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Elon Musk hands $1m to voter in desperate attempt to flip Wisconsin’s Supreme Court
(www.independent.co.uk)
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How is this fucking legal? Pretty sure buying votes is illegal.
They’re calling for his arrest
Ah yes, I remember when we spend years calling for Trump's arrest, this should go well with speedy results..
Bot? Trumps not even in the title or the picture.
Your reading comprehension could use a bit of work..
Hey dipshit I’m talking about Wisconsin calling for musks arrest. You wanna pull your tits off the window? We’re trying to eat in here.
Saw that, I'm not an optimist but I do have hope!
Just saw your handle, hilarious!
So is:
Etc.
This was the moment for me when politics changed globally (I'm Canadian).
Regardless of policy this is when we all decided that you could be a disgusting human being and it didn't matter. I could respect differences of opinion regardless of if your opinion was to build a wall between America and Mexico, but to follow someone who openly admits to sexually assaulting women? Truly shows what his voters, and those who don't vote are about. Disgusting, the whole lot of them.
It's not. Just a question of whether that matters anymore.
It doesn't.
I bet you it does matter. If I gave you $1 to vote for the opposing party candidate, I bet you I would get arrested. The difference is I'm not rich, so laws apply to me.
When you're a ~~republican~~ Nazi, they just let you do it.
Did you know that the MAGAites use the term, Cultural Marxism (it is even in Project 2025 documents) which comes from the Nazi German term, Kulturbolschewismus ("Cultural Bolshevism")?
MAGAites are indeed Hitlerites whom are too afraid to call themselves such.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days - The Atlantic
Shameless Snopes plugs:
Did Trump echo Hitler with remark about migrants 'poisoning the blood of our country'?
Yes, Trump posted link that included Nazi symbol for gay men in concentration camps
Did Musk give 'Nazi salute' at Trump's 2025 inauguration rally? Here's what we know
Did Trump once say, "I need the kind of generals Hitler had"?
Musk reposted post that said, "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people"
I'm not sure, but there may be a pattern here.
It is illegal but Bidens DOJ set the precedent that musk would go unpunished in the 2024 election.
Explain
Elon Musk broke federal law in Pennsylvania when he tried this same lottery bullshit. It was discussed at length that Merrick Garland was either a coward or complicit in the overrun of the federal government. He also should have prosecuted Trump in his first term for the coupe attempt. The second run should not have been allowed to happen.
Biden was a decent governmental manager, but we needed a President who was courageous enough to be more than that, and go after the existential threat of MAGA. HitlerPig and MAGA are the biggest national security threat this nation has seen since the Civil War, and Biden let us down by appointing not only a REPUBLICAN to be AG, but about the weakest Republican in existence. Then Biden didn't push him to aggressively pursue HitlerPig, giving him a two year head start to run out the clock.
Yeah, Biden’s term was simply quiet. For the most part, the government ran properly and things didn’t break. But he also refused to actually spur the DOJ into action, because he didn’t want it to be seen as a frivolous witch hunt. He was more focused on keeping the peace than he was on actually protecting the country from domestic threats.
Damn, I could have written that word for word. Absofuckinlutely. If WWII taught us anything, its that you can't give Nazis one fucking inch, and they must be crushed without mercy.
A decent government manager would not let the integrity of the government fall apart on their watch. They wouldn't let election fraud go.
Biden is a useless piece of shit at best.
Well who you voting for? No Democrats fit that bill they are all cowards who just care about keeping their cushy job.
I'll still vote for Democrats because at least they aren't Traitors, actively trying to destroy America.
If you feel a bicycle is too underpowered, you don't stop using it, and start using a really dangerous, hillbilly-engineered backyard vehicle built by a bunch of ignorant yahoos, which regularly blows up, killing its occupants. You keep using the slower, safer bicycle until you can find a better option.
If I had to pick one person (other than Putin) who is the most responsible for all of this, I'd say Robert Mueller.
He had the best chance to put him down, and he bitched out.
Mueller did his job. Barr redacted the information before handing it to Congress. Congress tried to get the full report but Trump and Barr stonewalled them.
Barr distanced himself far from Trump after Jan 6th and no one brings up that guilty fuck anymore.
Harris did lol, she liked that all of his people were voting for her. Really worked out for her. Instead she should have been pushing for them all to stand trial.
Bidens DOJ was so flaccid and lenient
A law that is not enforced is not a law.
That said: This was discussed the last time he claimed to be doing this. There are theoretically loopholes that boil down to "Say you support X and I'll give you money. This is not legally binding as a vote" which likely would not hold up to a just court but...
Pretty sure law only applies to certain people sometimes.
Because there are neither consequences from the laws nor Luigi’s compelling him to stop.
Until someone forces that reckoning he’ll keep on destroying us all.
You can't pay someone to vote a certain way, but what if you pay people who love {[interest that correlates strongly with republican support]} to vote.
You don't pay people to vote a particular way, which would be illegal, but you get the result you want regardless.