Elon Musk and X users... Bringin the HARD INCONVENIENT TRUTH... Exposing the Lying Corrupt Ruinious Democrats... No money, skills, language, integration, health, or education. All male, many Islam and Criminal and Cartel. All on welfare, housing, deficit and debt, majority forever. @elonmusk Jan 9 To thine own self be true Elon Musk @elonmusk 4h They’ve run out of hotel rooms, are kicking kids out of school for illegal housing and now they want your homes too Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 7h Replying to @elonmusk Already happening 9,292 22,128 1,610 92,903 Elon Musk @elonmusk 7h This is what happens when you run out of hotel rooms. Soon, cities will run out of schools to vacate. Then they will come for your homes. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 7h BREAKING: Buses are now pulling up to @JMHSBklyn and dropping off illegals. School is closed tomorrow because illegals will be sleeping in the school’s gym. This is disgraceful! NYC is prioritizing illegals over Americans. 14,315 40,061 3,192 150,277 Elon Musk @elonmusk 7h Is this legal? End Wokeness @EndWokeness Jan 8 NY Congresswoman Clarke (D) saying the quiet part out loud about the border: "I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes." 7,148 15,374 805 69,683 Elon Musk @elonmusk 10h 8,049 7,132 5,402 82,020 0 Elon Musk @elonmusk 10h Yes Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29 10h Argentina has implemented: Single day voting, hand made ballot boxes, paper ballots, and Photo ID required. Should the United States do the same? 14,906 46,828 3,210 318,587 Elon Musk retweeted Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard 14h Freedom of speech is a fundamental right in America. Sadly we live in a time where debate, dialogue and dissent can be cause for cancellation and censorship by those in power. To defend free speech, we must use it. I’m announcing a new partnership today with X where under @elonmusk leadership, free speech is not only protected, it is celebrated. We will be bringing you stories & news about the truth of what’s happening in our country and world but that those in power don’t what you hear, and a series of short films that share the stories of those most impacted, but whose voices are silenced. Looking forward to working with @lindayaX, @bweitz and the team @xnews @xbusiness! 4,152 7,150 745 40,702 0 Elon Musk @elonmusk 10h Explains why orgs like @WSJ are so desperate that they will torch their integrity The Missing Data Depot @data_depot 10h The beginning of the social media era coincided w/ a nearly $40,000,000,000 collapse in newspaper advertising revenue. In 2006, American newspapers collected $49,275,402,572 in advertising revenue. In 2022, that number was only $9,760,830,024. 1,968 4,620 180 26,194 Elon Musk @elonmusk 10h When you add unfunded obligations (like social security & medical), plus state & local debt, government debt will soon exceed $100 Trillion! usdebtclock.org Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k 10h whoopsies 4,997 7,658 552 38,283 Elon Musk @elonmusk 11h You can print your own ballot & mail it in! Brick Suit @Brick_Suit 12h .@ElonMusk people might also be surprised that California has a RAVBM program that let's you print your own ballot at home and then mail it in or place it in a drop box. What could go wrong? sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-… 6,030 16,398 996 54,330 Elon Musk @elonmusk 13h California hasn’t required proof of citizenship to vote since 1994 Rosie Memos @almostjingo 14h Replying to @markjeffrey @elonmusk Been that way in California since 1994 and it’s been a blue state ever since. 6,153 18,413 1,038 75,666 Elon Musk @elonmusk 14h Arizona clearly states that no proof of citizenship is required for federal elections Mark Jeffrey @markjeffrey Jan 9 Replying to @elonmusk YES. This is from my friend in Arizona just yesterday: 10,551 30,931 2,694 99,437 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 Great book Gad Saad @GadSaad Jan 9 If you really wish to see a spicy critique of DIE, please read my 2020 book The Parasitic Mind. It is the mind vaccine against all of the idea pathogens that have been destroying the West. amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-In… [I'm posting these tweets when I should be relaxing with the family.] 2,654 2,857 101 22,130 Elon Musk retweeted Gad Saad @GadSaad Jan 9 I've explained on countless occasions the distinction between deontological and consequentialist ethics and how the inability to know which principles are deontological causes minds to be parasitized. DIE is a violation of deontological principles. There is no "I believe in free speech but not for Donald Trump" or "I believe in the presumption of innocence but not for Brett Kavanaugh" or "I believe journalistic integrity but not when it comes to Hunter Biden's laptop." Similarly, you cannot be for the meritocratic ethos and be for DIE. This is akin to being a pregnant virgin. 673 1,661 104 10,204 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 This explains Mark Cuban’s ridiculous overcompensation regarding racism. Same thing happened with #MeToo guys who got bust suddenly becoming fake ardent feminists. 