Salon: Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC
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"...Tesla and SpaceX CEO donated $38,900 to the PAC, which is dedicated to keeping Republicans in control of Congress."
Yeah.
Yeah.
This guy sucks. He sucked before this was revealed, he sucks more now. He is a self-aggrandizing, bewildered narcissist with limited insight into just about everything. He routinely fails to understand basic things. He is a clown, yet somehow the media flits giddily around every dumb thing he rattles off on Twitter. He is proof of our dumb cult of personality just as much as Trump is.
The key for me is realizing that the products he's producing which happen to align with my policy goals (clean energy storage, electric cars, lower cost space transport, mass transportation, etc) come from a profit motive and not a moral imperative. Yes, obviously PL, he's a business person! Of course he is but he does hide behind the illusion I just stated.
Once I realized how it's this overriding profit motive, mainly from hearing his views on labor, and not his 'here is a good thing for humanity which will also make me money', I realized how obvious his support of various right wing agenda actually make sense — and will make him more money. Breaking up unions, privatizing mass transportation, creating oil crises, privatizing space transport, the whole bit.
Once I realized how it's this overriding profit motive, mainly from hearing his views on labor, and not his 'here is a good thing for humanity which will also make me money', I realized how obvious his support of various right wing agenda actually make sense — and will make him more money. Breaking up unions, privatizing mass transportation, creating oil crises, privatizing space transport, the whole bit.
It appears that is what is going on, he apparently donated to Dems this year. (presumably in expectation of 2019 being a power shift) Theres a Politico article on this w DC lobbyists hiring Dems on i should post up.
Yeah I'd be keen to know this too. Even someone like Thiel donated a few thousand to Democrats I think, which was dwarfed by his contributions to Republicans.
Not that it excuses it, but he was probably greasing the wheels to keep them out of his business.
whoa, really?
i honestly thought he wouldnt support Republicans at this point. what a fraud, and an idiot.
shame.
i honestly thought he wouldnt support Republicans at this point. what a fraud, and an idiot.
shame.
"i'm actually more of a utopian socialist" -musky boy
yeah a socialist who wants to privatize literally everything
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Elon+musk&order=desc&page=1&sort=D
For the record he's also given money to the NRCC, Kevin McCarthy, and Senator Feinstien, but way more money overall, at least as far the Center for Responsive Politics shows, although they don't have this latest donation are and probably pretty far behind. Why is it rich people care so much about access that they toss whatever morals they claim to have away?
For the record he's also given money to the NRCC, Kevin McCarthy, and Senator Feinstien, but way more money overall, at least as far the Center for Responsive Politics shows, although they don't have this latest donation are and probably pretty far behind. Why is it rich people care so much about access that they toss whatever morals they claim to have away?
A tremendous fuck off to this "both sides" bullshit. Donating to nazis and donating to not-nazis does not make you an even handed and balanced donor.
