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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.