8,637 15,617 1,167 102,655 0 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 If mental gymnastics were an Olympic sport, Mark Cuban would be a perfect 10 This tweet is unavailable 3,604 6,528 402 70,668 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 Whoa, I did not know this Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes Jan 9 Thankfully @elonmusk Is Bringing A Lot Of Awareness To Illegals Being Imported To Vote Today. Don't Forget: Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote This is ON THE RECORD: “Non-citizens have not been eligible to vote in New York or as far as I know in any other state since the 19th century.” That's not true. The New York City Council voted in December to allow this. It begins January 9, 2023. Cities in Vermont and Maryland already allow this, and similar measures are under consideration in Illinois, Maine, and Massachusetts right now. Mr. Gentleman, were you? Yes. I believe those are considerations of allowing votes in municipal elections only. Right, but thank you. That's the point. Everybody wants to know at home, why would they allow this? Guys, they're allowing it because they're gonna turn them into voters. They already are doing this in New York City, largest city in America, and this is the plan of our friends on this side to turn all the illegals into voters. That's it, folks. That's what's going on. That's the game. That's why the border's open. That's why they've dropped it. Look, I respect Ms. Loughran and all her work in this arena. Yes, I'll yield, Mr. Chairman. I'd love to hear what you have to say about this. As a New Yorker, I would love to think that New York is the entire country, but it is not. It is not, and consideration is being given to permitting non-citizens to vote in New York and I believe in the capital city of Vermont, I forget which that is, but it is much as I'd like to believe it, New York and Vermont are not the entire country. But Mr. Chairman, that's the whole point. This is what's going on, folks, at home. If you're trying to figure this out, if you're scratching your heads, you've seen the video, you see droves of people, 2.4 million people coming over the border illegally, the president allowing, the Democrats in charge of Congress are allowing it, the deal is they're going to turn them into voters. You just heard it. They don't have any problem with that. They celebrate it. Here's the deal. We have a problem with it. The Constitution has a problem with it. American elections should be decided by American citizens. That's it. That's what this is about. That's why we're jumping up and down and screaming, my friends on the video who are commenting about this. That's why we're so upset, because our constituents are frightened that we are losing our country. We're losing our security, we're losing our sovereignty, because we're going to allow people from 160 different countries around the world to come in here and decide our elections. That's it. Here it is on record. You all heard it.” 7,693 31,456 1,368 102,183 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 (CTO) Chief Troll Officer 7,014 7,273 1,234 85,909 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 Yikes 6,706 21,192 1,659 147,377 0 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 Wow End Wokeness @EndWokeness Jan 8 Brian Silvas lives right near the border in San Diego. Every day, swarms of illegal invaders cross through his property. CA sheriffs informed him that he is not even allowed to tell them to get off his property. 3,179 15,309 429 65,060 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 9 Claiming that people can’t figure out how to get ID is racist and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Jan 9 This video asking black people in Harlem if they have ID will forever be one of the best reactions to the “voter ID is racist” nonsense 4,666 29,745 907 150,291 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 In the USA, you don’t need government issued ID to vote and you can mail in your ballot. This is insane. 33,345 69,505 6,036 428,736 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 Interesting that the press would lie so loudly about this issue ~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl Jan 8 After Elon pinned this post to his profile, the disinformers at WaPo and Rolling Stone got to work attacking him for sharing my graph of raw govt data. IDK if they're lying or just incompetent, but they published blatant factual errors in these anti-Musk articles. This expanded version of the original graph will clearly demonstrate the two most egregious false claims. - False Claim 1: Number of Births has never been greater than number of border Encounters. -- Fact 1: Number of Births has ALWAYS been greater than number of Encounters, until September 2023. -- CBP began using Encounters as a metric in FY2020. You can also easily calculate Encounters yourself going back to FY2012. So "always" here means for the entire existence of the Encounters metric. - False Claim 2: Many of those Encounters led to people being Expelled from the country. -- Fact 2: Literally ZERO Expulsions happened in any month where Encounters exceeded Births. Title 42 had already expired. If you're going to attack someone over data, maybe don't make up abject nonsense that anyone can easily disconfirm in 2 seconds. That used to be called basic journalism. 