Be Like MacKenzie Scott ... Cuz It's Pisses Off Elonia Musk

I laugh at Elon Musk because, while he’s super-rich he has never created anything; he has just copied someone else’s homework, or bought it, and then passed it off as his . And that’s why I love it when he gets schooled … like this:

In a post on X—the social media platform he did not design or build but bought and slapped an X onto—that he has since deleted he cagily mentioned MacKenzie Scott, former spouse of Amazon Asshat Jeff Bezos:

“Super-rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse [should be listed among] reasons that Western Civilization died.”

In response, MacKenzie Scott spoke softly and carried her big wallet and announced that she is donating $640 million to 361 different charitable organizations this year, well more than twice the $250 million she pledged to give away last year. The open call for applications initially planned for 250 awards of $1 million each but according to Yield Giving, the foundation Scott created:

In light of the incredible work of these organizations, as judged by their peers and external panelists, the donor team decided to expand the awardee pool and the award amount.

The 279 organizations in the top tier of scores received $2 million each and the 82 organizations in the next tier received $1 million each.

This year’s awards bring Scott’s total lifetime philanthropic giving over the past five years to approximately $17.2 billion, close to half the $36 billion in Amazon stock she received in her divorce settlement.

BAM!

And this is what MacKenzie Scott had to say about her wealth in 2019:

In addition to whatever assets life has nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share. My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care. But I won’t wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.

Good for her, because how she elects to spend her money is up to her—though I’m sure Elon subscribes to the “your bank account, my choice” bull shit: I mean wonder how Elon would respond if anyone, and god forbid a woman, were to tell him how to spend his money.

Now, perhaps Elon disagrees with her  approach, or with some of the organizations chosen to receive donations, and that’s his right, as it is his right to express how he feels. But then Elon also said this at one point:

“Constantly seek criticism. A well-thought-out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”

But “super-rich ex-wives blah blah blah” is not a well-thought-out critique; it’s more of a butt hurt man whimpering about a woman with money which may be why Scott didn’t respond. Instead of dwelling on negative emotions from some asshat who, again, has never built anything and offers up no good deeds with his coins ever, Scott knows she cannot control Musk though she can control her response.

Which clearly was not just to stay the course and keep on donating and donating, but to literally double down on her donations, not in response to Elon because he is not worthy of it, but because she believes in what she’s doing, and in the work of the organizations her foundation chose to fund.

“And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.”

In a world of Elon Musks, whose business venture he did not create, but bought and watched them explode on the highways or catch fire in the driveways or implode of the internet, be a MacKenzie Scott.

Is George Lucas Really Auntie Mame?

In the film version of Mame — not the fabulous Rosalind Russell version, Auntie Mame, but the disastrous Lucille Ball Mame — the character of Mame visits the Upson Downs, the parents of her nephew, Patrick’s, girlfriend, Gloria, and finds them to be snobbish and anti-Semitic and just hateful. Mame is asked to help pay for a piece of property next door to Upson Downs so that Patrick and Gloria could live there, as opposed to "the wrong kind of people."

At the end of the film, however, a busload of other unwed pregnant women arrives at the property and Mame reveals to the Upson Downs that she bought the property next door so she could build the Beauregarde Burnside Memorial Home For Single Mothers.

Well, in one way, George Lucas is Auntie Mame.

George Lucas has pledged to give away half of his vast fortune when he dies, but this isn’t about that.

He has also, though, already handed over nearly all of the billions of dollars he made when he sold the rights to Star Wars to Disney, but this isn’t about that either.

See, George Lucas spent years unsuccessfully trying to expand his production company’s studio in Marin County, California, but his oh-so-rich neighbors fought back against the idea of a film studio in their backyards. So, he dropped the expansion plans, and came up with a better idea: affordable housing.

Now, a la Mame, Lucas will take the land he owns next door to those rich bitches and build an entire neighborhood of affordable housing and pay for it himself:

“We’ve got enough millionaires here. What we need is some houses for regular working people.”

The Lucas Plan would see hundreds of lower-middle class families living right next door to Marin County’s version of the Upson Downs. The 224-unit affordable housing complex would go on Grady Ranch, where Lucas’ once-planned studio expansion would have been. This new plan would develop some 52-acres including “workforce and senior residences, as well as a community center, pool and an orchard,” and income requirements will be set; future homeowners will need to earn less than 80% of the area’s median income, which in Marin County is less than $90,839.

Lucas is also considering setting aside certain houses for teachers and local employees who are particularly vulnerable to housing costs but vital to any community.

Naturally, the Upson Downs of Marin County have not taken the news well as they seem to suggest that their McMansions and fancy cars entitle them to be separated as far as possible from the lower classes. When Lucas first announced his plan, both he and Marin County officials were inundated with hate mail from residents suggesting allowing poor people to live in the county will ruin it for everyone:

“We got letters saying, ‘You guys are going to get what you deserve. You’re going to bring drug dealers, all this crime and lowlife in here.’” — Carl Fricke, board member of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association

And there are some neighbors who say this is just George Lucas exacting revenge because they bested him at the plan for expanding his studio property; Lucas denies this, of course, but wouldn’t it just be the sweetest revenge ever?

Now all they need do is to build an R2D2 Memorial Home For Single Mothers.

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