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1251181198971461633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Dragon Demo-2 is a priority for the agency.
“We need access to the International Space Station from the United States of America. Commercial Crew is the program that’s going to make that happen. It’s essential for our country to have that capability,” Bridenstine told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-launch-astronauts-u-s-soil-first-time-nearly-decade-n1186356">CNBC</a>.
SpaceX has a $2.6 billion contract with NASA&#8217;s Commercial Crew Program to conduct six such flights, and also flies robotic resupply missions with the cargo version of Dragon,  first sent to the ISS in 2012.
The flight comes amid some turmoil in NASA. On Tuesday, the agency announced that Doug Loverro had resigned as associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro&#8217;s former deputy, former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox, has taken over the job as acting associate administrator.
&#8220;Next week will mark the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight with the launch of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station,&#8221; NASA officials wrote in a statement about Loverro&#8217;s departure. &#8220;This test flight will be a historic and momentous occasion that will see the return of human spaceflight to our country, and the incredible dedication by the men and women of NASA is what has made this mission possible.&#8221;
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As Tesla CEO Elon Musk sounded off repeatedly on California’s restrictions due to the coronavirus with a series of tweets that culminated in triggering an uproar on Sunday when he tweeted, “Take the red pill,” leading many people to believe he was embracing conservative philosophy, some owners of Tesla cars have freaked out at the prospect of Musk metamorphosing into a conservative.
Writing in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesla-red-pill.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=fb-nytimes&amp;fbclid=IwAR3lj85dx8S5iI62a3cUp_xabL6ICN0-3T-ozoahAy9Ciypv7tF4O-V_cDE">The New York Times</a> on Tuesday, Nellie Bowles began her article about the disgruntled Tesla owners by opining, “Owning a Tesla, the luxurious electric car, is a major liberal status symbol. It signals nothing more than good taste — the perfect balance of wealth with care for fossil fuels. But the man behind the brand is crafting a very different persona online that may now prove to be a challenge for his fans.”
Bowles continued, “Tesla owners are having to grapple with a car that carries a few new connotations,” before quoting various Tesla owners who expressed dismay over Musk’s apparent conversion to a perspective of conservative bent.
In late April, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urged governors across the nation</a> to start opening their states for business, tweeting, &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/">Texas Tribune</a> titled, &#8220;Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here&#8217;s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”
Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.”
Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-reopens-tesla-plant-against-california-countys-orders">directly challenged</a> California Interim Public Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan, who had barred Musk’s  company from resuming business via a county-wide order. Musk responded by tweeting, “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.&#8221;
Markos Moulitsas, author of “The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump” and the founder of the leftist blog Daily Kos, stated, “Honestly, Musk is becoming a liability and the Tesla board needs to seriously consider ousting him. And I say that as a proud owner of a Tesla and a SpaceX fanatic who truly appreciates what he’s built.”
Alex Goodchild, a D.J. from New York, responding to Musk tweeting on April 28, “FREE AMERICA NOW,” tweeted, “Tesla owner and Fan here, but this was a disappointing tweet despite the frustrations of and holdups. Words are weapons especially when used during situations like the one we’re currently experiencing. You sound just like Trump in this tweet.”
Jeff Guilfoyle, a product manager at FireEye in San Diego: “As a Tesla owner, a 47-year-old male recovering from Covid-19, and someone very concerned simultaneously about the environment, the economy, my kids’ and my parents’ future, this ain’t great. This disease is no joke, and the long-term health impacts are unknown for survivors.”
Raja Sohail Abbas, chief executive of an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Allentown, Pa., wrote: “I am a Tesla owner and love the company. You have to stop being an idiot about this.”
Sam Kelly, a Tesla owner and investor based in Spain: “If you own a Tesla, you feel you are directly connected to Elon Musk and people think that Tesla owners are directly connected to the politics of the C.E.O.”
The Times reported that Musk pasted an image of the Urban Dictionary definition of red pill in an email: “’Red pill’ has become a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a ‘normal’ life of sloth and ignorance. Red pills prefer the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be.”
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Douglas Loverro, head of human spaceflight at NASA, abruptly resigned on Monday, seven months into the position and only a week before the agency plans to send astronauts to space from United States soil for the first time in almost a decade. 
