If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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Hopefully they know he treating people with disabilities like crap because he saw Medicaid and social security as bribery to get votes. No people voted because they want help
Also, the 3 special House elections in FL and NY. These are key to taking the House back! If we don't win them, we must immediately insist on hand recounts.
This is where we are, you no longer have to work in the dark to buy politicians and political favor it’s occurring in broad daylight. Talk about transparency it’s right in our faces. This is oligarchy he’s buying our government and doing it openly.
After the first time I wasn’t amazed, somewhat surprised. I don’t think most of us realize what has happened is happening. Hopefully we’ll rally if not we’re doomed
He can bribe people like this 300,000 times and still be a billionaire. Or he could help provide clean running water to homes in US that don't have it.
Well, you and I know that, but apparently Wisconsin law enforcement doesn’t. I think Elonazi MusKKK should be arrested and charged, with a State crime so Adolph Trump can’t pardon him.
That is a fact. I care about people. That’s why I’m not a billionaire. If I had made a billion dollars, I would have built small homes for the unhoused. I would have invested in people, childhood education, fighting fascism, and then I’d no longer have a billion dollars, but I’d be OK with that.
I wonder whether he realises that people may be signing the petition without any intention of voting the way he wants. In many ways, if was in Wisconsin, I'd sign, just in the hope of taking $1m off this pr*ck & giving it to the "wokeist" cause I could find.
They don’t seem great at making nuanced distinctions in the world Musk barges around, waving his cash, saying tough troll guy stuff in a stupid accent. That being said, I’d totally take the fools money, then vote blue 😂 I heard the canvassers he hired last election marked they’d “visited houses”…
Right!? I can think of a dozen ways to easily link a ballot to a voter. If I can, a hacker certainly can. And if anyone really believes this administration is following "the law", they aren't paying attention
Go ahead and believe that. I'll play safe rather than sorry and NOT put myself on a fascist hit list. (I'll also never believe a fascist is actually following the law, that's an idea I find hilarious)
In America today, Billionaires can offer voters a buy your vote option & a million dollar lottery yet in Georgia, your breaking state law if you offer someone water who's standing in a line on election day water on a polling site. Total Bat$hit bizarro world.
rogue elements are now running the country, with no one to stop them.
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment
Trust me I’m fully aware. Nobody could ask this question more than we are asking it ourselves (yes the majority of Americans). We fucking hate Cheeto man we just don’t know what to do to make this stop. Everyone is waiting for some sign or instruction on what to do :(
Do you know the bystander effect? That's what's happening. Everybody is just waiting for a sign to... Do what?
The brutal truth is: There will be no sign unless you start to react.
I think a lot of people are afraid of losing what little they have if they speak out. But ultimately, we will all lose anyway if we don't affect some kind of monumental change. It's scary to think about.
Planes fall off the sky, National Parks and treasures are up to destruction, national secrets and data are shared with Putin, tourism industry is most likely dead, constitutional rights one by one stolen. And all happened within 3 months.
While Americans start giving up free speech.
They’re happening constantly. But guess what? Washington just ignores them. What are a couple thousand people waving signs going to do other than stand around for a few hours!
the fact that so many are only a paycheque away is what hinders the implementation of a general strike... the economy is the only thing these fuckers care about
I’m fairly certain Elon is breaking laws, but—once again—intelligent working class citizens will be relied on for rallying against corruption because those with power who claim to stand for social justice will never actually commit. Down with the oligarchy ☠️
We only escaped this once before because the oligarchs were dumb enough to think they could stiffle Teddy Roosevelt's political power by hiding him in the vice presidency. I wouldn't count on us getting that lucky again.
I’m hoping that Scott A from Green Bay (hey! that rhymes!) signed the petition and got his cool 1 mil- and then votes for Crawford, or Scott A from Green Bay is as real as Jake from State Farm.
They won't get the money. The last time it was prearranged, and not clear that those colle ted. Musk doesn't part with his money any more willingly than Trump.
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Scott from Green Bay probably has season tickets to Lambeau and a drinking problem and once met Brett Favre and connected on a bro level. Or maybe Scott’s daughter didn’t make the volleyball team and sports was the only way Scott connected with his daughter so he blamed trans kids and Elon gets him.
I’m down for the cheesehead tix but you are way darker than I am. I’m just thinking he’ll grab his mil and do the right thing!
Or, he’s like khaki Jake and not real . . .
Oof.
