ICYMI | I think Elon's getting Vivek'd after this one, folks
Musk has spent his entire career using his money to convince people he’s smart. This is why Musk sued the actual founders of both the platform that would become Paypal and, also, Tesla to make sure he’d have to be called a founder of both. And why he has spent considerable energy over the last two decades trying to convince credulous journalists and idiotic politicians that he was irl Tony Stark. Now he’s found the dumbest, least inquisitive, most media illiterate people to ever walk the Earth as his new marks: Republicans. So he bought their favorite website and set up his super PAC and is now, once again, using his money as a way to convince American conservatives that, as Trump put it, “he knows those computers better than anybody.” Maybe Trump thinks X posts helped him win (they absolutely didn’t), maybe Trump thinks Musk actually rigged the election (also doubtful). But I imagine it’s similar to when you help your grandfather reset his Netflix password. Doesn’t matter what happened in the computer, but it worked. The PDF rotated. And if Musk did have any actual impact on last year’s election, it was almost certainly thanks to the $290 million he spent on Trump’s campaign, around $50 million of which were spent on million-dollar giveaways like the one he tried again this week. But, once again, did it matter? Seeing as how things played out in Wisconsin, likely not. Which is a problem because the only thing Musk is truly a genius at is burning through unimaginable amounts of money on dumb shit no one cares about.