MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s former wife, has given away more than $26 billion to charities. A great deal of it went to people who have very little. In June, Elon Musk was shown that record and agreed that she was making the world a worse place. His words were “Sadly, yes.” He never said which gift to the poor was the offense.

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Why is that wrong? Giving money to people who are down and out is the plainest use of a fortune there is. Scott gave it away. Musk looked at that and called the result worse.

Then look at what he did with his own money. He says he does not think about money and does not care about it. His actions say otherwise. Reports put his spending on the 2026 midterms near half a billion dollars, and more than $200 million of that was in Texas, where Tesla and SpaceX make their money. He was trying to keep Republicans in office there. They lost. The money was wasted.

It was wasted, and it still showed what he cares about. That spending was an attempt to buy officeholders, make them his puppets, and sit there as the man who tells them what to do. Help SpaceX. Help Tesla. Hand out the tax cuts and the other perks. Get the $200 million back ten times over, or a hundred times over, through the companies. He thinks that kind of giving is fine. The giving to the poor, he treated as a mistake.

If that is the game, Texas can play it back at him. Every time a rocket goes up, he is using this country’s air. He should pay an air tax for the pollution. He should carry insurance for the day a rocket fails and throws poisonous fuel, and whatever the machine is made of, into the sky. If he wants the price set the way he sets his own, make it $50 billion for the use of the United States. Make it $200 billion to go into space. That sky is not his private road.

People died in the wars. People worked their whole lives. That is what made it possible for this pipsqueak to launch his companies and keep the profits. That is why taxes exist. He owes everybody who made the country he is using. His side takes those same words and twists them into the opposite, as if the dead left the country here so one man could pocket it. They are hypocrites, a hundred times over.