2,515 9,923 241 47,128 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 Incentives matter. They are importing voters. KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Jan 8 🚨 In 2007, Senator Joe Biden declared that no great nation has uncontrolled borders, warning that America must build a border fence and increase border agents to secure the nation against drugs, terror, and illegal immigration. Biden accused wealthy Republicans of wanting to increase illegal immigration to replace American workers with cheaper labor. "The reason the employers want this extra influx is it drives cost down... Employers have to be held responsible for the unscrupulous practice of bringing people here in order to keep wages down." "That's not fair to Americans. You have to hold employers responsible for hiring Americans First." Criticizing President Bush, Biden lamented the lack of border agents, the absence of a border fence, and the free flow of drugs into the country. "I've been arguing for the need to put more protection at our borders, meaning you have more border guards." "You have to have a significant increase of security at the border, including limited elements where you actually have a fence." "People can go over and under a fence, but you can't take 100 kilos of cocaine over and under a fence." Fast forward to President Biden's term, and a record-breaking 8 million people have illegally entered the country in 3 years, with a fentanyl crisis leading to over 106,000 Americans overdosing on drugs last year. On Biden's inaugural day, he introduced policies that incentivize illegal immigration: • Paused Deportations • Suspended "Remain in Mexico" • Stopped Border Wall Construction The consequences are dire – a national security crisis draining American taxpayers of hundreds of billions annually, leading major cities to slash budgets for essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, and education. As Senator Biden once warned, "No great nation can be in a position where they can't control their borders." "It matters how you control your borders. Not just for immigration, but it matters for drugs, terror, and a whole range of other things." 7,034 32,826 1,413 132,696 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 This disinformation was fed to you by the same people who claim to want to fight disinformation 1,197 4,107 143 24,142 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 Aiding & abetting illegal immigration is a felony crime House Homeland GOP @HomelandGOP Jan 8 The @HomelandGOP's nearly year-long investigation into Secretary Mayorkas made one thing clear—he has refused to enforce the laws of Congress and fulfill his oath of office. This Committee will begin impeachment proceedings this Wednesday at 10am to hold Mayorkas accountable. 9,388 35,924 1,462 139,503 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 That is the key question The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84 Jan 8 Which way? Do we want equal opportunity or equal outcomes? 9,266 14,491 793 83,742 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 8 “Fact-checkers” Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd Jan 8 Fact checkers and disinformation academics check narratives, not facts. Your facts can be accurate, but if you've got the wrong narrative, well ... Hate to tell you this: that's a "conspiracy theory" and you're gonna get "debunked." Example: 439,845,457.... Anymore questions? 3,190 9,771 295 47,696 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 7 To be expected. They will stop at nothing to destroy 𝕏. DogeDesigner @cb_doge Jan 7 The more 𝕏 grows, the more frequent media attacks on Elon will happen. Reason: Traditional media is a direct competitor to 𝕏. 10,893 19,624 1,012 125,978 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 7 Insane ~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl Jan 7 At current rates, we can expect over 12 million encounters in the first term of Joe Biden's presidency. That's nearly as much as the preceding 3 terms combined. 13,860 50,729 2,238 204,873 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 6 The US construction industry can increase available housing by 1% to 2% per year. But the US population is only 330M out of 8B. So if just ~4% of Earth moves here, housing would need to double, which is impossible, causing a massive homeless problem and house prices to be astronomically unaffordable. Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 6 Accurate analysis End Wokeness @EndWokeness Jan 6 Biden's approval on immigration stands at a record low 26%, his worst issue based on most polling data. Even the most liberal towns and cities are melting down over the crisis. 2024 is coming up. They know this issue is hurting them politically. So why don't they care? Because it's a long-term investment. 8M illegals crossed since Biden took office (that we know of), which is more than the population of 38 states. Illegal crossings outnumber births in America right now. Every time an illegal migrant gives birth on US soil, that child automatically has the right to vote in 18 years due to birthright citizenship. Keep in mind that most migration is coming from areas with astronomically high fertility rates. But it won't stop there. There will come a time when Dems control Congress. This gives them the power to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegals living here. They've done it in the past, they'll do it again. To summarize: They don't care about what you think because they’re importing a new electorate of loyal voters. 3,961 12,359 339 76,308 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 5 Interesting. 