With musk's tech bros, not really sure this election isn't all but fixed already. There BETTER be an audit after the election regardless because it's hard to imagine they won't at least try.
They should have automatic hand counts for every state using the Elon Starlink System to tabulate votes. IT specialists to breakdown his programming also. Don't know why they weren't all over the Starlink System in 2024!!
Current US admin is doing the "who's going to stop me?" strategy with illegal action, and it's working. A lot. In practice, everything is legal at this point
That's what passive opposition + laws written on the basis of gentleman's agreement do
You’re right. And so far no one stopped them, nor gave their been consequences for their lawlessness. Judges have slowed some things down, but it doesn’t stop them from snatching legal residents off the street.
Yeah, basically trying to eliminate due process, sending random ppl in a foreign concentration camp. And these judges being personally threatened by the President + the media machine. Good stuff, not sure how long judges would even continue to oppose the admin
It matches how they act overall. While people in marginalized communities are organizing to fight against oppression, the average liberal on here is like "hehe I called him fElon and posted a low quality meme image, hash tag the resistance"
I mean there's absolutely nothing keeping George Soros from actually sending us checks to vote now. :D
More seriously where I'm going with this is the left needs to get their shit together and turn on the populism before they don't exist anymore. If they don't win the midterms it's over for them.
The left in the party is getting crowds in record numbers rn, running progressive candidates locally against geriatric old guards do-nothings (semi-successfully). But the party lead would rather collaborate with fascists than move an inch to the left. They're funded by billionaires
People need to dismiss billionaire’s promises as quickly as they dismiss a phishing text on their phone. Stop accepting their bribes to do their bidding. A billionaire does NOT have your best interests at heart-only their own.
This is literally buying votes. It is illegal. I think their goal is ultimately to break every single law in our country, down to littering and parking illegally. They haven't met a law they don't want to violate just to show that they're above the law.
I did ask, in person, a current Wisconsin Supreme Court justice about the legality of this "buying votes". I was told that technically it was not illegal because people were signing a petition. It is sickening.
The petition has bearing on an election. Paying people to sign it is paying them to sway an election. That Wisconsin Supreme Court justice needs to get their head out of Elon's posterior.
How fkn lost in the sauce is this drug addled simp to think all this is even worth the money?
Sure it gives the fascists a little more power, but ffs you could buy it elsewhere for less.
Freak just needs to win in order to get hard.
the irony is they want to remove judges who uphold the rule of law, with corrupt judges that let them run free to do what they like...the exact thing they are protesting
I'd be fucking embarrassed to win the money
“The PAC has not disclosed the full criteria for selecting million-dollar winners, but confirmed in prior litigation that the choice is not random and is based on candidates' suitability as public-facing figures for their cause“
He just bought complete control of the government and will share power to a lesser degree with the Israeli bribery unit, who will use the lives of US military personnel to implement their foreign policy goals, since they aren’t stupid enough to use their own people. The days of elections are over.
That's what bothers me. There are lawmaker at the federal & state levels who should have made stuff like this illegal long before Trump appeared. They are paid to create laws to protect the public. Now the party is imploring random citizens to fix the problem the paid electeds allowed to happen.
Remember when the right wing in this state cried & cried & cried & cried when the Zuckerberg Foundation donated for early/mobile voting stations in 2020.
Of course now, total silence. Bad faith crybabies to the core.
Yes, but buying votes while pretending you're giving millions of dollars to voters solely because they "signed a petition" is legal, apparently. Revolting.
Paying for votes/signatures while being in the government. How is this not the least democratic action - so emboldened that doesn’t even try to hide it.
Nazis LOVE to laugh at democratic processes. Smart Nazis hide and wait until AFTER elections to laugh -- dumb Nazis laugh all the way! Dumb democrats don't spend EVERY minute educating the public that that's what NAZIS DO!
I say nobody got any $. There is no Scott from Green Bay. Just the promise of a chance to be rich rich rich and the ignorance to fall for this massive con
That was my opinion. If they interviewed actual people that received $ then that proves me wrong. Everything muck does is so sketchy and scamy and I don’t trust anything about him.
He may be able to afford it but he is greedy. I find his claim hard to accept because he is a frequent liar.
Philly DA sued him for this and the case was dismissed. There was one in TX as well. That one is still open (last I checked). Musk wanted it dismissed, but I see no ruling and that was in Jan.
When it’s all over, and the country is just a pile of smoldering rubble, if anyone asks, Citizens United vs. FEC was the most pivotal point in the death of democracy in America.
