Elon Musk spent more than $445 million on the midterms, then joked about allegations involving “election-interfering space lasers” after several heavily funded races went against his preferred candidates. Crypto-backed super PACs also poured millions into congressional contests, while a new data-center PAC targeted a candidate calling for a construction moratorium. But the clearest backlash came locally, where anti-data-center campaigns won 38 of 39 decided ballot fights.
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Elon Musk's massive financial investments in the midterms failed to secure key Texas races, coinciding with bizarre claims about \"space lasers\" and election interference. Beyond Musk, the video examines how crypto-funded Super PACs and data center interests attempted to buy political influence, only to face significant pushback from voters across the political spectrum.
Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time.
That's according to Elon Musk after he spent more than $445 million
on the midterms,
almost half a billion dollars,
and watching both the big state of Texas races that he bought
go the way of the Dems.
And he posted these crackpot posts.
And look, the space lasers things, in case you missed it,
there's an Alex Gibney documentary
that suggests that Elon heavily impacted the 2024 election.
And according to Ashley Sinclair,
the mother of one of his kids, says in it that before
the election, Elon told her that he was going
to unleash the anomaly in the matrix.
And back in May, he said, excuse me,
she said that he told her that he had 10,000 lasers
in space, meaning Starlink.
And, of course, nobody's ever shown that it's real,
that Starlink was ever hooked up to vote counts.
And fact-checkers, they tend to agree.
But Elon is still going to try to sue the director of the documentary.
And either way, it totally sounds like something that man would say.
Anomaly in the Matrix.
And then the richest man alive, watching his hundreds
of millions of dollars lose in election after election,
decides to joke about how he's alleged
to have rigged the last election.
The man is a freaking lunatic.
And look, yesterday we talked about Elon's influence in Texas,
but there were others that we need to talk about.
Not just Elon either.
Large sums of money from weird companies.
And I'm talking about crypto.
There is a super PAC called Fairshake,
funded mostly by Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz.
And that company exists to buy Congress so that it leaves crypto alone.
And two years ago, it worked.
They spent around $40 million to beat Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
Brown lost.
And this year, they put more than $10 million
against Juliana Stratton in Illinois.
Juliana won.
And then they went after Sherrod Brown again.
He won his seat back.
And Brown says that this company came after him
because they knew he'd come after them.
Well, he's right, because he chaired
that banking committee when FTX blew up.
Now he's back in the majority.
And the money that was supposed to keep him out paid
for ads that just told everybody who he was.
Now, these companies, they did have some success, right?
They won in Nebraska, Pete Ricketts against the Steam Fitter,
Barry Moore in Alabama, Andy Barr in Kentucky.
Their wins were three Republicans in three red states
in places they were expected to win.
Congratulations.
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Now, I do want to touch on data centers for just a second
because there is a brand new super PAC
called Building the Future.
And they won't say who's funding it,
which should be illegal, but I digress.
This PAC spent $2.5 million on ads
and texts for Darlene Graham over in South Carolina.
And why would a data center PAC care about Darlene Graham?
Because her opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews,
called for a two-year moratorium on new data centers in the state.
And Dr. Andrews won.
And across the country,
data centers were on local ballots in dozens of places Tuesday.
And of the 39 of those races that have been called,
The anti-data center side won 38 of them.
They're 38 out of 39.
Nothing else in American politics polls like that.
Red counties, blue counties, it doesn't matter.
People hate data centers.
Because people have figured out
that those big windowless buildings going up next to their subdivision
is going to hoard their water,
spike their power bills, make god-awful noises,
and maybe, maybe employ a few dozen people when it's all said and done.
Hell, even Greg Abbott paused them in Texas.
Because 50%, 57% of Texans agreed with that pause.
Now, Trump called that a mistake.
And Elon, whose companies do build data centers,
wrote Abbott a check anyway.
Because the tech money wanted this entire election,
including Greg Abbott, to say yes to data centers.
And fortunately, when asked directly,
the country said no at least 38 times.
Now, a Democratic lobbyist told the Washington Sun,
and I've seen in the comments, there's
folks asking who the Washington Sun is.
They are the former NOTUS, N-O-T-U-S,
and they're backed by one of the former founders
of Politico.
They do good work.
And you'll hear me quote them a lot
because they do really, really good work.
But a Democratic lobbyist said
that these industries basically burned their cash and
are going to be in the bullseye.
Good, because they may have lost this time,
but they will be back in two years with a
lot more money.
So I'm asking you guys, the places that I know
that these places are popping up, Virginia,
Georgia, Texas, Arizona,
if you've got one of those windowless buildings going up down
the road, tell me where.
Tell me what the impact is, your power bill,
the noises, because I think that this big
fight is going to continue for a very long time.
Tell me in the comments what you think about it.
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