Elon Musk
b. 1971
The richest man alive, who bought a megaphone and then a slice of the state.
Elon Musk is the purest expression of the thesis: private wealth converted directly into public power. He bought Twitter and remade it as a personal political megaphone, spent record sums to elect Donald Trump, and then took a chainsaw to the federal government through DOGE — cuts that dismantled aid programs credited with saving tens of millions of lives. Oligarchy, out in the open.
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He bought Twitter in 2022 and remade it as X into a personal political megaphone.
FACTThe world's richest person paid roughly $44 billion for the platform, reinstated banned accounts, reshaped its algorithm, and used it to drive political discourse toward his own ends.
He led DOGE, whose cuts gutted USAID and the aid programs credited with saving tens of millions of lives.
FACTThe 'Department of Government Efficiency' dismantled the cheapest, highest-return spending the government did — foreign aid the site documents as having saved an estimated 92 million lives.
He is the exemplar of big money buying control of the government.
FACTRecord political spending converted directly into a West Wing office and authority over the federal bureaucracy — access money bought in the open.
His America PAC ran a $1-million-a-day giveaway to voters in the 2024 election.
SOME SMOKEThe daily 'lottery' to registered swing-state voters drew legal challenges over whether it crossed the line into paying people in connection with voting; we grade the scheme's legality SOME SMOKE, the spending itself FACT.
Every investigation that touches Elon
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- The cheapest thing the government did saved 92 million lives. Then DOGE ended it.The Austerity MythFACT
- Big Money Fighting for Control of the US GovernmentReturn on InvestmentFACT
- A Million a DayThe Real Voter Fraud?SOME SMOKE
- They Published the PlanThe Corporate StateFACT
- The Eugenicist in the RoomThe Corporate StateFACT
- The National Design StudioThe Tech RightFACT
- The Investor in the War RoomThe Tech RightFACT
- The Sin of EmpathyOutrage & ApathyFACT
- Of, By, and For the People?The Corporate StatePROBABLY TRUE
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