If you're a Republican voter, Elon Musk is betting on it.
Elon Musk gives $276 million to Republican groups, becomes biggest known 2026 midterm donor
Can *You* Be Bought?
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Valentino
The Man - The Myth
He's donating for campaigns. Is this something new?If you're a Republican voter, Elon Musk is betting on it.
Elon Musk gives $276 million to Republican groups, becomes biggest known 2026 midterm donor
He's donated unheard-of-till-now amounts of money to buy MAGAT votes. Imagine if this were being done by the dreaded George Soros, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates -- to Democrats' PACs and individual war chests. Would that bother you?
And now he's trying to buy people he wants in that government. Didn't work out so well in Wisconsin a couple of years ago.
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
Similarly, she said the court’s decisions to ease campaign finance rules have left loopholes that have allowed a massive infusion of political contributions into elections.
“The people of America look around this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare,” she said. “And they’re right.”
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
The justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.
www.nytimes.com
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
Similarly, she said the court’s decisions to ease campaign finance rules have left loopholes that have allowed a massive infusion of political contributions into elections.
“The people of America look around this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare,” she said. “And they’re right.”
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
The justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.
She's right. Citizens United is destroying election integrity far more than the handful of proven fraud cases.
Supreme Court declared bribery is free speech. They should have been disbanded.
Valentino
The Man - The Myth
They do so jointly.
Democrats are akao adept at getting dark money and money laundered funds.
Matt Dillon
Retardium User
Zuckerberg donated $400 million in 2020.
And he set up and controlled all the polling places in the swing states where the fraud was.
BREAKING: Georgia Elections Board Accepted $2 Million From Mark Zuckerberg’s Group, Violating State Law
During the 2020 election, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Pricilla Chan, donated tremendous amounts to non-profit organizations around the country. In fact, the pair donated about $400 million during the election cycle. That money then ended up helping liberals more than...
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WCM
Verified User
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was part of the Trusted News Initiative:
Trusted News Initiative
www.bbc.co.uk
Ostensibly the group was formed to "work together to build audience trust and to find solutions to tackle challenges of disinformation", but their track record says otherwise. And honestly, when was the last time that you saw a bunch of people huddle up to get their story straight when they were all telling the truth? And what is the difference between scouring the internet of opposing viewpoints and book-burning? IMO book-burning is small potatoes compared to BANNING THE WHOLE WORLD FROM BASIC, EASILY VERIFIABLE INFORMATION, like the existence of a BSL4 lab in Wuhan.
TNI was famously on the wrong side of the "origin of covid" story, and nothing short of authoritarian in its policing of the narratives. Ditto for the Hunter laptop story.
In both instances, not only did all of the media outlets across the globe parrot the exact same false narratives verbatim, every day, for years on end, more ominously, the truth was actually banned from social media. FB & Twitter banned the truth and they banned users for telling it, and Microsoft and Google searches, etc were used to push the false narratives by bringing up misleading information for popular searches.
The most egregious instance of that digital book-burning on a global scale was when the NYPost was kicked off of FB and Twitter for reporting information that was 100% factual, while the FBI had the evidence in their possession to prove it. Remember when "51 former intelligence officers" signed a letter saying that it was "Russian disinformation"? Yeah... legitimate agents with any inside info whatsoever absolutely knew that the Hunter laptop was legit. Hunter even acknowledges that "everyone knows everything about me because of the leaked laptop."
Freedom of speech became "Repeat our false narratives or you are cancelled".
Initially TNI included:
- AP
- AFP
- BBC
- CBC/Radio-Canada
- European Broadcasting Union
- Financial Times
- Information Futures Lab
- Google/YouTube
- The Hindu
- The Nation Media Group
- FBaceBook
- Microsoft
- Thomson Reuters
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- The Washington Post
- Kompas – Indonesia
- Dawn – Pakistan
- Indian Express
- NDTV – India
- ABC – Australia
- SBS – Australia
- NHK – Japan
So my main question to you, Owly Woman, is: "Why did Elon Musk instantly go from HERO to zero when he pulled Twitter out of the global disinformation cabal?" He was an absolute hero with full rockstar status to the leftard cult-horde until he started fighting the Nazi-level disinformation machine, then he became public enemy number one. Would you also have hated it if Goebbels had his wings clipped by a guy like Musk?
