Tuesday night's midterms massacre of the Republicans was just as much about punishing the GOP for giving the billionaire tech-bros free reign to wreak havoc in our lives, as much as it was about the Republicans having foisted Drumpf and MAGA on us:
Link: Texas Just Went Blue, and the Tech Bros Are Sad - Business Insider
"Texas — with its cowboy hats, slow-smoked barbecue, and de-regulatory stance — was supposed to be the California antidote for tech bros fed up with Silicon Valley's Democratic politics.
Well, Texas just got a lot bluer.
On Tuesday, voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate. In Texas, they selected James Talarico for the Senate and Gina Hinojosa for the governor's mansion, despite massive Republican spending backed by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Now, the tech-world frustration is starting to trickle out.
"Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now," Musk wrote on X."
As I wrote in a prior post, it will never stop being giggle-inducing funny that MuskRat moved his corporate presence out of California to Texas because California was too "woke" for his liking, and also because California voters, you know, those pesky things known as citizens, were considering a ballot measure to impose a piddling tax on the ever-increasing wealth of guys like Elmo and his fellow tech-bro billionaires operating out of their state.
So Elmo gives California the finger and sets up shop deep in the heart of red-state Texas, and then proceeds to light half a $Billion of his personal wealth on fire supporting Drumpf and MAGA candidates in these midterm elections only to see them all lose, the US House and Senate taken over by Democrats, and every statewide office in Texas go to Democrats as well.
Rotflmao. I mean, talk about an epic Homer Simpson moment, right?
Frankly, imho, if billionaires like MuskRat, Thiel, Andreesen, Miriam Adelson, the Uihleins and other right-wing, fascism friendly wealth hoarders demand the freedom to use their wealth to try and manipulate the outcomes of American elections that favor their - once again, fascism friendly agendas - then American voters should have the equal freedom to elect representatives who will vote into law measures (new taxes for ie.) to counteract that anti-democratic behavior by these selfish, greedy, once again, fascism friendly oligarchs.
Clearly billionaires like MuskRat have so much loose cash laying around that spending a few hundred million on an election is mere chump change to them. Better to tax that money and invest it in the society that helped pave the way to that ill-deserved wealth to begin with.
Implementing citizen-approved tax laws taking away some of that loose cash from these assholes who are using it to meddle in our elections, and investing it in things like education, healthcare, jobs creation, infrastructure, etc. is a perfectly acceptable way to even the playing field if you ask me.
Yes, as much as Tuesday's vote was a firm repudiation of Drumpf and MAGA, it was also a warning shot across the bow of these election meddling tech-bros making it unmistakably clear to them that all of their financial and political activities and dealings with our government are going to be scrutinized a whole hell of a lot closer now that Americans have given control of the US House and Senate back to Democrats and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
More importantly, the message is being sent that our American democracy is not for sale, and most certainly not for sale to a bunch of greedy, power-hungry, and once again, fascism friendly greed mongers.
---TFG