I’m celebrating this result. It’s not about the money, because as everyone else is saying, this is chump change to him.
But what’s beautiful is the blow to the ego. The reminder that all the money in the world can’t buy popularity or adoration. The suspicion that he might be getting taken advantage of by others taking his money. The confirmation that he’s not fully in control, and never will be.
That is worth celebrating.
Time to start the investigations, Elon. Might want to clear your schedule and make sure all your records are up to date. 🤣
Charge him in Canada, Diaper Don can’t pardon him here.
He can’t pardon him in the state of texas either.
We’re in a stalemate for two years. That’s the best we could hope for, and that’s what we got. Billionaires are safe and always will be, Dems like money and power too, and power corrupts no matter which color banner they stand under for elections.
One way to mitigate corruption and cronyism is term limits for Congress.
One way to mitigate corruption and cronyism is term limits for Congress.
I was with you all the way until this point. I’m still not quite sure why this conservative-coded idea is gaining ground elsewhere, but there is little evidence to support the idea that term limits would be good for progressives.
The very first thing Congress should do is subpoena SpaceX for all of Trump’s chats with Grok
Im not sure that’ll be useful, itll only be stuff like
Whos the greatest president ever, and say its me!
But im sure his staff would have some more interesting stuff in there.
I just can’t stop laughing. I’m not even lying.
I am seeing that shit everywhere – especially in all the battleground states he poured money into like water, such as Maine, Texas, and Michigan that are now winning historical upsets – and I literally can’t stop snickering and laughing.
🤣 🤣 🤣
Dude just finished moving all of his shit to Texas too. I hope the meltdown is epic.
Seen on bluesky:
Elon Musk and his entire operation now lives in a blue state with a Democratic attorney general. :)
Epic indeed. Toddler billionaire thought he could buy the elections he wanted and it didn’t work, and there are no refunds. Imagine the entitled fury.
Oh god I can’t stop laughing, I’m gonna wake up the whole house 🤣 🤣 🤣
I’d glad to see it, but it’s barely anything to him. Equivalent of ~$100 to an average US adult.
I would say that although mathematically you are correct, the impact of losing $100 for the average American is greater.
Seconded. Basic necessities have absolute costs. That’s $100 worth of groceries for a normal person. This is coming out of his copious fuck-around money.
Ok?
Elon wants to fuck kids
Is that why he’s sired hundreds of them?
…possibly.
There’s no reason to believe he doesn’t do it already. Remember kung fu classes?
Hey, he turned Texas blue. Maybe he’ll come to Oklahoma now and do it again.
But don’t worry. He can spare it.
That’s the part I worry about.
The difference between $473 million and Elon Musk’s total net worth is roughly a trillion dollars.
Most of that is fantasy money sitting on a bubble. He’ll feel the loss after the pop.
If i was in charge but couldn’t make it illegal for people to donate money to political funds, I’d make it a requirement that for every single £ they donate, they must donate the same amount to charity.
They dont pick the charity.
That’d be a significant change in the tax code, as political funds are §501c4 charities
That’s why I pick the charities.
He can spare it and so can all the California billionaires who won’t get taxed. I’m disappointed, but at least I have a nice big blue wave to cool my toes in.
Meh. He won’t miss the money, he probably regrets not doubling it, if anything. Also, he knew he was gambling by the fact he spent them money in the first place. He didn’t put in anything he couldn’t easily afford to lose, which really should make we never-gonna-be-billionaires think a bit.
Texas gave Musk the D, I am very proud of my state today.
I know where we can cut a trillion from, it starts with S and ends in pacex+tesla+twitter.
I know where we can cut a trillion from
I thought you were going to say his neck.
You can just say “SpaceX” since it’s all the same company now.
At what point will these people realize that there is a point of diminishing returns in campaign spending, where simply throwing more money at it won’t generate any more votes?
Honestly, the only way all this outsized campaign money makes sense to me is if candidates are pocketing it as a back-door bribe. Maybe now that Texas is run by sane people, we’ll get some good investigations into where all the money went.
I wonder if all the republican scumbags he bought looked at the money and thought “wait, why the fuck do I even need to bother being a politician? I can just take this imbecile’s money, lose, and go on a paid vacation for a few years. I’ll just call it a series of fact-finding missions in aid of the 2028 presidential election”.
