Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin

This is not an arrest warrant or anything. It's a Democrat politician saying he should be arrested
- I hate "news" like this... It's a waste of time.
  One person on Twitter saying something turns into "Twitter says..."
  Politician say x in normal pointless conversation and it turns into "democrats/politicians say..."
  And people feverishly eat it up.
  Our society is fucked.
  
  I think the people should boycott all headlines with slams in the title. Unless it's about professional wrestling.
  
  Seriously though. Weasel words. If journalists adopted even 20% of Wikipedia's manual of style, news would improve by orders of magnitude.
  
  He was totally slammed, like the headline said.

We need exercise our second amendment and the citizens need to arrest
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Clarence Thomas, Big Balls and associated hacker coup, Peter Theil, Tulsi Gabbard, John Roberts, Jared Kushner, Steve Miller, Brett Kavanaugh and all January 6th rioters
I think that would be a good start

Americans...why are you just allowing this to happen to your country, like what's it going to take for you people to actually do something?
- We're slaves living paycheck to paycheck and nobody cares about each other.
  This system will collapse before we hold rich white men accountable
- I'll express from someone living in a red state. The fuck am I going to do? I'm over half a thousand miles away from the state he's fucking with, and he's probably not there most of the time and again thousands of miles over, with all the power of money to get him wherever the fuck he wants to go vs my little car.
  So build up support. A third of this country voted for this, and a third of this country sat out. So you've got a third that's actively angry about this, but scattered literal thousands of miles across the country. Kinda hard to gather to this. Sure we gather to protest but this administration isn't going to give two shits about it, this entire situation is proving that. But gathering and protesting IS the power we have so we're doing that. Unfortunately the cameras aren't on that because the people supporting this are the ones with the media.
  As someone put it, most of us are slaves to our paychecks, living on the barest margin of survivability, and that's been the way for decades. Y'all get to see the chest thumping "America is the greatest place!" but lets be honest, most of us are so disaffected that what we're watching is the horror of a monster taking over, but the country we were raised in and told to love there will be very little sadness when its gone, just sadness for how evil it will become. But that living paycheck to paycheck means in order for me to go somewhere where I can maybe put up resistance because right now I'm surrounded by people who support this... and these are the people who have been arming up in ready for a war for years... would be to uproot completely, and even the bluest of blue states would happily let me die in a gutter if I don't have job. So either I stay and support people who will be hurt when it gets worse, or I become at best a martyr, or at worst, another statistic that the news may not even bother reporting.
  The answers will vary, but why are we allowing this to happen? I'll say my answer, some of us have been fighting this for years, over a decade since the Tea Party got mad that a black man was president, have been struggling to change the trajectory of this ship away from the iceberg. But I've seen the people of my country as a whole grab the wheel, lock the door and say it's their god given right to drive into the iceberg. So at this point in the analogy I'm just gathering life preservers and making sure people have them on even as many of them will tell me the ship is unsinkable.
- We're pretty conditioned to obey. Like, you can be a rebel and insult people or be racist or sexist or "anti-social," but you go to work and pay your bills. We're also, mostly, in debt up to our eyeballs the stress of which gives a powerful myopia. Average Americans are way poorer than tv would have you think.
  Thirty percent of the population doesn't even bother to vote as they've basically given up, maybe for one of the reasons above or maybe because the government has little to do with day to day life, or maybe something else.
  There's also like a third of the population that is super happy about these developments. It the most amazing thing to have a king again and get back to how things are supposed to be.
  There's also a sort of general American optimism that is super persistent: if you do good, then it'll be ok. We're hyper individualized. Do the best you can with what you have. Don't put anyone out, or depend on anyone else.
  Unfortunately, things will have to get a lot worse to motivate us.
- I was surprised by the number of people who showed up to my local Tesla dealership to protest. It hurts his pocket book indirectly, but it's something.
  
  @Eruanna @Elkot I've been following the #TeslaTakedown stuff with interest - some of the protests seem to be enormous. Hopefully it is inviting people to dip their toe in the water, meet some fellow pissed off people, start organising, be visibly against what's happening... It all matters.
- Most people in US just stare at their phone all day so they're probably fucked
  
  The TikTok plan from China worked.
- This take is so boring. There are protests and even direct action all across the States. We're just getting started. You need to change your media sources if you're not hearing about what's going on.
- Easier if the country was the size of something like France. But when you have to clear a thousand miles just to arrive at the halfway point in the US. It's hard to show massive protests.

