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that's barely coherent, man
...and after this Board had been assured that [the money] would not be forthcoming when all was said and done,,,it came forth. Not in swag, or, half now, 1/4 later happy horse , but, cash, that cash/cash delivered to Trump in person. Those two had sucker punched MSM and it's beautiful.
Soros, schmoros.
that's barely coherent, man
Boiled down...Musk was for real in the and at the end. The 2 Musk/Trump had strung everyone along as to whether Musk would come to the fore (with the cash), or, get scared and run off.
The cash has been realized. Will he stay in the fore? I wouldn't bet on it. Nobody wants to get shot cept on the tv and in the movies.
And (they) still ain't in' around. They made a blood oath to run Trump off 9 years ago, by whatever it takes. They've not flagged, nor failed to keep that blood oath. Hit him once and will not stop as long as they live.
Trump understands fully what's happened and why. He got 'em and won't turn loose. We all dream about behaving with our enemies like he has, but 99.9% stop after a berry patch in Pennsylvania. Not him.
only took 15 years
It’s like there is this straight line from Citizens United to “richest man in the world buys himself unfettered access to the Treasury”
Pelosi should be on the case. But, she fell and can't get up. WOO-HOO!!!
When Citizens United turned ten, in 2020, the political money-tracker Open Secrets reported on what the ruling had wrought. Super PACs—the non-party committees created to legally raise cash in unlimited amounts to independently promote issues and candidates—spent $4.5 billion over the decade (up from $750 million over the previous twenty years).
The major players of the new era, it turned out, were not corporations. They were millionaires and billionaires. “The 10 most generous donors and their spouses injected $1.2 billion into federal elections over the last decade,” Open Secrets found.
Muller wrote then that a new Gilded Age was upon us, one in which wealthy donors—most of them old, white, and male—unleashed their money to manipulate politicians, reward them if they were compliant, and sink them if they were not. “The court’s naïve view of our electoral process set the stage for 10 years of billions of dollars corrupting our politics and dictating national policy on everything from the cost of prescription drugs to climate change to gun violence,”https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-roa...-supreme-courtTHE CORRUPTION OF FIVE YEARS AGO is almost trivial compared with the corruption of today. Gridlock and dysfunction are still with us, blocking many priorities supported by voters, but now “there is nothing that isn’t for sale,” Muller told me, and reeled off a few choice outrages: Trump’s personal investment in crypto and public steps that will enrich him, his family, and wealthy friends; an unprecedented thirteen billionaires in Trump’s cabinet, with all the potential that entails for conflicts of interest and insulation from the impact of their policies; and Musk’s “unfettered access” to the government and the private data of tens of millions, as he fires, freezes, and cancels his way through one agency after another, allegedly to slash costs.
At the same time, Musk himself is flush with government grants and contracts, and is aggressively pursuing more of them—from the Federal Aviation Administration (where he has insinuated his Starlink internet system into its operations although the FAA’s existing Verizon contract doesn’t expire until 2038) to the Commerce Department’s $42 billion rural broadband access program (which rewrote its rules last week to make Starlink eligible).
The root of this corruption debacle, of course and alas, is Musk spending nearly $300 million to get Trump elected in the first place. Now he’s trying to purchase a state supreme court seat in Wisconsin, and his fellow billionaires are pouring money into state legislative races in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. What’s next, local school boards?
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-2...res-elon-musk/.back in 2008, donations over $10 million made up just 4% of contributions for Republican campaigns. But in 2024, they made up fully 56% —& of a much larger pie. Those mega-donors paid just $58 million in 2008, but last year they paid $2.472 billion, almost 2.5 times what they spent in 2020."
Musk has spent ~$20 million dollars on the upcoming Wisconsin election
He's got it. He's the richest man in the world.Musk has spent ~$20 million dollars on the upcoming Wisconsin election
Buying political power for himself and his corrupt buddies, I guess money is the only political free speech that's unchallenged now in the USA
- "Prove it."
- "Shane" - "Shane"
And you all thought he was just funnin' about supporting Trump.
tee, hee.
"likely"
tee, hee.
Biden had 'em, Trump took 'em back...and then some
Yeah, I know.i've been drawing attention to this for 14 years
At a certain point quan y becomes it's own quality
We're talking about orders of magnitude more $$$ since 2010
the point isn't the political orientation of the donors, it's that elections have more and more become spending contests on toxic advertising
& who wouldn't contest for a spot in government where monumental slush funds are abundant as Musk has ID'ed. Where you can enter a Government Position with nothing and be a multimillionaire within a few years on a salary of less than $150k annually.
the point isn't the political orientation of the donors, it's that elections have more and more become spending contests on toxic advertising
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