@virtualinanity
I won't argue about how he lost or didn't lose which segment's vote. I will go out on a limb to say the "rhetorical device" he used is fundamentally risky, & the way he used it was really bad.
Not just for the reasons @mekkaokereke outlined, but also because it was wrong. It was wrong because Musk wasn't speaking factually - he was trafficking bullshit. Musk doesn't care whether, where, or how there's misspending - he just wants to con people into shutting down the gov't.