r/SpaceXBets • u/Apprehensive_Eye6684 • 13h ago
Elon Criticism Elon Musk has poured at least $276 million into the midterms since the summer, re-emerging as the top known donor to the Republican Party. A spokesperson for...
http://youtube.com/post/Ugkxv62tt02klSBlsbcGxM5qH1qnWG13jUmv?si=a5w80rwYI0Mvl5rT116
u/radiohead-nerd 13h ago
To purchase a Tesla, use StarLink, or invest in any of this man's companies is to finance this behavior.
Down vote me all you want, but it's the straight up truth.
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u/nonoanddefinitelyno 13h ago
The Democrats need to fix this. None of this "let's all move on, we are working for all Americans". Fuck that - they need to elect someone with a spine to be president.
In two years this Musk could, and should be, utterly fucked.
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u/CatLightyear 12h ago
Yeah. We tried that after the Civil War and look what happened. Tried it again after Nixon and look what happened. The Trump admin. is perfectly described as the party of grievance for losing the Civil War and having Nixon resign.
Should have burned the South to the ground and impeached Nixon.
Let’s not make the same mistake. Prosecute MAGA and the Republican and Conservative enablers to the fullest extent of the law.
Burn and impeach, should be the motto.
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u/dunkdoop 13h ago
It's inevitable. His companies are way overvalued and propped up by corruption. That's not to say I wouldn't mind hastening it.
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u/garbageemail222 11h ago
Break up every monopoly, including Space X. Fire every Republican at the FTC immediately on day one, a new power given to the president. Expand the court so it won't stop you. Break up every company that has too much market power. Every one.
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u/Seven19td 7h ago
So essentially a dictatorship? Yeah no thanks. I’ll sit out before I vote for anything like that.
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u/EvanStran 8h ago
Disgusting. Elon Musk has done more to support American interests and innovation than almost any other person in history.
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u/Xollector 4h ago
They need to repeal citizen united vs FEC. There should be limits and rules regarding political funding so that they don’t rig all the candidates before election even starts to say the least
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u/HashtagDadWatts 12h ago
What steps would you suggest that reflect “spine?”
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u/nonoanddefinitelyno 12h ago
A willingness, no, a DESIRE to hold people accountable and not just sweep the last 12 years under the rug in the interest of reconciliation.
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u/Intelligent-Crow3812 10h ago
People give Dems a lot of shit for this, but honestly-- I too wanted to return to normalcy in 2021. Now we need pure, unbridled accountability. November won't get us there but it will be a start.
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u/HashtagDadWatts 12h ago
What does that mean vis a vis musk?
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u/HashtagDadWatts 11h ago
I’m asking you what specific steps you would suggest and it seems like you’re being vague and evasive.
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u/HashtagDadWatts 11h ago
So you could’ve just said “I have no specific suggestions” when I asked the first time instead of dancing around. Lol.
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u/AcadiaLivid2582 12h ago edited 11h ago
Musk overstayed his student visa and is therefore illegally in the United States.
He should be denaturalized and deported.
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u/MuteCook 11h ago
He can just buy a golden visa so it would be pointless. It’s a big club my friend
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u/Ok_Security1721 12h ago
Remember when Donald Trump incited a coup attempt and had boxes of classified documents in his country club’s unlocked shower and instead of actually punishing him he was allowed to run for president again?
That’s an example of the democrats not having a spine
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u/ReplacementLatter467 11h ago
The reason he sold out to get elected.
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u/AnotherDumNinja 12h ago
What does that mean? What's your proposal?
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u/nonoanddefinitelyno 12h ago
Holding everyone to account according to the law.
Controversial, I know.
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u/MuteCook 11h ago
lol. How long have you been voting? I only ask because that’s been the sentiment for decades yet everytime they get elected they try to “heal” and “unite” us. I’m not saying their policies are the same but their donors certainly are
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u/Lopsided-Ticket3813 12h ago
The fact that his career didn't end when he did a Nazi still baffles me, but I'm with you I will never buy or use any product affiliated with an Elon company.
