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A dark money network financed with $100M by #ElonMusk is running a web site spoofing #KamalaHarris.
According to OpenSecrets, “Building America’s Future registered to use Progress 2028 as a fictitious name on Sept. 23.” The site is positioned as the #Harris corollary to #Project2025.
“Some of the policies listed in Progress 2028 highlight disproven and misleading claims about Harris’ positions.” See fake ad.
Realizing #ElonMusk’s companies’ interests are deeply intertwined worked for #Brazil.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113323887325571033
How #Tech #Billionaires Became the #GOP’s New Donor Class
#ElonMusk & a group of #SiliconValley allies have built a shadow campaign to put #Trump back in office.
Last Feb, the #billionaire financier #NelsonPeltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly #Republican donors & a handful of GOP strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach, FL.
#Kleptocracy #RulingClass
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The WSJ recently reported Elon Musk gave $50 million to a Stephen Miller-linked nonprofit in 2022 & they spent $90mil on media contractors. Did some of Musk's $ loop back to buy ads on X?
A look at the overlapping network of Stephen Miller, Elon Musk and several former DeSantis advisors
#StephenMiller #ElonMusk #Musk #CitizensforSanity #AmericaFirstLegal
My latest:
Well done #ElonMusk #idiocracy
"We, Robots" – Teslas Optimus ist sehr menschlich
Elon Musk lud zum Event "We, Robot". Die dort gezeigten Optimus-Roboter waren allerdings ferngesteuert – sie handelten nicht autonom.
The #Russians have unlawfully obtained #Starlink transceivers, and are using them to coordinate attacks on #Ukraine. #ElonMusk is doing absolutely nothing to stop them. Musk is a traitor who has no loyalty to America. He's a #Putin sympathizer, and has no problem facilitating Russia's illegal invasion of our sovereign ally.
#ElonIsATwat #FuckElon #MuskIsADick #FuckElonMusk #MuskIsATraitor #MuskIsARussianAsset #PutinOwnsMusk #MuskSupportsApartheid #deportMusk
Hey #ElonMusk! I'll see your fake robot controlled by humans & raise you Elektro, The Smoking Robot who could respond to voice commands back in 1937.
Not to be confused wiih Mr. Electro, aka @driftglass co-host, with @bluegal, of Science Fiction University. Their podcast on The Day The Earth Stood Still stars Gort the robot. FYI, the failsafe command to stop Gort from destroying the Earth was "Klaatu barada nikto"
https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-rpke4-1e77a6a9Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxGDdwbcfJg #robots @pluralistic
Elon Musks "Starship" landet erfolgreich wieder auf der Abschussrampe
Das "Starship" von Elon Musk hat am Sonntag einen Testflug erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Nach einer Stunde landete es erstmals wieder in seiner Abschussrampe.
Uno de los muchos infiernos en la tierra es ser trabajador de #ElonMusk.
https://jalopnik.com/teslas-beer-serving-optimus-robot-was-controlled-by-a-h-1851670923
On Thursday, Elon Musk claimed Tesla’s Optimus robot was rapidly advancing then had them engage with his gullible cult fans and work the bar.
But the robots were being remotely controlled by Tesla employees using haptic suits.
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-elon-musks-dream-of-robot-slaves-isnt-coming-soon/
Donald Trump has always been for sale.
👉 It used to be shocking how many people were willing to prop him up in the hopes of profiting off his increasingly seamy ventures.
💥But thanks to a morally bankrupt Republican Party and our degraded corporate media, Donald remains alarmingly close to the kind of power that’s worth shelling out massive amounts of money to be close to—and benefit from.
🔥Any person or entity, from Putin to Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf, willing to throw Donald a few bucks for a licensing fee or a Trump Tower condo has gained access and influence.
Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist -- South African jumping bean Elon Musk -- would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on
—whether it’s steaks or American national …
Donald Trump has always been for sale.
👉 It used to be shocking how many people were willing to prop him up in the hopes of profiting off his increasingly seamy ventures.
💥But thanks to a morally bankrupt Republican Party and our degraded corporate media, Donald remains alarmingly close to the kind of power that’s worth shelling out massive amounts of money to be close to—and benefit from.
🔥Any person or entity, from Putin to Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf, willing to throw Donald a few bucks for a licensing fee or a Trump Tower condo has gained access and influence.
Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist -- South African jumping bean Elon Musk -- would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on
—whether it’s steaks or American national security
—because he values money more than anything.
🆘 In exchange for Donald’s willingness to throw Musk the keys to the federal government,
Musk is throwing a considerable fortune, as well as the weight of Twitter’s influence, behind the Republican candidate.
For him, it’s a safe bet because he knows, if Donald is elected, he’ll do anything Musk wants him to do.
It is, of course, a devil’s bargain that continues to be made by others, including the aforementioned Vladimir Putin.
The New York Times reported Friday that Musk and Donald speak regularly.
Musk has spent at least $140 million on America PAC, a political action committee that supports Donald.
Donald has told several people that this amount could balloon to as much as $500 million.
According to the Times, Musk, a man with tremendous reach and influence simply by virtue of the fact that he has acquired an obscene amount of wealth, is “all in” with Donald now:
Ensconced in a war room in Pittsburgh with a team of lawyers, public-relations professionals, canvassing experts and longtime friends,
Mr. Musk is trying to apply strategies and entrepreneurial lessons from his businesses to a grind-it-out political mission with just weeks to go until Election Day.
It may be impossible to capture the financial value of all the support Mr. Musk is providing to Mr. Trump.
This is in part because of his role on X, where he amplifies so much of the former president’s message.
As Benjamin Soskis, a historian of the ultrarich, told the Times,⚠️ “I’m not sure there is a precedent in modern history to how Musk has inserted himself into a presidential race.”
#DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #PoliticalInfluence #RepublicanParty #CorporateMedia #Fascism #PoliticalActionCommittee #ElectionDay #WealthAndPower #DevilsBargain
