Elon Musk has reportedly injected around $77 million into his America PAC in the first half of October alone

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has pumped more than $445 million into Republican campaigns ahead of the midterm elections, according to a report.

​The GOP has been forced to contend with grim polling ahead of the midterms, with Democrats surging in polls across the country amid public anger over the war in Iran and the cost of living.

​Musk, among the richest people in the world, has become increasingly tied to the GOP in recent years - even overseeing the Trump administration’s DOGE scheme before dramatically exiting the White House.

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    Remember when he said curing world hunger was just a money problem and calculated it to be far less than his current net worth?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers

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    Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    I remember trying to think about corporations as if they are foreign entities trying to break and enter our government, but here we have a combination of both. Elon is not from this country and represents corporate interests trying to (and succeeding) in doing a smash and grab on the government.

    Much like Murdoch.