In its list of the “100 Most Influential People of 2025,” which is chock-full of leftist personalities, TIME included Julie Burkhart, the co-owner of the Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois, which proudly offers abortions up to the <a href="https://hopeclinic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28th week of pregnancy</a>.
In an astonishing choice of words, the Hope Clinic calls the baby in utero at 27 weeks, “pregnancy tissue,” writing, “An abortion procedure also known as ‘surgical abortion’ or ‘in-clinic abortion’ is a simple, safe procedure that involves a pelvic exam, dilation of the cervix, and removal of the pregnancy tissue through vacuum aspiration and additional instruments,” <a href="https://hopeclinic.com/services/de-abortion-granite-city-il/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding</a>, “Abortion procedures done at the Hope Clinic after 16 weeks are typically done over 2-3 consecutive clinic visits. The procedure consists of dilation of the cervix followed by removal of the pregnancy with suction in combination with the use of other special instruments (dilation and evacuation – D&amp;E).”
For testimony as to how brutal a dilation and evacuation (D&amp;E) in the second trimester can be for the baby, see <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortion-done-second-trimester-de/">here</a>. The D&amp;E procedure is explained <a href="https://www.abortionprocedures.com/#:~:text=Second%20Trimester,the%20baby%20from%20the%20uterus." target="_blank" rel="noopener">this way</a>:
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The abortionist inserts a large suction catheter into the uterus and turns it on, emptying the amniotic fluid. After the amniotic fluid is removed, the abortionist uses a sopher clamp — a grasping instrument with rows of sharp “teeth” — to grasp and pull the baby’s arms and legs, tearing the limbs from the child’s body. The abortionist continues to grasp intestines, spine, heart, lungs, and any other limbs or body parts. The most difficult part of the procedure is usually finding, grasping and crushing the baby’s head. After removing pieces of the child’s skull, the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the uterus and remove the placenta and any remaining parts of the baby.
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Foundations of Life <a href="https://foundationsoflife.org/facts-about-abortion/abortion-procedure-facts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explains</a> the “vacuum aspiration” thus:
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Dilation and Extraction (D&amp;X) (partial-birth abortion): from 20 weeks after LMP to full-term: This procedure takes three days. During the first two days, the cervix is stretched open using thin rods made of seaweed, and medication is given for pain. On the third day, the abortion doctor uses ultrasound to locate the legs of the fetus. Grasping a leg with forceps, the doctor delivers the fetus up to the head. Next, scissors are inserted into the base of the skull to create an opening. A suction catheter is placed into the opening to remove the brain. The skull collapses and the fetus is removed.
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Time <a href="https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273738/julie-burkhart/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of Burkhart that she “has been fighting for decades to provide abortions in some of the most rural and conservative areas of the U.S. &#8230; She’s now the co-owner of Hope Clinic in Illinois, which has seen a 700% increase in out-of-state patients since abortion restrictions went into effect in neighboring states. Burkhart is devoted to making sure patients can get abortion care, no matter where they live.”

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If the latest cover of TIME Magazine is any indication, legacy media outlets are going all out in their attempts to drive a wedge between President Donald Trump and the driving force behind the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
As Democrats join — and, in many cases gleefully foment — the collective panic over DOGE&#8217;s efforts thus far to reduce the cost and size of government, media outlets are showing their stripes. Instead of acknowledging that American taxpayers might not want to fund LGBT activism in Guatemala or a trans opera in Colombia, media outlets seem content to feed the Democrat narratives — and even create them when necessary.
In the days leading up to the inauguration, Democrats and media were already predicting that the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-warned-perilous-trump-blame-game-2005603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">relationship would sour</a> if the SpaceX CEO garnered more media attention than Trump did. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Anthony Scaramucci, whose tenure in the first Trump White House was famously brief, exactly that in December — and Scaramucci said Trump was likely to find something to blame on Musk if he gained too much attention or influence.
Others in media dutifully picked up the torch, referring to the X owner as &#8220;President Musk&#8221; or, as on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-airs-fever-dream-on-live-tv-says-musk-and-vance-could-be-plotting-hostile-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>,&#8221; suggesting that Musk was simply lying in wait for an opportunity to trip the president and send him down a flight of stairs.
Once Trump was inaugurated and DOGE really got down to the business of auditing bureaucratic bloat, the panic began anew — as did the media attempts to drive a wedge, or if necessary create one, between Musk and Trump.