This situation has killed democracy in the world, showing it's worst downside: It's ability to self destroy.
- IDK if it killed democracy because it can fail. Almost all systems of government have failed.
  The only one that hadn't (yet) is democracy.
  Not sure why anyone would be surprised that democracy has a best before date...
  
  That's literally not true. It's true in America, so far, but plenty of democratically elected leaders have become dictators.

How are you going to get past Secret Service-X (C) to arrest xXx President Musk xXx (TM)?

You can't arrest the president, man.
- French: You can arrest even king. Well, we can. You, of course, cannot.

A billionaire is never going to suffer a real consequence in America. That’s why we’re so screwed in the first place
- Not until you, the people, make it happen
- It only takes a handful of people to change that
- Luigi will always be in our hearts.

Feel like this title should've been Wisconsin Demands Arrest of... Because holy shit my heart skipped a beat to think something might change :(
- Donald Trump, age 76 years, son of Fred and Wilma, said something stupid today.
  
  You actually got me there, I had to google his mother's name thinking this is the worst prank from the universe ever.

I'll just add this to the long of things I'd love to see, but never will.

His money is SO dirty that he can't even GIVE it away.
- He could give it away. But giving it away implies that you get nothing in return. He's trying to buy things illegally with it.

This!
Then aggressively review his widely known to be fraudulently obtained American citizenship, seize his American assets including his companies, and send him back to South Africa.
- send him back to South Africa
  Venezuela might also be nice at this time of year.
  
  What about that El Salvador prison Trump was so proud of?
- No. Life in prison in Florence ADmax.
  
  Give him a bunch of tattoos and send him to CECOT.
- I want this as well, but it will never happen.

Fucking do it already. His approval ratings are pretty low right now (billionaire approval ratings, fucking gross), so I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time.
- They'll defend him because if he goes to prison that is now a can of worms they cannot close, the slippery slope they fear the most is society actually putting these people in prison
- He shouldn’t have approval ratings.
- Fucking do it already
  Laws are for little people. Nobody in Wisconsin is going to green light this, because nobody has the chutzpah to inconvenience a billionaire.
  I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time
  MAGA isn't the problem. Corporate media and the Trump AG are the problem.
  
  "chutzpah"
  Alright learnt a new word here. Rougly "cojones" it seems but I'm liking it!
- I feel like MAGA might not come to his defense this time.
  Hope this isn't wishful thinking. Trump thinks his son is a l33t hacker for being able to turn a laptop on. Musk on the other hand owns a major social media platform and has access to skilled technicians and programmers, as well as huge server farms which he doubtless uses to analyse voter behaviour and find the weak points where efforts should be focused in order to have most impact on electoral choices.
  Trump certainly understands how essential to the disinfo effort Musk is, even though it's way beyond the grasp of your average MAGA. IMO Trump is not going to abandon Musk in a hurry.
  
  Maybe. But on the other hand, throwing anyone and everyone under the bus to save his own ass has been Trump's MO for decades...

Don't give us hope...

Liquidate Musk
- WHAT DID YOU SAY???
  LUIGIDATE MUSK??
- Preferably in a vat of acid

Oh? Demanded? Then what is the point.
Wake me up if he is at least arrested.
- Every day I wake up praying to read the news that someone did the funniest thing to this nazi fuck. I'll settle for an arrest though.
  
  It’s a me!

If this arrest doesn't happen, democracy is one step closer to the grave.
A lot of shit has happened to destroy democracy so far (has anyone been keeping a list?), but if billionaires see that they can now buy votes, nothing will stop them from doing it over and over again. We will be Russia.
- and its becoming blatant and bold
  Muskrat isn't doing this for any other reason other than to test and expand the boundaries. It's challenging the American people .... if he can go this far and allowed to get away with it, then it will become the norm. The fault won't be that he is doing it ... the fault will be the American people who put up with this crap.
  I've given up on trying to understand dumb American politicians .... I'm completely disillusioned and lost hope in the American people.
  It's not a small group of billionaires that will destroy democracy in America ... it will be an entire nation of people who just stand aside and watch everything burn without saying or doing a thing about it.
  
