Elon Musk, the head of X, is moving the company headquarters away from the liberal city of San Francisco, California.
And the date he has chosen to do it is poetic.
The Tesla CEO said, in an email to employees, that the San Francisco headquarters of X, formerly Twitter, will close on Friday, September 13, Fox News reported.
“Musk announced last month that he would move the global headquarters of X and SpaceX out of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting schools from notifying parents of their children’s gender identity,” the report said.
“Musk said at the time that X’s headquarters would move to Austin, Texas, while he also announced that SpaceX would relocate its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. He cited the gender identity law as being ‘the final straw’ and attributed the move to ‘this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies,’” it said.
The CEO has been a critic of California policies as he has gotten more involved in politics and endorsed former President Donald Trump in the election.
Last month he used his platform this month to demand significant voting reform before the 2024 election.
“We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high,” Musk wrote in a tweet that generated a lot of agreement.
Musk was responding to a post from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote of a recent problem with electronic voting machines in Puerto Rico.
This comes as a co-founder of a major superPAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris turned heads on Monday after suggesting that her polling numbers are being overstated.
Reuters reported that Chauncey McLean, president of Future Forward, a superPAC that has raised hundreds of millions to support Harris this election cycle, spoke on Monday at an event in Chicago associated with the Democratic National Convention.
“Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said McLean, who rarely speaks in public.
According to McLean, Harris gained a lot of support from young voters of color after Biden withdrew, which has revived Democratic prospects in Sunbelt states like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina—states that Democrats had largely dismissed in the final days of Biden’s campaign.
“She has multiple paths,” with seven states in play, he said, according to Reuters. He added that voters want more details about her policy positions, according to internal polling. He asserts that voters are not interested in “white papers” or empty platitudes. Instead, they want concrete examples of how Harris might differ from Biden and how she plans to improve their economic situation.
“We have [the race] tight as a tick,” he added.
He also criticized Harris over her political positions, this time regarding her push for “equity,” which he noted is not the same as “equality.”
Musk, who is also the CEO of Starlink and SpaceX, was responding to an X post containing several claims regarding Harris’ political positions as well as video clips of her discussing “equity” over “equality.”
“Kamala Harris is a communist and her word choices give it away. ‘Equitable distribution’ ‘equity,’” the post said, adding: “It’s a repackaged version of Karl Marx’ popularized slogan ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’ meaning a redistribution of wealth.”
Musk responded: “Kamala is quite literally a communist. She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes.”
Former President Donald Trump made similar observations and remarks about Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, during a “Fox & Friends” segment this week.
“There’s never been a ticket like this. This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner,” he said.