TIME joined the fray with a new cover, released on Friday with the caption, &#8220;TIME&#8217;s new cover: Inside Elon Musk&#8217;s war on Washington.&#8221;
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TIME&#39;s new cover: Inside Elon Musk&#39;s war on Washington <a href="https://t.co/95Qictx4zP">https://t.co/95Qictx4zP</a> <a href="https://t.co/QZ73CZqtnM">pic.twitter.com/QZ73CZqtnM</a>
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Other reporters and pundits quickly took up their pails as well, jumping in to help carry the water.
CNBC&#8217;s Senior Washington correspondent Eamon Javers posted, &#8220;This will be something to watch now- President Trump hates it when his people upstage him, and he views the cover of Time as the ultimate barometer of prestige. Normally, you would say this is when Trump will begin to clip Musk’s wings. But Musk has more throw weight than anyone Trump has dealt with before. (Or does he?)&#8221;
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This will be something to watch now- President Trump hates it when his people upstage him, and he views the cover of Time as the ultimate barometer of prestige. Normally, you would say this is when Trump will begin to clip Musk’s wings. But Musk has more throw weight than anyone… <a href="https://t.co/qfRngGgx7U">https://t.co/qfRngGgx7U</a>
&mdash; Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) <a href="https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1887869058030207246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is almost blatantly obvious trying to sow division between Trump and Elon Musk. Will it work?&#8221; Breaking Points added.
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This is almost blatantly obvious trying to sow division between Trump and Elon Musk. Will it work? <a href="https://t.co/qymmcVRjLY">https://t.co/qymmcVRjLY</a>
&mdash; Breaking Points Commentary (@BreakingPointsN) <a href="https://twitter.com/BreakingPointsN/status/1887938095393423444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Chris Cillizza posted video commentary in which he likened TIME publishing that cover to a matador waving a red flag in front of a bull. &#8220;Donald Trump is not a spotlight sharer,&#8221; he said.
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of Time magazine is like waving a red cape in front of Donald Trump <a href="https://t.co/XDH6dzIBtw">pic.twitter.com/XDH6dzIBtw</a>
&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1887863820997075368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump, thus far, seems uninterested in taking the obvious bait. When asked how he felt about the TIME cover showing Musk seated &#8220;behind your resolute desk,&#8221; the president shrugged and observed that he&#8217;d previously been unaware TIME was even &#8220;still in business.&#8221;
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President Trump responds to new <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Time</a> Magazine cover with Elon Musk sitting at the resolute desk. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/hvbHuRqc5M">pic.twitter.com/hvbHuRqc5M</a> <a href="https://t.co/sIkVnnRX6U">https://t.co/sIkVnnRX6U</a>
&mdash; NYC Sidewalker🚶🏻 (@NYCsidewalker) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCsidewalker/status/1887953527978229955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They are asking him about Time Magazine covers now because the goal is to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon. It&#8217;s all elementary school theatrics, all the way down,&#8221; Stephen Miller responded.
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They are asking him about Time Magazine covers now because the goal is to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon. It&#39;s all elementary school theatrics, all the way down. <a href="https://t.co/8D9gH7GnRi">https://t.co/8D9gH7GnRi</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1887936507161583837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN Republican commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Jennings</a> weighed in on President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s political comeback, saying that his ability to turn things around could be summed up in just three words: &#8220;breaker of narratives.&#8221;
Jennings, who often finds himself at odds with most of the other commentators on the left-leaning network, explained that Trump had only been able to prevail against the legacy media narrative because he steadfastly refused to let it — and them — define him.
&#8220;Trump is having a helluva ride &#8211; the greatest political comeback story in American history. Plus, he just destroys one wrongheaded political narrative after another,&#8221; Jennings captioned video of the exchange when he shared it via X.
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Trump is having a helluva ride &#8211; the greatest political comeback story in American history. Plus, he just destroys one wrongheaded political narrative after another. My latest for <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a>. <a href="https://t.co/8RgWKsY48e">pic.twitter.com/8RgWKsY48e</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1867265480525783357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When asked to talk about the impact Trump had had on &#8220;the shape of U.S. politics&#8221; in the past year, Jennings unloaded.