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u/Techn028 8h ago
If he spent 1.4M of his net worth every day it wouldn't be exhausted for 2000 years
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u/GenerativeAdversary 4h ago
Honestly you do make me want a Tesla and Starlink when you put it that way
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u/surfnfish1972 13h ago
An illegal immigrant trying to steal our elections, as always if number goes up it is all ok.
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u/Chebbzthehpal 13h ago
Gottah combat that Soros influence
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u/foo-bar-25 13h ago
Soros net worth is 1% of Elmo’s.
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u/gohomebrentyourdrunk 12h ago
Don’t you dare sully Elmo’s name with that trillionaire piece of trash.
Elno.
Elongated Muskrat.
Piece of trash.
Terrible father.
Terrible human being in almost all regards.
Not Elmo.
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u/Chebbzthehpal 13h ago
How much has he poured into the midterms?
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u/foo-bar-25 13h ago
Helluva lot less than $276 million. He’s not fighting to keep his companies running on subsidies, or stay out of prison.
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u/Neither_Pirate5903 13h ago
roughly 100 million
that's the entire Sosors family buy the way not one person
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u/danis1973 12h ago
Don't ask us - look it up yourself. And I'll make a gentleman wager with you that it's fractional compared to musk's. And when you find out for yourself, you'll probably start asking yourself how much more bullshit have I believed in that isn't true.
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u/Prize-Choice2185 13h ago
but not Koch Brothers one
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u/Chebbzthehpal 13h ago
Both sides have their whales
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u/Prize-Choice2185 13h ago
"Fine people on both sides" - you know who said that, right?
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u/Chebbzthehpal 13h ago
George Soros, alongside his son Alex, has contributed approximately $103.7 million to the 2026 midterm elections
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u/Prize-Choice2185 13h ago edited 13h ago
Is that comparable to Trump's sons fortunes? Or Musk's fortunes, for that matter? Be honest with me
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u/Meowakin 13h ago
I like that your argument is that they need to combat Soros' influence. Why is it over 2.5x more than Soros has spent? It may not be an order of magnitude greater, but still significantly more spending by Musk. Which makes Soros' activity a pretty weak justification for the behavior, I would think.
Unless, of course, you think that it's acceptable to do exactly what you accuse your opponents of doing, but 2.5x more.
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u/sssssssssssssss5s 13h ago
and that makes it ok for you?
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u/Chebbzthehpal 13h ago
Yup why shouldn’t both sides have contributors? You think only the left should have donors?
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u/sssssssssssssss5s 13h ago
No, I don't think anyone should be allowed to spend this much money to influence elections at all.
Are you cool with rich people buying elections?
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u/Prize-Choice2185 13h ago
> shouldn’t both sides have contributors?
You say that while pointing out Soros is a bigger problem. How come?
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u/Throwaway585811276 12h ago
Because the Republican party is the worst thing happening to America right now, and no one should be funding it at all.
How is this not obvious to you?
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 13h ago
Out comes the bogeyman again. Evidence. Please provide it.
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u/oscar-307 13h ago
Soros is a jew! I thought you guys hate jews?
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 13h ago
You guys? I think people don't like the state of Israel but that doesn't mean you don't also have to dislike Jews.
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u/oscar-307 13h ago
So, antizionists like jews? Im sure the jews in israel wouldn't agree.
From the river to the sea and globalize the intifada are pro jew chants? Go figure.
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 12h ago
You seem to think there only two opposing sides to any idea or issue. Theres plenty of Jews who have a range of opinions on the Isreali state and their genocidal war.
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u/oscar-307 10h ago
If the IDF wanted all Palistinians dead (genocide), they would all be dead within a few weeks
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 10h ago
It seems like they are enjoying it too much to be quick about it.
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u/oscar-307 10h ago
75k of 2 million palistinians killed since Oct 7. The IRGC killed half that, all civillian in a single week in Jan. Why no outrage there?
