Uh-Oh Elon: He spent $500 million and Lost Everithing

Elon Musk just showed us that just because you're one of the richest people on Earth doesn't mean you can buy an election. Now, he gave it a really good shot. Elon reportedly spent $474 million supporting Republican candidates in political causes during these recent midterms, almost half a billion. And after all of the spending, after all of the posts and the money flowing and all of it, Democrats won the House and Democrats won the Senate. And they won really important races, including ones that specifically affect Musk like Texas, Texas Senate, Texas governor. They delivered, the voters did, a devastating defeat to what Elon Musk was trying to support. And apparently, Elon Musk was so thrilled with the outcome, he started deleting election-related posts. This is fascinating. Elon, on election day, posted, go out there and vote Republican. And he deleted that post because it was so humiliating. Let's appreciate the sequence of events here. You spend almost half a billion dollars trying to influence an election. And you use the social media platform you own to encourage people to vote Republican and the Republicans get crushed. And then your message is about going out to vote for Republicans to disappear. One of the most extraordinary examples of this is Texas. Is this you? Elon Musk not only moved his company to Texas, he also spent a whole bunch of money trying to support Republicans there. And that included Ken Paxton's failed campaign against James Tallarico. That includes Greg Abbott's failed reelection campaign, losing to Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa. And it was such a significant outcome that you now have Republicans saying our entire national strategy may not even work. Ron DeSantis, we looked at earlier in the show, he describes it as an extinction level event and says, if we can't reliably count on Texas, we're screwed. And then you have Elon Musk, one of the people who spent the most money trying to prevent this, deleting posts. Now, there's the funny, like, haha, humiliation aspect of it. But let me talk about something else. What I think is much more important here is about Elon Musk's relationship with the federal government. Because for a while, Elon Musk had this unusual position where, kind of like Jared Kushner in the first term, quite frankly, Where Musk was running companies that did billions of dollars of business with the government, but he was also exercising influence inside the federal government. This was because of Doge and how he was in charge of Doge to find waste, fraud and abuse and all that stuff that deserves oversight. We need Democrats. To subpoena Elon Musk, to get the records, and to try to figure out what decisions were made by Doge and who did those decisions benefit financially. Were there conflicts of interest? Were procurement rules followed? Was sensitive government information handled appropriately? We shouldn't assume Elon committed crimes necessarily because we don't like Doge, But congressional and congressional investigators must look. at what happened, follow the money, figure out whether laws were broken, and if laws were broken, prosecute the responsible people. That is the standard that Republicans demanded when they were saying, hey, we need to investigate Hillary, or we need to investigate other Democrats. Do it then. Look at the evidence. Follow the leads. I'm not asking for any manufactured criminal charges, but don't give him immunity because he's Elon Musk. One other area of concern, SpaceX and Starlink. They've played a major role in Ukraine's defensive war against Russia. And there was this controversy where Elon Musk refused to enable Starlink coverage near Crimea. For a proposed Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet. And there were reports that Musk switched off the service during an attack, but then they corrected it. The more accurate account is service wasn't enabled there. And Elon refused Ukraine's request to activate it. And there is a question now as to why one billionaire is able to make decisions about communications infrastructure that can quite literally affect how a war goes. And we should be looking at that very closely. There are also really disturbing, legitimate questions about Elon Musk's public statements regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein's relationships with powerful circles. Again, just because you know Epstein doesn't mean you committed a crime. But investigators should look at it, examine the evidence, figure out what went down. And lastly, this government contract issue. Elon Musk's companies get federal contracts. If that's the case, every contract should be reviewed on its merits. Is there really value here to the taxpayer? Are these contracts necessary? Have the rules of procurement been followed? And if the contract should be canceled, cancel them. Cancel them not because it's Elon Musk. But cancel them if there are legitimate legal or financial reasons to do so. I don't want Democrats doing the same kind of politically motivated retaliation that I criticized Trump for doing. I don't want that. I want real accountability. That is the bigger story. Elon Musk spent so much money trying to shape the future Thank you very much. And so now congressional oversight is going to change and he has gotten very used to Elon has having direct access to powerful people, having a sort of de facto immunity and all of it. Well, it's time to investigate. It's time to investigate Elon Musk.