Thursday, May 19, 2022

Meet Elon Musk, USA's premier oligarch

 

On the nominations list for most dangerous man in America

Headlines:  top, middle, bottom

Excerpt from third headline article:
Musk’s stated political leanings will not surprise people who follow the celebrity CEO’s interactions and proclamations on Twitter and elsewhere. 
Behind the scenes, Musk and his biggest companies, SpaceX and Tesla, have worked to influence the U.S. political landscape for years through lobbying and political donations. Combined, SpaceX and Tesla spent over $2 million on lobbying in 2021. They tend to spend on both sides of the aisle. 
But Musk has been historically anti-union, opposed to a billionaire’s tax and is a vocal critic of President Joe Biden. 
Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said in a September interview with CNBC that Musk approved of his red-state social policies, which have included severe abortion restrictions, book bans that called for LGBTQ memoirs to be removed from school curriculum or libraries, and abuse investigations into families pursuing gender-affirming care for transgender children.

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