Millionaire garbage and billionaire fools
American politics look different with a little geographic perspective. 7News Melbourne has plenty of distance for it. I had to check to be sure this wasn’t an Australian version of SNL’s Weekend Update.
Stuart Stevens says what we’ve all known about Donald Trump’s subcontracting the RNC’s GOTV operation to Elon Musk and PACs like America Pac, Turnout for America, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action and America First Works. The con man is being conned:
One of the more amusing aspects of this campaign has been watching @elonmusk
make a fool of himself babbling on about a subject he is completely ignorant.The consultants he is paying to set up an “organization” are taking advantage of him like an 18 year old frat boy with $1,000 in a strip club. They tell him what he wants to hear, and he puts in more money.
There is a view that Musk is not some genius, that he stumbled into making a fortune in PayPal (which was a stumble; read Peter Thiel’s biography, “The Contrarian”) and had a lot of ambition and passions and a high risk tolerance. I find those traits admirable, but they should not be confused with any genius. That he has some need to pretend he is a rocket scientist, car inventor (he bought Telsa, didn’t start it), etc.
I have no idea. But I do know when it comes to politics, he is one of the most gullible suckers to walk into the political bazaar in a long time. He knows nothing but feels obligated to prove it constantly. He’s building a lot of beach houses for the consultants who are fleecing him.
I would expect he will try to sue them after the race. And fail. Because they just nodded and agreed and took his money. It’s not illegal to be a fool throwing money around.