𝕏 will add them as defendants in the lawsuit. KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Jan 5 🚨BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has uncovered a confidential list revealing Media Matters' major contributors. Brace yourself for this shocking surprise — they're all Democratic megadonors. • Deborah J. Simon: $4,000,000 • Gill Foundation: $2,970,000 • Josh and Anita Bekenstein: $1,750,000 • Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation: $1,900,000 • Susan T. Buffett Foundation: $1,751,199 Media Matters, the brainchild of Clinton loyalist David Brock, calls itself a media watchdog but operates as a DNC front group orchestrating advertiser boycotts and suppressing free speech on social media. In a shocking federal lawsuit, a Media Matters employee obsessively refreshed a fringe video on @rumblevideo over 70 times until he found a Netflix ad that could be used as fodder for a public pressure campaign. Despite being the sole viewer of that Netflix ad next to the fringe video, Media Matters falsely insinuated in an article that Netflix ads frequently accompanied fringe content on Rumble, coercing advertisers to abandon the platform. On @X, Media Matters accessed accounts active for 30 days, bypassing ad filters for new users, and selectively followed accounts with fringe content and those owned by X's major corporate advertisers. After repeatedly scrolling and refreshing their timeline - 13 more times than an average user - they generated screenshots of fringe content next to X's top advertisers. Media Matters' defamation was so fabricated that IBM, Comcast, and Oracle had their ads appear next to fringe content for just one account—an employee of Media Matters—out of over 550 million active users on @X. Media Matters conveniently left out these details in their reporting, sidestepping the fact that their reporters manipulated the platform to create fringe content next to major corporate advertisers. Why are Democratic megadonors like @GillFoundation, @Josh_Bekenstein, and @BuffettScholars financially supporting these clearly deceptive, malicious tactics aimed at stifling free speech on the internet? 4,759 25,059 718 115,805 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 4 There are almost no deportations KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Jan 4 🚨America's illegal immigration crisis is shattering century-old records with alarming numbers: 2023: 3,201,144 2022: 2,766,582 2021: 1,956,519 2020: 405,036 2019: 859,501 2018: 404,142 2017: 310,531 2016: 415,816 2015: 337,117 2014: 486,651 2013: 420,789 2012: 364,768 2011: 340,252 2010: 463,382 On President Biden's inaugural day, he introduced policies that incentivize illegal immigration: • Paused Deportations • Suspended "Remain in Mexico" • Stopped Border Wall Construction Since these policy changes, over 8 million people have illegally entered the country, with millions more slipping past border patrol undetected. This surge in illegal immigration is a national security crisis, costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions per year. Major U.S. cities, grappling with the escalating financial burden, are slashing budgets for essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, and education. President Biden holds the power to halt this crisis that is draining America's resources. The solution is as simple as the actions that led to this crisis—Biden should use his pen to reverse his policy changes. Chart via @biancoresearch 7,076 24,213 934 91,550 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 4 While it is trivial to enter the United States illegally, it is insanely difficult for legal immigrants to move to the United States. This is madness! We should shut down illegal immigration and greatly increase legal immigration. Aaron Levie @levie Jan 4 This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot. 14,862 30,946 2,287 165,361 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 4 At this point, there is no question that this administration is actively facilitating illegal immigration. The numbers speak for themselves. ~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl Jan 4 By all available metrics, this administration's border policy is a disaster. Monthly Encounters have averaged: - 98,000 for the two previous administrations. - 242,000 for the Biden border. In fact, the flood of humans entering is so vast that Apprehensions alone now exceed the combined Encounters metric of the previous administrations. Monthly Apprehensions have averaged: - 34,000 for the previous two administrations. - 111,000 for the Biden border. And these averages understate the current situation -- it's getting worse every month. December 2023 was the worst single month in history at the southern border. 12,026 48,727 2,027 184,607 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 4 The public should be made aware of this Mayra Flores Vallejo @MayraFloresTX34 Jan 3 The largest migrant caravan of 2023 known as the 'poverty exodus,' has recently departed from Southern Mexico, comprising approximately 15,000 individuals from 24 countries en route to the US border. Yet Democrats are focused on cooking pictures I posted that reminded me of my upbringing’s. I can’t with so much pettiness. @TexasTribune you should write about this caravan on its way. That would be more productive. 18,585 75,116 3,855 237,559 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 4 Yes Bill Ackman @BillAckman Jan 3 "I Came, I Saw, I Copied": Why DEI Must DIE konstantinkisin.com/p/i-came… 2,693 6,243 129 49,555 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 3 DEI, because it discriminates on the basis of race, gender and many other factors, is not merely immoral, it is also illegal 9,231 35,493 1,996 223,443 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 3 The @AP has the woke mind virus growing out of its head like a giant mushroom! 