Musk laughs off election drubbing with space lasers joke
Topics: Elon Musk & Starlink
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- Axios reports: “Elon Musk cracked jokes early Wednesday morning after the Republican candidates he spent record sums supporting got drubbed in a historic midterm election. Why it matters: No one has ever spent as …”
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