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Elon Musk offers his take on who’s really controlling Democratic Party: ‘One does not need to speculate’

June 19, 2022 | | Print Article

Billionaire investor Elon Musk accused the Democrat Party of being beholden to unions, and as evidence he cited the way President Joe Biden’s administration treats him versus how it treats the corrupt United Auto Workers (UAW) union.

“I think the general public is not aware of the degree to which the unions control the Democratic Party. One does not need to speculate on this point,” he said in an interview last week with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley club.

He then specifically drew attention to how the Biden administration refused to invite Tesla to its electric vehicle summit last August, despite the company producing more EVs than any other company in the world.

“Last year, President Biden held an EV summit where Tesla was explicitly not allowed to come, but the UAW was. Tesla’s made two-thirds of all electric vehicles in the United States, so deliberately excluding us from an EV summit at the White House but including the UAW, that tells you all you need to know,” he said.

Listen:

The issue, Musk continued, is that Tesla is a non-unionized company, and the UAW and its allies (including the Biden administration) resent this. Never mind that he has a perfectly valid reason for not allowing the company to unionize.

“Tesla has the highest pay in the water industry. Moreover, the people that work at our Fremont Plant have like, you know, five job offers to work somewhere else. There’s negative unemployment in the Bay Area. Like try hiring someone in the Bay Area — it’s ridiculous. It’s negative unemployment,” he said.

“So our challenge is how do we convince people to stay given the many other opportunities that they have, let alone a union. Like, they’re like, ‘what, we don’t need a union — I’ve got five other job [offers].’ That’s the real reason. It’s the complete opposite of what they’re characterizing.”

The UAW likes to characterize Musk as a greedy, profit-motivated capitalist pig who doesn’t care about his allegedly suffering employees.

In summary, the billionaire investor believes he was snubbed last year because of his refusal to allow Tesla to unionize. And indeed, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s words appear to confirm this.

Asked last whether Tesla’s non-union status was the reason for the snub, she said, “Well, these are the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers, so I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.”

She meant GM, Ford, and Stellantis, the three unionized auto makers who were invited to the EV summit alongside their UAW overlords.

The Biden administration went on to snub Tesla numerous additional times.

For instance, the president’s “Build Back Better” plan contained a provision that would have provided purchasers with “$12,000 for buying an electric car … unless it’s a Tesla,” as reported by Reason magazine.

Then in January of this year, every major EV producer in America was invited to the White House except for Tesla.

“President Joe Biden met with the company’s biggest competitors at the White House to applaud their efforts–with Tesla CEO Elon Musk notably absent,” according to Forbes.

“CEOs of General Motors, Ford and engine-maker Cummins basked in the glow of the president’s praise for their efforts to curb carbon pollution, boost U.S. manufacturing and support Biden’s stalled Build Back Better legislation.”

And then after the meeting, the president posted a tweet praising GM and Ford for “building more electric vehicles here at home than ever before”:

The tweet annoyed Musk. He responded by reminding the president of Tesla’s existence and calling him a “damp sock puppet.”

Look:

The president snubbed Tesla again during his State of the Union address roughly a month later.

“The US President praised Ford and General Motors during the address for investing in the country to build electric vehicles and creating local jobs,” according to NDTV.

When the president doubled down in a tweet, Musk clapped back with some facts.

Look:

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13 thoughts on “Elon Musk offers his take on who’s really controlling Democratic Party: ‘One does not need to speculate’”

  1. It’s wrong the way they treat Elon I hope he wins in the end. The unions are corrupt to the core just like the demonrats

  2. I grew up about 3 miles from the Fremont Tesla plant and still live nearby. I grew up when it was a GM plant and later a NUMMI plant. There was also a Ford plant in the next town. They ALL closed when those companies decided to make bigger profits despite the well-trained workforce in place there. They move their plants to Mexico when NAFTA was signed.

    Elon Musk came in and repurposed an empty and abandoned plant and created jobs in the area. Good, blue-collar jobs in the Silicon Valley. I’d also like to say that the plant is about 1.5 miles from the former Solyndra buildings, one of which now belongs to Tesla and the other to Seagate. Remember Solyndra? That was the place Obama sent $535 MILLION dollars to invest in “green energy” only to have the company fold in 18 months and send 1,100 people to the unemployment line.

    Elon Musk is a genius. The Delaware Dumba$$ doesn’t even have a room temp IQ. Musk should consider it a compliment that Joke Buyin doesn’t like him – it means he’s doing everything right.

    1. When GM closed that plant, they were making the cars named the worst built in America – the Camaros and Firebirds of that time. Can’t wait to see how their union goons screw up EV’s.

  3. Let us not forget the Teacher’s Union. With just one letter they were able to get the DOJ to attack Parents as if they were Terrorists.

  4. Unions have proven themselves to be nothing more than an additional layer of useless management…..kinda like administrators in the education system,

  5. Unions were formed to advance the interest of workers. How does excluding Tesla from an EV Summit advance the interests of workers?

  6. Biden is beholden to every crooked group in the United States and a whole lot of foreign ones as well. After all the Democrat Party is one of the worst and most crooked organizations that now exist in the USA now.

    1. The politicians of the Democratic Party have formed a Union for Dem Politicians and only for them. They set the rules, they make the laws and pay themselves whatever they want and they do whatever they want.

  7. In the early to mid 20th century, unions were the champions of the working class, but, once unions became very large and wealthy, they transformed into very effective arms of the democrat party….much to the detriment of their members and to our country.

  8. All electric cars are worthless unless you don’t go anywhere or do anything.

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