Nov 4, 2026, 3:25 PM@csilverman well, that is what happens when you cheap out! The previous election cost him 55bi. He expected to get the congress with a fraction of that? 🤪
- Nov 4, 2026, 3:25 PM
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Chris Silverman 🌻csilverman@mastodon.socialNov 4, 2026, 3:39 PM@pcora I believe Musk spent $250 million on the 2024 election. $44 billion was what he dropped on Twitter (which wasn't worth anywhere near that as far as I know).
So he *doubled* his election-stealing budget, and not only lost that money, but Tesla and SpaceX are down a few percentage points this morning.
Both of which are headquartered in Texas, by the way. Heh heh heh.
- Nov 4, 2026, 4:01 PM
@csilverman yea, I am counting the twitter money in this. I don’t think trump would have won without that tbh…
- Chris Silverman 🌻csilverman@mastodon.socialNov 4, 2026, 4:13 PM
@pcora Oh, interesting point. I do recall Musk acknowledging that he wasn't buying Twitter for business reasons; he claimed he was doing it out of some altruistic dedication to free speech.
Most of us recognized that as a joke, but if one defines "free speech" as "far-right propaganda bubble", then yeah, I guess $44B bought him two years to lay waste to the federal government.
I'm not sure what kind of ROI he saw on this, but I'm not a super business genius like Elon Musk is so what do I know.