In a farewell email to NASA employees, Loverro declined to explicitly explain why he was resigning, but cited an unspecified “mistake” he took in the course of the planned mission, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/859019450/head-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program-resigns-a-week-before-crucial-launch">NPR</a>. 
&#8220;I had truly looked forward to living the next four-plus years with you as we returned Americans to the surface of the moon and prepared for the long journey beyond. But that is not to be,&#8221; said Loverro. &#8220;Now, over the balance of time, it is clear that I made a mistake in that choice for which I alone must bear the consequences.”
The news agency reports that a source familiar with the matter said Loverro was asked to resign after he failed to follow a rule or regulation. 
Furthermore, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/19/nasas-human-spaceflight-chief-resigns-week-before-first-launch-astronauts-decade/">The Washington Post</a> reports that two sources with knowledge of the situation “said his resignation was spurred when Loverro broke a rule during NASA’s recent procurement of a spacecraft capable of landing humans on the moon.”
Loverro told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/nasa-human-spaceflight-director-ousted-268327">Politico</a> in an interview that his resignation was not due to disagreements with the administrator of NASA or concerns about the upcoming launch, a collaboration with the private exploration company SpaceX. 
During a meeting at the National Space Council Meeting on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence commended the mission for ushering in the “trailblazers of a new era” of space exploration. The launch is scheduled for May 27 at 4:33pm EST. 
As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/16/spacex-biggest-challenge/?arc404=true">The Washington Pos</a>t noted earlier this week, if the mission is successful, it will mark “the end of the era where only government-owned spacecraft achieved such heights” and add “another major step in the privatization of space.”
SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, who has gained recent media attention as the chief executive of Tesla, with the goal of “enabling people to live on other planets.”
Musk recently told podcast host Joe Rogan that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-lists-seven-california-properties-for-sale?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">abrupt decision</a> to sell his homes and abandon his plans to build a dream house were connected with his desire to help humanity reach Mars. 
“Does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house?,” remarked Musk. “Or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the latter.”
“You can only do so many things,” said Musk. “Allocating time to building a house, even if it was a really great house, still is not a good use of time relative to developing the rockets necessary to get us to Mars and helping solve sustainable energy.”
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Has Elon Musk followed the white rabbit out of Wonderland? After telling people to &#8220;take the red pill,&#8221; he has now called for an end to cancel culture.
&#8220;Cancel Cancel Culture!&#8221; the billionaire tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;More fun, less shun!&#8221; he followed up.
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More fun, less shun!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1262789254117314560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The pronouncement comes just days after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-take-the-red-pill-ivanka-smiles-taken-matrix-creator-f-both-of-you">he tweeted</a> &#8220;take the red pill&#8221; – a reference to &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; in which the main character Neo must swallow a red pill to awaken from his existence in a fake reality. The term &#8220;red pilling&#8221; took on political connotations during and after the 2016 election, when it was used as a way of describing waking up from a leftist worldview.
Whatever Elon Musk meant in the original tweet, his denouncement of cancel culture on Tuesday indicates that he might be seeing the world through a different point of view in light of the COVID-19 lockdown, which he now opposes after being targeted directly by Alameda County, California, authorities, who moved to shut down his Tesla plant.
Either way, conservatives on Twitter were openly welcoming him into the fold.
&#8220;Elon knows whats up,&#8221; tweeted Kyle Kashuv.
&#8220;Let’s chat&#8230;&#8221; tweeted Dave Rubin.
Though it&#8217;s doubtful that Elon Musk will ever be a friend to conservatives, it is fair to note that he has always marched to his own drumbeat and has never conformed to lockstep Silicon Valley leftism.
For instance, as billionaires like Bill Gates and others were actively pushing population control measures to help with climate change, typically in poor African countries, Elon Musk went against the grain and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reiterates-global-population-is-headed-for-collapse-2019-6">said the world actually needs more people</a> on the planet, not less.
&#8220;The world&#8217;s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care,&#8221; he tweeted in 2017 in response to a New Scientist article about a &#8220;population bomb&#8221; going off in 2076.
&#8220;Real issue will [be] an aging &amp; declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1141977875567919104?s=20">he tweeted</a> in 2019. &#8220;Demographics, stratified by age, will look like an upside down pyramid with many old people &amp; fewer young.&#8221;
Prior to his infamous &#8220;red pill&#8221; tweet, Elon Musk had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urging governors </a>reopen the economy and even went as far to call the lockdown orders &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
&#8220;We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk,&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>. &#8220;The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!&#8221;
“If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.&#8221;
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Elon Musk: ‘Cancel Cancel Culture’

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Furious at coronavirus overreach, Elon Musk has taken the so-called “red pill,” prompting right-wingers to claim him as a conservative and left-wingers to call him a Nazi.