  I’ve given up on trying to understand dumb American politicians
  It's easy. They are cowards, and they are for sale. If money doesn't make them snap to attention, threats will. I also think a healthy percentage of them have been to Russia, and those are being blackmailed.
- At this point democracy is so far underground that only a Level 17 necronancer can resurrect it
  
  Even then the DM is gonna hit us with a bullshit counterspell
  
  I'll probably get called a commie but at it's core, is this version of democracy working well? I'm all for equal rights but if the majority of people are incapable of understanding what it takes to run a nation, how do we trust them to vote someone in who will be a good leader?
  If it wasn't evident enough during his first campaign that he has no interest in enriching the lives of the average american, his first 4 years in office should have proven he is not trying to help out the blue collar class, if Jan 6 wasn't enough to show he is not a level headed leader then what will? If his second term starting off with trying to start trade wars wasn't enough, then at what point are we going to realize an overwhelming amount of people are always going to vote for terrible candidates?
  I'm having trouble reasoning to myself that the current system is capable of bringing progress. It's just constant flipping between a couple parties undoing what the previous administration did, how is this a good thing?
  
  That's like homebrew lvl 25 shit!
- If this arrest doesn't happen, democracy is one step closer to the grave.
  Worry not, most Americans are bravely waiting until they have no options left and literally living in squalor before considering any action
  In the last 8+ years I have seen the goal post for action moved so many times, I have lost all hope Americans will actually do something for themselves
  I guess you won't make fun of French people anymore
  
  I have seen the goal post for action moved so many times
  Yes. I have too. I honestly think I've moved my own goal posts for action, as well. I think most of the people like me feel truly lost about what to do. We need a Martin Luther King, Jr figure to unite and direct.
  
  I guess you won't make fun of French people anymore
  It's stupid now but it was already stupid when they did it before, so I don't why that would change
  
  A lot of people strongly believe that God will protect them from whatever terrible Biblical punishments are going to befall the Liberals, Minorities, and Gays. They seem to forget that the Divine Retribution they are praying for so hard always carries enormous collateral damage. SEE: Ark, Noah's, also Sodom/Gommorah, also Plagues, Egyptian, etc.
  
  Your ten thousand foot view is very limited.
- I'm at the point where I know he won't face consequences because he's rich. But an arrest and trial would at least be sanity.
  
  But an arrest and trial would
  be an absolute pony show ending with no conviction.
  We only have a criminal justice system for the poors. If you want justice for people like Musk, vigilante is the only option.
- Trump already announced he plans to prosecute anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act.
  The Hatch Act is what makes this illegal.
  
  Prosecute for what, exactly?
- It isn't gonna happen. Nothing happened to Trump, nothing will happen to Musk. Too rich, too powerful. Justice is only for the pariahs.
  
  Brian Thompson was rich and powerful too, before he got Luigi'd.
- I have over 100 tabs open on my phone waiting to go into a document
  
  Brilliant! I'd love to see the finished list when it's done.
  I mean, I'd love for it not to have to exist, but here we are.
- Democracy is not a step closer to the grave, it’s already dead, just not buried and so now it’s lying on the street , smelling funny and a tad off-colour.

Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying
YES! FINALLY!
Demanded In Wisconsin
Dude, don't tease me like that
- State law. Rrump can't pardon it away.
  
  Let me know when he's actually arrested and charged.
  
  That's the best part of it.
- Ugh I had the same rollercoaster read
  
  drumpf can’t pardon state felonies, and wisconsin can have musk extradited from any other state….
  this has teeth, but of course, he’ll just bribe and blackmail the right people and the prosecutors will decide although a law was broken, it’s best not to prosecute because musk is too cute or some bullshit….
  at any rate, it’s pretty good….
  