Perhaps Dems could work together with the Repubs quaking in their boots over fear of being primaried by the world‘s richest man, and they could all pass some campaign finance reform legislation.
Any interest in taking money out of politics? The catch being that Republicans rely so much on corp $$$.
Citizens United slit the throat of any attempt at fair elections. Only a handful of voters could compete w/corporate donations. SCOTUS knowingly sold us, even as the foolish—or deceitful—Alito muttered that wasn’t the case.
And if you really don't want to see it, join your local union, learn about mutual aid and collective defense, and prepare to make a socialist revolution at the first chance we get
The biggest historical shift in this nation's political structure is happening now. Serious work to deconstruct the political right wing is desperately needed.
Though, it is a need to *defeat* the right-wing. We cannot win with the liberals, we cannot win in the 'marketspace of ideas' in a 'civil debate' - we need to physically win, out in the streets, win people's hearts. Doesn't habe to be violent even
Anyone who gets paid for a vote in a democratic election should automatically be have their vote rejected and be disqualified from voting from that point forward.
legal prosecution against both is important because you don't want either side of the illegal transaction walking away free or else it encourages more of the same. The poor person isn't being punished for being poor; they're being punished for breaking the law.
You do get that the fact that i said BOTH options do not exclude each other means that your use of the word 'instead' is incorrect. You have also determined that only poor voters lack the moral and mental capacity to understand that selling your vote is not good. Another grandstanding moral hero 👏👏.
Having basic rules against corruption in a democracy is not “attacking”, and the idea that we should allow anyone who’s poor to sell their votes to the highest bribe from an oligarch is worse for the entire proletariat while making one sell-out wealthier.
I’m not wealthy. I don’t sell my vote. It’s mine. Anyone who tries to take it from me can fuck all the way off. The poor aren’t the issue. It’s the morality.
I thought he admitted that the last million dollar giveaway was already predetermined in court.
He's scamming them just to get their votes...just like 🍊 felon did.
Would be nice if supporters don't fall for it yet again.
ah, but there's the rub. he never intends to pay, it's in the terms and conditions (at least for the $100 offer). so, interference, yes, buying votes...nah
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, America is the most corrupt country in the world, the corrupt politicians even made it legal, with the help from the corrupt Supreme Court.
Dems should overwhelm and sign the petition and then highlight how they plan to vote. This isn’t going away as long as republicans control the Supreme Court.
So an "activist judge" is one who follows our Constitution correct? We must stop this now. We need Congress to stand up against tyranny. Today. All of them. Congress must know once the Constitution is no more they will be among the first eliminated. Trump/Musk will demand blind allegiance only.
I know it’s not going to happen with this administration but I REALLY hope that one day Musk will face repercussions for all this corruption of the voting system.
Wow, I can't even imagine why paying people to sign a political petition would be legal. I have no idea if it is legal in my country. I'm going to find out. Imagine bribing people to sign something because you have so little faith in your idea you can't imagine getting it through via honest means.
The state is brimming w/ untapped potential, Wisconsin had the first socialist mayor, has the most dammed up rivers in the country. Every greatest musician’s first photo is during a show at some random supper club here, seemingly glanced over constantly, we are the proving grounds for new music acts
And this is all without even touching the fact that WI would be nearly as important as Illinois as a transit hub. For years folks have been impressed with the trail system here which is remarkable, but the only reason they allowed it is bc it’s the best place to put passenger rail.
Another massive thanks to scooter, as if Foxconn wasn’t bad enough. We purchased one, had it commissioned badger red and now it is the Lagos red line in Nigeria lol. Congrats to them honestly. Woe to us and our oil overlords
I wonder if they realize that we the people are watching and if they install someone we don't want we gon remove them one way or the other we the people hold ALL the power not them I think it's time we remind the gov Whom they work for!
1) Isn't that illegal
2) are they going to file a Currency Transaction Report since this is for more than $10k
3) how much will the "winner" lose because Taxes are a thing
4) I hope the "winner" donates all of it to the Dem or NPR or local Veterans group
Musk is trying to buy the election for Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. Who benefits from this? Not
Wisconsinites. Schimel will do whatever Elon Musk and Trump tell him to do.
No. It's about a court case that could restrict his ability to have a dealership in Wisconsin. Ultimately, he's just trying to curry favor and build back up a business failing due to his stupidity.
