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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Summary

Elon Musk handed out $1 million to a voter to boost Republican support in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, backing GOP candidate Brad Schimel against Democrat Susan Crawford.

The donation is part of Musk’s America PAC efforts to flip the court and counter "activist judges."

Musk has invested over $20 million in Schimel’s campaign, with more surprise donations promised before the April 1 election.

The race is seen as a pivotal political battle, while Tesla faces legal challenges in Wisconsin over direct car sales.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

People who feel they can fuck with elections should also learn what a few years in a cell feels like.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

How is this guy not in prison already?

[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 280 points 3 days ago

How is this fucking legal? Pretty sure buying votes is illegal.

[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago

They’re calling for his arrest

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah yes, I remember when we spend years calling for Trump's arrest, this should go well with speedy results..

[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Bot? Trumps not even in the title or the picture.

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Your reading comprehension could use a bit of work..

[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Saw that, I'm not an optimist but I do have hope!

Just saw your handle, hilarious!

[-] spooky2092 16 points 2 days ago

When you're a ~~republican~~ Nazi, they just let you do it.

[-] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So is:

  • grabbing women by the pussy.
  • storming the capitol, killing cops, and smearing shit on the walls.
  • stealing classified docs and storing them by the shitter at your gaudy estate.
  • doing commercials for fucking Goya beans from the resolute desk, or for shitboxes from the WH lawn.

Etc.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Kalon@lemmy.world 102 points 3 days ago

It's not. Just a question of whether that matters anymore.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 days ago
[-] Zamotic@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is illegal but Bidens DOJ set the precedent that musk would go unpunished in the 2024 election.

[-] Jagger2097@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Well who you voting for? No Democrats fit that bill they are all cowards who just care about keeping their cushy job.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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.

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.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Bidens DOJ was so flaccid and lenient

[-] frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure law only applies to certain people sometimes.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 days ago

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...

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago

I'm sure this is rigged. I doubt this asshole would just give anyone free money.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

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?

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 65 points 3 days ago

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?!?

[-] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol "donation"

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Can you legally pay someone to vote let alone vote a certain way?

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

The law ain’t shit. It’s up to the people to impose justice.

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 7 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago

I'd take his million dollars and tell him I'll vote for whoever he asks for

Then go vote for the other side.

[-] podperson@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago
[-] jmantothe64@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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

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