Trump's Victory Is a Major Win for Elon Musk and Big-Money Politics

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12 points·mitchbob··6 comments

Amazing how US politics is so obviously for sale.

History will tell how hard the world will pay for the stupidity around the globe.

Run while possible

Since Citizen’s United and gutting the Voting Rights Act there has been a massive increase in money spent on U.S. political races and there have been thousands of closures of polling stations. We have a pretend democratic like system.

Annual sales of Doritos chips is $2.4B. We literally spend more $$ on a single snack food than on political campaigns.

https://www.owler.com/company/doritos1

Harris outraised Trump by a large margin.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/11/04/trump-v...

https://archive.ph/2024.11.06-201621/https://www.nytimes.com...

These "journalists" cry about is Elon while ignoring Soros, Reid Hoffman, Hollywood, Zuck, Bill Gates and the big money supporting Dems for years.

‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/03/one-billion-dark-mo...

Harris campaign reports spending $270 million in September https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-campaign-reports-spe...

Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump: tracking the 2024 US presidential advertising battle https://www.ft.com/content/d82000ee-b141-48ec-8af0-b06802c08...

I have literally not heard anyone stop talking about the billion dollars spent on Harris’ campaign, partially evidenced by your articles mentioning it.

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