Elon Musk just found out the hard way that he can no more buy elections than he can buy love, respect, or happiness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - ThreadSky

ottoenglish.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Elon Musk just found out the hard way that he can no more buy elections than he can buy love, respect, or happiness.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-result-race?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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silentaddle.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't think it'll be long before he's back on Fox crying about how the cruel left won't let him buy another election.

akc1.bsky.social•6 days ago

First chance to show the Populists(Fascists) ain’t popular! ✊

firstclasspost.bsky.social•6 days ago

I might save that burn and use it to heat my home.

2di2d.bsky.social•6 days ago

….. or even a sense of humour

millertime1976.bsky.social•6 days ago

The fall between Musk and Trump will be seen from space when it happens

grumpygeezer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well put! 👏🏻👏🏻

crednescodpeace.bsky.social•6 days ago

Billionaire Oligarch sponsored judge wins election over the candidate sponsored by Billionaire Oligarch Elon Musk, what a wonderful election victory for the plebs, heads plebs lose & tails plebs lose.

newsfrowned.bsky.social•6 days ago

No doubt the oligarchy-right thinks they can’t have spent enough and must do better!

ghostdag.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m curious whether the cheques will bounce now that he lost. Is bribing using IOUs worse than actually paying your bribes?

ka7ma.bsky.social•6 days ago

Musk defeated in Wisconsin Supreme Court race after spending almost $25 million to back losing candidate

kayewad.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm laughing so hard😂
Great stuff America, keep it up.

darrenguy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh you can bet the attacks from president musk will escalate

anniedorset.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or a soul.

brizo75.bsky.social•6 days ago

Now, if one of the guys who Musk gave a million dollars to goes public to say he backed Crawford, my day will be made.

That is until Trump unleashes a 1930s-style trade war that will tank every major global economy on earth like it did 90 odd years ago.

verafang.bsky.social•6 days ago

At last some good news.

jockyfox.bsky.social•6 days ago

Perhaps the ‘end of the beginning’ to quote Churchill …

jodami.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is the thing with most of these right wingers. You just can’t see the likes of Musk, Vance, Badenoch, or Orban just going down the pub with their friends.

You can definitely see AOC or Ed Davey doing so, and for all his faults, Starmer goes to football matches and drinks beer, so he’s there.

ottoenglish.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wrote a thing about Musk recently for Byline Times and it was really interesting from that perspective. Like Trump and indeed Johnson... he has no real friends to speak of

jodami.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think that the main problem with these people is that they don’t understand the concept of friendship, it doesn’t aid their quest for power, therefore they see no value in it.

The pretence of it might, until it’s advantageous to stab someone in the back, then they wonder why no one trusts them.

michaelfrom.uk•6 days ago

I've often thought this - the funeral of Johnson (et al) will be populated by those wanting the publicity for attending; nobody will be there to pay respect to the departed.

A sad legacy for any brief, human, life.
From dust, to dust.

fib3.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump's best friend is money.

allknowingcraig.bsky.social•6 days ago

That they don't call it "election interference" just shows how scared The Guardian is. Pathetic.

junknown.bsky.social•6 days ago

And check the Reform party polls in the UK. Scary stuff.

junknown.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes and no. At $277 billion, the US was a bargain.

lindyloocody2.bsky.social•6 days ago

Great news. Come on America. Show them they're not wanted.

spedley.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't think Musk "found out" anything other than how to do it better next time. This is just one of a thousand battles where every singular win or loss is in no way a victory or defeat, just a change in direction.

penny-pink.bsky.social•6 days ago

Musk and Trump are both severely damaged individuals and it is terrible that they both have so much power. They are doing so much damage to the world and it will not compensate for their own internal problems.

ros14.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not hard enough by far.
Money is no replacement for respect, decency or love.
He'll NEVER reach Eutopia.
He wants to go to Mars. It's not there either.
Nor is health or the fountain of youth, Trump.

mikeescapee.bsky.social•6 days ago

Money can't buy me Gov.

pondo1664.bsky.social•6 days ago

That boy is a cast-iron moron.

sebdobson.bsky.social•6 days ago

At least his mom thinks he’s cool.

ediescott.bsky.social•6 days ago

Did you know that the state fish of Wisconsin is the Muskie? Rotten ones probably stink…

stevecrowther.bsky.social•6 days ago

Reminds me of a McCartney song.

martinott1.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tune for today:

https://youtu.be/Pswj1kpWZzQ?si=2SbjiTXoi-6NYcbx

goodtroublerocks.bsky.social•6 days ago

A beautiful end to the beginning of rebellion against wrong.

gummitch.bsky.social•6 days ago

...or an unwonky penis. (Allegedly.)

richardmskemp.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can't Buy Me Gov

yrotitna.bsky.social•6 days ago

Another big FU to Elon the Nazi

frankel2911.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hear Wisconsin voters were singing:

"He's a super callous fragile racist sexist Nazi doofus, and even the thought of him is really quite atrocious"

about Elon Musk to the tune of "Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins

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