‘The Final Straw’: Elon Musk Says He’ll Move Tesla Headquarters Out Of California, File Lawsuit Over Restrictions

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By Eric Quintanar - The Daily Wire


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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has recently drawn national attention for his strong rebukes of government authority amidst the pandemic, revealed on Saturday morning that the company’s headquarters in Fremont, California, would immediately begin moving to either Texas or Nevada.

The CEO’s announcement, which took the form of a tweet response to someone who encouraged Tesla to file a lawsuit against Alameda County, called the local government barring the company from re-opening with reduced capacity on Friday “the final straw.”

Musk responded to the individual by saying that his company would indeed file a lawsuit against the county, and that the decision on whether to completely remove manufacturing from the area — instead of just the headquarters and unnamed Tesla programs — would be dependent on how well the company is treated going forward.

“Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant ‘Interim Health Officer’ of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional Freedom & just plain common sense,” said Musk.

“Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen[t] on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA,” said the CEO.
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According to The New York Times, Alameda County announced early last week that it would enact stricter public health measures, alongside six other counties in the Bay Area, than the coronavirus guidelines that Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has been rolling out.

The news agency reports that Musk told employees on Thursday that returning to work was voluntary, and that he would be “on the line personally helping wherever I can.” Anyone who did not wish to return to work was free to take paid or unpaid leave, whichever was available to them.

Dr. Erica Pan, the Alameda County interim health officer, said during a town hall on Friday that Tesla did not have the “green light” to resume operations, according CNBC News.

“We have not given the green light. We have been working with them looking at some of their safety plans. But no, we have not said that it is appropriate to move forward,” she said.

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By Gary Gastelu | Fox News


Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory was "up and running" again on Monday, two days after Elon Musk sued the county where it's located and threatened to move the company's headquarters out of the state due to shelter-in-place rules preventing it from restarting production.

Musk tweeted: "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me." He also wrote, "California approved, but an unelected county official illegally overrode. Also, all other auto companies in US are approved to resume. Only Tesla has been singled out. This is super messed up!"

Several local media outlets reported that the parking lot at the factory appeared to be full Monday morning. An employee claimed to Fox 2 KTVU that he’d been working from 6 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and that the facility was "up and running," and, in his opinion, not meeting health and safety guidelines.
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After California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last Thursday that essential manufacturing facilities could reopen, Tesla CEO Elon Musk emailed employees telling them he intended to begin to restart manufacturing on Friday, according to Electrek, and would personally join them on the line and wouldn't require anyone who felt uncomfortable to return. However, Tesla was then informed by the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency that it would have to wait until it approved the return-to-work plan to restart production.

The county responded Monday in a statement, "We have notified Tesla that they can only maintain Minimum Basic Operations until we have an approved plan that can be implemented in accordance with the local public health order. We are addressing this matter using the same phased approach we use for other businesses which have violated the order in the past, and we hope that Tesla will likewise comply without further enforcement measures."

The statement continued, "We are actively communicating our feedback and understand Tesla will submit a site-specific plan later today."

Tesla published a detailed outline of the safety measures it planned to institute on its blog, which was based on the reopening plan for its Shanghai, China, factory on Saturday and also filed a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief against the county.

Under the county restrictions, Tesla is allowed a certain level of staffing to handle maintenance, inventory and payroll, and it wasn’t clear if any manufacturing was taking place on Monday.

Following the initiation of the lawsuit, and his threat to move Tesla’s Palo Alto headquarters and all future projects to "Texas/Nevada," Musk received supportive messages from the the mayors of Palo Alto and Fremont and Bay Area Council, while California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez from San Diego tweeted “F--- Elon Musk,” in response to the news.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thank you!</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1260269880458178560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taken! <a href="https://t.co/Ng0S2OFC93">https://t.co/Ng0S2OFC93</a></p>&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1262095075963736064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



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[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Hank Berrien - The Daily Wire


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On Sunday morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk created quite a stir when he apparently referenced the film “The Matrix,” tweeting, “Take the red pill,” in what was interpreted by some people as a clarion call to leftists and liberals to wake up to reality and become conservatives.

That prompted Ivanka Trump to reply on Twitter with a single word: “Taken!”

Ivanka’s reply elicited a harsh reply from Lilly Wachowski, one of the creators of “The Matrix”: “F*** both of you.”
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Variety noted:


As most movie buffs know, “take the red pill” is a reference from the Wachowski sisters’ sci-fi blockbuster “The Matrix.” In the movie, Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) reveals to the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) that he’s been living in a computer simulation. He offers Neo a choice: Take a blue pill and go back to his life and forget about everything, or take a red pill to learn the truth about the Matrix and his fake reality.

However, the phrase “take the red pill” has taken on a new meaning in Internet subculture, and it usually refers to conservative political beliefs. It can now mean shifting one’s political alignment to the right, and it’s often used in Internet forums related to Donald Trump or men’s rights groups.

As The Daily Wire reported, in late April, Musk urged governors across the nation to start opening their states for business, tweeting, “FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the Texas Tribunetitled, “Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here’s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”

Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.” According to The Verge, Musk stated:


We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk. The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!

He reportedly continued, “If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.”

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Fuck the Wachowski freaks.