Elon Musk donated nearly $40K to Republican PAC, filings show - Polidicks

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/397031-elon-musk-donated-nearly-40k-to-republican-pac-filings-show Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was one of the top 50 donors last quarter to a PAC aimed at maintaining Republican control of the House, new federal filings show. The Federal Election Commission filings released this week show that Musk donated a total of $38,900 to the PAC Protect The House. Other high-profile donors who gave to the PAC include Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who gave $100,000, and Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, who gave $371,500. Salon first pointed out Musk’s major donation to the group, which raised more than $8 million in the second quarter. Musk, who is reportedly a friend of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy(R-Calif.), has donated to a variety of candidates across the political spectrum throughout the years, including both Democrats and Republicans. He made donations of $2,300 to Hillary Clinton during both her 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Not surprising, he's a businessman and was also on one of his committees, was he not? Shameful but not shocking

That's really sad, I thought he was left-leaning and wanted to like...help the world. Really makes me look worse on his twitter engagements, he really probably thinks he earned that money and that people that work their whole lives having less than 1% of that total net worth their whole lives is because he simply worked harder than them.

End of the day he's a CEO who has to protect his bottom line to keep doing the shit he has been doing. Look at the way he treats unionization. He might be left leaning on some social issues but when it comes to money there's no question.

Our guy.

Tech CEOs: liberal on social issues to placate the masses, conservative on economics to protect their unethical business practices.

Not sure how anyone could be that surprised by this, Elon's a CEO and obviously cares about his business above the people, as any other business with a large company would.

Not surprised, just disappointed and disgusted

You'll be delighted to know that ol' musky here has donated to a lot of democrats as well! Donor Lookup • OpenSecrets

No surprise seeing ho he treats his peeps Its easy to be blinded by the PR

Most buisnesses will donate to both campaigns, that way you own either candidate

Don't feed him

I feel like it's important to remember that most CEOs don't do philanthropic deeds out of the goodness of their hearts, they almost always have a PR motive behind it and it works because people are convinced it's not just a PR move.

what a fuckin putz Like republicans are going to give him the time of day for his chump change when they could get oceans of cash from the corporations opposed to him instead.

I assure you Elon has thought of that and this is more of an incentive "there's more where that came from".

"His father, Errol Musk, had a casual attitude towards the family’s considerable wealth, including the stones that came from the Zambian emerald mine in which Errol owned a half share." "“We were very wealthy,” says Errol. “We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.”" he certainly isn't a rags to riches story also this gem, coming from a literal billionaire https://i.imgur.com/TIFwhZZ.png haha

There's generally a different mindset with CEOs that are hired to manage a company, and ones that have had their company grow to such size by striking some market gold, like Bill Gates. Not always, but former seem to care little about more than appearances and shareholder profits, while the latter can be more idealistic and philantrophic. All I'm saying is that lumping all tech CEOs into one category is a bit too heavy handed.

if republicans cared about long term gain they wouldn't be completely ignoring climate change in the first place

Pretty much how I feel about his dumb "submarine" nonsense with the Thailand incident. He just wanted to get himself some attention while doing some "good" which ended up being ultimately pretty unnecessary anyway. Iirc, they got the kids out without it. Feel the same about his promise to Flint. He only said something on Twitter when someone basically reverse-psychology'd him into it. Dude cares about his weird billionaire endeavors and very little else. Any attempts at philanthropy is just to make himself look better. The way people seem to worship him is alarming to me, honestly.

Really going to take that joke thread out of context, and even cut the first bit off? https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/659/08ba2e49-c962-4c19-aebf-9f0871fce2ac/emskjoke.PNG

God forbid the guy hold a right leaning political opinion. He donated to republicans, it's not shameful. It just means he donated to the republicans. Quit this divisive political bullshit for gods sake.

NOT MY GUY

And the worst part of it is that people buy it. Like Apple fans who give their favorite company a free pass because it has a gay ceo who is all socially conscious - nevermind that he's still employing wage slaves over in China to build all their fancy devices.

It also rubbed me the wrong way how he said "I am going to help, rather than saying his company was." It just felt really egotistical to me, but I've always been super sensitive to egotistical people, so may be wrong in my interpretation.

Considering the state of politics in the US, there's quite literally no possible way for them to not be divisive.

"can the left please stop being so divisive" pleads man as the right imprisons children, raids public coffers, and labels canada a threat to national security

am i the only one who thinks that even if he's doing it for his own or own companies gain, that if it benefits those being helped, it's not THAT big of an issue? i mean sure, maybe a little morally ambiguous, but if the end-result is better for us all, it's better he does it than not? also i can't read his intent so i don't want to jump ship on whether he's a selfish egomaniac or some philanthropic god, but is it reasonable to say i think he's ok? i mean, there could be worse (and also better)

It really depends on if he actually does anything or not. His attempt to help the kids in Thailand was ultimately useless. I honestly wouldn't put it above him to make these promises, do something ridiculous that in no way actually helps anyone, and then pat himself on the back about it regardless. I'm skeptical until people in Flint actually begin to receive clean water. I'm not gonna give him the benefit of the doubt when he hasn't done much to deserve it. If he does manage to pull something off, then of course, I would see it as a net gain. I'm still not gonna buy a membership into his fan club or anything though.

man how awkward would it be if the guy at the white house dictating immigration policy actually believed in preserving the racial purity of the nation can you imagine how dumb you'd look if the worst caricature of the left you could possibly imagine was only equally as bad as the current administration yikes, how embarrassing would that be

Though in Gates' case he's also extremely guilty of some seriously scummy business practices. Just towards his competitors and not his workers or customers. I blame the brass ensemble for that.