Maybe Because Money Isn’t Really The Only Thing?

Why isn't it a bigger deal that the world's richest man, Elon Musk, is trying to buy (now literally, at $47 a pop) a U.S. presidential election? What is the $250B man trying to accomplish with this, and why is he harassing Pennsylvania?

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— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) October 11, 2024

The world’s richest man is:

A) offering voters $47 apiece people to get them to to…do something that isn’t quite vote buying (a once common in America practice, now rightly fully illegal and despised);

B) funding a Super PAC that is running (very poorly, by all accounts), Trump’s GOTV effort in only a handful of states) (I actually had volunteers come to my door in support of Harris. I can’t remember the last time that happened. Texas is usually a write off left to the GOP. OTOH, reports are Harris has raised $1 billion since September. How much has Elmo spent in support of Trump? I’d argue Harris is putting her money to better use.)

C) Voting has already started. Elmo would have to sell Tesla stock to make even a ripple at this point (followers on Twitter doesn’t count). So far his most public support of Trump has been bouncing around on stage behind Trump like a hyper active five year old. Real impressive. 🙄

D) Whatever money Trump has, he’s spending it at Coachella, MSG, and on lawyers trying to stop the release of information that is already in the public domain. How much has Elmo donated to those causes?

Now that we pulled off not one but two hurricanes, I bet Republicans are second-guessing using all their money on Trump's legal defense instead of developing their own weather machine.

— YS (@NYinLA2121) October 11, 2024

Maybe Elmo wants to buy the GOP one?