How did Musk know to donate to Trump a whole day before he decided to fully endorse him after the shooting? So strange. Maybe he always fully endorsed him and is just an attention seeking whore.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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Fuck Elon Musk
surprising nobody. Guy who made nearly all his money in corporate buyouts and government contracts backs the anti union guy who wants to ban electric cars. It just shows you this is about class warfare.
Of course he did.
Musk just substituted “free speech absolutist” for “billionaire absolutist”…a world where nothing stands in his way.
In a Citizens United world, there is no difference. Money is the only speech.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I am Jack's raging bile duct.
Move demonstrates Musk’s growing influence in Washington
It demonstrates the growing influence of EVERY billionaire in Washington DC ever since the courts accepted the "corporations are people / money is speech" arguments.
When that happened, the government stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only represented the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists. It's taking a long time to play out, but it's going to end badly.
“corporations are people / money is speech”
I don't know when they stopped teaching the novel 1984 in U.S. high school curriculum but that evidently happened a while ago.
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