354 points

If this arrest doesn’t happen, democracy is one step closer to the grave.

A lot of shit has happened to destroy democracy so far (has anyone been keeping a list?), but if billionaires see that they can now buy votes, nothing will stop them from doing it over and over again. We will be Russia.

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and its becoming blatant and bold

Muskrat isn’t doing this for any other reason other than to test and expand the boundaries. It’s challenging the American people … if he can go this far and allowed to get away with it, then it will become the norm. The fault won’t be that he is doing it … the fault will be the American people who put up with this crap.

I’ve given up on trying to understand dumb American politicians … I’m completely disillusioned and lost hope in the American people.

It’s not a small group of billionaires that will destroy democracy in America … it will be an entire nation of people who just stand aside and watch everything burn without saying or doing a thing about it.

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19 points

I’ve given up on trying to understand dumb American politicians

It’s easy. They are cowards, and they are for sale. If money doesn’t make them snap to attention, threats will. I also think a healthy percentage of them have been to Russia, and those are being blackmailed.

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56 points

At this point democracy is so far underground that only a Level 17 necronancer can resurrect it

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21 points

Even then the DM is gonna hit us with a bullshit counterspell

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8 points

Silvery Barbs (shoved up his ass) is our only hope.

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I’ll probably get called a commie but at it’s core, is this version of democracy working well? I’m all for equal rights but if the majority of people are incapable of understanding what it takes to run a nation, how do we trust them to vote someone in who will be a good leader?

If it wasn’t evident enough during his first campaign that he has no interest in enriching the lives of the average american, his first 4 years in office should have proven he is not trying to help out the blue collar class, if Jan 6 wasn’t enough to show he is not a level headed leader then what will? If his second term starting off with trying to start trade wars wasn’t enough, then at what point are we going to realize an overwhelming amount of people are always going to vote for terrible candidates?

I’m having trouble reasoning to myself that the current system is capable of bringing progress. It’s just constant flipping between a couple parties undoing what the previous administration did, how is this a good thing?

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2 points

That’s like homebrew lvl 25 shit!

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43 points

If this arrest doesn’t happen, democracy is one step closer to the grave.

Worry not, most Americans are bravely waiting until they have no options left and literally living in squalor before considering any action

In the last 8+ years I have seen the goal post for action moved so many times, I have lost all hope Americans will actually do something for themselves

I guess you won’t make fun of French people anymore

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I have seen the goal post for action moved so many times

Yes. I have too. I honestly think I’ve moved my own goal posts for action, as well. I think most of the people like me feel truly lost about what to do. We need a Martin Luther King, Jr figure to unite and direct.

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8 points

I guess you won’t make fun of French people anymore

It’s stupid now but it was already stupid when they did it before, so I don’t why that would change

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A lot of people strongly believe that God will protect them from whatever terrible Biblical punishments are going to befall the Liberals, Minorities, and Gays. They seem to forget that the Divine Retribution they are praying for so hard always carries enormous collateral damage. SEE: Ark, Noah’s, also Sodom/Gommorah, also Plagues, Egyptian, etc.

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Also, the people who think like this, are actually being evil, so their belief brings their own doom. TLDR: If you’re a cunt who sits back and revels in the suffering of those you don’t like, you aint going to heaven…

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Your ten thousand foot view is very limited.

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17 points

I’m at the point where I know he won’t face consequences because he’s rich. But an arrest and trial would at least be sanity.

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10 points

But an arrest and trial would

be an absolute pony show ending with no conviction.

We only have a criminal justice system for the poors. If you want justice for people like Musk, vigilante is the only option.

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3 points

Unless…hear me out…he fucks up the comfort zone of the other rich bastards.

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Why don’t the poor people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Then they too would be rich /s

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Trump already announced he plans to prosecute anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act.

The Hatch Act is what makes this illegal.

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Prosecute for what, exactly?

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6 points

“Whoops, the judge ordered us to release them because we did not actually charge them, but they’re already in an El Salvador prison 🤷‍♀️”

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4 points

You’re asking that like a dictator needs a legal byline for his actions.

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10 points

It isn’t gonna happen. Nothing happened to Trump, nothing will happen to Musk. Too rich, too powerful. Justice is only for the pariahs.

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8 points

Brian Thompson was rich and powerful too, before he got Luigi’d.

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7 points

That was a case of civilian, extrajudicial sentencing. Nothing to do with the justice system.

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4 points

I have over 100 tabs open on my phone waiting to go into a document

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2 points

Brilliant! I’d love to see the finished list when it’s done.

I mean, I’d love for it not to have to exist, but here we are.

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4 points

Democracy is not a step closer to the grave, it’s already dead, just not buried and so now it’s lying on the street , smelling funny and a tad off-colour.

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262 points

Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying

YES! FINALLY!

Demanded In Wisconsin

Dude, don’t tease me like that

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82 points

State law. Rrump can’t pardon it away.