&#8220;Well, first of all, it&#8217;s the greatest comeback story in American political history,&#8221; he began. &#8220;I mean, when you think about all the things that you just listed that he survived from the political stuff to the lawfare to the assassination attempts to the Democrats changing out their campaign — when you think about all the unprecedented stuff that he had to survive in order to come back from losing in 2020 to winning not just the Electoral College but the popular vote in 2024. There&#8217;s never been anything like it.&#8221;
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&#8220;One of the superpowers of Donald Trump is that he&#8217;s the breaker of narratives,&#8221; Jennings continued, noting that all the polls and legacy media outlets had flooded the conversation with claims that he could never win, that the legal cases against him would destroy his chances of political victory, or that Vice President Kamala Harris was the strongest candidate Democrats had ever put forward.
&#8220;Trump is the breaker of narratives,&#8221; Jennings repeated. &#8220;And I think he exposed, really, the political information-distribution complex in this election for what it is, which is often a distributor of narratives and not facts.&#8221;

Scott Jennings Sums Up The Reason For Trump’s Political Comeback In Just Three Words

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President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published on Wednesday that Democrats lost the 2024 election because they did not understand common sense things that people do not want to see in their lives.
Trump made the remarks during a <a href="https://time.com/7201565/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript/">lengthy interview</a> with TIME that was published when the magazine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-named-times-2024-person-of-the-year">announced</a> that he was the 2024 &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
The soon-to-be 47th president said his campaign was successful because &#8220;we said things that were on the minds of the country.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the Democrats didn&#8217;t get it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They just kept going back to the same old nonsense. And it was nonsense, especially in where we are right now. And we hit—we hit something that was very special. We hit the nerve of the country.&#8221;
Trump said that Democrats did not get &#8220;the feel of the country,&#8221; which he said was people being in a state of anger because of the millions of illegal aliens that President Joe Biden allowed in.
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He said that the border and illegal immigration were a bigger factor in why he won the election than even the economy.
&#8220;[People] don&#8217;t want to be invaded by [182 illegal aliens from different countries] at this moment,&#8221; Trump said, adding that he is willing to use the military to assist law enforcement with the removal of illegal aliens from the U.S.
Trump said that Republicans had become &#8220;the party of common sense,&#8221; and that&#8217;s why voters chose them to run the country.
&#8220;I think people want to lead a good life,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think they want to be able to buy groceries at a reasonable price and not have to turn off their heat in order to buy two apples. I think that people want security. I don&#8217;t think people want to have our borders rushed by—it&#8217;s really an invasion of our country by foreign countries, and not just South America. I mean, these are countries all over the world.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s really, I think our people want common sense applied to their life, and they don&#8217;t want to see a girl be beat up in a boxing ring by a man, as happens,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to see somebody in a weightlifting contest, a woman against a man. It makes no sense. They don&#8217;t want to see, you know, men playing in women&#8217;s sports. They don&#8217;t. They don&#8217;t want to see all of this transgender, which is, it&#8217;s just taken over.&#8221;

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President-elect Donald Trump was named TIME&#8217;s 2024 “Person of the Year” on Thursday as the magazine highlighted his unparalleled &#8220;political rebirth.&#8221;
The magazine <a href="https://time.com/7200212/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=person-of-the-year&amp;utm_term=_&amp;linkId=686648872">reported</a> Trump&#8217;s &#8220;first term ended in disgrace&#8221; and said &#8220;he was shunned by most party officials when he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations.&#8221;
In his <a href="https://time.com/7201547/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-choice/">letter</a> to readers, TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs said it was not a difficult choice.
&#8220;Since he began running for President in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump,&#8221; Jacobs wrote, adding that with how his first term in office ended, &#8220;the smart money wagered that we had witnessed the end of Trump.&#8221;
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Jacobs continued:
<blockquote>On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us—from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics—are living in the Age of Trump. He dispatched his Republican rivals in near record time. For weeks, he campaigned largely from the New York ­courtroom where he would be convicted on 34 felony counts. His sole debate with President Joe Biden in June led to his opponent’s eventual exit from the race. Sixteen days later, he survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally. In the sprint that followed, he outlasted Vice President Kamala Harris, sweeping all seven swing states and emerging from the election at the height of his popularity. </blockquote>
The magazine noted the stunning way Trump won the election: by increasing his popularity with nearly every voter demographic.
In the end, he became the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades, increasing his support in 90% of U.S. counties compared to the 2020 election.
&#8220;For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-­generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2024 ­Person of the Year,&#8221; Jacobs concluded.
