The billionaire is pledging to give away $1m a day and campaigning hard – is deregulation the driving motivation?
America Pac, at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday and the second on Sunday in Pittsburgh. He says he’ll keep doing it until the election on 5 November. The stunt isin July, Musk quickly founded America Pac and funded it with $75m. For the past several weeks, he’s been making multiple in-person campaign appearances per day, focusing especially on Pennsylvania, a swing state.last week looking at Musk’s inescapable influence on the US presidential election.
Musk’s fight for fewer government agencies is not limited to the US, though. Sometimes, his fights with “the regulators” set him against other billionaires. In India, Musk is fighting with the government over theand emerging victorious over Mukesh Ambani. Asia’s richest man had sought terms more favorable to his own telecommunications empire.
He has proclaimed himself a “free-speech absolutist” and complained about the regulators of speech. When the UK was in the throes of violent race riots a month after its general election, Musk tweeted, “Civil war is inevitable,” and posted a cartoon showing a character in an electric chair, claiming that this would be the government’s punishment for free speech in the UK by 2030. He has made similar critiques of the California government and Joe Biden’s administration.
His fight for deregulation regularly pits him against the judiciary in whichever country where he’s operating. Last month, Brazil blocked access to X over its failure to comply with a judge’s orders and then fined Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, for its sister company’s transgressions. Musk and XRecently, some of the regulators have taken a new tack: they’re starting to penalize one Musk company for what another Musk company does.
In California, a coastal commission cited Musk’s propensity to tweet misinformation during a vote to reject a petition by SpaceX and the US air force to launch more rockets from a base on a Santa Barbara beach. Musk sued in response, alleging political bias and first amendment violations. He just wants to be left alone to launch rockets and tweet and spend tens of millions on the presidential election in peace.
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