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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Joins President Trump's New Manufacturing Council (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla CEO Elon Musk was already on President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, but the White House announced today that he will also be joining the administration's new manufacturing council, a private sector group that advises the U.S. secretary of commerce. He headed a meeting on Monday at the White House. Musk was present along with several other industry leaders who are now also formally joining the manufacturing council. CNBC reports: "The group of business leaders includes Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and chief executives of large American companies like Ford, Dow Chemical, General Electric, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Richard Trumka, president of the labor federation AFL-CIO, will also give advice." As we recently reported, while Musk's mission to accelerate the advent of renewable energy might seem at odd with Trump's plan to unlock fossil fuel reserve, but Musk is betting that job creation is more important to the new President than simply satisfying the oil industry. If Trump wants to be the champion of job creation and Tesla shows that renewables create a lot of jobs, then their interests are aligned. Tesla currently employs over 30,000 people, more than 25,000 of which are in the U.S. The company wants to add over 3,000 manufacturing jobs at its factory in Fremont, California, 1,000 at its solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York, and over to 6,500 at the Gigafactory in Nevada.
Fucking American putting America before his tribalism and support of the causes which you support which must be the right ones. How horrible a person he must be.
Look, even Bernie Sanders says he'll work with Trump, and it's not because Sanders has changed his feelings about the "billionaire class". It's because Bernie has cynically sized up Trump as a selfish putz who wouldn't hesitate to stab is Republican "friends" in the back if it flattered his ego. That's a good thing from Sanders' point of view.
You don't have to like or even respect someone to use them; you just have to be wary of getting used yourself.
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Elon is pragmatic. He's got nothing to lose being in a position to influence policy that affects what he wants to do.
It seems you are experiencing cognitive dissonance. You have been programed to equate Trump with Hitler, but now something happened to conflict with that belief. Now you are struggling to resolve these conflicting feelings. Perhaps Occam's Razor is what you should be considering. Trump may have lots of faults, but maybe, just maybe, he's not Hitler. Maybe he actually has some good ideas and is actively trying to make America great. I don't expect everyone to agree with his methods. I don't, but I do admire the amount of effort he's put into making good on his campaign promises. He could have sat back and did nothing for 4 years. He's done more in 7 days than most presidents have in 8 years.
I already miss jackie4chan, /pol/blart, jihadi jesus and CIA.
How ironic this whole mess is: They chant "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" while dividing people with opposing opinions to the sidewalk and shrieking their cult chant any time someone attempts to debate them.
Musky deserves his tunnel because he's better than you commoners who aren't billionaires like he is.
No, he deserves it because he's a doer and a maker, while you and others dumping on Musk and Trump are greedy takers, useless eaters, and oxygen thieves who make no meaningful contribution to humanity or society whatsoever while demanding trophies for showing up and being paid for simply having a pulse because mommy told you you're a special snowflake and that your opinion matters.
Newsflash, you Snowflakes, Trigglypuffs, and SJWs! You're not special and your ignorant opinions don't matter to anyone, apparently including yourselves, or you would take more care in educating yourselves before opening your pie-holes to demonstrate your collective lack of intellect and competency regarding critical thought, logical analysis, and problem-solving.
Stop thinking with your lizard-brain emotions while wallowing in confirmation-bias echo-chambers and people might even take you seriously after a while.
I'm sure Elon's advice will be to keep those subsidies coming!
5$ Bn. so far....as they say, not bad for Govt. work.
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
It seemed like a week of abject incompetence, retardation, and national embarrassment..
But I guess uneducated racists aren't really able to tell the difference between winning, and failing, as long as their racist scam artist panders to their bigotry and retardation...
Musk did indeed get lucky, but it remains to his credit that he is engaged in pursuits that he believes will benefit the whole human race, and not just his bottom line. Relatively few billionaires develop a social conscience at all, most of them only seem to do it in later life after their billions are established already.
Betting your billions on an enterprise you're doing primarily because you think it's a good thing? He deserves a certain amount of nerd adulation.