The ads are a smattering of anti-trans hysterics and culture war talking points attacking James Talarico in Texas, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Josh Turek in Iowa, Mary Peltola in Alaska, and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. (Musk is also funding some ads in New Hampshire and Maine, but they did not seem to target trans people.) Ads are running on the airwaves, as well as online on sites like Google, Instagram, and Facebook.
I hope people like Musk have propagandised themselves and are mistaken on what the average American cares about.
I suspect most care less about trans people than they do about feeding their family and filling their gas tank. If that’s true it would mean that these ads are in part money wasted.
That’s a silver lining given these ads will stoke transphobia and cost people their lives. Hopefully the millions they spend on these ads will cost them more votes than they gain.
Musk and his ilk don’t think they have to care about votes much longer as long as they hold a base of support. They are going for the full rig of elections here but already are doing myriad cheats I bet.
And I think his kid said it the best: “they’ll never figure it out.”