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Donald Trump is TIME&#8217;s Person of the Year <a href="https://t.co/IjP5W2otV5">https://t.co/IjP5W2otV5</a> <a href="https://t.co/CVHX9o0DB3">pic.twitter.com/CVHX9o0DB3</a>
— TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1867187660814504285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>

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TIME Magazine issued an embarrassing correction to its post-debate report about how former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris fared against each other on Tuesday night.
Breitbart columnist John Nolte <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/09/11/nolte-time-issues-humiliating-correction-admitting-kamala-supports-taxpayer-funded-gender-surgery-for-illegals/">noted</a> that the left-wing publication initially <a href="https://archive.is/VmxAA#selection-883.0-892.0">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The former President &#8230; falsely claimed that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.”</blockquote>
Trump made the factually correct statement when talking about the litany of issues that Harris has flip-flopped on since becoming the Democrat Party&#8217;s presidential nominee.
&#8220;She did things that nobody would ever think of,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical Left liberal that would do this.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comment came after CNN recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-pledged-to-use-taxpayer-money-to-fund-sex-change-surgeries-for-illegal-aliens-in-detention-report">unearthed</a> a questionnaire Harris filled out for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during her failed 2020 presidential campaign. She was asked if she, as president, would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention – will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”
She answered, “Yes.”
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Harris explained her answer by claiming that it was “important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition.”
“Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” she claimed.
TIME issued the following correction to their report:
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The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump&#8217;s statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting “transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison” As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/kfile-harris-pledged-support-in-2019-to-cut-ice-funding-and-provide-transgender-surgery-to-detained-migrants/index.html">questionnaire</a> saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants.
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However, the edit that the publication made inside the piece was still insufficient as they simply removed the word &#8220;false&#8221; so the sentence now reads: &#8220;The former President &#8230; claimed that Harris &#8216;wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'&#8221;
The fact that the publication still uses the word &#8220;claimed&#8221; to hedge Trump&#8217;s statement shows that they are intent on casting doubt on the veracity of what he said, even though it&#8217;s a position that Harris put in writing.

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Billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who also owns TIME magazine, said that if conservative states don’t buckle to his vision of what constitutes “equality and dignity,” he’ll take his companies out of the states.
Speaking to Poppy Harlow of CNN on Friday, Benioff boasted of “making something happen that supports our employees,” adding, “The number one thing is we must have our employees&#8217; back.”
Then he waxed political, with an apparent attempt to denigrate conservatives: “You know and I know we are dealing with a whole series of crazy presidents, crazy governors, crazy mayors all over the world in every country in every city in every state.”
“Marc, who is crazy?” Harlow pressed.
“I’m really talking about all of the situations that I’ve had to go through, over the last decade, especially where our employees will contact me and say something is just not right,” Benioff hinted.
Benioff and Harlow discussed what happened in 2o15, when Benioff threatened to pull Salesforce out of Indiana when the state had passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by then-governor of Indiana Mike Pence.
The day before Pence signed the bill, Benioff threatened to reduce his company’s investment in Indiana; after Pence signed the bill Benioff stated he would cancel Salesforce programs requiring customers or employees to travel to Indiana. The week after that, he publicly announced he would offer relocation packages to employees choosing to leave the state,
Pence would end up signing a revised version of the bill.
In September 2021, Salesforce <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/salesforce-offers-to-relocate-employees-from-texas-after-abortion-bill.html">told its Texas employees</a> that if they were worried about Texas’ new anti-abortion law, the company would help them relocate.
Harlow asked if Benioff would pull his company from states that had outlawed abortion or passed stricter laws against it.
“We actually just said, if you are going to discriminate against our employees, we won’t be able to set up shop there,” Benioff bragged of 2015. “And when we said that, 200 other companies the next day, the largest companies in the United States all said, ‘We agree. We have to support our LGBTQ communities as well.’”
“Look, we have to be for equality, we have to be for dignity. We have to be for the equality and dignity of every human being. And if you’re not for equality and dignity, then this is not something I can work with and we’re gonna have to exit your city or your state, just as we have in many places.”
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Uberdouche/<a href="https://twitter.com/SalesforceOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SalesforceOrg</a> CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/Benioff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Benioff</a> vows to leave Republican-led cities/states: &quot;If you&#39;re not for equality and dignity &#8230; then we&#39;re going to have to exit your city or your state&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6217HucMCZ">pic.twitter.com/6217HucMCZ</a>
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Elon Musk has been named Time magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; for 2021, the publication announced on Monday.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has been noted as the richest person in the world.
