Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’
5mon 16d ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.independent.co.uk
After faltering in his plan to found a new ‘America Party’, the world’s richest person is returning to the GOP fold
In the aftermath of his spectacular falling out with Donald Trump last year, Elon Musk blasted the Republican Party as a corrupt force that was "bankrupting" the United States of America.
But now, after months in the political wilderness, the volatile tech baron has indicated that he will once again devote his enormous fortune to electing GOP politicians, this time ahead of the midterm elections in 2026.
"America is toast if the radical left wins," declared Musk on X Thursday. "They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore."
"They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.
Just a reminder that Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant and a fraud.
And America without immigrants wouldn't be America anymore, not the other way around.
I disagree, the Americas were ruined by illegal British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, and Spanish immigrants.
Im indigenous, I agree.
As a German, I like your list.
And the people they stole from Africa
Projection, thy name is Elmo
He doesn't want competition.
Just a reminder that trying to buy an election is normally frowned upon in sane countries.
Just a reminder that corrupt pedophile president is normally frowned upon in sane countries.
You can buy an election in every country because money is power. It can also be exchanged for goods and services, such as propaganda.
Yes it's technically possible but WAY harder than in the US AND it IS frowned upon.
It literally happens everywhere, every election cycle. You just aren't aware of it. Elections are the circuses of our era.
Everyone who's not a Nazi is "the radical left" to a Nazi. 
What he means is, he's toast.
Right. And his billionaire friends who don’t want to get “canceled” for doing whatever they want
I don’t even think that’s the case. He needs the GOP to help him own the world. Without it, he will just be an unfathomably rich person.
This is it. He knows the Dems might tax him a tiny bit more (an amount he won’t even notice), and he could possibly not win as many no-bid government contracts under them, but he’ll still be incredibly rich and completely above the law. The difference is, with the GOP in charge, he gets to dictate terms.
He can "donate" as much as he likes, with no restrictions.
It's not bribery though! See, he just has to make a Super PAC first; they don't have to disclose their source. So it won't officially be Musk dollars. wink wink
Please note that the one with the most money wins over 90% of the time in our elections.
If you aren't out of America in the next 3ish years, good luck.
Please note that the one with the most money wins over 90% of the time in our elections
If I'm trying to give away free sandwiches, I'd have more success if they were made of ham than shit. But I could just give away a steak dinner and not spend any on advertising, because people would like up for a free steak dinner when it costs $500 in advertising to get them to order but not eat a shit sandwich.
Does that make sense?
We can skip advertising if the product is good enough. Hell, even with a bad product. PBR never runs ads, they sponsor local sports teams and events for brand awareness. Even if it doesn't increase sales, it helps people.
PBR never runs ads, they sponsor local sports teams and events for brand awareness.
I don't think you know what an ad is
Their understanding of ads is at least as good as their understanding of politics.
Does this make sense?
No.
You win, I'm tired
Thanks for telling me you're not gonna reply again?
Are you asking a question?
You mean HE is toast if the Democrats get the house and senate. America is toast already. You just don't want your enrichment from the corruption to end.
Elon can take his limp non working dick back to South Africa by way of El Salvador.
He'd better be on that next flight to Mars.
Send all the billionaries to Mars. Let them live in their delusions of being the ones who build and maintain civilization.
The best part of Don't Look Up.
I would absolutely love to completely forget who Elon Musk is.
I would love if he died.
I’d prefer he be jailed for fraud and corruption and exposed for the sniveling inbred moron he is, first, if it’s alright by you.
I genuinely don't believe that will ever happen, but the death or killed will.
But, happy to be wrong.
I just want to see him forced to work a minimum-wage job for a living.
and working for the biggest asshole boss in the country.
Nice thought, but he'd be pardoned immediately, unfortunately. Dead and rotting is safer for everyone.
Let's be honest here he could probably be caught on state level fraud.
LOL, where is this "radical left"?
Are any of these "radical left" in the room with us right now?
I think he's talking more about "any sensible normal American that might regulate my shitty companies".
He seems to think the entire democratic base is composed of ML tankies.
If only he knew what MLs thought of democrats...
Yeah, those types think Chomsky is some kind of CIA plant, LOL. It's almost like they want to deflate any real counter to the fascists. I mean, I can remember when I was 14, too.
