I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
Six stallions say, I can afford.
Is not their strength my property?
I tear along, a sporting lord
As if their legs belongs to me.
-Goethe
Money’s properties are my properties and essential powers – the properties and powers of its possessor. ….I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly for, for the effect of ugliness – its deterrent power – is nullified by money……I am stupid, but money is the real mind of all things and how then should its possessor be stupid?
Assume man to be man and his relationship to the world to be a human one; then you can exchange love only for love, trust for trust, etc.
– Marx
Andrew Perez of RollingStone reported today that election financial disclosures filed yesterday revealed that Elon Musk was the secret funder of the “RBG PAC,” a Super PAC created just before the election that claimed Trump had the same position on abortion as the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Although Trump has bragged about overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion and the 2024 Republican platform supported the far-right idea of “fetal personhood”—which would apply all the rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from the moment a human egg is fertilized—the RBG PAC ran ads promising that Trump would not support a national abortion ban.
Ginsburg’s granddaughter called the comparison of Trump and her grandmother “nothing short of appalling.”
The super PAC was created so late that it avoided disclosure before November 5. It was funded entirely by Musk with an injection of $20.5 million.
Bridget Bowman, Ben Kamisar, and Scott Bland of NBC News reported tonight that Musk spent at least $250 million to get Trump elected. In addition to the $20.5 million to the RBG PAC, he put $238 million into the America PAC. Musk also supported Trump through free advertising and commentary on his social media platform X.
Heather Cox Richardson