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Tech billionaire Elon Musk wants to give away $1 million every day to registered voters in battleground states who sign a petition for his PAC for America, he announced while campaigning for Donald Trump over the weekend.
It’s unclear whether this latest masterful gambit of his could veer into criminal territory, but it’s certainly a “trick” worthy of federal scrutiny, according to The new abnormalis extraordinary housewives, Daniel Moody and Andy Levy.
“That’s what it is. It’s a stunt,” says Moody. “Elon Musk could care about democracy.”
Yet not a peep has been heard from the Justice Department or from US Attorney General Merrick Garland, who may or may not be asleep at the wheel in this most crucial final stretch of the election cycle.
“Is Merrick Garland still with us?” Moody asks. “Because I’m confused. I haven’t heard or seen him in a very long time.”
“I think he’s still there,” Levi replies. “I think he comes in every day and… I don’t know, reads the paper and goes home. Maybe he quietly left.
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Then a conversation with Brian Merchantformer technology columnist for Los Angeles Times and the author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Merchant explains exactly how Musk’s technology projects have become inseparable from his authoritarian aspirations.
“Nobody wants to admit that the most successful billionaire in the world, the most successful tech mogul, is also engaged in this really often repulsive political agenda and doing it naked and open,” Merchant says, “and we just have to start sorting these out images.”
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