{"id":14077,"date":"2025-12-31T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14077"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:56:36","slug":"how-musk-played-the-voters-and-will-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14077","title":{"rendered":"How Musk Played The Voters&#8230;And Will Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It helps when you have billions to spend on fucking up America&#8217;s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this, not just for the whodunnit (it was Musk) but also to see and understand the shifty way he did it. I remember watching a young couple talking about voting for Trump because, as the young woman was saying, he would protect abortion rights. There was a sense even back then that Musk was behind a barrage of disinformation about Trump and abortion rights. Well now we have the receipts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0 <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F868669989183208%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It takes determined individuals to dig into these sorts of things because our commercial news media won&#8217;t. You should watch this entire thing, not just for the whodunnit (it was Elon Musk) but to see and understand the shifty\/shitty way it was done. He probably got a good laugh attaching Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s name to it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: large majorities in both parties want it to stop. But the only way that&#8217;s going to happen is if they, the people who want it to stop, stop voting for the same people that let it keep happening because the money&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It helps when you have billions to spend on fucking up America&#8217;s democracy. Watch this, not just for the whodunnit (it was Musk) but also to see and understand the shifty way he did it. I remember watching a young couple talking about voting for Trump because, as the young woman was saying, he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90,60,336],"class_list":["post-14077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-noise-machine","tag-the-twisted-muskticka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14078,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077\/revisions\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}