5d ago

Elon Musk hands $1m to voter in desperate attempt to flip Wisconsin’s Supreme Court

www.independent.co.uk

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

How is this fucking legal? Pretty sure buying votes is illegal.
- They’re calling for his arrest
  
  Ah yes, I remember when we spend years calling for Trump's arrest, this should go well with speedy results..
  
  Saw that, I'm not an optimist but I do have hope!
  Just saw your handle, hilarious!
- 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.
  
  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.
- It's not. Just a question of whether that matters anymore.
  
  It doesn't.
- When you're a ~~republican~~ Nazi, they just let you do it.
  
  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.
- It is illegal but Bidens DOJ set the precedent that musk would go unpunished in the 2024 election.
  
  Explain
- 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...
- Pretty sure law only applies to certain people sometimes.
- 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.
- 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.

How is this guy not in prison already?

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

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?!?

Lol "donation"

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

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

Musk 2028
Ok, I'm kidding...
- I mean there won't be an election, but that's the future at this point..
  
  No.... it's really not, though.
- Gives us plenty of time to source the finest woods
  
  Sourced from Canada. Good stuff.

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

I'd take his million dollars and tell him I'll vote for whoever he asks for
Then go vote for the other side.
- Same!

Wow! It would be REALLY REALLY Difficult for Him to END World Hunger when he's SO STINGEY with his Money!
- Imagine flexing on being able to end world hunger and deciding giving Nazis money was a better use of your dollars.

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

Did anything really happen after he tried this last time in Pennsylvania pre-election?
- Well, he's still walking free so no.

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