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firstRaw Story Elon Musk sulks after blowing $400 million on GOP midterm wipeout ↗
+44mMediaite Elon Musk’s Got Jokes After Dropping Boatloads of Cash to Failed GOP Candidates ↗
+24hCrooks and Liars Musk Copes With Silly Little Jokes After Burning $458 MILLION On GOP Failure ↗
+3demptywheel The oligarch with a history of stiffing his labor, including paid canvassers, couldn't find enough people who would take $1.50 a door to knock on 1.7M doors in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/u... ↗
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emptywheel · Sat 10:13
The oligarch with a history of stiffing his labor, including paid canvassers, couldn't find enough people who would take $1.50 a door to knock on 1.7M doors in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/u...

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crooksandliars.com··By Andrea Thompson
Musk Copes With Silly Little Jokes After Burning $458 MILLION On GOP Failure
Elon Musk personally spent a staggering $458 million in an effort to prop up MAGA Republican candidates all across the country ahead of last night's midterm elections -- and it was all for absolutely nothing, leaving the world's first two-second-trillionaire trying to cope by cracking a few silly little jokey jokes.…
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rawstory.com··By Travis Gettys
Elon Musk sulks after blowing $400 million on GOP midterm wipeout
Elon Musk spent more than $400 million trying to stop a Democratic wave, and woke up the morning after Election Day to find his money had bought him almost nothing. The world’s richest man, now the largest individual political donor in modern American history, poured his fortune into Republican Senate and House races…
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