People who got money to vote should be named and shamed.
Pisses me off they get no accountability. when if you or I did it we would be locked up imminently.
Unless I have the law wrong, he skirted the law. He didn’t pay anyone to vote (although he originally said he was), he technically only paid them to sign a petition. The law afaik only says you can’t pay people to vote (regardless of who, in Wisconsin you straight up cannot pay people to vote at all), you can pay them to sign a petition.
However I would argue that by first announcing that the money would go only to people who voted and then subtly changing it later is still totally a form of bribery. People absolutely voted for a chance at that money because of his original statement and didn’t know it changed. But I’m going to go out on a limb here and say he’ll be 100% fine because of technicalities (aka he’s rich as shit and is completely untouchable)
It was a pledge to vote, not legally binding. A lot of desperate people these days, and I can’t say I wouldn’t try to scam elon out of a million bucks if given the opportunity. “Sure sure, I’ll totally vote how you want Mr Musky sir. Make sure you spell my name right on the check now.”
Yeah my internet history alone would eliminate me from that running.
The winners are “pre selected”. Thats how his bullshit workaround works. Its been admitted. But for the uninformed, it sounds like a lottery.
It isnt.
even if a communist or anarchist or whatever tried to play the game and if it were a true lottery, you would be committing a far worse disservice by keeping quiet at this point.
Stay quiet and maybe get a million. Its the democrat way if you look at our current dem politicians… do you really want to be like them right now?
Some of those people probably took the money and voted Democrat anyway.
If someone was trying to bride me for a vote I’d take their money and still vote for whoever I wanted.
What’s he going to do? Look over my shoulder and verify who I voted for?
Still, it probably has a chilling ef fect. Voting Dems becomes like a secret you have to keep rather than something you should shout from the roofs - less likely to make that post on social media, put up a sticker or a sign, tell your friend and family etc.
It’s not legally binding though. You could absolutely shout from the rooftops how you got Elon’s money and now you’re voting Dem, and encourage people to do the same. If enough people brag openly about doing it, it would be terribly humiliating for Elon.
I think he is skirting the law by having the payments be for signing a petition tangential to a vote, but not directly about voting. It’s scummy to say the least, and if you did sign, you’ll probably get spam calls and mail for the rest of your life. At least in this case, the outcome was that Elon didn’t get his preferred candidate to win, he’s wasting money paying people to get on his mailing list, and now when Tesla’s Wisconsin case gets to the state supreme court, Crawford will be on the court
The language used is super interesting. “Defying Elon Musk”
Defying. A terrifying word, yet appropriate.
Musk has no position in the Wisconsin state government. He’s not a constituent. You shouldn’t be able to “defy” him because he has no position of authority.
Yet they used the word “defying” and it’s terrifyingly the correct word.
Eat Shit Elon Wasted 20 million for nothing.
If we would assume that musk’s wealth is $400,000 then spending $20m is just $20.
To us this is massive amount for him it is $20.
And he bought US president for just $300.
If we would assume that musk’s wealth is $400,000
Hopefully with Tesla stock crashing, this can be a reality
Fine, he lost twenty bucks then, Im thrilled.
I hope the anxiety causes him to smoke his entire ketamine stash in one sitting.
I think people like him are so addicted to power and wealth, that I wouldn’t be surprised he would off himself if net worth would drop to millions.
Though with that much of wealth, I think no matter what he will do he will be a billionaire.
If we ever restore democracy, we need to concentrate on destroying oligarchies, apparently this already happened twice.
Technically his total wealth has declined to about $342 Bn, and technically that is only if he sold off all of his assets namely his Tesla stocks, at which point it would instantly become less than $342 Bn due to the market’s fast acting supply/demand price setting.
At any given time you should assume Musk has less than $30 Bn liquidity, which is still a fucking lot.
Also, he bought Twitter so you can say he spent a lot more than $300 to elect Trump. $300 was just his campaign contributions.
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