7,540 27,247 1,013 169,675 Elon Musk @elonmusk Jan 3 DEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it. Bill Ackman @BillAckman Jan 3 In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about. I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly in support of Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization, holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts. How could this be? I wondered. When I saw President Gay’s initial statement about the massacre, it provided more context (!) for the student groups’ statement of support for terrorism. The protests began as pro-Palestine and then became anti-Israel. Shortly, thereafter, antisemitism exploded on campus as protesters who violated Harvard’s own codes of conduct were emboldened by the lack of enforcement of Harvard’s rules, and kept testing the limits on how aggressive, intimidating, and disruptive they could be to Jewish and Israeli students, and the student body at large. Sadly, antisemitism remains a simmering source of hate even at our best universities among a subset of students. A few weeks later, I went up to campus to see things with my own eyes, and listen and learn from students and faculty. I met with 15 or so members of the faculty and a few hundred students in small and large settings, and a clearer picture began to emerge. I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem, it was simply a troubling warning sign – it was the “canary in the coal mine” – despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on campus. I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment. Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant. I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more. What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology. Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.” Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist. As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology. In order to be deemed anti-racist, one must personally take action to reverse any unequal outcomes in society. The DEI movement, which has permeated many universities, corporations, and state, local and federal governments, is designed to be the anti-racist engine to transform society from its currently structurally racist state to an anti-racist one. After the death of George Floyd, the already burgeoning DEI movement took off without any real challenge to its problematic ideology. Why, you might ask, was there so little pushback? The answer is that anyone who dared to raise a question which challenged DEI was deemed a racist, a label which could severely impact one’s employment, social status, reputation and more. Being called a racist got people cancelled, so those concerned about DEI and its societal and legal implications had no choice but to keep quiet in this new climate of fear. The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades past. If you challenge DEI, “justice” will be swift, and you may find yourself unemployed, shunned by colleagues, cancelled, and/or you will otherwise put your career and acceptance in society at risk. The DEI movement has also taken control of speech. Certain speech is no longer permitted. So-called “microaggressions” are treated like hate speech. “Trigger warnings” are required to protect students. “Safe spaces” are necessary to protect students from the trauma inflicted by words that are challenging to the students’ newly-acquired world views. Campus speakers and faculty with unapproved views are shouted down, shunned, and cancelled. These speech codes have led to self-censorship by students and faculty of views privately held, but no longer shared. There is no commitment to free expression at Harvard other than for DEI-approved views. This has led to the quashing of conservative and other viewpoints from the Harvard campus and faculty, and contributed to Harvard’s having the lowest free speech ranking of 248 universities assessed by the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression. When one examines DEI and its ideological heritage, it does not take long to understand that the movement is inherently inconsistent with basic American values. Our country since its founding has been about creating and building a democracy with equality of opportunity for all. Millions of people have left behind socialism and communism to come to America to start again, as they have seen the destruction leveled by an equality of outcome society. The E for “equity” in DEI is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country. You can say things about white people today in universities, in business or otherwise, that if you switched the word ‘white’ to ‘black,’ the consequences to you would be costly and severe. To state what should otherwise be self-evident, whether or not a statement is racist should not depend upon whether the target of the racism is a group who currently represents a majority or minority of the country or those who have a lighter or darker skin color. Racism against whites is as reprehensible as it is against groups with darker skin colors. Martin Luther King’s most famous words are instructive: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But here we are in 2024, being asked and in some cases required to use skin color to effect outcomes in admissions (recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court), in business (likely illegal yet it happens nonetheless) and in government (also I believe in most cases to be illegal, except apparently in government contracting), rather than the content of one’s character. As such, a meritocracy is an anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed. And DEI’s definition of oppressed is fundamentally flawed. I