The FACT is that pulling Twitter out of TNI was a noble deed, which simultaneously saved freedom of speech and the truth. That is a fact. You cannot dispute that with adult words.
And why does Soros's money comfort you while Musk's money infuriates you?
Jerry Mathers
Was it me?
excellent work here wcm
If you think that kinda money comes without strings I need to talk to you about this bridge I have for sale.
YOu're info on TBI is sadly just RWNJ propaganda. In fact it is the polar opposite of factual.Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was part of the Trusted News Initiative:
Trusted News Initiative
www.bbc.co.uk
Ostensibly the group was formed to "work together to build audience trust and to find solutions to tackle challenges of disinformation", but their track record says otherwise. And honestly, when was the last time that you saw a bunch of people huddle up to get their story straight when they were all telling the truth? And what is the difference between scouring the internet of opposing viewpoints and book-burning? IMO book-burning is small potatoes compared to BANNING THE WHOLE WORLD FROM BASIC, EASILY VERIFIABLE INFORMATION, like the existence of a BSL4 lab in Wuhan.
TNI was famously on the wrong side of the "origin of covid" story, and nothing short of authoritarian in its policing of the narratives. Ditto for the Hunter laptop story.
In both instances, not only did all of the media outlets across the globe parrot the exact same false narratives verbatim, every day, for years on end, more ominously, the truth was actually banned from social media. FB & Twitter banned the truth and they banned users for telling it, and Microsoft and Google searches, etc were used to push the false narratives by bringing up misleading information for popular searches.
The most egregious instance of that digital book-burning on a global scale was when the NYPost was kicked off of FB and Twitter for reporting information that was 100% factual, while the FBI had the evidence in their possession to prove it. Remember when "51 former intelligence officers" signed a letter saying that it was "Russian disinformation"? Yeah... legitimate agents with any inside info whatsoever absolutely knew that the Hunter laptop was legit. Hunter even acknowledges that "everyone knows everything about me because of the leaked laptop."
Freedom of speech became "Repeat our false narratives or you are cancelled".
Initially TNI included:
but other orgs like NYT joined later, as did CTV and Global (iirc) in Canada.
- AP
- AFP
- BBC
- CBC/Radio-Canada
- European Broadcasting Union
- Financial Times
- Information Futures Lab
- Google/YouTube
- The Hindu
- The Nation Media Group
- FBaceBook
- Microsoft
- Thomson Reuters
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- The Washington Post
- Kompas – Indonesia
- Dawn – Pakistan
- Indian Express
- NDTV – India
- ABC – Australia
- SBS – Australia
- NHK – Japan
So my main question to you, Owly Woman, is: "Why did Elon Musk instantly go from HERO to zero when he pulled Twitter out of the global disinformation cabal?" He was an absolute hero with full rockstar status to the leftard cult-horde until he started fighting the Nazi-level disinformation machine, then he became public enemy number one. Would you also have hated it if Goebbels had his wings clipped by a guy like Musk?
The FACT is that pulling Twitter out of TNI was a noble deed, which simultaneously saved freedom of speech and the truth. That is a fact. You cannot dispute that with adult words.
And why does Soros's money comfort you while Musk's money infuriates you?
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
The "slide" towards an authoritarianism/fascism is becoming a trot.Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
Similarly, she said the court’s decisions to ease campaign finance rules have left loopholes that have allowed a massive infusion of political contributions into elections.
“The people of America look around this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare,” she said. “And they’re right.”
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization
The justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Hell, I can be "bought". Pay me a decent weeks salary and I'll work for you! 
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
You do know, that the "polar opposite of factual" is:
Fictional
Speculative
Fabricated
False
or even, mythical
TBI is, indeed, the polar opposite of factual.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
You should be careful there. I'm betting his idea of a job for your "decent weeks salary" involves the word 'blow.'Hell, I can be "bought". Pay me a decent weeks salary and I'll work for you!
