Long gone are the innocent days when media outlets claimed the independence and nuance of the politics of Elon Musk. Now, amid myriad X posts spreading far-right propaganda on immigrants, trans people, and, well, just about any other topic, it has become obvious where one of the richest men in the world stands.
This week, there was more proof that Musk has put his money where his mouth has been. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Musk poured tens of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns and conservative groups even before he publicly endorsedDonald Trump in July. Conservatives helped conceal Musk’s contributions through so-called social welfare or “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors and can raise unlimited funds. (Musk did not respond to the Journal’s request for comment.)
One piece of reporting stood out. The newspaper found that the tech billionaire donated more than $50 million in 2022 for campaign advertisements by Citizens for Sanity, a group connected to former Trump aide Stephen Miller and his non-profit America First Legal, which bills itself as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU.”
Elon, a South African immigrant to the United States is anti-immigration.
His gay Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is anti-gay and a proponent of project 2025 and the reason we have JD Vance-in-your-pants.
Two fucking tech bro ladder pulling stinky unwashed assholes.
I feel like “unwashed” is doing some heavy lifting here. I agree tho
I think it’s very important to understand that he is not anti immigration for the same reason as the right wing voter. He is probably solely to keep immigration wages lowwwwwwe
Fuck Elon especially. He is actively undermining democracy on Twitter by deleting users and tweets, employing voter suppression tactics, purposely spreading false information (Joseph Goebbels style), and is actively working with Trump, Rupert Murdoch, and Putin.
“Free speech absolutist”. I wish he’d trip in the bathroom and make the world a better place.
I talked it over with Dan Foreman and we’ve decided that Musk needs to shut up and go back where he came from.
Dan Foreman can go with him.
Long gone are the innocent days when media outlets claimed the independence and nuance of the politics of Elon Musk
Lol. Stopped reading right there. The media will never get over its child-like worship of billionaires.
It’s not child-like worship. It’s peers admiring each other for being like them.
As long as the media are owned by billionaires, they’ll do the bidding of billionaires.
This is PROOF that Trump CANT be Bought!
Isn’t he an immigrant? Dude, you can just leave.
Again, let’s all take note on how quickly nothing is done about this.
What are you expecting to be done? None of that was illegal?
Did you miss this part?
“Conservatives helped conceal Musk’s contributions through so-called social welfare or “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors and can raise unlimited funds.”
Do you honestly think he’s on the level here? Especially since the fucknut was promised a government job if Trump gets elected?
One of those morality Vs legality thing.
For it to be illegal it seems like the system needs to changeI think he’s an insufferable cunt but it’s not obvious to me that he’s broken any laws. Those dark money groups are presumably a shitty but legal aspect of the US’s shitty political system?
I presume you’re a lawyer.
Are you?
No, but I’m not making legal claims.
Neither am I
“Not illegal” is not equivalent to “legal.”
So?
There aren’t any masterminds on team trump, musk included
We all thought Bill Gates was a megalomaniac, but clearly we didn’t know shit
Please, can we just send him back to Venezuela with the rest of the Haitians?
How shocking.
Hey headline…
“elon musk, immigrant, has been funding…”
So instead of pouring that money back into the failing X, he’s donating to Republicans that would kick his ass out the door. Oh wait, he’s the same color they are so “he’s one of the good ones.” Doesn’t hurt that he’s rich.
Dr. Evil is at it again
seems like he’s wasting his money because they’re saying the same shit as 2016 and 2020.
or was eating cats their galaxy brain idea?