have always believed that the most fortunate should help the least fortunate, and that our system should be designed in such a way as to maximize the size of the overall pie so that it will enable us to provide an economic system which can offer quality of life, education, housing, and healthcare for all. America is a rich country and we have made massive progress over the decades toward achieving this goal, but we obviously have much more work to do. Steps taken on the path to socialism – another word for an equality of outcome system – will reverse this progress and ultimately impoverish us all. We have seen this movie many times. Having a darker skin color, a less common sexual identity, and/or being a woman doesn’t make one necessarily oppressed or even disadvantaged. While slavery remains a permanent stain on our country’s history – a fact which is used by DEI to label white people as oppressors – it doesn’t therefore hold that all white people generations after the abolishment of slavery should be held responsible for its evils. Similarly, the fact that Columbus discovered America doesn’t make all modern-day Italians colonialists. An ideology that portrays a bicameral world of oppressors and the oppressed based principally on race or sexual identity is a fundamentally racist ideology that will likely lead to more racism rather than less. A system where one obtains advantages by virtue of one’s skin color is a racist system, and one that will generate resentment and anger among the un-advantaged who will direct their anger at the favored groups. The country has seen burgeoning resentment and anger grow materially over the last few years, and the DEI movement is an important contributor to our growing divisiveness. Resentment is one of the most important drivers of racism. And it is the lack of equity, i.e, fairness, in how DEI operates, that contributes to this resentment. I was accused of being a racist from the President of the NAACP among others when I posted on @X that I had learned that the Harvard President search process excluded candidates that did not meet the DEI criteria. I didn’t say that former President Gay was hired because she was a black woman. I simply said that I had heard that the search process by its design excluded a large percentage of potential candidates due to the DEI limitations. My statement was not a racist one. It was simply the empirical truth about the Harvard search process that led to Gay’s hiring. When former President Gay was hired, I knew little about her, but I was instinctually happy for Harvard and the black community. Every minority community likes to see their representatives recognized in important leadership positions, and it is therefore an important moment for celebration. I too celebrated this achievement. I am inspired and moved by others’ success, and I thought of Gay’s hiring at the pinnacle leadership position at perhaps our most important and iconic university as an important and significant milestone for the black community. I have spent the majority of my life advocating on behalf of and supporting members of disadvantaged communities including by investing several hundreds of millions of dollars of philanthropic assets to help communities in need with economic development, sensible criminal justice reform, poverty reduction, healthcare, education, workforce housing, charter schools, and more. I have done the same at Pershing Square Capital Management when, for example, we completed one of the largest IPOs ever with the substantive assistance of a number of minority-owned, women-owned, and Veteran-owned investment banks. Prior to the Pershing Square Tontine, Ltd. IPO, it was standard practice for big corporations occasionally to name a few minority-owned banks in their equity and bond offerings, have these banks do no work and sell only a de minimis amount of stock or bonds, and allocate to them only 1% or less of the underwriting fees so that the issuers could virtue signal that they were helping minority communities. In our IPO, we invited the smaller banks into the deal from the beginning of the process so they could add real value. As a result, the Tontine IPO was one of the largest and most successful IPOs in history with $12 billion of demand for a $4 billion deal by the second day of the IPO, when we closed the books. The small banks earned their 20% share of the fees for delivering real and substantive value and for selling their share of the stock. Compare this approach to the traditional one where the small banks do effectively nothing to earn their fees – they aren’t given that opportunity – yet, they get a cut of the deal, albeit a tiny one. The traditional approach does not create value for anyone. It only creates resentment, and an uncomfortable feeling from the small banks who get a tiny piece of the deal in a particularly bad form of affirmative action. While I don’t think our approach to working with the smaller banks has yet achieved the significant traction it deserves, it will hopefully happen eventually as the smaller banks build their competencies and continue to earn their fees, and other issuers see the merit of this approach. We are going to need assistance with a large IPO soon so we are looking forward to working with our favored smaller banks. I have always believed in giving disadvantaged groups a helping hand. I signed the Giving Pledge for this reason. My life plan by the time I was 18 was to be successful and then return the favor to those less fortunate. This always seemed to the right thing to do, in particular, for someone as