General Discussion

Musk thought running a social media site was easy and others were just making it look hard, employing too many people, and treating them too well, so as a genius, he'd obviously be able to do much better and build it into a behemoth that people would gladly allow to take over most aspects of their lives. $30-odd billion later and counting ...

Trump, the political genius, squandered most of the GOP's funds on self-serving legal fees, so there was little choice but to hand everything over to Musk to take care of.

Musk thought running a PAC and a GOTV organization was easy, and all he had to do was throw money at it, hire in some cheap labour, treat it like dirt, ramp up the hate machine, and the votes would roll in ... Unmotivated people who're being shafted by their boss tend to cut corners and fake results to meet ridiculous inhuman quotas when threatened with not getting paid, or being stranded penniless far from home. Whocoodanode?

Twitter under Musk has had negative consequences, but it's also contributed to the demise of the right as it got too cocky in its echo chamber and just thought it had to MAGA harder and everyone would be converted or crushed.