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Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump

posted by n1 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the kings-of-debt dept.

takyon writes:

CNN reports:

A full-page ad in the Sunday editions of the Washington Post and The New York Times urged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to "dump Trump."

The ads were paid for by a startup investor named Doug Derwin. The longtime Silicon Valley resident told CNNMoney he shelled out $400,000 to run ads in the Times and the Post, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News.

It's the latest step in Derwin's $1 million bid to convince Musk he's failing environmentalists. He calls it "Elon Dump Trump."

Derwin said he didn't want to launch the campaign at first. Back in January, he was eagerly awaiting the arrival of his Tesla (TSLA) Model S electric car.

But as his Tesla was about to be delivered, Derwin said he caught wind of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's decision to walk away from Trump's business advisory council, which Kalanick served on with Musk. Kalanick had previously defended his working relationship with President Trump, but public pressure mounted in the wake of the president's immigration order.

That's a lot of money allocated to deprive Trump of ostensibly good advice.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by c0lo on Tuesday April 25 2017, @07:33AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 25 2017, @07:33AM (#499178) Journal

    On one side, Asians tending shops and Blacks begging for change. On the other side, White hipsters buying condos and Gay Lesbians walking dogs.

    Only one thing out of the norma... errr, American exceptional I mean.
    That is... Blacks are still begging for change? That's utterly preposterous.
    Look, they - along with everybody else - had 8 years of Obama's change (the hopey type of change, according to some insignificant politician). Then Trumps comes in and he gets busy changing the Obama's changes. With the chance of boredly winning ominously looming ahead.

    And Blacks are still begging for more? Adrenaline junkies, I tell yea, there can be no other rational explanation

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @07:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @07:45AM (#499180)

    Yes they're still begging and they're still talking mushmouthed as ever. Spring is in the air and my ears are filling with wax so I had to ask the kind gentleman to say again when I wasn't quite sure whether he was asking for directions or asking for change. It was change he wanted so I emptied my pockets and gave all that I had for the good lord said give all that you have to the poor.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:20AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:20AM (#499198) Journal

      It was change he wanted so I emptied my pockets and gave all that I had for the good lord said give all that you have to the poor.

      Well, for a change, they could start begging for higher denominations - makes the transfer process more capita... umm, efficient, that's the word, yes.

      (grin)

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