#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.

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