Elon Musk says he has “done enough” to help MAGA Republicans win elections, signaling a shift in his kingmaker role as Donald Trump’s top campaign backer.
After months of watching his popularity plummet, the DOGE slasher-in-chief said he plans to cut back on funding political campaigns, a move that could dampen the Republicans’ efforts at next year’s midterm elections and in the lead up to the 2028 presidential election.
“I think, in terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in the future,” Musk said, when asked at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday if he would continue spending as much as he has in the past.
I call Bullshit.
While Elonazi has gained much in contracts/income from the current “government”, in the process, the rankings of his various “businesses” has tanked.
Reality is: He’ll take some time off, focus on attempting to restore any good will possible for his businesses, then be right back in the political fray shortly before the midterms.
Problem with that plan is he’s in no position to regain any so-called “good will” as the Nazi bastard has quite publicly and blatantly revealed much too much about who he actually is.
Fuck. Elonazi.
🤡 🖕
Bullshit indeed. His assets should be seized, distributed to the poor, and he should suffer the fate of all the Nazis before him.
Pretty sure Elon and Kanye are on the same path. So Elon will take some time off and then suddenly have another manic episode and repeat everything 2x worse than the last time.
This is why he won’t be back I think. Maybe shadow or dark money wise sure, but in the public eye? He can’t lose his billions, it’s all he has.
He’s just going to join the other ultra-wealthy mega-donors and funnel funds through dark money shell companies. He needs those government subsidies and contracts to remain wealthy.
The thing about doing a deal with mobsters is that you don’t get to say when you’re done helping them
Elon‘s gonna find that out.
He will fund them through PACs in secret like his peers
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
If they keep shielding themselves from consequences we will become the consequences.
In the days of crypto and tax havens, you really think we can track this? He will still donate millions of dollars, he will just close his big mouth and use workarounds, non-profits and shell corporations to donate and obscure the source. This is all PR.
It’ll all be super PAC donations. Because that’s untracked and allows for unlimited donations.
Never believe anything a billionaire says. It’s always misdirection.
Exactly, don’t listen to what liars say … instead watch what they do
After the election Trump claimed Elon fixed Penn for him, if he was able to extend that ability to other states from his role in office then it would make sense that he doesn’t need to spend more
“Kiss my ass, or no more money.”
I think he just knows the midterms are going to be a massacre for Republicans no matter how much money they throw at it, so he’s going to sit it out to retain the aura of being a kingmaker. It’s the same thing Rupert Murdoch does, when Liberals/Conservatives/Republicans have no chance of winning in the next election, he’ll suck up to Labour/Labor/Democrats and get concessions from them in exchange for support and to keep the illusion in place that his media empire can make anyone win elections.
the midterms are going to be a massacre for Republicans
Democrats are going to walk into 2026 saying “Everyone hates Republicans, ergo we can’t possibly lose” and run some of the most heinous, criminally incompetent campaigns to date.
No doubt, but there’s no way they don’t take at least the house back even by doing nothing. At least for midterms candidates can tailor their message more to what people in the district want to hear, instead of having to run on ‘I’ll be exactly like Joe Biden but black’.
there’s no way they don’t take at least the house back even by doing nothing
Famous Last Words
Oh, he will come sniveling back to bend the knee.
Theater.
I used to be a fan of Elon and what he was doing with his companies. Then he revealed his true self for all the world to see. Now he’s an ambulate potato, the lesser henchman of a skinless cantaloupe lizard.
Like Trump, Musk revealed his personality early on. In the 1990s when Trump was losing his father’s money in casinos, Musk was making his money by using his father’s money to buy profitable dotcom startups and claiming them as his own. Then he sold them before the market crashed.
SpaceX has been kind of a blip in all this; all his other companies are very much run in the traditional Musk style though, with him taking credit where luck and other people’s hard work are responsible.
I’m so glad that people know this. The hero worship for so many years was nauseating if you knew the tiny details.
Revealed his true self very early one people just ignored it. Who rewrites the history of a company they purchased to be the founder? That rang bells for me.
Yeah, I had some lowkey suspicions from his biography (read it for an ex), and when he made those gross comments about the rescue cave divers.
Don’t need to fund elections if you are planning on finding a way to keep them from happening.
