World’s richest man spent at least $250 million to get Trump elected
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I think the eternal mystery of Elon Musk’s politics has been solved:
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent over a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of this year’s election to help Donald J. Trump win the presidency, federal filings revealed on Thursday.
The sum is a fraction of Mr. Musk’s wealth. But it is nonetheless a staggering amount from a single donor, who poured the cash into allied groups and is now playing a role in helping shape the next administration.
He was also responsible for this particular ratfuck:
One of Mr. Musk’s most brazen moves — which emerged only on Thursday — was spending $20 million to prop up a super PAC that was named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late liberal Supreme Court justice, but that sought to help Mr. Trump by softening his anti-abortion positions.
Mr. Musk put the lion’s share of the money he donated toward his main super PAC, America PAC, cutting three checks for $25 million each in the final weeks of the race, according to the new filings with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Musk also spent $40.5 million on legally controversial checks to voters in swing states who signed a petition in support of the Constitution.
The Republican strategy on abortion for the first post-Dobbs presidential election — just lie their ass off about it — was crude but effective. The longstanding media narrative that Republicans don’t Really Mean It about abortion certainly helps too, even after two of three largest states in the country have passed total abortion bans. Indeed, one can say that it’s same same kind of willfully gullibility that can cause you to buy claims from diehard reactionary cranks that they’re “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.”
In closely related news, Elon is praising BasedMikeLee’s plan to end Social Security:
Senator Mike Lee wrote out a blueprint for dismantling Social Security on X Monday night that Elon Musk amplified, hinting at disturbing GOP plans for the program.
In a thread now pinned to his X profile, the Utah Republican laid out a case for overhauling the program and amending the 1933 Social Security Act itself, claiming that the law allows for the government to steal taxpayer funds for its own purposes rather than safeguard Social Security itself.
Musk, along with Trump crony and business executive Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked by Trump to run the figurehead Department of Government Efficiency, where their mission will be to eliminate government waste. It’s no secret that their vision of waste includes Social Security, and they seem to have the backing of Trump and Vice President–elect JD Vance.
Meet the new boss etc.