How many of them genuinely hold these beliefs is anyone's guess. I think a non-zero amount are trolls, bots, and certainly some just want to see who can be the most contrarian maximalist keyboard warrior.
WHAT RADICAL LEFT
He means people who oppose shooting immigrants on sight
I don't think he specifically means that. Plenty of other people who use the same term do. But he actually likes immigration because it brings salaries down and his businesses depend on a lot of workers.
I'm fairly sure what he means is people who want to raise the minimum wage and oppose abolishing workers protections of different sorts.
Economists don't all agree that immigration brings wages down. Unemployment is actually up right now and a lack of immigrants is to blame, because they propped the whole system up. Less immigrants = weaker economy.
What brings wages down is the employer concentration, lack of collective bargaining power, and trickle-down economics. Our policies are designed to keep earnings down for the lower classes, so the wealthy ruling class can hoard ever more.
H1B workers, the kind Musk loves, are pretty much stuck with their jobs and get paid less than their more permanently residing counterparts even though they technically shouldn't. It's still a huuuuge increase over what they'd get paid back home, of course.
If you let your immigrants freely pick their jobs, they'll have bargaining power too and thus don't have to ruin the job market for others by accepting low wages.
If the left in the US was only a tenth as "radical" as they claim, people like Musk and his billionaire friends would have to dodge bullets wherever they go.
"Radical leftists like Bernie Sanders"
IRA be like, "Wait, you're joking right?"
The ones that "killed" what he very mistakenly thought was his son
Oh, you expect reasonable discussion and general logic from the billionaires that only want to give themselves more money at any expense?
He'll just harp on with any current buzzwords to get the base riled up over nothing and continuing to vote and act against their best interests.
He knows which party is more likely to investigate his crimes.
He should be very scared. He has taken advantage of the government in ways we would never had dreamed possible before. He managed to eliminate all his threats and ensure his contracts and permits are upheld. Massive corruption is an understatement.
I dream of a world in which elon musk is behind bars, fed stale bread
Just enough stale bread to keep him barely alive though. I don't think he even deserves continuous nourishment from stale bread.
Damn, I dream of a world where he's stuffed nuts-first into a wood chipper.
Feet first would maximize his pain assuming something doesn't fail and he dies of shock before his brain is minced.
Already was*
He squashed a ton of investigations into tesla via doge
That was the entire point of "doge".
More like "dodge" at that point
Billionaires shouldn't exist especially Nazi fuckers like musk
When billionaires are afraid, you know you’re on the correct path.
"illegal immigrants cost us so much money" says the most successful thief and scammer alive today. Can't wait for him and his ilk to learn that money can't buy immortality.
projection
He, himself committed fraud on his own immigration visa, so it's more just him telling on himself. He's pulling up those fraud numbers quite significantly all on his own.
If only the radical left would stop pardoning fraudsters!
Billionaires spending craptons of money convincing poor people that even poorer people are their enemy is never good for the world.
But somehow keeps working 😭
May he bankrupt himself on the way to losing.
Not possible when you're a trillionaire.
Trump could help with that, he has a good track record on failing the things that can't fail.
Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
Go back to Africa and fuck up your own country you dirty immigrant!!!
This is what he said about the Wisconsin supreme court race
"I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will,"
Anyone have an update on the destiny of humanity since his favored candidate lost this race almost a full year ago?
He needs to be fed cake
America My ability to horde insane amounts of wealth is toast slightly at risk.
Hoard* is the word you're looking for. Horde is a group of people.
Completely agree with you.
Lok'tar ogar!
Ha ha, I knew it didn't look right, but couldn't figure out why.
You got it! I recently misspelled "rallies" because I couldn't think of how to make a "rally" plural. I'm an English and History teacher, btw... shit happens lol
"America is I am toast if the radical left democrats win."
I wouldn't hold my breath for this to happen even if the Democrats do win, lol
Oh dear... you do know that Trump couldn't do ANY of this shit without Democrats, don't you?
Don't be distracted by AOC, she's the "good one"; we have a few token Ds (and an Independent or two) that represent "classic FDR New Deal democrats", but they certainly don't run the party.
What exactly could democrats be doing that would stop Trump? I can't help but notice you didn't mention anything.
What exactly? Very many things, I could list hundreds. Last time I checked they were passing bills for him routinely, and voting for legislation that he wants.
I can't help but notice that you couldn't come up with anything off the top of your head immediately, kind of a weird question in my opinion.
