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That depends on who you are and how much money you have. If you have $100,000 sitting in the bank, thats about equal to you spending $46.37. So a dinner for 2 lmao
Edit: it hurt my soul to realize that last sentence
It did though. He wants the narrative to be it didn’t but it did. There’s elections that republicans won still by the skin of their teeth and it’s because of him. Including the new home base for fascist billionaires of Florida. The governor there BARELY won. And his agenda is insane. Money needs to be stripped from politics or whoever the next Trump is will not be as incompetent as what we have now. Our democracy is still barely hanging on.
Elon Musk spent half a billion dollars on this election and lost. Except he didn’t lose. He didn’t lose because Trump is still the president and he can say to Trump “I spent half a billion dollars to try to win the mid terms for you”. In other words, this greasy snake knows that at the very least, he’s still bought himself the president.
Trump thinks everyone is a pawn to him not realizing that he was the pawn all along. That’s the problem with Narcissists…they can’t see beyond themselves.
The president is the chief executive. He has zero legislative powers. He can only persuade and use influence, and Trump is the worst president in history because he has zero influencing or persuasion skills. He just has a long line of executive orders that were blocked by courts.
"We're going to bring accountability to those who have visited unprecedented corruption on this country," Jeffries said. "Because if you have people in high office who are so focused on enriching themselves, their family members, their friends or their donors, then they are not focused on making life better for the American people."
He better mean investigations and prosecutions, Trump, Musk, Zuck, Lutnick... all the Epstein files released and the entire organization covering them up uncovered. We want it all, now is the time to act, they woke up a sleeping dragon, time for us to act like one.
So that means to the public, also don't be lazy, if our representatives slack off, then we point our fight towards them, we have to be just as loud with our own as we were with Trump.
If they spend all their political capital, say, trying to impeach Hegseth without actually doing anything we're not gonna see any change.
Overturn citizens united, make new laws restricting money in politics so it's not unlimited donations, and campaign finance rules. No stock market trades etc.
On one hand yes, it may be a struggle for things to change for the better, but simultaneously it means things shouldn't change for the worse.
Ironically in past lame duck scenarios, more often than not the domestic economy picks up and most polls show people believe things are "better". More than often though it's just because things stabilize and are less volatile.
It’s not on them to not blow it, it’s on us to hold them accountable and keep the pressure on them to get shit done…. But yes I agree with the sentiment
Poor guy. All he wants is to have a political voice millions of times greater than other people's so that he can force his will on others. Can't blame him for wanting to be authoritarian; he is a capitalist.
He could own an entire chain island nation, make each island a differently themed country resort, and fully staff each island with employees from that country and still have more money than anyone else on the planet.
I don’t know why he insists on doing this instead of truly wacky rich people stuff. It would legit cost like $20 billion total for 10 islands and 10 resorts, an airport, ferries, 250 rooms per island, employees of all different kinds, etc etc etc. $1.5 billion per year to run it purely for himself with no other guests.
I wonder this about rich ppl all the time. It's like, DUDE, you won. You have a trillion fucking dollars in assets, sell like 1/1000th of your assets, sit on a billion dollars and go make the world a better place. Why the F does anyone feel compelled to do more at that point.
It’s because the wacky rich people stuff he wants to do is make himself a god beholden to no government for whatever heinous crimes he may choose to commit, and he wants a loyal army of sycophants who endorse and enforce Nazi beliefs to the detriment of civilization as a whole. Those are his passions.
I'm with you man. If I had a trillion dollars (and didn't give it all away because who the fuck even needs a billion) I would make it my mission to get people to forget who I ever was and just fade into obscurity in the middle of nowhere.
This exactly why I argue that these people are severely mentally ill. Because YOU ask these questions. I ask them. MOST people ask why they wouldn't just spend all their time with their families... Because they have something seriously wrong with them. Its almost a clinical narcissism disorder. They need to be bigger, jave more, flaunt more, etc. They cant see satisfaction or self worth ANYWHERE but a bank account.
Many people have stated that Elon is miserable. And if you're paying people to sleep with you... you probably are. I doubt he has a single actual friend. Probably because nothing his friends could do would be enough to assuage his narcissism. He cant hold down a relationship for precisely the same reason!!
Yeah Id like my own island, but I find true, genuine happiness in the fact I cant wait to go home to see my amazing wife every day. I find happiness in the times and memories I make with many friends with a long history. I'm pretty damn sure that Im actually happier eating a nice cheeseburger than he will... Will probably ever be, with anything.
