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How is this fucking legal? Pretty sure buying votes is illegal.
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.
So is:
Etc.
grabbing women by the pussy.
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 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.
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.
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...
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..
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
Hitler had campaigned on the promise of draining the “parliamentarian swamp”—den parlamentarischen Sumpf—only to find himself now foundering in a quagmire of partisan politics and banging up against constitutional guardrails.
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.
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.
Pretty sure law only applies to certain people sometimes.
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.
I'm sure this is rigged. I doubt this asshole would just give anyone free money.
This was basically the case in the "sweepstakes" he did leading up the presidential election. They admitted in court that the winners were predetermined and that nobody actually had a chance to win, so it wasn't buying votes.
But no charges for having a "rigged contest"? Or was it in the fine print and anybody that participated and was plainly told otherwise is SOL for not being a lawyer and reading what they signed?
I'm listening to the Brewers game on Sirius, and a trump ad came on for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and it was all about "We must try to preserve the good things that trump has done for us!"
Me like: what the fuck you smoking? Everything is fucked beyond belief! People are being disappeared, fucking Measles is back, and they are threatening our Canadian neighbors! WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT THAT SHIT?!?
Is this the same scam as last time, where these “winners” were actually paid spokespeople?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/musks-pac-claims-1-million-winners-not-chosen-by-chance
THIS IS FUCKING ASININE. FUCIEN BRIBERY IN THE OPEN SEND THIS FUCKER TO PRISON. IM SO SICK OF RICH PEOPLE CONTROLLING THE WORLD AND OUR LIVES WITH MONEY.
The law ain’t shit. It’s up to the people to impose justice.
Prisons aren’t viewed as a REAL possible punishment to those types - they can get pardons at the drop of a hat.
Consequences for those types must be irrevocable, and once that happens several times the others will fall in line.
People who feel they can fuck with elections should also learn what a few years in a cell feels like.
A few? These are the people that did backflips because the left handed out water bottles to voters in line. Put them under the cell, I'm exhausted over the blatant hypocrisy.
Lol "donation"
I'd take his million dollars and tell him I'll vote for whoever he asks for
Then go vote for the other side.
Same!
Wow! It would be REALLY REALLY Difficult for Him to END World Hunger when he's SO STINGEY with his Money!
Imagine flexing on being able to end world hunger and deciding giving Nazis money was a better use of your dollars.
I'm hoping that enough people see through the insanity and don't bite on the propaganda, the $100 if you vote for schimel, etc. I'm cautiously hopeful after the PA race where a trump +15 district flipped blue that there's enough momentum to flip this the right way
Musk 2028
Ok, I'm kidding...
I mean there won't be an election, but that's the future at this point..
No.... it's really not, though.
What's really not? If you think Trump or SCOTUS plan on allowing any sort of actual election to happen you're sadly mistaken...
Barring something drastic happening, we're cooked.
Did anything really happen after he tried this last time in Pennsylvania pre-election?
How is this guy not in prison already?