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Elon Musk (<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>) is TIME&#8217;s 2021 Person of the Year <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPOY</a> <a href="https://t.co/8Y5BhIldNs">https://t.co/8Y5BhIldNs</a> <a href="https://t.co/B6h6rndjIh">pic.twitter.com/B6h6rndjIh</a>
— TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1470372755384291331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
“The Person of the Year is Elon Musk. He is reshaping life on Earth and possibly life off Earth as well,” Edward Felsenthal, Time&#8217;s Editor-In-Chief, said on the &#8220;TODAY&#8221; show Monday.
“In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society,” Felsenthal wrote.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> has been named <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIME</a>’s Person of the Year for 2021. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPOY</a> <a href="https://t.co/YM2xkJb7bC">pic.twitter.com/YM2xkJb7bC</a>
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1470377063865593858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
In addition to his business success, Musk has been noted recently regarding his comments concerning political issues. During The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in December, he made a controversial comment about the power of government.
“It does not make sense to take the job of capital allocation away from people who have demonstrated great skill in capital allocation, and give it to an entity that has demonstrated very poor skill in capital allocation, which is the government,”Musk said.
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Elon Musk on government:
“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” <a href="https://t.co/4IybHzOZym">pic.twitter.com/4IybHzOZym</a>
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1468269858391576578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the monopoly on violence,” he added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-trashes-bidens-build-back-better-plan-can-this-bill-dont-pass-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Musk also criticized President Joe Biden&#8217;s Build Back Better plan:
<blockquote>Musk told attendees that the Senate should not pass the massive spending plan and that the bill would add an “insane” amount to the country’s deficit.
According to the Independent, Musk maintained he was not really paying attention to negotiations in D.C., but told CEOs from around the world that he opposed the BBB plan:
“I would say can this bill, don’t pass it. That’s my recommendation,” he told an audience at The Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council on Monday, saying that the Tesla team wasn’t even really paying attention to the negotiations in Washington.
“If this bill happens or doesn’t happen, we don’t think about it at all really,” he said. “Honestly it might be better if the bill doesn’t pass.”
The colourful CEO said he took issue with how the $2 trillion spending package would add to the “insane” federal budget deficit, and would have the government incentivising certain business, including with up to $12,500 in incentives for electric car buyers.</blockquote>
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Elon Musk on Biden&#8217;s Build Back Better Bill:
&#8220;Honestly, it might be better if the bill doesn&#8217;t get passed &#8230; The federal budget deficit is insane&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/awM8BzRanc">pic.twitter.com/awM8BzRanc</a>
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1468288599531528193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul also commented about his agreement with Musk&#8217;s view on Biden&#8217;s spending plan.
&#8220;Also, turns out Elon Musk and I might have a little more in common: we both think Biden&#8217;s trillion dollar tax-and-spend plan is awful for our economy,&#8221; Paul tweeted.
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ICYMI: Joined <a href="https://twitter.com/larry_kudlow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@larry_kudlow</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxBusiness?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxBusiness</a> last night and talked Russian aggression. Also, turns out Elon Musk and I might have a little more in common: we both think Biden&#8217;s trillion dollar tax-and-spend plan is awful for our economy. Take a look &#8211;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/UHBF3saupy">https://t.co/UHBF3saupy</a>
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1468584902115442696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2021</a></blockquote>

Elon Musk Named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

China’s state-run media agency, China Daily, has spent millions in the past six months to publish articles in prominent American media outlets such as Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Foreign Policy.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/china-time-americas-iconic-magazine-shills-for-china-and-doesnt-disclose-it/">reported</a> that Time has a $700,000 advertising campaign deal with China Daily, and has published articles defending the Chinese government and critical of the American government – particularly the Trump administration while President Donald Trump was still in office. While Time discloses that China Daily pays the magazine to publish its articles, the disclosure does not include information about China Daily being affiliated with the Chinese government.