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150 points

Let me know when he’s actually arrested and charged.

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Won’t happen. While I think all this institutional resistance is good. All of the lawsuits and judge rulings should only be seen as a way meant to delay. Fascism is here. You don’t unravel it using the existing institutions and systems.

Delay and prepare. Learn who all your neighbors are. Make sure you can contact all of them quickly and that they can contact you. Your neighbors and your coworkers are who you should be organizing with. Talk to them. Find out who might be a target by ICE. Find out which one of them you can’t trust. And of course. Arm yourself.

Elons not getting arrested but we don’t have to let them arrest us either. If there is no justice for Elon we can’t allow anymore injustice to us.

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11 points

Yeah I’ll Believe it when I see it

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5 points

Very true.

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13 points

That’s the best part of it.

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9 points

How ya like them states rights

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14 points

Ugh I had the same rollercoaster read

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9 points

drumpf can’t pardon state felonies, and wisconsin can have musk extradited from any other state….
this has teeth, but of course, he’ll just bribe and blackmail the right people and the prosecutors will decide although a law was broken, it’s best not to prosecute because musk is too cute or some bullshit….
at any rate, it’s pretty good….

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3 points

Same lol. Doesn’t help there’s a line break right at that point (for me on Voyager at least).

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5 points

Right??? I had to start over after the first couple words, look at the thumbnail, then start reading again. Fucking hell.

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2 points

This

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8 points

but please not that… and oh god, and definitely not that:

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3 points

Apparently, it’s not just his heart that’s cold

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118 points

Fucking do it already. His approval ratings are pretty low right now (billionaire approval ratings, fucking gross), so I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time.

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I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time.

Hope this isn’t wishful thinking. Trump thinks his son is a l33t hacker for being able to turn a laptop on. Musk on the other hand owns a major social media platform and has access to skilled technicians and programmers, as well as huge server farms which he doubtless uses to analyse voter behaviour and find the weak points where efforts should be focused in order to have most impact on electoral choices.

Trump certainly understands how essential to the disinfo effort Musk is, even though it’s way beyond the grasp of your average MAGA. IMO Trump is not going to abandon Musk in a hurry.

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Maybe. But on the other hand, throwing anyone and everyone under the bus to save his own ass has been Trump’s MO for decades…

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Fucking do it already

Laws are for little people. Nobody in Wisconsin is going to green light this, because nobody has the chutzpah to inconvenience a billionaire.

I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time

MAGA isn’t the problem. Corporate media and the Trump AG are the problem.

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“chutzpah”
Alright learnt a new word here. Rougly “cojones” it seems but I’m liking it!

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I often felt from context it was closer to “hubris”, as “cajones” might just mean brave.

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7 points

They’ll defend him because if he goes to prison that is now a can of worms they cannot close, the slippery slope they fear the most is society actually putting these people in prison

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He shouldn’t have approval ratings.

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107 points

Seriously, who would arrest a billionaire? It seems like he has a suit of armor made of money that everyone won’t touch. If anyone else walked into the federal agencies and did what he did, they would have been arrested.

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Aside from his money, he is also politically important now. I think that protects him more than anything else now. But he bought political importance with his money, so it’s related.

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Next to the president, he literally may be the most untouchable person in the country and is very very high on that same list globally. Even if he somehow does get in trouble for literally anything, he would be pardoned faster than you can say covfefe

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Someone who cares about the laws… Fuck this bullshit… Fuck the guy… Fuck the taxes on the normal people being a minor inconvenience for the rich… Equal fucking rights… The only outlet people have for their anger is to protest a company hes the face of… And they are trying to make that into a crime…

It’s been 3 months and this is how far we have fallen…

This country has a lot of issues and it’s… Not just the deep seeded racism or sexist roots

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He has a suit of armor, but it’s not made of money.

The armor of baphomet.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-christianity-baphomet-armor

https://www.christianpost.com/news/was-elon-musk-just-trolling-his-critics-with-devils-champion.html

https://www.christianpost.com/news/we-asked-grok-whether-its-new-logo-is-a-broken-cross.html

The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in an interview last July that the decision to build a supercomputer in Memphis evoked references, at least in part, to the Memphis of ancient Egypt and its pantheon of gods.

“Perhaps that’s where our new god will come from,” Musk said.

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Ohhh gonna save these links for my Christian MAGA parents. Wrinkle their smooth brains a bit.

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“I have the money to have you killed by somebody who has nothing” - solid body armor

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Good point, but it goes from attempted arrest to attempt on his life real quick, instead. And he knows it.

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Youd need top down from gocernment officials… oh wait theyre all ball garglers

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Feel like this title should’ve been Wisconsin Demands Arrest of… Because holy shit my heart skipped a beat to think something might change :(

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Donald Trump, age 76 years, son of Fred and Wilma, said something stupid today.

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You actually got me there, I had to google his mother’s name thinking this is the worst prank from the universe ever.

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