Plus every time this succeeds, it makes his threats in congress in the senate of vote, the way I want to or will force you out even more viable and threatening
I have a feeling this is really about Canada since it’s close to its border. He is spending a awfully lot of money on this that makes me believe he is desperate
Actually, I have seen reports that he’s worried about the seat because the Supreme Court there has been the body making final decisions about redistricting that could give Dems 2 more seats. Can’t bring up the piece right now but seems like a good possibility
I heard Jeffrey saying that. Also, what this election can do if she wins? It will scare the Rs Congress. They will no longer fear, musk and his money, if we can win this election. It will show them Musk‘s threats of primary them will not work. Wisconsin VOTE. You can do this and stop musk. Doge!
The Republicons hate Wisconsin voters who don’t vote their way. They want to gerrymander and restrict eligible adult US citizens from voting in the state in a way that may not favor Republicons. For this purpose, they need a Musk/Trump/Vance-controlled judge on the WI Supreme Court to rubber stamp.
Do you think he's doing something with all these names and addresses he's collecting on these "petitions"? The petitions must have some sort of nefarious purpose.
Openly trying to buy an election, this tells me how frightened the GOP are of losing. The money is very tempting. This how the oligarchs win. We lose our rights
Anyone that isn't fearful of mRat's ability, and republikans willingness to support, the interference with the tabulators in future elections (and did in 2024) is more optimistic than me. Wish I had the knowledge to find it.
Probably doing the same thing he did during the general election; lying and saying he's giving the $1M to random people who sign the petition when in reality the recipients are pre-determined friends of his.
The only way to get this to stop would be to charge the participants of the lottery with election interference. The people who are poor and can't afford to deal with the court system. Unfortunately it's the American way.
I hope your job dge wins. She looks so normal & the good so nutty. In FL we are trying for two very red districts. I'm calling and when I do reach someone they are voting or have already voted. Otherwise we've got good numbers down here
The corrupt Supreme Court has absolutely fucked this country with the Citizens United decision (2011) as well as McCutcheon (2013)
All it took was bribing the justices
"Exciting to pay our first million dollar bribe to illegally induce people to vote against judicial independence! Help Trump and I to *completely corrupt* our former Constitutional Republic!"
Is this legal?
I thought he was stopped + being investigated for doing this last November?
I get it that he can do anything under treasolini but can't WI stop him?
If you thinks literally buying votes is wrong, get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
This is also a reminder that this dude and those like him could literally be changing lives every single day with what amounts to pocket change to them and instead they do this....
Dems sh jump on this too. Get a plan to focus public attention on all of their illegalities, treachery, harmful policies. C’mon, Dems, get with it! Get a comm spokes person to lead several others- nationwide. Billboards etc too.
Most definitely—elect Susan Crawford! Apartheid musk is doing the same cheating, corrupt 💩tactic he did to elect senile, bigoted trump…paying for votes! Voters must realize since he caused damage to their lives & eliminated helpful programs, Defy musk who he wants to win!🤬
WTF - so you can legally buy votes in Wisconsin? Maybe it's time for Dem leaders to call for an investigation of this new "practice" and charge people with election fraud!! Where are the democratic leaders? Better not be chanting "we will win"! Didn't work out so well last time, did it schumer?
IMHO - Musk uses the petition to gather signatures, addresses and contact info. We should question what he does with that information as any AI program can take it and replicate signatures and addresses to register unregistered voters and also vote by mail.
Don’t give that asshat any personal information!! They tell you not to put personal info on websites you don’t know, why would you willingly provide it to this guy!! Just stop. They’re manipulating the data, you know they will.
Then his citizenship and Government contracts should be revoked and he should be arrested and sent to El Salvador with those other criminal immigrants.
Correct me if I’m not understanding this right but is he saying he’ll pay people to sign a petition?
Shouldn’t that be illegal since he’s loaded?
Reminds me how he was paying people to vote trump
It wasn’t even a secret or anything, doing it to the point it was on the news in different countries
We need to track “Scott A” down and shame the fuck out of him for taking a bribe for an election over the needs of his country. Then the local authorities need to jail him for taking a bribe. Fuck Elon!
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DEPORT MUSK.
DON'T FEED THE OLIGARCHS.
Fucker
And we all know it
Protect your democracy 💙🙏
I don't even know how you got there
Time to prove them wrong.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/politics/georgia-election-law-ban-food-water-voters-line/index.html
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment
You see. Your problem might become also our problem.
The brutal truth is: There will be no sign unless you start to react.
