Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/12/2024When there were reports that Musk would spend $45 million each month for the last three months of the election Musk claimed it was fake news and he would actually be spending a much smaller amount 1252354733 2.4K
Protect Democracy @guarddemocracy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024A BUSINESS TRANSACTION That is how a billionaire exploits the system to gain direct power. To him this is just a business transaction. An a very good one. Billionaires will gain additional billiones as a payback in deregulations and tax cuts. Ordinary people pays for this. FOLLOW THE MONEY 021 2
🇺🇦 Alexander Seymour @whmapping.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Great ROI for Musk. Potentially disastrous for the other 7 billion people on the planet. 000 0
budwarren.bsky.social @budwarren.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Imagine if Musk had instincts more nearly like Mackenzie Scott , Dolly Parton, or Taylor Swift- wealthy, influential people who use their power and fortune to enrich the lives of others. What is it that makes guys like him so uselessly egocentric and destructive? 100 1
PNW Food Forester @pnwzen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Romania > USA ROK > USA We have no functioning guardrails. We have no functioning opposition party. 020 2
Canadian Intellectual @canuckd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Musk is NOT the problem. Trump is a CANCER, and it's spreading throughout the USA body. Unless the offending TUMOR is removed, the patient has no hope of survival. #assassination 000 0
Honest Abe @reduxstl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024It must pain him he can’t be president himself. How long until he starts pressuring the repubiklans in congress to amend the constitution or the ones in SCOTUS to interpret “more favorably” the natural born clause? 000 0
We the ppl will take our country back & make great again @luisa90.bsky.social · 15/12/2024How the fuck is this possible! It’s amazing how the rich get richer the sad part is that this will never change 000 0
Groucho Snarx @coachzio.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Who would’ve thought that backing a corrupt, dementia-riddled felon could yield such a mind-blowing return on investment? Miracles really do happen! 000 0
Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot @claypotter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024A lot of his money is in Tesla stock which is up over 160%. Boycott Tesla. 000 0
Moldy Teeth @moldyteeth.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Whether it paid off handsomely or not depends on if he can kiss enough orange ass to keep Trump from becoming jealous of the attention he’s getting and getting tossed out on his ass. 000 0
Katherine @katwalably.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Does musk know how much we the people deplore him? Does trump know , for that matter how much,We the People DEPLORE HIM? Their coup will not be sustained, We the People will topple it. FU musk and trump 000 0
Reggie Rink @reggierink.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Thanks to Citizens United and the Supreme Court. I wonder how much he will spend on the Supreme Court to get favorable rulings in the next 4 years. 010 1
𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘤𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘺 🍁 @ajohmss1956.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That wasn't a 'big bet'. That was 'fixing' the outcome. There's a difference. 010 1
Chris Taylor @christoftaylor.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Remember when Musk said, “If trump doesn’t win, I’m fucked.” and THEN spent all this money to buy a president? 110 1
Ron James @digitmusic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Message to our children; Lying will get you anything you want. Lying is OK. Actually, lying is good!! 110 1
web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The latest Oligarch Leader Board in case anyone wonders why the same men are all visiting Mar-a-lago to kiss the ring for the fascism they require to keep the capital they extract at our expense. bsky.app/profile/judd...Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.socialWhen there were reports that Musk would spend $45 million each month for the last three months of the election Musk claimed it was fake news and he would actually be spending a much smaller amount 112 2
Flanigan L. O’Brien™️ @leeobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024#DefundElonMusk Charge him for election interference. He needs to have his citizenship revoked and be deported. 030 3
ǝuuɐſ @g.litch.art · 15/12/2024it won't happen, for obvious reasons, but as an egomaniac who hates competition it would be fucking hilarious if Trump prosecuted him for interference 020 2
Reparation Means Repair @bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That is way undercutting his support. He turned a $44B platform into a propaganda arm of Trumps campaign for 6 months straight. That’s an in-kind donation and worth a lot more than $45M. 000 0
catlady49ers.bsky.social @catlady49ers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024No matter how much money Elon has, he’ll never be genuinely happy. 140 4
ann702.bsky.social @ann702.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I pray: Please, make note of ghastly corruption of men (women) in the government and turn your attention to them. Amen 000 0
tvmurray.bsky.social @tvmurray.bsky.social · 15/12/2024To have that much money, and not do something good with it is disgusting. Imagine the world if he helped pay for education, medicine, housing!! He’s truly an evil person. 041 4
Jose Canyusi @sossity.bsky.social · 15/12/2024He may have all the money, but his lasting image will be of his weakly humorous jumping bellybutton exposure. 000 0
