jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 12 days agoHarris makes another play for disenchanted, swing-state Republicanswww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13
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minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·12 days ago …for a cool half a mill Oh, you sweet summer child. They are so very much cheaper than that. Most of the pols in DC can be bought for tens of thousands or even just thousands of dollars. No need to get into six figures.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-212 days agoI actually aimed low in respect to what I was speaking about, which is stuff like SuperPACs. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/16/musk-trump-donation-america-pac-republican-mega-donor Musk gave Trump $75 million in one go because laws don’t apply to the rich. The rest of us have real legal limits on what we can give.
Oh, you sweet summer child. They are so very much cheaper than that. Most of the pols in DC can be bought for tens of thousands or even just thousands of dollars. No need to get into six figures.
I actually aimed low in respect to what I was speaking about, which is stuff like SuperPACs.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/16/musk-trump-donation-america-pac-republican-mega-donor
Musk gave Trump $75 million in one go because laws don’t apply to the rich.
The rest of us have real legal limits on what we can give.