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Elon Musk Spent Record-Shattering $474 Million on Midterm Elections
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Damn, already got cause to use this image
so less than 0.1% of his, damn, that’s gotta hurt so much
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OK fine we’ll conform, yes, almost, we’ll say this would be (relatively) good news if the spend was $50000000000 and not $500000000 id est 100 times as much and near same as the price of twitter back in the day.
Elon Musk caught deleting posts after Republican midterm election disaster
Billionaire Elon Musk poured more money into the 2026 midterm elections than any individual donor in modern American history, backing Republicans across the country. It didn’t work out the way he hoped, as Democrats took control of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday night.
Now, the world’s richest man appears to be trying to pretend that his Election Day push never happened. Musk reportedly deleted his “Vote red today!” post from X on Wednesday, along with a pinned post urging his followers to vote for Republican Senate candidates. Needless to say, people noticed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elon-musk-caught-deleting-posts-114030869.html
ah well
The NYT reported Musk spent about $US474 million ($684 million) at this year’s midterms, more than any donor has ever spent in a single election cycle. But ultimately, that figure is a pittance to the world’s richest man — the equivalent of a millionaire contributing $US400 ($477), according to the Financial Times. As the opposition’s sweeping victory became clear earlier this week, Musk joked on X that his “election-interfering space lasers didn’t work”.
guess there was more at stake than just a donation to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation though
But other than that and his tweet about building data centres in space, Musk was unusually quiet online on election night, posting mostly about his company’s AI agent, Grok Bot. He even deleted an earlier post that said “Vote red today”, multiple US media outlets reported, and removed an October 29 post he had pinned to the top of his profile that warned against a Democrat election victory.