Nathaniel Gardner @tkdcoach.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The USA’s rehab of known nazis pales in comparison to the rehab of one apartheid scion. It’s pathetic. And a danger to us all. 000 0
Art Weber @artweber.bsky.social · 15/12/2024What it looks like when our country is for sale. Trump's end goal is to transform our entire government into an oligarchy working for HIM, *not* the American people. He gets there by hiring loyalists and sowing chaos, doubt, fear, and hate. Trump is doing Putin's work FOR him. > Commit to resist 000 0
Jeannie 💖🦋 @jmpwe14.bsky.social · 15/12/2024It is so disgusting that they did this in the open with a megaphone not in dark private Smokey rooms. They told the fools what they were doing and it didn’t matter. 🤷🏻♀️💔💰😢 000 0
semper-talis.bsky.social @semper-talis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024So much for Alternative Coincidence - who'd have thought of such a string of events ...... 000 0
Sue F @travelfixer7.bsky.social · 15/12/2024He could give every person the the usa a $1 million and still have more money than he could ever spend, but he'd rather take away our soc sec. Fuck him 280 8
Pogo-Original @pogo-original.bsky.social · 16/12/2024America !! We're the greatest nation, the richest nation !! Really ? It went up for auction and sold for less than $300 million. My only real question is, what role will Trump play in the Musk administration ? 170 7
Sex Crazed Salt Shaker of Death @dsmdexter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The 45 million was just the payment for vance. The rest was so he could make vance president. 011 1
WOKE_AI_GOD @woke-ai-god.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Everything he says he says it just to manipulate you. 000 0
Tubbles @tubbles.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That could have been about $600 to every US citizen, including the children. But nah, let the billionaire get even richer with more unfathomable amounts of wealth that he could never spend or invest. 010 1
toomuch25.bsky.social @toomuch25.bsky.social · 15/12/2024WTAF, how is he making 2 million just for being in the administration???Yeah the oligarchs r taking Over!!!! 000 0
Lore @pink527.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Disgusting photo of him. One would think that the love of money would make a person think about their mortality. Such as how quickly our lives can change or end. Most of us don’t want to be remembered for ruining others’ lives. We would rather do something to help ease a person’s pain and suffering. 000 0
🏎️🏁 Critical Racing Theorist 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇮🇳🇵🇰🇧🇩🇳🇵 @boymeetsmini.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This is a 72,000% ROI. No wonder capitalists love buying out the political system, even crypto can’t pull these kind of returns. 000 0
battersonj7 @jbatterson7.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Did any serious minded person believe that? Or believe anything that comes out of his mouth. 000 0
alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social @alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024money are like people to him Just numbers on a balance sheet 010 1
João @euroconcern.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I guess that's one way to compensate for the losses from his absurdly stupid micromanagement of Twitter. 130 3
Cyberman3000 @cyberman3000.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I didn't think it was possible, but I am actually starting to hate Elon Musk even more than I do Donald Trump. This man-child has turned out to be EVERYTHING the right accused George Soros & Warren Buffett of being....but on steroids. 020 2
Lindadrakequack @lindadrakequack.bsky.social · 16/12/2024The Citizens United ruling should be renamed Citizens Be Damned 000 0
Eldred&Kuqui @eldred-kuqui.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Just like his father and his current hire he's a liar. Lying just seems to be acceptable, character does not. His hunger for power and for scoring those sweet, sweet govt contracts is what he's after. 030 3
Nrunky. Formerly baron Neil Von runkel @nrunky.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Naivety believing trump won 7 swing states without cheating, apparently a record voter turnout resulted in fewer votes being counted, how?? Musk knows 071 7
joycemontrose.bsky.social @joycemontrose.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Democrats had overturning Citizens United on their 2016 platform, Republicans had overturning Roe vs Wade. Citizens United sold Americans out to corporate interests in 2010, immediately demoted the USA to flawed democracy status and created the Trump Musk Oligarchy. 😥 1395 39
Sam @iconoclast88.bsky.social · 15/12/2024@steventdennis.bsky.social has been talking about this for a long time. Why so little is typically spent on campaign cycles compared to the potential ROI (not that it’s a good thing) 000 0
ゲイブ @geibu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024and MAGA are celebrating this like it's some epic win of free speech and a return to American traditionalism - what a fucking joke man, we're straight up in the Oligarchy now.. Maybe we slightly there before but the mask is completely off now, these next four years are going to suuuuuuuuuuuck 010 1
Chucky @chuckedahl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This is a stunning amount of money. We tend to get inured to big numbers. But this is enough money to keep 40,000 professionals employed full-time for a lifetime. bsky.app/profile/chuc...Chucky@chuckedahl.bsky.socialIf you're worried at all about a techno-autocrat, it's a really good idea to NOT buy a Tesla. 010 1
Linda D. @oldfolkswhisper.bsky.social · 15/12/2024No matter how you look at it: 277 million or 200 billion is a bargain price to pay for an industrial nation. Shouldn't cost him nearly that much to buy off Congress. 000 0
Robert @bobcat64.bsky.social · 15/12/2024What a crook. Joe should send him back to South Africa. 000 0
