本期新词
Vocabulary
Tech mogul 科技巨头
Reaping 收割 获得
Stock （本文中指）股票
Soaring/skyrocketing 突飞猛涨的
Class action 集体诉讼
Have the ear of...能够引起某个有影响力/地位高的人的注意力和倾听
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“这几天买特斯拉股票的人赚翻了。”小姐妹跟我说。
大选结果一出,“榜一大哥”马斯克嘴角比AK还难压！
特斯拉市值一夜暴涨约1190亿美元（约合8500亿人民币），他本人身家单日增长209亿美元。
全球首富的屁股坐的更稳了。
马斯克更是被网友调侃为“当代护国公”，以一人之力“单挑”整个明星界和富豪圈。
毕竟拥有巨大粉丝影响力和明星效应的小李子、碧昂斯、麦当娜、Lady Gaga、霉霉 、碧梨 、水果姐、《复仇者联盟》的主要成员...都公开露面支持川普对手哈里斯。
尽管比尔·盖茨没有公开表示支持，但他被曝向支持哈里斯的非营利组织捐赠了约5000万美元。
马斯克则头铁支持特朗普。
在竞选期间他曾提供过一个百万美元激励措施，即在关键战场州向选民提供每日100万美元的奖励，旨在鼓励这些关键地区的选民参与投票。
他还向一个致力于共和党连任的超级政治行动委员会（Super PAC）捐款超过1.19亿美元。
支持特朗普，他显然是抱着“梭哈”的心态在参与。
这招虽险，胜算却大！
不信你瞅瞅，家族照片里必须有“站哥”的一席地位。
MSN Elon Musk finds spot in Donald Trump's family photo相亲相爱一家人
不过也有报道指出，这位大张旗鼓支持川普的企业家已经迫不及待要找川普“兑奖”了。
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What Does He Expect in Return?
真金白银只为支持大兄弟？
马斯克为七旬老头出钱出力，忙前忙后，一切都是真爱？
来看看The Newyork Times是怎么说的。
文中说“马斯克希望川普任命他旗下的SpaceX管理层担任政府高管，其中包括国防部Defense Department这样的要害机构。
关于SpaceX员工的事宜尚未被明确报道，不过可以看出马斯克想要在特朗普政府中安插他的亲信。
Elon Musk at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump in New York last month. Mr. Musk poured more than $100 million into Mr. Trump's campaign.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
要知道马斯克的公司，包括SpaceX和特斯拉，都与联邦政府特别是美国国家航空航天局（NASA）和美国国防部（DoD）有着密切的商业往来：
比如提供发射火箭、建造卫星和提供太空通服务等。
但同时，这些公司的安全性、可靠性也会受到联邦政府的监管和调查。
在川普的竞选中，马斯克仿佛化身“榜一大哥”，狂刷火箭游艇嘉年华，投资超过1亿美元；又亲自出马，积极在社交媒体上为其疯狂打Call。
正常人都会推测“礼尚往来”嘛，如果特朗普任命马斯克为政府效率委员会的负责人，那可不就是潜在的权力和豁免吗？
LA Times 则这样说：
一个拥有巨额财富的人在美国政府中扮演“主角”，这也意味着“为巨大的利益冲突打开了大门”。
各大媒体都在讨论当一个商业巨头在政府中拥有巨大影响力，尤其当他们的利益与国家利益不一致时，可能带来的风险！
网友们大可以在线吃瓜大胆推测下后续，毕竟，我们是来学习英文的（手动狗头
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Elon Musk is sued
美国网民起诉马斯克“大忽悠”
还记得前文提到的总统竞选期间“百万美元激励措施”吗？
就是马斯克为鼓励关键州选民参与投票而提供的每日100万美元的奖励措施，因为这事儿，他还被告了。
要赢得这笔钱，签署人必须是摇摆州的注册选民。有人认为这违反了联邦法律“禁止向人民支付（或提供奖励）以激励他们注册投票或投票”的规定。
马斯克的律师则辩护称，这不是“奖励”，被选中的人是作为马斯克政治行动委员会的“发言人”来得到这笔钱。
Reuters 路透社新闻
显然，民众对这个“预定的发言人”感到不满。
路透社11月5日报道，马斯克在周二被提起一项集体诉讼，原告是那些摇摆州登记选民。
他们声称这个$1 million-a-day giveaway每日百万美元“抽奖活动”就是一个骗局。
亚利桑那州居民杰奎琳·麦卡弗蒂在德克萨斯州奥斯汀联邦法院提交的诉状称，马斯克和他的美国政治行动委员会（America PAC）组织诱导选民签署请愿书，声称他们会随机选择获奖者，但实际上这些获奖者都是预先确定的（排除了任何不支持特朗普的人）。
她还表示，马斯克整的这出就是为了给旗下的X社交媒体平台增加流量和关注度，并从中获利；
并且这个活动过程中，参加者的姓名、地址和电话号码等个人资料都可能被非法收集、出售用以牟利。
不过，马斯克的律师和麦卡弗蒂的律师都没有立即回应对这起诉状发表评论的请求。
自然这些都是小插曲，榜一大哥或许在忙着参加庆功宴也说不一定。
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Sourced from Newyork Times-Elon Musk Helped Elect Trump. What Does He Expect in Return?
The world's richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment.
Even before Donald J. Trump was re-elected, his best-known backer, Elon Musk, had come to him with a request for his presidential transition.
He wanted Mr. Trump to hire some employees from Mr. Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, as top government officials — including at the Defense Department, according to two people briefed on the calls.
That request, which would seed SpaceX employees into an agency that is one of its biggest customers, is a sign of the benefits that Mr. Musk may reap after investing more than $100 million in Mr. Trump's campaign, pushing out a near-constant stream of pro-Trump material on his social media platform, X, and making public appearances on the candidate’s behalf across the hard-fought state of Pennsylvania.
The outreach regarding the SpaceX employees, which hasn't been reported, shows the extent to which Mr. Musk wants to fill a potential Trump administration with his closest confidants even as his billions of dollars in government contracts pose a conflict to any government role.
Mr. Musk and executives at SpaceX and Tesla, his electric-vehicle company, did not respond on Wednesday to requests for comment. A spokesman for Mr. Trump’s transition team also did not respond to a request for comment.
The six companies that Mr. Musk oversees are deeply entangled with federal agencies. They make billions off contracts to launch rockets, build satellites and provide space-based communications services.
Tesla makes hundreds of millions more from emissions-trading credits created by federal law. And Mr. Musk's companies are facing at least 20 recent investigations, including one targeting a self-driving car technology that Tesla considers key to its future.
Now, Mr. Musk will have the ear of the president, who oversees all of those agencies. Mr. Musk could even gain the power to oversee them himself, if Mr. Trump follows through on a promise to appoint him as head of a government efficiency commission. Mr. Trump has told Mr. Musk that he wants him to bring the same scalpel to the federal government that he brought to Twitter after he bought the company and rebranded it as X. Mr. Musk has spoken of cutting at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
The effect could be to remove, or weaken, one of the biggest checks on Mr. Musk's power: the federal government.
“All of the annoying enforcement stuff goes away,” said Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors, a firm that sells corporations daily updates on regulatory and legislative trends in Washington.
Hal Singer, an economist who has advised parties filing antitrust challenges against technology companies and also is a professor at the University of Utah, said that Tesla and SpaceX can expect less scrutiny from the Justice Department.
“They are unlikely to go after Elon — Trump's D.O.J. won't,” he said. “Abstain from investigating your friends, but bringing cases that investigate your enemies — that is what we saw during the first Trump administration.”
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