Trillionaire Elon Musk has already spent more than $276 million on races in the November midterm elections since July alone, according to federal election filings and numbers reported Monday by The New York Times, making the Tesla CEO the biggest midterms donor thus far as he works to prop up Republicans across the country—and attracts controversy.
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Billionaires have TOO MUCH INFLUENCE IN POLITICS, let’s bring back the equal time law. Politicians get equal time on TV to espouse their views. Reagan cancelled that rule.
they’re scarrrreddd
AI driven robots are already taking our jobs. In the future the robots will have to be taxed so that the gov. can hand people a universal income, basically the government keeping us as pets or children, and we are given an allowance that the government has complete control over. A starvation amount no doubt. While billionairies live in luxury beyond anyone’s imagination.
Musk is the man America first he know the libtards will destroy this country his help is huge and much appreciated VOTE RED
Sure would be terrible if the jewish news looked at the amount of jewish money being used by jews to fund other candidates. Why would the jewish news be so shy to talk about all that jewish money, do you think?
funny, with millions in the MAGA Inc. and GOP campaign war chest and yet they grift from musk to pay to buy votes. goes to show that MAGA will always eat their young.
Lived long enough to become a villain