fortunate as I am. All of the above said, it is one thing to give disadvantaged people the opportunities and resources so that they can help themselves. It is another to select a candidate for admission or for a leadership role when they are not qualified to serve in that role. This appears to have been the case with former President Gay’s selection. She did not possess the leadership skills to serve as Harvard’s president, putting aside any questions about her academic credentials. This became apparent shortly after October 7th, but there were many signs before then when she was Dean of the faculty. The result was a disaster for Harvard and for Claudine Gay. The Harvard board should not have run a search process which had a predetermined objective of only hiring a DEI-approved candidate. In any case, there are many incredibly talented black men and women who could have been selected by Harvard to serve as its president so why did the Harvard Corporation board choose Gay? One can only speculate without knowing all of the facts, but it appears Gay’s leadership in the creation of Harvard’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and the penetration of the DEI ideology into the Corporation board room perhaps made Gay the favored candidate. The search was also done at a time when many other top universities had similar DEI-favored candidate searches underway for their presidents, reducing the number of potential candidates available in light of the increased competition for talent. Unrelated to the DEI issue, as a side note, I would suggest that universities should broaden their searches to include capable business people for the role of president, as a university president requires more business skills than can be gleaned from even the most successful academic career with its hundreds of peer reviewed papers and many books. Universities have a Dean of the Faculty and a bureaucracy to oversee the faculty and academic environment of the university. It therefore does not make sense that the university president has to come through the ranks of academia, with a skill set unprepared for university management. The president’s job – managing thousands of employees, overseeing a $50 billion endowment, raising money, managing expenses, capital allocation, real estate acquisition, disposition, and construction, and reputation management – are responsibilities that few career academics are capable of executing. Broadening the recruitment of candidates to include top business executives would also create more opportunities for diverse talent for the office of the university president. Furthermore, Harvard is a massive business that has been mismanaged for a long time. The cost structure of the University is out of control due in large part to the fact that the administration has grown without bounds. Revenues are below what they should be because the endowment has generated a 4.5% annualized return for the last decade in one of the greatest bull markets in history, and that low return is not due to the endowment taking lower risks as the substantial majority of its assets are invested in illiquid and other high-risk assets. The price of the product, a Harvard education, has risen at a rate well in excess of inflation for decades, (I believe it has grown about 7-8% per annum) and it is now about $320,000 for four years of a liberal arts education at Harvard College. As a result, the only students who can now afford Harvard come from rich families and poor ones. The middle class can’t get enough financial aid other than by borrowing a lot of money, and it is hard to make the economics work in life after college when you graduate with large loan balances, particularly if you also attend graduate school. The best companies in the world grow at high rates over many decades. Harvard has grown at a de minimis rate. Since I graduated 35 years ago, the number of students in the Harvard class has grown by less than 20%. What other successful business do you know that has grown the number of customers it serves by less than 20% in 35 years, and where nearly all revenue growth has come from raising prices? In summary, there is a lot more work to be done to fix Harvard than just replacing its president. That said, the selection of Harvard’s next president is a critically important task, and the individuals principally responsible for that decision do not have a good track record for doing so based on their recent history, nor have they done a good job managing the other problems which I have identified above. The Corporation board led by Penny Pritzker selected the wrong president and did inadequate due diligence about her academic record despite Gay being in leadership roles at the University since 2015 when she became dean of the Social Studies department. The Board failed to create a discrimination-free environment on campus exposing the University to tremendous reputational damage, to large legal and financial liabilities, Congressional investigations and scrutiny, and to the potential loss of Federal funding, all while damaging the learning environment for all students. And when concerns were raised about plagiarism in Gay’s research, the Board said these claims were “demonstrably false” and it threatened the NY Post with “immense” liability if it published a story raising these issues. It was only after getting the story cancelled that the Board secretly launched a cursory, short-form investigation outside of the proper process for evaluating a member of the faculty’s potential plagiarism. When the Board finally publicly acknowledged