No, you couldn't because they don't exist. Republicans control all branches of government. Democrats have no power to stop them.
They don't exist because they're not doing very much, not because a list can't be made. Please don't make false claims in a civil discussion, there's no need for that.
I don't have to make a list to please you, it's crazy but I don't work for you or anything. Perhaps read about other representatives around the world and in the USA, and how they stood up to their power mongers. So many ways, come on you can think of ten right now. Make a list for me.
Yeah, Rs and Ds swap every few years, that's what they do. That's all they do. What do you expect them to do? If they toppled the other party, they would immediately collapse. This only works if there is a constant "scapegoat" to blame, with two easily defined sides (like for example theological and secular).
You have nothing. You're just lying.
You have less than nothing. You're deliberately trying to obfuscate to conceal your lack of knowledge. That means your ego is weak, and you can't be trusted with even the most minor of tasks.
Your family is ashamed.
You just projected your own strategy.
Using your "logic" that means you were lying all along and are nothing. Stop projecting
Now you're just saying what i already said. You can't even come up with retorts of your own.
Why would I bother with a new retort? You really think you're something, don't you?
Yeah, you're toasted.
You're sad :(
Here I thought I was feeling delight. Thanks for the insight, didn't know sadness felt so good.
You have misunderstood, as usual.
You're sad as in you're pathetic to OTHERS. Of course you don't see anything wrong with you. That's what makes you so sad.
Personal attacks are an obvious sign of a poor worldview.
Agreed! You should stop making them and you wouldn't get into these situations.
So you don't even know what a personak attack is. Your response is the equivalent of "no, you are!"
No, it's really not.
Pronouns are hard! Have you learned how to use and understand them yet? Good luck!
YOU CAN DO IT!!!
People should go all in on boycotting all his companies especially Tesla and Twitter.
Other countries need to cap campaign contributions if they haven't already because Musk has been known to fund the far-right globally.
Yeah, the radical right is doing a great job running the country. Housing is affordable, groceries are at an all time low, and unemployment is actually at a net negative. They're just giving jobs away at every corner!
Fuck you, Elon. Eat shit and die. Convince your friend Trump to eat a big bowl as well.
He needs to rot in prison, I think he's scared, and that makes me want to fight him more.
Ignore the Nazi propaganda and destroy these fucking Nazis.
Dear Mr. Musk, who exactly are the "radical left" that you seem to fear so much?
🐦: "Thank you, translator."
Yes because your foray into politics was so fruitful before. Maybe he’ll actually destroy his career this time like he got close to last time?
Tesla's stock creeps ever higher because the insane casino that is Wall Street hangs on his every word. "Well sure, people refuse to buy his cars," they say. "But now he says it doesn't matter." They're betting on the taxi fleet and humanoid robots taking over and fixing everything.
The level of hopium among that bunch just amazes me. I was thinking they might have one of the highest P/E ratios, but there are apparently many companies with even higher P/Es.
Some of those seem to be medical research outfits, and my guess is that people are gambling on some incredible moonshot kind of thing. I guess people believe fElon's claims about robots, taxis and their "AI", but given his track record on delivering an EV for rigs, let's just say I'm a bit skeptical. The guy also seems to be distracted by a million other things that have nothing to do with running any of his companies.
America isn't toast, your sorry ass is toast. Get fucked, idiot.
I'd be in jail
We didn't forget the reason why you want left to lose, Elmo!
Dude there is no radical left in the US. There’s different flavors of right, one of them is inconvenient to con men. Thats it.
Break that son of a bitch down from his ketamine throne and bury him in his Tesla toybox
Elon Musk blasted the Republican Party as a corrupt force that was "bankrupting" the United States of America.
This is what happens with leopards ate my face people. They were scammed by just one guy and don't change their minds at all.
The amount he will spend will be proportionately far less than the rest of us spend on general insurances. He'll also claim this as a tax deductible. So it gets him further tax savings and keeps him more likely to stay in a position of power and influence. Fuck that. Tax the billionaire class.
Murder the lot. They don't think twice about killing a worker, we shouldn't think twice about killing them. It's self defence really.
Probably way too much work for this asshole. I'm not sure fElon really has the capability for that kind of deep focus and probably doesn't even have the capability to delegate that kind of thing to responsible people, either.