Trumps corrrupt white trash cabinet reminded us lazy europeans that democracy and human rights are worth fighting for.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/demonstrationen-union-afd-100.html
While Americans start giving up free speech.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-travel-warnings-could-cost-tourism-120b-2051535
Uhmmm tell me more
Those lines are by design too. When I moved to a blue state I was shocked to never see a voting line again.
It's not.
Or, he’s like khaki Jake and not real . . .
Oof.
I'm pretty sure every election district has hand count and audit.
Is this legal? Buying votes openly?
That's what passive opposition + laws written on the basis of gentleman's agreement do
Reps:
I don't see any martyrs trying to go against the admin in power
More seriously where I'm going with this is the left needs to get their shit together and turn on the populism before they don't exist anymore. If they don't win the midterms it's over for them.
Awful, just awful.
Sure it gives the fascists a little more power, but ffs you could buy it elsewhere for less.
Freak just needs to win in order to get hard.
I'd be fucking embarrassed to win the money
BRIBE much, you POS?
“The PAC has not disclosed the full criteria for selecting million-dollar winners, but confirmed in prior litigation that the choice is not random and is based on candidates' suitability as public-facing figures for their cause“
Of course now, total silence. Bad faith crybabies to the core.
Thank you.
How is this legal?
@tribelaw.bsky.social @crew.bsky.social @richardpainter.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov
He may be able to afford it but he is greedy. I find his claim hard to accept because he is a frequent liar.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/musks-pac-claims-1-million-winners-not-chosen-by-chance
Fuck Schimel and musk!
This is blatant vote buying.
This has to stop.
Why are so many doing outright illegal things and facing absolutely no consequences?
Cuz there'd be no need to pay folks *anything* to sign that one.
Any interest in taking money out of politics? The catch being that Republicans rely so much on corp $$$.
It's absolutely un-American.
Like a lottery.
The same happened with the presidential elections.
No one cares. 🤮
Smoke em if you've got em! Em I right?
He's scamming them just to get their votes...just like 🍊 felon did.
Would be nice if supporters don't fall for it yet again.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-says-1-million-election-giveaway-wasnt-an-illegal-lottery-2025-01-26/
President Joseph R. Biden
Farewell Address
January 15, 2025
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Many won't RS w/out it.
What is wrong with people? Why don't you guys bring him to court for bribery of an election?
I'm starting to think that you guys deserve the mess you are in!!
Phone bank ☎️ & Donate ⬇️
https://indivisible.org/scowis2025
https://www.crawfordforwi.com
2) are they going to file a Currency Transaction Report since this is for more than $10k
3) how much will the "winner" lose because Taxes are a thing
4) I hope the "winner" donates all of it to the Dem or NPR or local Veterans group
Anything?
Wisconsinites. Schimel will do whatever Elon Musk and Trump tell him to do.
Early voting continues through today, Friday March 28. Election Day on Tuesday Apr 1.
#CrawfordForCourt
#StopShadySchimel
#SBWI
It’s about how enormously overpowered Wisconsin is in the judiciary.
Buying this seat would swing the odds in favor of the kleptocrats.
Because our democracy is fucking dead and billionaires have cart blanche.
Is some pretty creepy stuff
https://newrepublic.com/post/187879/elon-musk-lawyer-1-million-lottery-scam
This will continue until it's specifically legislated...
‼️ #getmoneyout #OverturnCitizensunited #CitizensUnited ‼️
The ketamine addicted f_ck is literally buying our elections and America is doing the spastic seal bit...
All it took was bribing the justices
GOOOOO NAAZZZIIIIIS!!!
I thought he was stopped + being investigated for doing this last November?
I get it that he can do anything under treasolini but can't WI stop him?
WTF happened to y'all?
When & where did you lose interest?
I have questions ....
This is so blatantly wrong
There is the law of the money.
There is the law of the Dictator.
That's all. You can either obey, or you can fight back.
I thought only the Gaming Commission could sell tickets?
Isn’t this illegal on many fronts?
What kind of country is that.......
#USA #Money
Compromising the election.
If the Repub wins, recount!
Shouldn’t that be illegal since he’s loaded?
Reminds me how he was paying people to vote trump
It wasn’t even a secret or anything, doing it to the point it was on the news in different countries
So it’s a scam and dumb people will not know this because they’re tuned out.
Probably a spokes person
Additionally, one has to ask why is this race so important to the MuskRat!
“Welp” 🤷♂️