It is not just that Musk dropped $20 million in the race: he spent a bunch of that money on what what looked a lot like bribes (and even his $1 million sweepstakes looked rigged - one prize going to the head of the WI Republicans). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges... - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It is not just that Musk dropped $20 million in the race: he spent a bunch of that money on what what looked a lot like bribes (and even his $1 million sweepstakes looked rigged - one prize going to the head of the WI Republicans). https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biggest-loser-in-wisconsin

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butterfly260.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was rigged.He didn't give no money away to ordinary wisconsin citizens voters, he gave it to people that he knew, but it really wasn't going to them. It's just all fake and smoking mirrors.

juddburrows.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk’s crime spree cannot go unpunished. Buying votes in Wisconsin is the tip of the iceberg. DOGE has engaged in a well documented, illegal dismantling of the federal govt. DOJ is complicit under Trump. Boycott Tesla. Stop Musk.

saschavykos.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was a canal.

He deleted the initial bribe tweet and changed the terms, but what he initially offered was a crime, and I don't know that deleting your crimes and rephrasing them to be less crimey means you didn't commit a crime.

Like it seems to me that means you committed 2 crimes, but ianal.

susersuzanner.bsky.social•1 day ago

$20 million to him is like $20 to us.

roger-strassburg.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was rigged, just like he did in Pennsylvania during the 2024 election. Not only did he try to buy votes with his “sweepstakes” for a $1 million check, but the “sweepstakes” was also a fraud, where the winner was handpicked.

rebeccaswh.bsky.social•1 day ago

#FuckOffMusk

toddman42.bsky.social•1 day ago

They were payoff checks to hand picked MAGAtes. This from people who cry rivers over rigged contests.

erikalyn.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would be surprised if either of those people holding the big checks actually ever sees the money.

hmsgreengoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only real victory comes if he is prosecuted for the criminal dimension of it, according to US lawyers on this site lol

cuppajoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk maliciously and illegally interfered in the election.

He should lose his citizenship. First action of DOJ in January 2029.

drgeophysics.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now shutdown DOGE and rehire federal workers.

anseljh.com•1 day ago

Would be a shame if his every public appearance were cut short after the crowd began chanting “Lock him up”

irishjerseygirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a great idea. "Lock them ALL up"

kmaslowski.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't want to hear any bullshit about the Democrats "stealing" this election. Elon Musk was LITERALLY and openly offering big money to BUY votes. Which, by the way, is illegal as hell. He needs to be charged for this. The evidence is published everywhere.

lizalizaliza.bsky.social•1 day ago

almost like obviously trying to buy votes might motivate the opposition

ccandd.bsky.social•1 day ago

First I'm seeing this "super judge" appeal to lonely 12 year olds nonsense. Wow.

suzpor.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk Rat doesn't know how to give (as in actual charity) or share. He only knows how to buy, smash, or suffocate. 😏

vermonster.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sure the new justice has thoughts on his crimes

emily68.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone needs to check back with this guy in a week or so to ask if the check cleared.

donmoyn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aren't you tired of how central money is to our democracy?

To give a sense of out-of-kilter we are, a single state court race saw significantly more spending than the entire United Kingdom national election.

Thanks John Roberts!
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biggest-loser-in-wisconsin

cavemanjohn.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m really tired of outsiders spending money on our elections. Not sure how to do this, but I’d like spending on elections by only eligible voters.

phasmatic.bsky.social•1 day ago

People all agree, #SuckItElon

readbetween.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's even more obscene that he could spend $90,000,000 on another 3,822 elections and still have $1 billion dollars left

tax. that. ass.

andyfknight.bsky.social•1 day ago

With a UK population of 69.55M and a WI population of 5.99M, that makes the spending per capita:

UK: $0.92
WI: $15.03

flootzavut.bsky.social•1 day ago

Holy shit that really puts it in perspective. Like it's obvious US elections are fucked (and I'm so glad there are limits here), but the numbers are so high it all feels theoretical.

When you break it down per capita, that is an absolutely batshit ratio.

andyfknight.bsky.social•1 day ago

Especially when you consider it’s just ONE RACE.

flootzavut.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right?? It's obscene.

suee33.bsky.social•1 day ago

END Citizens United!!! Endless cash from anyone anywhere to back your person to do your bidding... glad someone lost their investment!!

kentpitman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed. Though I bet an even better out-of-kilter-meter comes of comparing their annual political spend against what they say they can't POSSIBLY bear to let government spend helping myriad disadvantaged souls.

It's not just the cash, but the sociopathy.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/repairing-democracy.html

romabysen.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's incredibly gross.

citizencomply.bsky.social•1 day ago

As we all learned in school, the First Amendment only applies to corporate campaign contributions.

/s

imthegayson.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s disgusting the amount of money wasted.

difficultopinions.com•1 day ago

More evidence that the US system of co-equal branches of Govt is completely unsuitable for this modern society. The speed of bad actors cannot be slowed. What's better? No idea, but it's clear everyone knows a weighted judiciary is their only path to enacting their policies. Total madness.

mariosrichards.bsky.social•1 day ago

> More evidence that the US system

Fundamentally, the Founders just didn't think "parties" would happen (I guess as 'english parliament thing' rather than an 'all politics thing).

mariosrichards.bsky.social•1 day ago

None of the institutional design of checks and balances between 'rival' branches makes sense if you have political parties that are more important than whether you're a member of congress/senate/supreme court.

smarxy.bsky.social•1 day ago

its like the healthcare shit where we massively overspend for an inferior product, except this one is our fucked up democracy

boazhsan.bsky.social•1 day ago

But is it legal, or is no one enforcing the law against Elon musk?

wonkish.bsky.social•1 day ago

I keep meaning to look up whether it’d be constitutional for the US to have legally enforced spending caps for campaign spending like the UK does, though it also helps that TV campaign ads are illegal here during campaign periods.

coltranethedog.bsky.social•1 day ago

Having spending limits SHOULD have been found Constitutional. But John Roberts and the right-wingers decided that campaign donations = free speech and essentially can't be limited.

The ruling was idiotic then and it has only looked worse since.

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

faithandscience.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am. Every time I see all that money spent on political races, I think about how much good it could do elsewhere. I also wonder (if the reason is $ in the pocket) if these people wouldn't actually spend less $ following the system than they do trying to BUY the system.

rileygirl58.bsky.social•1 day ago

They really f'd up that one. Way to go Roberts. Ugh...

riz4robot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon is a symptom Trump is the disease

Christian Nationalism = Fascists for Jesus

lemurdreamer87.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon and Trump are both symptoms. The disease existed before they entered politics, and arguably before either were born. At the very least, it goes back to the 1960s with the Southern Strategy, and then 1974 with Nixon getting away with his crimes.

twentyninedollars.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good to see Musk punched in his face.

thefifthdeclension.bsky.social•1 day ago

Roberts: "Fuck Taney. Hold my beer."

donmoyn.bsky.social•1 day ago

It turns out that for one day, at least, America’s democracy was not sold to the highest bidder. That voters cared more about the damage Musk is doing than his offers of cash.

(Big h/t @benwikler.bsky.social)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biggest-loser-in-wisconsin

jonnyhunter.bsky.social•1 day ago

ha, thats half a block from my house, across the street from Lapham elementary where we vote.

joed1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think the key driver tonight was the turnout in Dane County.

bjkeefe.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Turnout in this year’s spring election could be more than 2.4 million. That’s extraordinarily high for an off-year election — nearly 40 % higher than the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, and just a few hundred thousand voters short of the number that might show up for a midterm election."

donmoyn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Important: I have updated the headline image for this story. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biggest-loser-in-wisconsin