# Elon Musk learns art of political ratfucking, funding ads that impersonate the Harris Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 19, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982 "2024-10-19T21:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/61 "2024-11-04T02:14:04Z")
I’ve been screenshotting some of those ads for history’s sake. To my great disappointment, I haven’t found the ad I saw yesterday featuring pics of Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Elon Musk, and JD Vance. TPM has an article on Musk’s Super PAC. Well funded, but amateurish. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musks-vapor-ware-ground-operation](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musks-vapor-ware-ground-operation) > I could see this Musk story becoming a billionaire-dom morality tale in which it’s illustrated what money can and can’t buy. Obviously if Trump wins the election that story is going to have a lot less oomph in it. But I’m not sure it will make it any less true. Billions gets you ads and mailers. It’s harder to stand up a ground operation on short notice. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/62 "2024-11-04T02:57:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Only if the person is brave enough to try. Most NDAs are pure bluster & rely on fear, not law, as their enforcement mechanism. Point. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/63 "2024-11-04T06:04:59Z")
This is what happens when you install your daughter in law as head of your parties national committee and fire anyone who knows anything about running a campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/64 "2024-11-04T19:52:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > This is what happens when you install your daughter in law as head of your parties national committee and fire anyone who knows anything about running a campaign. . Even a massive incompetent can luck into success once in eight years.\* \*pray to all the gods of all the religions: NOT TWICE, PLEASE. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/65 "2024-12-02T06:20:50Z")
Yep, it happened twice. What’s Elon’s latest project? He’s founded a Montessori school that just received proper certification, and for now is tuition-free. Don’t think I’d want to send my hypothetical kid there, even if he never darkened the doors. [https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/elon-musks-ad-astra-montessori-school-permit-to-open-bastrop-county/269-22f51286-34cc-4349-9355-653f96910f65](https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/elon-musks-ad-astra-montessori-school-permit-to-open-bastrop-county/269-22f51286-34cc-4349-9355-653f96910f65) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/66 "2024-12-03T23:01:54Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > What’s Elon’s latest project? He’s founded a Montessori school that just received proper certification, and for now is tuition-free. Interesting. The right-wing agenda does always seem to include getting rid of public education. Perhaps Elon sees this as providing him with a good argument for privatizing all education. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/67 "2024-12-03T23:20:47Z")
He’s building a company town. It’s basically 19th century style robber baron behavior. He’s already got Texas officials looking the other way on a lot of permitting, so folks in the area have to deal with the noise and trash he generates. He wants to build homes for employees - who he can then control more easily by holding their residences over their heads. We all know Texas is already not the greatest about worker protections against billionaires. With a school, he can control education - hence teaching his worker base exactly what he wants them to learn for the jobs he needs rather than providing a well rounded education that can be used elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-learns-art-of-political-ratfucking-funding-ads-that-impersonate-the-harris-campaign/1008982/68 "2024-12-25T04:22:22Z")
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