Elon Musk's pro-Trump super PAC has resumed awarding $1 million to registered voters—this time in Michigan and Wisconsin—despite having been warned by DOJ that this is likely a violation of the law.
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No one is going to go to jail for this and the fine is irrelevant to Musk. By the time it even gets looked at for prosecution Trump may be in the White House and it will get nixed. Otherwise it will take so long to prosecute, Musk will die of a ketamine overdose before it finishes.
I mean, what is the actual consequence for him here? A fine, maybe? If his guy wins, he gets dismissal of all charges and even more no-compete government contracts.
Now they’re saying these people are earning the $$ as a spokesperson for AmericaPAC, so no longer a lottery. Employment is subject to very different requirements.
It is truly disgusting how he believes that laws don't apply to him. Thanks to the way the SEC always lets him off when he breaks the rules it is not surprising. Also he assumes TFG will win so he can break any law. 🤬🤬
...a big part of me doubts there's actually any awarding of any money happening. Probably just some rubes paid a paltry sum to go get a giant check printed and act like they just got rich, to get people to think there's a chance. Which itself is icky.
But even if there are people getting massive payouts they're not getting good advice on how to handle the windfall (like lottery winners) and are gonna end up fucked over hard and probably in the worst possible way.
Honestly, the headline should read, laws don't matter if they aren't enforced and Musk continues to break the law. Will anyone do anything or are rich people just exempt?
As if DOJ is going to do ANYTHING to protect the sanctity of our elections. “May be” ? Isn’t there laws/regulations on the books prohibiting paying for registrations or votes? By all means, wait until after they are able to get him in office & then drop the investigation.
Notice none of the winners have been from Georgia. We don’t register a party here. My guess is these people are not random. They are drawn from registered Republican voters whose social media and yard signs have been vetted.
Did they show who they voted and then get paid? cause realistically I'd just take the money and vote for who I want to which is Harris Walz. On one end I take money from a dumbass and on the other I vote for the right person.
Appreciate it. If he really went through with it, I'd be.. I dunno, not even shocked anymore, I guess. It feels like we're post-rule-of-law and have been for a long while. But every new blatant instance of hubris from these assholes is like a punch to the gut.
That's a goal for sure but that isn't a byproduct necessarily of getting all these schlubs to fork over their info. There's gotta be a long con here, other than winning.
it has nothing to do with the info itself, they can buy that from a data broker for cheap. The "long con" is buying votes without consequences. This is what the USSR did, this is what russia did *this week* (in Moldova). Just blatant vote buying. Then democracy is effectively meaningless.
I don't know specifically, but throw it in with other data they have. I can't imagine them throwing away data these days when there is a data arms race going on for training AI.
I haven't seen anyone comment yet on the fact those checks aren't cashable. There are no routing numbers on them. Presumably, they are given real ones like game shows do, but with Elon... Who knows? Do the people receiving them know?
Does anyone have screenshots of earlier winners.
The phrasing of the winners being selected as paid spokespeople might be the hedge he is trying to use to cover his ass but without seeing other wording I'm not surer and stuff.
He doesn't care if it's a violation of the law. If the tactic succeeds who's going to punish him for it? If the tactic fails, who's going to punish him for it? He literally does not give a shit.
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Damn, Garland is embarrassing.
Elon finding out awards stopped: I don't care, continue the awards
And to think that half of the slaves in this country keep voting for this. 😖
Also, be prepared for crypto replacing the US currency
The phrasing of the winners being selected as paid spokespeople might be the hedge he is trying to use to cover his ass but without seeing other wording I'm not surer and stuff.
Anything useful? Seems unlikely.