Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla and Tesla CEO Elon Musk discovered themselves in a heated debate after President Joe Biden’s surprising withdrawal from the US presidential elections and endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris because the Democratic nominee.
Khosla, a distinguished OpenAI investor and staunch Democratic donor, voiced his concern over Harris’s candidacy. Advocating for a extra reasonable various, he proposed Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as potential nominees.
“America wants a president who is not polarized to the far-right or excessively woke,” Khosla tweeted, urging for an open conference.
Elon Musk, who just lately threw his assist behind Donald Trump, countered by selling a Trump/Vance ticket. “Come on, Vinod. Trump/Vance LFG!!” he tweeted. Khosla, nonetheless, stood agency, condemning Trump’s private values and insurance policies.
“It is exhausting for me to assist somebody who lacks integrity and promotes divisive insurance policies,” Khosla retorted, highlighting Trump’s detrimental influence on local weather coverage and his controversial private conduct.
Khosla rejected Musk’s suggestion, citing Trump’s private values and insurance policies as causes for his opposition. “Onerous for me to assist somebody with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans ladies, hates immigrants like me,” he replied.
“He could reduce my taxes or scale back some regulation however that’s no motive to just accept depravity in his private values. Would you like President who will set again local weather by a decade in his first 12 months? Would you like his instance to your youngsters as values?” Khosla stated.
Musk countered by saying that Trump doesn’t hate Khosla and that his administration would promote meritocracy and particular person freedoms.
“He doesn’t hate you. In actual fact, I believe he likes you. Meet him and discover out for your self. What number of instances have you ever learn one thing within the media the place you understand the actual story, however what they printed was diabolically false? Effectively, it’s manner worse in politics, which is a blood sport,” the X boss stated.
Acknowledging that Trump shouldn’t be “with out flaws”, Musk asserted that America wants “an administration that’s extra more likely to be meritocratic and promote particular person freedoms over the heavy hand of presidency. A few years in the past, that was the Democratic Get together, however now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Get together”.
Khosla responded by agreeing on the significance of meritocracy and particular person freedoms however expressed considerations about Trump’s stance on local weather change and his potential influence on American management and ethical authority.
“Agree on not trusting media. Agree on meritocratic and promote particular person freedoms. However abandon local weather and ‘drill child drill’? Be MAGA and abandon NATO and American management and ethical authority? I used to be a socially liberal registered fiscal Republican until local weather made me swap to Impartial (sic),” he stated.
