This is what it was all about

Trump's victory increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

#USAElections2024 #Billionaires #Trump

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

#Musk lobbied Trump to put Vance on the ticket. He was the one funding the get-out-the-vote effort -turned X into a black hole of anti-immigrant agitprop -going to be given the keys to the dom. discretionary budget, fed budget, to find $2T in cuts from just $1.7T in discretionary spending.

Vance was the headliner at a rally over the weekend, but Musk was a star in absentia -organizers swarmed the line outside to collect data for Musk's PAC.
#USPol #Billionaires #Oligachy motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

American billionaires have long placed their thumbs on the scale of democracy—but never like this.

Welcome to the oligarch election.

^{Mother Jones}

“Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”

#ClimateEmergency

gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-t…

Billionaires Are the One Case Where Personal Choices Can Affect Climate Change

A new study found that half of the world’s carbon emissions come from the richest 10% of people.

^{Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)}

Bezos did it. #WashingtonPost #billionaires

“Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports”

cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos…

Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided again it, the newspaper reported.

^{Dan Mangan (CNBC)}