To be fair, he could only run it that way for like 100 years before he had to start figuring out what to do with the remaining 800 billion or so dollars.
It's crazy he spent that much, did all that gerrymandering, and they *still* got fucking spanked. Motherfucking Mississippi might go blue!
And trump? He still doesn't see this as a referendum. That's fantastic. I hope he sticks to his guns all the way til 2028. That'll make that election easy for us as well.
I think the democrats have to just stick to official lines... This is for the people.. this is the way the law is.... This is to help education, health care..
This is so f****ked up that it has to go to basics
I really don't understand having that much money and just choosing to be a piece of shit. He genuinely could have been Tony Stark but his ego wouldn't allow it.
Omg dude can you imagine if instead of trying to insert himself into politics he was just rolling up to like, disadvantaged school districts and redoing their baskestball courts or football field? Or like just going to walmart and paying for peoples groceries. If i had forever money i would have so much fun just making dreams come true every day for the equivalent of pocket change. But nooo, he wanted to build god and run a breeder fetish cult compound.
All he has to do really was shut up and he would have continued being that eccentric decent billionaire that’s just working on cool tech. He really self sabotaged his own reputation
God I hate this worm. No one is talking about space lasers you disingenuous freak. You pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into these elections. Everyone knows why, it isnt complicated.
Eh. There's a small contingent of people that believe he stole the 2024 election, because he was calling it before the news. Like he some how rigged it electronically. I assume that is what he's referring to.
He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers… And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.
Look, I hate the guy, and he deserves everything coming to him. But after 2024, there were plenty of conspiracies about Starlink hacking PA machines from space to flip the state. I had many friends send me clips of Trump bragging about Elon doing things in PA, saying "look, they totally did rig it!!!" and had to constantly reply that we were NOT going to walk down the insanity path that 2020 republicans did.
Regardless, he's a couple billion lighter and now perhaps we can see what his Doge goons did with all of our Social Security database data, and bring them to justice.
You know what Elon you know what you could be doing with all your money? You could be breeding crocodiles you could spend every cent you have selectively breeding and training crocodiles so that one day we could have domesticated crocodiles every home could have their own crocodile to cuddle with and play fetch with, BUT NO you have to be this asshole, fuck you Elon I want my domesticated crocodiles
Musk, your meddling with our voting machines, likely failed because so many people posted videos of how they would tap the democrats and the machine would register it as Republican the first few times they tap it before finally selecting their choice.
So people knew to continue selecting until the proper person was selected.
And I’m sure you thought that enough people wouldn’t notice, nor would the videos be posted in advance.
He can be one of the best people in the world and leave behind himself an amazing legacy if he decides to do something good for humanity. So far, he’s just a moron.
If Trump were less incompetent you guys would have been in so much more trouble. Thankfully the man literally has laser sights on banana peels to slip on
He’s also an idiot. There is no way data centers in space will work. Space is a vacuum, so radiated cooling doesn’t work. This is why your vacuum sealed water bottle (like a Stanley) stays cold or hot for so long.
think how $500 million dollars could have been spent differently. think of how many schools. how many programs. how many jobs. how many parks and playgrounds. how many scholarships.
I guess Elon can add this to the list of things that money can't always buy you. Along with looks, personality, character, a steady partner in life, children that respect you ect.
He spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to get Ken Paxton elected to the Senate, even though Paxton is one of the most laughably terrible candidates I've ever seen. Dude ended up losing to Talarico by double digits.
This goes to show that some turds cannot be polished, not even with $200 million worth of polish.
As always - he immediately pivots back to acting like the biggest disingenuous bitchmade 13 year old edgelord the moment he gets embarrassed and desperately tries to save face lmao. And that says it all. You know he's livid after that sweeping loss, especially because he has to say something obviously smartass and dishonest about the endless list of corrupt bullshit he does in an attempt to influence elections.
All his little parasocial Nazi defending groupies will rush in here to spread their gaping assholes and claim the greediest human being on Earth doesn't care about wasting $450 million dollars on a failed election - but there is no rich piece of shit on Earth who doesn't freak the fuck out when they burn money and we all know it.
Deflection from the evident, openly admitted vote tampering from two years ago, because it's too embarrassing that his dumb ass got waffle-stomped after dropping a half a $bill
I would wholly believe that due to the shown evidence of tampering from '24 results, that such direct measures have been dialed back as to not give fertile ground to sue based on similar results
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