Wes Craven Glizzies @ywfyf.com · 15/12/2024It still astounds me that Dinesh D'Souza couldn’t funnel a fraction of this into politics without committing a felony. What a dunce. 000 0
Alotta Memes @marti444.bsky.social · 15/12/2024When the time comes to eat the rich, he will be first 000 0
iLLfaded @illfaded.bsky.social · 15/12/2024All based on complete speculation by people who control indexing markets. Nothing about this is real. 000 0
Rob Cerulo @rjc1084.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Not to mention the $44b he spent to steal an election! 070 7
Lake Gulf of Not Larry @iamnotlarry.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Remember when “conservatives” were upset because they thought the former owners of Twitter had too much influence on politics and elections? This is something we should talk about more. 010 1
RadioStatic @radiostatik.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I suspect it’s not just money he poured into the election. 020 2
Scatman Vigoda @scatmanvigoda.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I would love for him to disintegrate majestically. 020 2
ratlmoso.bsky.social @ratlmoso.bsky.social · 15/12/2024He probably said that because he used every tax loophole available and it actually cost him $3.50 to funnel quarter of a billion toward making the USA Russia II 010 1
That Anonymous Coward @thatac.bsky.social · 15/12/2024He's a bit of an idiot that way... Did he not see how little it takes to purchase a Congressperson? He could have gotten it for 1/4 of the price. 010 1
Abolish Billionaires @nosuperhero.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The election was not free or fair #billionairecoup #newelections 131 3
Tell Me This Sooner book @tellmethissooner.bsky.social · 15/12/2024He is deplorable, amoral, and gross. 000 0
ImDavidDunn @imdaviddunn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Again, Musk spent $44 Billion on the election. He said explicitly after buy twitter it was intended to help Republicans win elections. He hosted DeSantis. He hosted Trump he hired a bunch of right wing talkers. What else do people need to understand. 030 3
Aunt Patty @auntpatty.bsky.social · 16/12/2024And that, Trumpers, is how you voted in a corrupt business that is taking over our country. No cheaper prices - higher prices. No freedom- less freedom. Is that what you thought you were getting? 020 2
Alan Howe, Democracy promoter, anti-fascist, Cassandra @alanhowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Everyone knows Putin is attacking western Democracies. Everyone knows Putin has used and is using Trump to attack American Democracy. Everyone better wake up and fight back, or Putin is going to defeat us. Read, share, and support the plan to defeat Putin. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...dailykos.comWe Can Stop TrumpWelcome to the resistance. I have a proposal for you for action at the end of this essay, but it will make more sense to you if first we talk more about “kompromat.” You will note that the word sounds... 031 3
🐟 . .. . . @tomallen56.bsky.social · 15/12/2024We're getting trashed by a goo face and his drug addict cronies. Thanks for the kind words. 🖕 000 0
Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Buffett and Gates may be “technically richer” than Musk. Their wealth is grounded in liquid, stable assets, while Musk’s fortune is tied to speculative, overvalued stocks like Tesla. Buffett and Gates have donated billions, making their wealth impactful, not just hype-driven. 020 2
CityofTrees2 @cityoftrees.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I think we're finding out that Musk lies all the times like the Felon does. We are losing our country to billionaires who lie to Americans constantly. 000 0
FreshDem @freshdem.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Correction: musk is now $200 billion + 1 president richer. 020 2
Kaw! 🍉 @kawotter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Really need writers to understand that a couple hundred mil is NOT a "big bet" for billionaires. Which is why no one should have that sort of obscene wealth, ever. 030 3
Lucas Sanders 🗳️💙💪🏾🟧♻️♀️🌊🌊🌊🌊 @yfcg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Good morning. I’ll love a follow back. 000 0
Four Seasons Total Landscaping (not really!) @4seasonstl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This also shows why he doesn’t care about Twitter’s diminishing value. He spent $44 billion on it, an overpay of like four times its worth and has systematically diminished its relevance and its value but why does he care? His personal wealth has increased by $200 billion. A personal net positive. 0150 15
francodoro.bsky.social @francodoro.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The 1%ers and 1%er hopefuls convinced so many that there win is somehow everyone’s win. You can live vicariously. 000 0
johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Washington Post fashwashing there. The money is irrelevant, as they know, it's the fascism that matters. And the @washingtonpost.com is colluding. 030 3
Jenuine Healing @jenuinehealing.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Check out what this #Shaman is doing to energetically take down #elon jenuinehealing.com/blog/video/d...jenuinehealing.comDismantling Elon's Agenda | SFT Tapping to Liberate HumanityBreak free from control! Join Jen Ward and Marvin Schneider in dismantling Elon's agenda through SFT tapping to reclaim your power, liberate humanity, and rise to higher consciousness. 000 0
ImGregory📎 @imgregory.bsky.social · 15/12/2024TBH (and we don't even know each other), that didn't require rocket science 000 0
Tim Hedger-Gourlay @hedgert.bsky.social · 15/12/2024In a country with a functioning legal system, not only would musk be being investigated, he’d also show some caution in his behaviour over the prospect of being held to account for wrongdoing. But not in today’s USA. 1764 76
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