The civillian to combatants ratio is somewhere between 1:1 to 9:1. The nuke in nagasaki during ww2 was about 500:1.
If the IDF is trying to commit genocide, they really suck at it. Or, it is not genocide. The IDF could easily kill 2 million palistinians in a few weeks without using nukes if it wanted to comit genocide.
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u/SurpriseInitial6202 12h ago
I'm a Jew who doesn't like Netanyahu. Oh no! Nuance! Can't have that in your brain. That's too confusing.
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u/DaSmartSwede 11h ago
Who said that? FOX News? Trump? Bibi?
Trustworthy sources with no agenda…
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u/DaSmartSwede 10h ago
Are you confusing Israel with Judaism?
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u/oscar-307 10h ago
Your might be right. The 4th intifada would probably include attacks on Israeli arabs.
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u/Drakex2Mayex2 12h ago
Imagine spending decades pounding the George soros drum, but when the most braisen era of this behavior in the history of our country is upon us you are just cheering those dudes on. Absolute buffoon behavior from a straight up NPC
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u/Terrible-Nerve-6819 13h ago
Hes an american citizen
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u/evocativename 13h ago
An American citizen who violated his student visa and was therefore issued his green card under fraudulent pretenses.
He was therefore ineligible to be a citizen and must be denaturalized and deported as per Republican policy.
Better send ICE!
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u/Terrible-Nerve-6819 12h ago
Ummm but hes a citizen
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u/evocativename 12h ago
And he obtained his citizenship fraudulently. Under US law, he must be denaturalized and removed.
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u/No-Shopping-4434 12h ago
That’s never stopped ICE before
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u/namaste652 11h ago
He is an African immigrant who bred at least 14 children out of at least 4 American Women.
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u/surfnfish1972 7h ago
Obtained through fraud just like our prostitute First lady.
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u/Terrible-Nerve-6819 6h ago
Oddly these claims can only be found here. Google says differently. But i know you guys use alternate universe google or something
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u/surfnfish1972 6h ago
OK Cultist.
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u/Terrible-Nerve-6819 6h ago
😆😆. Yea im the cultist. Not the one whos every thought and emotion revolve around trump and elon..
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u/Forrester217 13h ago
If America ever gets out from under this current shitshow the likes of this lad need to be 1) taxed to the hilt 2) no more govt subsidies …….if he’s got all this money to pour into political parties around the world he can afford it
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u/Robespierre77 13h ago
It doesn’t hurt as bad when you cheat after donating so much dough. It’ll be just like the first time: see I donated so much money and it made the difference. Never mind me and my computer guys with software expertise, or my global satellite network. It’s really just my incomparable fat sack of money that does it.
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u/cometgold 13h ago
This keeps happening until we limit how much one person can donate to a political campaign but alas, this is the accepted American way.
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u/DeathKillsLove 13h ago
Surprise! Because, you know, money is speech so he gets to Dictate (speak) for America.
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u/Crunchberry24 13h ago
It’s not shocking that one of the world’s most notorious pedophiles and the biggest welfare queen in history would be fervently support the Republican Pedo-Protection Party that enables his child rape and tax payer parasitism.
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u/Crash_Ntome 12h ago
Elons' response to redditors
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u/baron_spaghetti 9h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah…I’m not going to his site to see what the bastard says.
Thanks anyway.
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u/mr-snus 12h ago
Jesus christ...
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u/Stitching4Gold 11h ago
Money can buy a lot but it cant buy Elon everything. We are humans after all money can only do so much. We get to feel the wonders of life unlike you. Drug addict loser.
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u/Lucaslouch 12h ago
and this is why no one should have more than 100Millions.
because you can buy elections.
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u/SellingCopperWire 11h ago
400 million gets a statement from Brendan Carr noting that SpaceX is the only wireless carrier that he uses.