So which is it?
The “red pill” refers to The Matrix: take the blue pill, persist in illusion; take the red pill, see reality as it is. Taking the red pill means rejecting the officially approved narrative.
Musk, like Joe Rogan and other independent voices, isn’t a typical conservative Republican. But he appears to be trending rightward because a dishonest press has forced the people to choose between what they’ve been told and their own lying eyes.
The press might have an easier time convincing people to believe their stories if they refrained from contradicting them the moment they thought the cameras turned off.
During last week’s White House press briefing, CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins wore an ostentatious face mask for the cameras, but she removed it the moment the briefing concluded.
Likewise, Jake Tapper excoriated “President Trump and his team” for “an unprecedented smear campaign against rivals” based on “bizarre conspiracy theories” without ever once acknowledging his own longtime role baselessly smearing Trump as a Russian stooge and Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist.
Beyond the media, the American Civil Liberties Union has dispelled any lingering illusions that the legal advocacy groups cares at all about civil liberties.
As Education Secretary Betsy Devos beefs up protections for the accused on college campuses, the ACLU has come out against due process. But the ACLU, founded by a communist who defended “liberty under the Soviets,” was from its inception “a communist front,” as the California Committee on Un-American Activities determined in 1943.
Despite the patriotic-sounding name, the ACLU has never sought to defend the American tradition of political freedom, and its latest attack on due process carries on the organization’s long, destructive legacy.
The news doesn’t report the news, the ACLU doesn’t defend civil rights, and now Harvard wants to ban education.
Specifically, Harvard professor and &#8220;renowned child welfare expert&#8221; Elizabeth Bartholet wants to ban homeschooling, which she views as conservative, Christian subversion that &#8220;poses a threat to children and society.&#8221;
Bartholet singles out Germany as a model of education policy because it effectively banned homeschooling altogether. She neglects elaborate on the history of that ban, which Hitler instituted in 1938. Quite the &#8220;red pill&#8221; indeed.
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On Sunday morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk created quite a stir when he apparently referenced the film “The Matrix,” tweeting, “Take the red pill,” in what was interpreted by some people as a clarion call to leftists and liberals to wake up to reality and become conservatives.
That prompted Ivanka Trump to reply on Twitter with a single word: “Taken!”
Ivanka&#8217;s reply elicited a harsh reply from Lilly Wachowski, one of the creators of “The Matrix”: “F*** both of you.”
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Fuck both of you
&mdash; Lilly Wachowski (@lilly_wachowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/lilly_wachowski/status/1262104754496339968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/matrix-lilly-wachowski-ivanka-trump-elon-musk-red-pill-tweet-1234608887/">Variety</a> noted:
<blockquote>As most movie buffs know, “take the red pill” is a reference from the Wachowski sisters’ sci-fi blockbuster “The Matrix.” In the movie, Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) reveals to the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) that he’s been living in a computer simulation. He offers Neo a choice: Take a blue pill and go back to his life and forget about everything, or take a red pill to learn the truth about the Matrix and his fake reality.
However, the phrase “take the red pill” has taken on a new meaning in Internet subculture, and it usually refers to conservative political beliefs. It can now mean shifting one’s political alignment to the right, and it’s often used in Internet forums related to Donald Trump or men’s rights groups.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire reported, in late April, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urged governors across the nation</a> to start opening their states for business, tweeting, &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/">Texas Tribune</a> titled, &#8220;Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here&#8217;s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”
Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.” According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>, Musk stated:
<blockquote>We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk. The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!</blockquote>
He reportedly continued, “If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do&#8230; this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.”
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Elon Musk: ‘Take The Red Pill.’ Ivanka Smiles: ‘Taken!’ ‘Matrix’ Creator: ‘F*** Both Of You’

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On Sunday morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave an indication of how fed-up he is with the leftist governance of his home state of California, apparently urging followers on Twitter to join the conservatives of America as he tweeted succinctly, “Take the red pill.”
