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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @03:29PM (6 children)
The "president" is acting like an emperor, saying and doing stupid shit, and you want us to give him respect? Ha! He doesn't deserve the slightest bit of it. Just because he is president?? How about we go back in time and see all the shit you talked about obama? You authoritarian side is peeking out again.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:37PM (4 children)
Fine - go back in time. Dredge up all the shit I've talked about Obama. Or, O'Bummer. But, be sure to use that time machine to go back to when I was badmouthing Herr Bush. You will find few people who argued harder AGAINST invading Iraq. You will find that I laughed maniacally at some of the pictures comparing Bush to chimpanzees.
BTW - I argued long and loud in Obama's corner against the birthers. Search for phrases like, "An American mother naturally gives birth to an American baby."
Further, my hatred of the Clinton clan precedes Hillary's political career by a long shot. Search for comments such as "Clinton should have been impeached for treason, not for getting a blowjob." Only a treasonous bastard would have sold military secrets to China, while at the same time, making China a "most favored trading partner". Bill sold the US down the river with his deals.
Bush Senior? I don't remember saying a whole lot about him. I guess he was a pretty good president, in that he didn't fuck up every third day so badly that he needed to be skewered. He did inspire that song about a kinder gentler machinegun hand.
Reagan? I often referred to him as "The Acting President". He really wasn't much of a president, but at least he knew how to act the part. We needed at least an actor after Carter screwed the pooch, and made the US the laughingstock of the world.
Ford? WTF was Ford? Oh yeah - he's the clown they stuck in office after his boss resigned in disgrace.
Nixon - disgrace. Need I say more?
LBJ. Hell, I was just a snotnosed kid when Kennedy was assassinated. It took years before I began to understand what Johnson was all about. I have nothing good to say about the man - he was part of the military industrial complex, and he insisted on building up Vietnam, despite the fact that Vietnam couldn't threaten us in any way, shape or form. God damned Democratic warmonger - probably HRC's inspiration.
Kennedy. A man old enough to be my dad. Little John-John was my age. The president with the best looking wife, until Trump came along. Still close though. Kennedy. The man who went nose-to-nose with Kruschev. Pretty bad-assed, if you think about it. I don't think Kennedy was really a Democrat. Of course, he was no Republican, either. Kennedy should have made his own party. It's a fucking shame that John Kennedy was shot in Dallas. It would have been great if Ted Kennedy had been shot in Dallas instead. Ted was a fucking pig, no matter how you look at him.
Get that time machine running, and go back to verify all of my above comments. I've made those or similar comments many times, online, verbally, and in writing. If you haven't noticed yet, I don't have a party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:50AM (3 children)
I've made those or similar comments many times, online, verbally, and in writing. If you haven't noticed yet, I don't have a
partybrain.FTFY! So, Runaway, old man, what did you think of Eisenhower's presidency? Can you make some more comments, just so we can read them? Have you ever thought about writing a book, or replacing O'Reilly on Fox News?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)
Reading comprehension - visit a community college near you. I was a suckling baby when Ike was president. I didn't have an opinion about Eisenhower, until much later in life.
Have you ever thought of putting Runaway on ignore, so that you don't have to read his opinions? Oh - sorry - you have that reading comprehension problem, so you don't know how to ignore me. You don't use the forum, the forum uses you. Oh well, useful idiots are useful! You may not be the sharpest, but you are a tool!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:40AM (1 child)
Thank you, Runaway, thank you! The merest derogatory response from you fills me with insight and stuff! I am so amazed that people could ignore you! How is that even possible? I know people who log in from the other side of the world just to read your latest comments. They really enjoy the ones about how you are not a Trump supporter, or how you despise SJWs, or how you think women should be forced into chattel slavery if they get pregnant. And yes, you probably guessed it: there is an entire Runaway1956-2926 fan club in Saudi Arabia! Comment on, dude!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:12PM
"women should be forced into chattel slavery"
That, from a lying sack.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:41PM
Huh. Where have I heard that "the president is acting like an emperor" before?
http://www.solidprinciples.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RAMclr_110214_amnesty_IBD_COLOR_FINAL_147_gif.gif [solidprinciples.com]
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/28/08/2628081d47c057a514fb0151c28752c7.jpg [pinimg.com]
http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/91/2012/06/29/114311_600.jpg [caglecartoons.com]
It seems like there might have been both sides doing it...