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Thursday, October 15, 2026

How can one man outspend an entire political party?

Elon Musk has now poured at least $366 million into electing Republicans since the last election. That's the biggest contribution by any single human being in any campaign cycle in American history.

The New York Times says the GOP's outside spending advantage this year is mostly one man's checkbook.

Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center says we haven't seen a gap like this since the Watergate election of 72.

And here's the grubby part. Musk is a federal contractor. His companies have pulled in at least $38 billion in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits.

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"Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center says we haven't seen a gap like this since the Watergate election of 72. And here's the grubby part. Musk is a federal contractor. His companies have pulled in at least $38 billion in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits.

And Pete Hegseth just handed in a Pentagon task force on the future of warfare.

Not long ago, this kind of spending was just flatly illegal. Then came Citizens United and a federal elections commission that can't even muster a quorum. Add another $1.3 billion in dark money from donors you'll never see or know.

And Waldman's remedy is a real ban on political giving by federal contractors and the people who own them. His question is blunt. Why steal an election when you can buy it?

When one man can outspend an entire political party, the rest of us aren't citizens anymore. We're spectators.

Trump brags, we're making a fortune while your gas costs four bucks and 33 cents. Hours after federal data showed inflation hit 3.7% in September, Donald Trump stood before a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona and said the quiet part out loud.

Because oil is so high, he said, Texas and Oklahoma and North Dakota are making a fortune."

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'Member when DJT stood before the Oil Lobby and sold them America for a million dollars each?

We were bought really cheap.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-15 08:19 PM | Reply

Musk is the Soros republicans hated so much.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 08:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Elon Musk has now poured at least $366 million into electing Republicans since the last election. That's the biggest contribution by any single human being in any campaign cycle in American history.

Let's see if you can buy America.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 08:22 PM | Reply

Elon and the Oil Barons purchased America for cheap, and they intend to keep her.

He alone 'invests' aka openly bribes politicians, especially the fatass POTUS; millions that return billions.

What a guy! Rwingers love this guy... he's like the modern version of Rand's hero, who was based on a soulless serial killer; he feels no shame for his grandiose psychosis.

(Grandiose psychosis " clinically known as grandiose delusions)

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-15 08:57 PM | Reply

DJT promised to drain The Swamp... and he did!

He drained it right into Sieg Heil Musk's pockets.

Trumpers are SO proud! Just ask them...

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-15 09:01 PM | Reply

Musk is trying to buy the midterms. The thing I'd like to see him buy next is the farm.

#6 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-10-15 09:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Mr Musk is enjoying Pres Trump's multi-trillion tax cut for billionaires, while working Americans suffer and strive to put food on the table.


Why is it a surprise that billionaires want more of the same from the Republicans they seem to own?


And then there is the apparent inheritocracy that looks to be developing...

inheritocracy
en.wiktionary.org

... inheritocracy (countable and uncountable, plural inheritocracies)

An economic situation in which individuals' prosperity is mainly dependent on inherited wealth rather than income from work or other sources. ...



Have the Republicans fostered an inheritocracy by reducing estate taxes?


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-15 09:30 PM | Reply

Send the fucking illegal immigrant home to Africa in a fucking box.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-16 01:16 AM | Reply

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