Walz is just one of several Democrats who have referred to Musk’s immigrant background

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    While I understand what people are going for with this sort of framing and name calling it is hollow political rhetoric that doesn’t move the line. The uncomfortable reality is that Musk, Sacks and Thiel came to America and prospered there because it is a place where their views are widely shared. As with Putin’s foreign interference, the truth is the American billionaires controlling their media and much of the rest of the worlds are just as bad if not worse. It was just easier to point the finger at foreign interference than acknowledge the much more terrifying reality.

    Murdoch is a filthy Australian immigrant. Are all Australian’s bad? Tariff those fuckers. Are all immigrants bad? South Africa and Australia are Commonwealth countries. Does that make Canada bad as well? Hey, isn’t Musk also one of those nasty Canadians via his mother? Trump must be right about them. Whose side is Walz on with this?

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      You’re overthinking it. Can’t do that when it comes to conservatives. Waltz knows this, and he’s done it his entire career.

      Thinking requires effort. Musk profited because he was already wealthy. He was already wealthy because his parents prospered in apartheid South Africa. Thus, him being a baby of nepotism.

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        Sanders doesn’t talk down to conservative voters. He cuts through the bullshit. The truth is the economic disparity between blue and red states would be ample grounds for insurrection if US citizens didn’t have the class consciousness beaten out of them. The fact that the MAGA cult captured those states doesn’t negate the reality of a divided country.

        As much as Waltz might be a good moderate administrator of a nice mid-west state and a nice bloke I don’t think he has what it takes to unite a country. Politicians like Walz are funded by nepo babies and immigrants as much as any other politician. They aren’t all like Elon Musk. Talk about the real problems perhaps. This war isn’t going to be won by focus groups and sound bites.

        If I wanted easy upvotes I would write 4 words everyone wanted to hear instead of waste time trying to write a thoughtful response.