The partnership between China Daily and Time began last year. So far, Time has published 75 online articles from the Chinese outlet, the first “<a href="https://partners.time.com/partners/china-daily/making-sense-of-the-new-5-year-plan/?prx_t=azIGATi5IAbBkRA&amp;utm_campaign=159028">an article</a> championing the Chinese Communist Party’s recent five-year plan. The article blamed the United States for &#8220;escalating&#8221; tensions with China by threatening to ban WeChat and TikTok, two phone apps that U.S. officials believe have ties to Chinese intelligence,” Ross reported.
Another article published by Time came one week after the Trump administration placed China’s largest drone manufacturer, DJI, on a blacklist due to concerns the company would use its drone to spy on American citizens. There have also been reports that China uses DJI drones to spy on Uyghur Muslims, a minority population targeted by the Chinese government. Millions of Uyghurs currently sit in concentration camps, and are subjected to regular abuse and torture. The Time article about DJI touted its drones and suggested they could be used for agricultural work, “helping farmers improve efficiency and increase the use of intelligent agricultural equipment.&#8221;
“The last article published by Time is a China Daily story from April 26 in which retired diplomat Chas Freeman marvels at China’s economic progress in the 50 years since he worked as Richard Nixon’s interpreter during the president’s 1972 visit. Freeman is <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-american-newspapers-and-magazines/">affiliated</a> with the isolationist Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a controversial think tank whose scholars have defended China from claims that it is committing genocide against Uyghurs,” Ross wrote. “The article is a prime example of the kind of content that China Daily places in American media outlets. Several articles quote prominent Americans calling for closer cooperation between Washington and Beijing, praising China, or criticizing the U.S. government.”
As Ross reported, other major news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, all ended their partnerships with China Daily last year. When the Journal was partnering with the Chinese outlet, it disclosed its connections to the Chinese government.
The partnerships are another example of Chinese media’s attempts to control the American government. As The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-state-run-media-after-biden-calls-for-pandemic-probe-china-must-prepare-for-nuclear-war-with-u-s">reported</a>, another state-run Chinese media outlet, the Global Times, reportedly warned that China should prepare for nuclear war with the United States. The warning came after President Joe Biden asked the U.S. Intelligence community to increase efforts to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, which started in China.

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TIME magazine has <a href="https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/">published a lengthy article</a> lauding “an extraordinary shadow effort” of a conglomeration of entities working together to ensure that the November election would be “free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.” TIME refers to the effort as “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”
Citing “a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes” between “left-wing activists and business titans” that assured that “forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy,&#8221; TIME adds: “The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.”
“Their work touched every aspect of the election,” TIME&#8217;s Molly Ball gushes. “They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.”
Insisting “Trump and his allies were running their own campaign to spoil the election,” Ball continues, “The President spent months insisting that mail ballots were a Democratic plot and the election would be ‘rigged.’”
Ball writes of Trump’s “henchmen” and accuses the Republican Party of a “legacy of suppressive tactics”: “His henchmen at the state level sought to block their use, while his lawyers brought dozens of spurious suits to make it more difficult to vote–an intensification of the GOP’s legacy of suppressive tactics.”
“It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster,” reads the TIME piece, quoting a leader of an advocacy group claiming, “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated. But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
Ball focuses on Mike Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, “pondering scenarios and talking to experts. It wasn’t hard to find liberals who saw Trump as a dangerous dictator … Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.”
“Protecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale,” Ball states. “The first task was overhauling America’s balky election infrastructure … –in the middle of a pandemic. For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money. They needed protective equipment like masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. They needed to pay for postcards letting people know they could vote absentee–or, in some states, to mail ballots to every voter. They needed additional staff and scanners to process ballots.”
Ball notes that the Voter Participation Center &#8220;sent ballot applications to 15 million people in key states, 4.6 million of whom returned them. In mailings and digital ads, the group urged people not to wait for Election Day.”
TIME states, “In the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail in 2020, practically a revolution in how people vote. About a quarter voted early in person. Only a quarter of voters cast their ballots the traditional way: in person on Election Day.”
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who has been nominated for Associate Attorney General by President Biden, met with the titans of social media. She said, “It took pushing, urging, conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with more rigorous rules and enforcement. It was a struggle, but we got to the point where they understood the problem. Was it enough? Probably not. Was it later than we wanted? Yes. But it was really important, given the level of official disinformation, that they had those rules in place and were tagging things and taking them down.”
After a summary of the post-election efforts by the members involved, the TIME report concludes, “Democracy won in the end. The will of the people prevailed. But it’s crazy, in retrospect, that this is what it took to put on an election in the United States of America.”

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