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Take the red pill 🌹
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1262076474565242880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the film “The Matrix,” 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 “red pill” means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberals-sick-of-the-alt-left-are-taking-the-red-pill">opinion piece</a> in Fox News explained in 2017:
<blockquote>The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.”  People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing “red pill moments”—personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.</blockquote>
In late April, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urged governors across the nation</a> to start opening their states for business, tweeting, &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/">Texas Tribune</a> titled, &#8220;Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here&#8217;s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”
Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.” According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>, Musk stated:
<blockquote>We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk. The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!</blockquote>
He reportedly continued, “If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do&#8230; this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.”
Last week, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-reopens-tesla-plant-against-california-countys-orders">directly challenged</a> California Interim Public Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan, who had barred Musk’s  company from resuming business via a county-wide order. Musk responded by tweeting,  “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.&#8221;
Meanwhile, a Texas county openly courted Musk after he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be depend on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.&#8221; Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez wrote an open letter to Musk arguing that Hidalgo was the ideal regulatory environment.
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While reopening the Tesla manufacturing plant in Alameda, California, Elon Musk seems to have made progress on his bizarre pledge earlier this month to sell off &#8220;almost all physical possessions&#8221; and &#8220;own no house.&#8221; Musk recently told podcast host Joe Rogan that he plans on renting instead. 
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I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239554148724737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-05-14/the-elon-musk-housing-sell-off-ramps-up">The Los Angeles Times</a>, Musk has privately listed seven California properties for sale on Zillow, including six properties in Bel-Air near Hollywood and another in Silicon Valley. In total, the individual properties have a listing value of nearly $100 million, and the listings include a 47-acre estate in northern California. 
The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/elon-musk-selling-gene-wilders-quirky-house-stipulation-1293839">notes</a> that Musk has also listed the former house of the late actor Gene Wilder, a quirky building down the road from his main residence. Musk has said that he will only part with the actor’s home on the condition that it’s not “torn down” or allowed to “lose any of its soul.”
During a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8">podcast</a>, Musk said he originally purchased properties adjacent to his main house in order to have more privacy. At one point, Musk was planning on building his “dream house,” which he jokingly said would include a “dome that opens up with a stealth helicopter.”
“But then I was like, man, does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house,” remarked Musk. “Or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the latter.”
“You can only do so many things,” said Musk. “Allocating time to building a house, even if it was a really great house, still is not a good use of time relative to developing the rockets necessary to get us to Mars and helping solve sustainable energy.”
Musk originally said he would sell his possessions during an eccentric Twitter rant on May 1. The Tesla CEO immediately followed up by remarking that Tesla stock was too high in his opinion and shortly after posted excerpts from the Star Spangled Banner, but phrasing the last line as a question. 
Since reopening his manufacturing plant this week, Musk has been fielding requests from politicians and public officials in Texas, including from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and a county judge, asking him to relocate. 
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Exactly right. <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> Dem state legislators should not be tweeting expletives at their constituents. As Davy Crockett famously said, “You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas!” <a href="https://t.co/VLV9Dob7BC">https://t.co/VLV9Dob7BC</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1261326133167108099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
Cruz’s remarks appear to be in reference to California Assemblymember Lorena Gonzales, who tweeted an expletive at Musk, and followed-up by justifying it because “no one would have cared if I tweeted” without the expletive. 
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California has highly subsidized a company that has always disregarded worker safety &amp; well-being, has engaged in union busting &amp; bullies public servants. I probably could’ve expressed my frustration in a less aggressive way. Of course, no one would’ve cared if I tweeted that.
— Lorena (@LorenaSGonzalez) <a href="https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1259505015795793927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
Musk replied: “Message received.”
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Elon Musk and Tesla scored a win late Tuesday when Alameda County officials finally, begrudgingly, allowed the company to reopen its California assembly plant as long as it ascribes to certain specific safety standards.
The decision, of course, comes a bit too late for Alameda County officials; Tesla opened its Fremont, California, plant on Tuesday and is looking to ramp up production of both its electric vehicles and electric batteries despite state-level coronavirus lockdowns.
California is allowing some industrial activities to resume, but counties, like Alameda, are given leeway in restricting local businesses further if they feel it would prevent or slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Alameda, of course, took advantage of that power, shutting down the county and sidelining Musk&#8217;s Fremont assembly plant.
This week, Musk announced he would reopen regardless of Alameda County restrictions and challenged county officials to shut down his operation, noting that he would be on the line with Tesla workers when the plant reopened and was willing to be arrested for putting his employees back to work.
