If the numbers are true it costed him less than 0.1% of his wealth which is surprising how little it takes. Would you spend 0.1% of your wealth to elect a President and gain a government post that will bring you more wealth? Would you spend 1% of your wealth to become insanely rich? 10%?
In the society where power is measured by wealth ultra rich should not exist. Or better such society should not exist.
Also Musk wasn’t even the biggest donor. And Harris was okay with this whole thing, she also received enormous donations. Who was against ultra rich? Bernie Sanders. No wonder he was sacked despite popular support.
No I wouldnt spend 1 percent of my wealth to become insanely rich. Mostly cause that implies corruption and I aint nearly as bad as my kin though I have far more homicidal tendencies.
What an absolute treasure Robert and Sam Reich are.
Now look how much money Kamala received to “buy” the election.
The Biden—now Harris—campaign committee raised $997.2 million and Trump’s campaign committee raised $388 million in total between Jan. 2023 and Oct. 16, 2024
woops
He also spent 44 billion buying twitter to disrupt and control the conversations happening there as part of his efforts, and now the the government essentially has a data mining tool and propaganda machine without actually ‘owning’ it.
Last stage democracy
Removed by mod
We don’t need to be such downers about it.
Let’s just celebrate this as the age of facilitating future dolphin supremacy!
We sucked hard, I have faith that they can do better because I can’t really imagine how a sapient species could find a way to do even worse.
* plutocracy
Plus late stage capitalism.
I wish I had a schilling
for every senseless killing
I’d buy a government
America’s for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one
yes for him the USA is just a high return investment and livelihoods of the US citizens are just expandibles.
I mean, yeah, but they’d be in a better position to make that argument if they hadn’t been campaigning with Mark Cuban. (Not that Robert Reich needs to be told that, but it still needs to be said.)
I guess technically he spent $44.13 billion
The term is crony capitalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism