Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk recently announced that he would be moving the headquarters of his social media platform, X, from its longtime home in San Francisco and relocating to Texas. Instead of begging Musk to keep the prominent business in the Bay Area, many San Francisco officials have said, “Good riddance.”
“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” city attorney David Chiu said in a recent interview about the matter. Moreover, San Francisco Mayor London Breed claimed she had met with Musk “several months ago” but note that she was not “going to beg anybody,” refusing to extend offers to keep the owner of X at bay.
The American Tribune reported on the initial news that Musk would be pulling out of the city where the implementation of a new California law that would attack “families and companies” was the “final straw” for Musk. The law in question would prohibit the “forced disclosure” rules in public schools, outlawing requirements for teachers to notify parents if their child began to alter their gender at school.
Musk said, “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.” He said that families would need to “leave California to protect their children.” Musk also explained that he would move the X headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.
The Tesla founder has been highly critical of leftist gender ideology after he was personally impacted by it. In a recent interview, Musk explained that he was “essentially tricked into signing documents” for his child Xavier to undergo puberty blocker treatment, who now goes by Vivian Jenna Wilson.
“I lost my son, essentially. They call it deadnaming for a reason. The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” Elon stated. “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”
Musk also blasted San Francisco over a “crazy gross receipts tax” that substantially impacted financial companies. “That’s why Stripe, Block (CashApp), VISA and many others were forced out of San Francisco, as ‘gross receipts’ came to be defined as all transactions processed by a company, even if NOT revenue. That meant companies processing payments either had to leave SF or die. Even if the severe crime problem in SF were to be solved tomorrow, X could not remain in SF and launch payments, as it would immediately fail,” he said.
Musk had previously maintained that X would remain in San Francisco “Many have offered rich incentives for X (fka Twitter) to move its HQ out of San Francisco. Moreover, the city is in a doom spiral with one company after another left or leaving. Therefore, they expect X will move too. We will not. You only know who your real friends are when the chips are down. San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend,” he said last year.
Watch a video of Musk sounding off on California’s “regulatory gridlock” below:
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