Musk also threatened to relocate his entire operation from California to either Nevada or Texas &#8212; a threat that caught the attention of no less than California governor Gavin Newsom (and of a handful of Texas and Nevada officials who announced that they&#8217;d welcome Musk to their states with open arms).
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/business/tesla-plant-reopening/index.html">CNN reports</a> that Alameda County not only did not arrest Musk, they gave in to his demands.
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&#8220;Tesla&#8217;s standoff with California&#8217;s Alameda County officials has come to an end after the county agreed to let Tesla&#8217;s factory in Fremont, California, reopen,&#8221; the outlet said Wednesday. &#8220;Alameda County gave Tesla its blessing on the condition that it maintain &#8216;minimum business operations&#8217; and implement additional safety recommendations, according to a company statement that was released on Tuesday.&#8221;
They also set a timeline for Tesla to begin ramping up operations starting next week. The county&#8217;s restrictions, of course, are meaningless: the Tesla plant has already reopened, and is operating at more than &#8220;minimum business.&#8221;
&#8220;We will be working with the Fremont Police Department to verify Tesla is adhering to physical distancing and that agreed upon health and safety measures are in place for the safety of their workers as they prepare for full production,&#8221; the county said in a statement.
Alameda County did not say whether Musk would face repercussions for opening the plant early.
<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/coronavirus-tesla-plant-reopening-elon-musk-nevada">Fox Business reports</a> that the victory has only empowered Musk to begin ramping up operations in other states, including Nevada, where Tesla batteries are manufactured.
&#8220;Tesla North American HR boss Valerie Workman shared plans for employees to return to work in Nevada in a Monday email,&#8221; according to Fox. &#8220;Those employees would be contacted within 24 hours and given a return-to-work date, Workman said.&#8221;
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Elon Wins: California Will Allow Tesla Plant To Reopen With ‘Safety Precautions’

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President Donald Trump has weighed in on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s feud with Alameda County, which has blocked the electric car company from officially re-opening its manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. 
“California should let Tesla &amp; [Elon Musk] open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast &amp; Safely,” tweeted Trump on Tuesday morning. 
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California should let Tesla &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast &amp; Safely!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260203080076931072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
While Tesla has been allowed to resume business under the California reopening guidelines, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has encouraged public health officials to adopt stricter measures as deemed appropriate. Alameda County, where Tesla’s Fremont plant is located, is one such California county that has opted to do so. 
After Tesla <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/8/21251762/elon-musk-reopening-freemont-factory-coronavirus">told employees</a> last Thursday that the company would begin to resume operations the following day, Dr. Erica Pan, the interim public health officer for Alameda County, claimed that Tesla was prohibited from re-opening. 
“We have not given the green light. We have been working with them looking at some of their safety plans. But no, we have not said that it is appropriate to move forward,” Dr. Pan said during a virtual town hall on Friday, reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/tesla-not-given-the-green-light-to-reopen-says-alameda-county-rep.html">NBC News</a>. 
Musk, who has recently made “freedom” his rallying cry, issued a defiant response the following day. In one fell swoop, the Tesla CEO insulted the interim health officer’s intelligence, announced that Tesla would move it’s headquarters and unspecified programs out of state, and filed a lawsuit against Alameda County. 
And on Monday, Musk resumed operations in Tesla’s manufacturing plant anyway, proclaiming that he would work the hop onto the manufacturing line himself. 
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Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-reopens-tesla-plant-against-california-countys-orders">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Newsom claimed during a Monday press conference that he wasn’t aware Tesla had re-opened, but encouraged the company to come to an agreement with Alameda County. 
“I have great expectations that we can work through, at the county level, the issue with this particular county and this company, in the next number of days,” said Newsom. 
The governor also seemed to respond to Tesla’s threats about leaving the state, having emphasized that California has “substantively supported” the company for years. 
“I’m confident we’ll get through this regardless of what some people are saying on social media and in the press currently,” he said. 
In response to the feud, Richard Cortez, the judge for Hidalgo County, Texas, issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-business-texas-county-is-courting-elon-musk-after-he-said-tesla-was-leaving-california">statement</a> through the county encouraging Musk to consider moving operations to his jurisdiction. Musk told the county that the &#8220;note is much appreciated.&#8221;
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