Given the history of third parties in this country in general, though...it's probably much harder than it looks. Virtually all of them come off as completely unserious and/or compromised (like the Green Party).
There isn't an already functioning and somewhat successful political party to buy and then claim he invented politics.
He must have done some really bad things to be trying to avoid investigations this much.
He flat out said that if Trump didn't win that he'd be going to prison for life. He's done some really, really bad stuff.
Where is this radical left and how can I get some?
"My ass is toast if democracy wins."
-FTFY
Musk grifted half a trillion dollars by teaming up with republicans to kneecap the government and steal everything he could in the aftermath. The whole “falling out” was laughably for show, they all got exactly what they wanted. And he’ll do it again, you can bet your ass on that.
I like toast. More toast plz
This guy is very unlikable.
Sure, because allowing the country to be steered by republicans over the past 40 years has worked out so well for us.
Wait what? Obama and the Clintons were also Republicans?
He's going full retard huh?
Just go away already, parasite. You are disgusting.
But first strip him of his billions - no one should be a billionaire.
Not America, just billionaires
“Radical left”=far right in functional countries just not total Nazis but still Nazi enablers
I really wish people would understand that billionaires don't speak for "America" and that their interests are almost exactly opposed to the interests of regular people. This is the case regardless of where on the political spectrum your beliefs happen to lie.
Kind hard to believe they don't when you let them run your country and shit on your laws.
Not at all surprising if you watch the billionaire provided media.
Will probably go about as well as his attempt to buy out the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
Hopefully
Deport this Nazi.
Only if he's jailed forevermore.
Yes, because why innovate when you can grease palms
We're goin' to mars any minute now
I wanted to add some articles of him saying we would be on Mars by now, the problem is that he says this basically every year. So if you google it now, most articles just repeat him promising to go to Mars in 2026 and later ...
Oh, and this reminds me that his SpaceX is completely behind on their current timeline to get back to the moon as part of a contract with NASA.
Felon Musk is looking to get cucked again.
"the radical left"
By which he means right wing Democrats like Schumer and Jeffries whose obedience to their owner donors is absolute while their attitudes toward meaningful reform that benefits working class people more than them is the exact same as his own.
fElon will going to need to buy/hack more election machines than last time. I wonder how much that cost, this time he will need more than 7 swing states to turn the tide.
Yes, please do.
Tank what few remaining sales of your garbage cars are left, asshole.
god damn was a sniveling little bitch. All that money and he still has to kneel down to the party that turned on him a few months ago.
"C'mon Elon. Jump and make an "X" for us. Give us some entertainment while you are fucking the dead corpse of america."
What radical left, win how
I thought he was making his own party and hated Trump because of big bill and all that shit. And the Epstein files etc
No worries, Elmo. Thanks to a cowardly compliant media and lots of fuckery that the Democrats just sat down and took over the years, it's already rigged. Republicans are likely to win and keep winning.
The hyperbole is getting so old. Fuck off back to Africa.
The joke is he doesn't need to go "all in" to influence US politics.
We're surprisingly cheap with above board "donations". Let's all pretend that's all they get.
In the 70s, the FBI ran a sting, bribing government officials (congress, judge, etc). They immediately caught like 30 of them, fish in a barrel. It was called "Abscam".
Today, donations from Super PACs don't need to be explained, there is no requirement to divulge. So, they are bribed above board if the charges are "reasonable", if it's more expensive to an absurd degree, they use other means.
Let's say he had to give everyone in leadership of congress and executive and courts a MILLION DOLLARS. He'd still be unfathomably wealthy, he wouldn't even notice it's missing.
They'll sell out usually for five-six figures, or even a lucrative trading tip.
Epstein did a lot of this "lobbying". Sometimes those who need to be bought have certain secrets they wish to share.
So… Billionaire gets mad at others who (think to dare to) get in the way of billionaires’ means of maintaining their Billionaire path to Trillionaire status as predictably predictable. I see.
Also greed is as greed does, fwiw.
Believing in other viewpoints, Worker's Rights, and acknowledging that minorities exist is not "radical", you pathetic Nazi.
Toast is delicious though.
That person is just so pissed he wasn't born in this country ....
Musk = POS Nazi.
A hateful person helping another hateful person to be "good" lol. And the surprise is that people will accept this! A pedo helping another pedo to become the leader of all families that have kids.
Lose it all! Lose it all! Lose it all!