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u/OKCompruter 10h ago
So just roughly taking his "trillion" valuation for napkin math, he can spend 0.0275% of his net worth on each election and just be emperor now right? Like he won at capitalism so we just live in his video game world or die? What's even the point of having a government anymore if it's just his intentions manifest?
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u/ShotBandicoot7 10h ago
Until he gets a slight derailment episode again. That didn‘t serve his net worth well.
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u/ImAPonderer2 9h ago
It’s not even worth spending a minute considering the $276 million expense for him, it’s nothing to him but it can buy off all of Congress.
As long as we allow our politicians to be influenced by money, this has to stop
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u/Interesting_Berry439 13h ago
fElon never will be able to just walk around outside without massive security. His quest for friends and normalcy is an exercise in futility.
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u/ALEXC_23 12h ago
I wonder why… if only he poured that much money into raising his kids, fixing world poverty, climate change, or fixing his botched penis 🍆
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u/johnnyhandbags 12h ago
He's going to have to spend a lot more to build a new data center for Yandex to get his bots back
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u/drstelly2870 12h ago
He gets money from the government for his businesses and projects and then he pours money into campaigns....hummmmmm?
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u/Intelligent-Crow3812 10h ago
Dude loves middle east wars and killing children so it makes sense he would do this.
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u/SimplePln 10h ago
Don’t tax the wealthy too much! They can’t afford it! It will destroy the country! Something something communism !
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u/syntax_error16 10h ago
Just imagine the good we could have done if he'd have just paid that in taxes.
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u/PanteraOne 9h ago
This absolute piece of trash should be deported instead of using his money to manipulate our elections in support of Traitor Trump's authoritarian dictatorship.
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u/rama1423 9h ago
One of the first things a progressive government need to do if we ever have one again is nationalize all his companies, freeze all his remaining assets and deport him somewhere like Iran, or the bottom of the ocean I don’t care.
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u/Actual-Employee-1601 8h ago
guy spent more on republican ads than most of us will see in ten lifetimes adn still has time to tweet through it every night. the whole thing where he pretends to be some neutral tech genius while dumping a quarter billion into one party is just. lol. at least be honest about it
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u/AgreeablePresence476 7h ago
There ought to be laws prohibiting this anti-democratic evil. Reform Scotus full speed ahead.
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u/binarydissonance 4h ago
Who wants to bet he finds compelling reasons to move to Argentina if the Republicans lose the midterms?
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u/Harnellas 4h ago
Someone should put up billboards with screencaps of his embarassing and pathetic Twitter spat with the donald.
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u/1hill2climb2 1h ago
Let's burn this MFer to the ground. VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!!
Turn this Nazi prick into a criminal. An illegal immigrant criminal trying to DESTROY our country from within.
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u/JacksonGhost1963 13h ago
Just a FYI - George Soros is the current top individual donor for the Democratic party in the 2026 midterm election cycle, contributing roughly $102.8 million primarily through Democracy PAC
and guess what - it's not illegal
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u/Debatablewisdom 12h ago
So there is at least one person fighting against this Nazi, is that what you’re saying?
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u/JacksonGhost1963 12h ago
you ever stop to wonder why it is ZERO concern for you that someone like Soros have given about 1.5 Billion dollars to the Democrats over the years, yet here you are whining like a little bitch because someone is donating to the Republicans?
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u/DaSmartSwede 11h ago
Zero concern? Have you heard republicans the last 20 years?
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u/JacksonGhost1963 11h ago
but you - you don't care about that at all
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u/DaSmartSwede 10h ago
Ofcourse I do
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u/Enjoy_The_Ride413 12h ago
Soros is at 104 million for dems! Good when dems get it, bad when the GOP gets it.
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u/shanehiltonward 10h ago
Countering Soros, Act Blue, and professors at every liberal university. ;)
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u/Long_Idea_8294 12h ago
So what? Kamala had far more donations than any candidate ever, and you had no issue.





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u/PostalMortem 13h ago