some of Gay’s plagiarism, it characterized the plagiarism as “unintentional” and invented new euphemisms, i.e., “duplicative language” to describe plagiarism, a belittling of academic integrity that has caused grave damage to Harvard’s academic standards and credibility. The Board’s three-person panel of “political scientist experts” that to this day remain unnamed who evaluated Gay’s work failed to identify many examples of her plagiarism, leading to even greater reputational damage to the University and its reputation for academic integrity as the whistleblower and the media continued to identify additional problems with Gay’s work in the days and weeks thereafter. According to the NY Post, the Board also apparently sought to identify the whistleblower and seek retribution against him or her in contravention to the University’s whistleblower protection policies. Despite all of the above, the Board “unanimously” gave its full support for Gay during this nearly four-month crisis, until eventually being forced to accept her resignation earlier today, a grave and continuing reputational disaster to Harvard and to the Board. In a normal corporate context with the above set of facts, the full board would resign immediately to be replaced by a group nominated by shareholders. In the case of Harvard, however, the Board nominates itself and its new members. There is no shareholder vote mechanism to replace them. So what should happen? The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain their seats. The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done. Then new Corporation board members should be identified who bring true diversity, viewpoint and otherwise, to the board. The Board should not be principally comprised of individuals who share the same politics and views about DEI. The new board members should be chosen in a transparent process with the assistance of the 30-person Board of Overseers. There is no reason the Harvard board of 12 independent trustees cannot be comprised of the most impressive, high integrity, intellectually and politically diverse members of our country and globe. We have plenty of remarkable people to choose from, and the job of being a director just got much more interesting and important. It is no longer, nor should it ever have been, an honorary and highly political sinecure. The ODEIB should be shut down, and the staff should be terminated. The ODEIB has already taken down much of the ideology and strategies that were on its website when I and others raised concerns about how the office operates and who it does and does not represent. Taking down portions of the website does not address the fundamentally flawed and racist ideology of this office, and calls into further question the ODEIB’s legitimacy. Why would the ODEIB take down portions of its website when an alum questioned its legitimacy unless the office was doing something fundamentally wrong or indefensible? Harvard must once again become a meritocratic institution which does not discriminate for or against faculty or students based on their skin color, and where diversity is understood in its broadest form so that students can learn in an environment which welcomes diverse viewpoints from faculty and students from truly diverse backgrounds and experiences. Harvard must create an academic environment with real academic freedom and free speech, where self-censoring, speech codes, and cancel culture are forever banished from campus. Harvard should become an environment where all students of all persuasions feel comfortable expressing their views and being themselves. In the business world, we call this creating a great corporate culture, which begins with new leadership and the right tone at the top. It does not require the creation of a massive administrative bureaucracy. These are the minimum changes necessary to begin to repair the damage that has been done. A number of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have proposed a new constitution which can be found at pennforward.com, which has been signed by more than 1,200 faculty from Penn, Harvard, and other universities. Harvard would do well to adopt Penn’s proposed new constitution or a similar one before seeking to hire its next president. A condition of employment of the new Harvard president should be the requirement that the new president agrees to strictly abide by the new constitution. He or she should take an oath to that effect. Today was an important step forward for the University. It is time we restore Veritas to Harvard and again be an exemplar that graduates well-informed, highly-educated leaders of exemplary moral standing and good judgment who can help bring our country together, advance our democracy, and identify the important new discoveries that will help save us from ourselves. We have a lot more work to do. Let’s get at it. 6,021 23,999 1,296 142,132 Elon Musk @elonmusk 30 Dec 2023 Almost no one seems to be aware of the immense size and lightning growth of this issue. According to the mayors, it is already overwhelming essential services in New York, Chicago and other cities. ~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl 29 Dec 2023 Since August, there are officially more arriving each month than there are children being born to American mothers. And these are just the official encounters -- we don't know how many avoided detection. 26,095 49,445 2,939 180,493 Elon Musk @elonmusk 30 Dec 2023 We should be ending racism in America, not substituting one form for another! 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