4mo ago

Elon Musk hands out $1 million payments after Wisconsin Supreme Court declines request to stop him

Thr problem is that there is supposed to be criminal prosecution for this felony so the courts won't entertain request for an injunction over it. Meanwhile the responsible authorities aren't willing to arrest and prosecute.

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4mo ago

apnews.com /article/wisconsin-supreme-court-musk-million-dollar-giveaway-cdea66e0dcbaa53dd183e1d10bee2b35

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I fucking hate America.
A billionaire can hold a multi-million dollar lottery, where the only way to enter is to vote for who he wants; but you can and will be arrested for handing someone a bottle of water while they wait in line to vote.
- Im so fucking pissed no one stopped this!!!
- Voting lines that can take hours too... it's so fucked
- Don't forget, last time he did this it wasn't given to some random person. They were hand picked to 'win'.
- Only a billionaire can do that though. Ask Dinesh D’Souza how I know.
- I'm not familiar with Wisconsin voting system. Isn't the vote secret?
Literal "Soros Bucks" in broad daylight.
Crickets.
It was always projection.
- We have been in psychological warfare for a long time. A long con... The dots should be connecting for people but I think that American culture has been purposely dumbed down and that people just care about escaping real life.
  It's like most Americans are a product and get bought and sold, used and written off. There's no integrity of self and their humanity. The issue is broad and a method used by all sides, although it's most evident in the right right now.
  It's sad watching this collapse. It's sad understanding it's been a game, a war, within our nation and that the pride and nationalism was just a gimmick to use us.
  There isn't anything to go back to because essentially what were told it was ...never was.
  
  Then let's go forward to it.
So...
Musk made the offer.
it was established it was illegal.
he did it anyway.
????
- America!
  
  Fuck yeah!
  (scnr team America reference)
Republicans paying for votes.
There, fixed your title.
Well that didn't take long. I literally said nothing would happen and it's already not happening.
- Even a broken clock…
  
  ... escapes prosecution due to the blossoming american oligarchy?
Musk’s attorneys argued in filings with the court that Musk was exercising his free speech rights with the giveaways and any attempt to restrict that would violate both the Wisconsin and U.S. constitutions.
Right, because money is speech, according to Citizens United. Utter horseshit since the day of the ruling.
- Meanwhile, I just came from a thread about Musk calling for crackdowns on anti-Tesla protests because a woman pointed at a Cyber Truck.
  
  Maybe she should have thrown money at the Cyber Truck instead of pointing at it.
People don't want to do their jobs anymore.
- Not when they get paid either way, even if with dirty money.
Legacy media and dem politicians need to stop pulling punches and get to the bottom of WHY Musk needs Wisconsin. I get that the AP is hyperneutral, but the reporting, political, and public response on this issue has been irresponsible and feckless. The outrage is so wholly insufficient. This needs Benghazi and Hunter Biden’s laptop energy.
Could it be because it is a critical swing state and they are gearing up for the mother of all power grabs in the next presidential election?
Grow some fucking balls and attack this properly goddamn before the GOP cements their fascist coup of America.
- The leadership of the Democratic party chose to do nothing, thinking they can just let the pendulum swing back in the next election. Rather than actually do anything to help people, they're expecting us to just vote them in because of how insane the Republicans are, but once they're in, they won't actually do anything.
  We need a populist party yesterday.
  
  The point is: if they don’t figure out how to do something RIGHT NOW, there won’t be any other party. All parties that are not aligned with Trump will be disallowed. Russia, Turkey, Hungary, is the direction the US is headed.
  The window is closing right now and if nothing is done the American people will no longer have a choice. Trump might insist there’s still democracy but it will be a sham like everything else he’s put his name on.
  I’ve had so many conversations with Americans online where I’ve pointed out that the second amendment is a joke and Americans wouldn’t have the guts to stand up to a tyrannical government. Well….
  
  Completely agree, a new party is our only way out of this mess. The corrupt dems are not it.
Someone should stop Musk. With like a piece of metal if needed.
- If you shoot him with a wad of cash, it's legal. His actions in Wisconsin set a precedent that you can hurt people directly as long as you give them some money in return.
- Or you know. Force him to only travel via his cyber truck. Fate will find a way from there.
For fucks fucks sake
Time to start calling him Soros
- Elmo has significantly more money than Soros.
  
  It's more to call out the hypocrisy than a pissing contest. They both have way more money than I and my extended family ever will and, yet, they're still dick heads
If it could be proven one way or another I'd bet the recipients work for or are connected to his companies in some way. $1 million is peanuts to him but he didn't get to be a billionaire by being "generous".
So when Dems do all this shit the GOP has been doing, will they say nothing?
- Have you met the Dems? Doing even a tenth of this shit would be SO UNCOUTH.
Disgusting
- Pathetic
Americans still not protesting, why would they if mcdonalds is still open?
- There's been protests literally every day of trump's presidency, what country are you watching? Seriously, is your main source of news not reporting on them? Because if so you should probably think about switching.
  
  Do you remember France recently? Rioting in the streets all over?
  That's what i think the mean and are expecting.
I had a good time in Wisconsin the 2 times I’ve been there but if y’all buy this shit after Louisiana just rejected all the amendments the governor proposed as a solid “fuck you,” you don’t get anymore beer. And we will escalate based on cheeses and how important they are to recipes.
- The meanest concept in Louisiana culture is “We will not buy your ingredients because you failed.” I’m within walking distance of 4 places that cook swamp animals. Mostly with sherry. But that’s not important. The important thing is that if ~65% of Louisianans can vote antagonistically, Wisconsinites should be able to as well.
  I won’t root for the Vikings but try me.
These are the fuckers that want to dictate to the rest of the world about freedom and democracy.
For all the people blaming Dems for not doing anything... You do understand a large portion of them are rich as well right? The DNC serves corporations not the people. They are controlled opposition. The whole system is corrupt and that includes the DNC, they won't be saving us.

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