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Texas Politicians Slowly Realize Elon Musk Hijacked Billions In Taxpayer Broadband Grants
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2026
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Constantly sticking their hands into bear traps to own the libs
He did sell them (not Texas specifically) Hyperloop as well which is even worse technology set to fail from the start.
How many times have the taxpayers paid for broadband that will never come?
2x here. It did come finally just this year.
Who does the author think they are kidding? Not us, this wasn't texas political hacks now realizing they were engaged in graft, they fucking knew, and were paid off and we all know it by now.
and they’ll do it again, gladly.
