Democracy? Musk spent more than a quarter-billion dollars to elect Trump

[spanone]

Musk spent more than a quarter-billion dollars to elect Trump, including funding a mysterious super PAC, new filings show

CNN
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Elon Musk plowed at least $260 million into efforts to send Donald Trump back to the White House, new filings show – a massive infusion that makes him one of the largest single political underwriters of a presidential campaign and underscores the outsized influence of the world’s wealthiest person on this year’s election.

Thursday’s filings with the Federal Election Commission show that the Tesla and SpaceX executive gave a total of $238 million to a super PAC that he founded this year, America PAC, which worked to turn out voters on Trump’s behalf in key states.

But he also was the financial backer of other groups that cropped up in the final days of the election to support Trump, including one that spent millions on advertising to defend his record on abortion. It had sought to link Trump’s views on abortion to those of late Supreme Court Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Musk, through a trust that bears his name, donated $20.5 million to the group, named RBG PAC, on October 24, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. He was the sole donor to the group, which was formed in mid-October. The donation’s timing meant that Musk’s involvement was not disclosed until Thursday’s post-election filings with the federal regulators.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html

[Timeflyer]

1. Plutocracy--government by the wealthy.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Kleptocracy more like it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. The manipulation of the algorithms that steer what voters saw on their "X"

feed was at minimum as influential as the dough spent.

Welcome to the Age of Oligarchs.

[uponit7771]

21. Yep and 100% the total value of that steering wasn't counted in the articles total

[bronxiteforever]

3. The Supreme Court destroyed our Country

Citizens United drowned the Republic and now we have lost a chance of getting balance back for a generation.

The oligarchs bought the Supreme Court first and the rest followed.

[dchill]

9. Bingo.

[uponit7771]

20. ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾THIS !!!☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[paparush]

4. One might argue he spent $40B buying Twitter

to get Trump re-elected.

[Uncle Joe]

5. The oligarchs became alarmed because the people were waking up to their morbid greed,

and it's dead end impact on human society, so now they've come out from behind the curtain to dominate humanity in any way they can so as to "nip it in the bud" as Barney Fife would say.

Thanks for the thread spanone.

[NotHardly]

6. Musk bought himself a country

[dchill]

11. He bought a quarter of a country and leveraged it.

[SCantiGOP]

7. Relatively speaking,

That would be like most of us spending $500 or $5,000 — a lot of money, but a real bargain if I could use it to buy house. If I could use it to buy a country, even better.

[CaptainTruth]

10. Plus $44 billion for Twitter, which he turned into a Trump campaign platform.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Effective smear campaign.

Who wants to vote for someone giving free health care and transgender surgery to public school kids, convicts and illegal immigrants?

[Botany]

13. He did more than spend money. He flipped the election. I betya Harris won by @ least 15 million votes.

He and Putin were into the voting data big time. He should be picked up and
questioned about what exactly he did in the election such as compiling voter
data base list in order to have his own trove of “votes” ready to go in order to
flip the election.

Trump knew the fix was in and so he masturbated a mic stand, then gave a
blow job to a microphone, talked about Arnold Palmer’s penis in his hometown,
had 1/2 empty rallies where people were walking out before it was over, and
bragged about not really needing votes on September 4th, ‘24.

[Blue Full Moon]

14. It's an investment

He will plunder Social Security and all the rest of of our money because he needs more.

[talking-liberally]

15. Democrats need to use him and others such as Perdue as poster children for rich people sticking it to the working class.

Enough with the policies and platitudes. Make it personal and make it hurt, in unison.

Fuck the bastards.

Also, fear the immigrants: not the ones wearing sandals and carrying babies who pick our vegtables and shingle our roofs, the ones who have an insatiable desire for power to control people and destroy democracy and people's lives.

[malaise]

17. Thank John Roberts and his gang

Sickening

[Orrex]

18. Maybe he should become a CEO in the health insurance industry

I’m sure that his genius and expertise would do well in that role, and I hear that there’s an opening!

[Grins]

19. But...but...but...George Soros! NM