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This is how Elon Musk is generating anger. It’s also the story of most of the nonsense that Musk is spreading to point rightie anger at his targets
ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol. Very, very mad. And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.
Let me explain. This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging (falsely) that the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a group Bill and I run, received funding from USAID. The real story is this:
USAID—the development agency that Elon is shuttering—gives grants as part of its regular operations. In the past, it gave money to a philanthropic foundation. That foundation has at some point in its history given funds to a donor-advised fund. And that fund has, at some point in its history, supported DDTI.
Got that?
Now here’s Elon’s version: The government is funding Bill Kristol!
That’s not how this works.
That’s not how any of this works.
As I said yesterday, Elon’s fantasy anger machine works this way:
A contributes a donation to B
B contributes to C,
And C contibutes to D
Therefore, since I hate “D”, then “A” must be destroyed.
This is the logic of madmen
