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Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes what he likes and he does not care if it changes his life expectancy.
Author Daniel Crosby tweeted that his life has changed since he stopped drinking Diet Coke and it caught Musk’s attention.
“I used to drink tons of Diet Coke but it’s been one month since I’ve had a drop,” he said. “I want to share some of the changes I’ve observed in myself over that time: My health is unchanged. I’m less happy. My one source of joy is gone. Thanks for encouraging me on this journey.”
I used to drink tons of Diet Coke but it’s been one month since I’ve had a drop.
I want to share some of the changes I’ve observed in myself over that time:
– My health is unchanged
– I’m less happy
– My one source of joy is goneThanks for encouraging me on this journey!
— Daniel Crosby (@danielcrosby) June 8, 2022
Musk responded, saying “Diet Coke is amazing, especially the soda fountain version at movie theaters with salt & butter popcorn.
“There’s something special about enjoying movies in a theater with total strangers. I hope that never goes away,” he said.
There’s something special about enjoying movies in a theater with total strangers. I hope that never goes away.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2022
“I don’t even care if it lowers my life expectancy,” he said.
I don’t even care if it lowers my life expectancy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2022
Musk has become a man who delves into politics in recent times and he just made his biggest dive into that world.
He has officially endorsed a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles and it is former Republican, now Democrat, Rick Caruso.
“Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He’s awesome,” he said.
“It is rare for me to endorse political candidates. My political leanings are moderate, so neither fully Republican nor Democrat, which I am confident is the case for most Americans. Executive competence is super underrated in politics – we should care about that a lot more!” he said.
It is rare for me to endorse political candidates.
My political leanings are moderate, so neither fully Republican nor Democrat, which I am confident is the case for most Americans.
Executive competence is super underrated in politics – we should care about that a lot more!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2022
Many have wondered if Caruso, who was a Republican three years ago, has really changed his positions to those of the Democrats or if he is doing what he has to do to win in the liberal city of Los Angeles.
Musk has been vocal about his politics in the past few months as he announced he has switched from voting for Democrats to now supporting Republicans.
The billionaire appeared on a podcast last month and gave his opinion on who he believes the “real president” is, Fox News reported.
“The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter,” he said. “The path to power is the path to the teleprompter.”
“I do feel like if somebody were to accidentally lean on the teleprompter, it’s going to be like Anchorman,” he said, which is a reference to the 2004 film in which Ron Burgundy, played by actor Will Ferrell, reads anything that is written on the teleprompter.
He said that he has voted “overwhelmingly for Democrats,” but he does not appear to be a fan of the current administration.
“This administration doesn’t seem to get a lot done,” he said. “The Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done.”
He said he believes that the Democratic Party is “overly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly the class action lawyers.” He said that when Democrats go against “the interests of the people,” it is because of unions and trial lawyers, and when Republicans do it, “it’s because of corporate evil and religious zealotry.”
“In the case of Biden, he is simply too much captured by the unions, which was not the case with Obama,” he said.
He also talked about comments made by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who said that when President Biden talked about corporations paying their “fair share” in taxes to combat inflation it was a “misdirection”
“I mean, the obvious reason for inflation is that the government printed a zillion amount of more money than it had, obviously,” he said, which is the same argument Republicans have made.
“So it’s like the government can’t just, you know, issue checks far in excess of revenue without there being inflation, you know, velocity of money held constant,” he said. “If the federal government writes checks, they never bounce. So that is effectively creation of more dollars. And if there are more dollars created, then the increase in the goods and services across the economy, then you have inflation, again, velocity of money held constant.”
“If the government could just issue massive amounts of money and deficits didn’t matter, then, well, why don’t we just make the deficit 100 times bigger? The answer is, you can’t because it will basically turn the dollar into something that is worthless,” he argued.
“Various countries have tried this experiment multiple times,” he said. “Have you seen Venezuela? Like the poor, poor people of Venezuela are, you know, have been just run roughshod by their government.”
He then spoke about his purchase of Twitter which is pending and how the world needs a “town square” where they can speak.
“I think there’s a need for a public town square, digital town square that where people can debate issues of all kinds, including the most substantive issues,” he said. he said that for that to happen Twitter needs to be “as broadly inclusive as possible” and it needs to feel “balanced from a political standpoint,” that is “not biased one way or the other.”
“The reality is that Twitter, at this point, has a very far left bias,” he said. “And I would trust myself as a moderate and neither Republican or Democrat.”
He also said that “there’s got to be an above zero percent chance of Republicans winning in California” because the state was, at one time, “the land of opportunity” but it has become the land of “taxes, overregulation, and litigation.”
