Musk thanks Soros for unveiling ‘next puppet’
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has mocked George Soros and his son for quickly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the “most qualified candidate we have” to replace Joe Biden. The US president announced on Sunday that he has quit the race to become Democractic party candidate for the November 5 elections and that he would back Harris instead.
Following Biden's announcement, Alex Soros, the son of billionaire financier George Soros and heir to his father’s philanthropic empire, also promptly endorsed Harris, describing her as the Democrats’ “best” shot to defeat Donald Trump.
“It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump... Long live the American Dream!” Alex Soros wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter), attaching a picture of himself with Harris.
“I’d just like to thank Alexander Soros for not keeping everyone in suspense about who the next puppet would be,” Elon Musk, the owner of X, wrote in response.
I’d just like to thank @AlexanderSoros for not keeping everyone in suspense about who the next puppet would be 🙏
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2024
Liberal tycoon George Soros also personally supports Harris, his spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. As a prominent US Democratic Party donor, George Soros funneled around $128 million to candidates and organizations during the midterm elections in 2022, and gifted $5 million to the main political action committee backing Biden the day after the president’s flubbed debate against Donald Trump last month.
Musk has previously slammed the liberal Hungarian-born billionaire for effectively trying to dismantle society by ensuring laws are not enforced. “He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization,” Musk said during a podcast with Joe Rogan last year, explaining that the current lawlessness plaguing American cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles is the result of Soros backing progressive District Attorneys who “refuse to prosecute crime.”
Musk also claimed that despite the 93-year-old Soros being “pretty old” and “basically a bit senile” at this point, he was nevertheless “very smart” and very good at arbitrage, figuring out that the highest “value for money” was in supporting local races rather than national election campaigns like those for the Senate or the presidency.
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George Soros, who infamously crashed the British pound in 1992, is among the wealthiest men on Earth, with an estimated personal net worth of around $7 billion. Last year, he stepped down from the helm of his Open Society Foundations, handing over control of the $25 billion NGO to his 38-year-old son, Alex.