  Same lol. Doesn’t help there’s a line break right at that point (for me on Voyager at least).
- Right??? I had to start over after the first couple words, look at the thumbnail, then start reading again. Fucking hell.
- This
  
  but please not that... and oh god, and definitely not that:

He can't be arrested, he owns the country
- Need more Luigi
  
  FPV Mario 'kart' gonna be lit
  
  The difference between luigi and whoever kills Musk is that the person who kills Musk will have had a possitive impact

state charges too, Trump cant pardon those. Maybe thats the answer for republican law breakers, move all the federal laws to the state books. (Or maybe thats a bad idea, I'm not a lawyer)
- This is a great idea. Moving everything from the Feds to the states is a core conservative value, so they should welcome this.
  
  Lol nah. Their only core value is hypocrisy, so they absolutely would not welcome it.
  
  They care about this as much as they care about proper handling of classified information

Seriously, who would arrest a billionaire? It seems like he has a suit of armor made of money that everyone won't touch. If anyone else walked into the federal agencies and did what he did, they would have been arrested.
- Aside from his money, he is also politically important now. I think that protects him more than anything else now. But he bought political importance with his money, so it's related.
  
  Next to the president, he literally may be the most untouchable person in the country and is very very high on that same list globally. Even if he somehow does get in trouble for literally anything, he would be pardoned faster than you can say covfefe
- Someone who cares about the laws... Fuck this bullshit... Fuck the guy... Fuck the taxes on the normal people being a minor inconvenience for the rich... Equal fucking rights... The only outlet people have for their anger is to protest a company hes the face of... And they are trying to make that into a crime...
  It's been 3 months and this is how far we have fallen...
  This country has a lot of issues and it's... Not just the deep seeded racism or sexist roots
- He has a suit of armor, but it's not made of money.
  The armor of baphomet.
  https://futurism.com/elon-musk-christianity-baphomet-armor
  https://www.christianpost.com/news/was-elon-musk-just-trolling-his-critics-with-devils-champion.html
  https://www.christianpost.com/news/we-asked-grok-whether-its-new-logo-is-a-broken-cross.html
  The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in an interview last July that the decision to build a supercomputer in Memphis evoked references, at least in part, to the Memphis of ancient Egypt and its pantheon of gods.
  “Perhaps that’s where our new god will come from,” Musk said.
  
  Ohhh gonna save these links for my Christian MAGA parents. Wrinkle their smooth brains a bit.
- "I have the money to have you killed by somebody who has nothing" - solid body armor
- Good point, but it goes from attempted arrest to attempt on his life real quick, instead. And he knows it.
- Youd need top down from gocernment officials... oh wait theyre all ball garglers

Put out an arrest on Peter Thiel too, since he is the real puppet master of all this bs.
- Apparently this is the new trend among Sociopathic Oligarchs - having their own pet politician. Its exactly the kind of rich guybtrend they would jump on. Then they can compare their collection of politicians like kids comparing baseball or Pokemon cards.
  The goal is to be the guy who has a really high level politician on a leash. The MuskRat is clearly thebwinner here, since he owns HitlerPig, but Theil is doing pretty well by owning Vamce. Then there's the guy who owns Clarence Thomas.
  I'll bet Sociopathic Oligarchs all over the world are scrambling to lock up control of one politician or another.
  This is why we shouldnt allow 1) Billionaires to exist, and 2) money into politics.
  
  The guy who owns Thomas
  Harlan Crow
  
  Honestly, and I may be wrong, I think Thiel is the one who owns everybody. Musk is nothing more than the court jester and he is too narcissistic and stupid to realize how he's as much of a puppet as trump is. Maybe even more so. Thiel is really scary because he's actually smart enough to know how to play the game and keep a semi low profile. I think he's happy Musk steals the show.
  It may be a conspiracy and I want to wait and see before I commit to it, but there has been some talk about how Thiel's end goal is to destroy old civilization and create techno states where people like him are the overlords who have complete control and freedom to do as they please without any legislations and restrictions getting in their way. He has been talking about this since 2009, maybe even further back, of how he wants his own techno state that is separate from the laws of the rest of the world.
  It sounds so fucking insane to me that I haven't really talked to anyone about it in case I'm just falling for some crazy conspiracy shit, but looking at what they have been doing since trump got into office, it certainly looks like they are in the process of actively and knowingly dismantling and destroying America. Musk said as much: that they were going to tear down and rebuild the nation. But fuck it if I know what the true end goal is. It might as well be a bunch of rich boys who have collectively lost their minds and think they are living in a cool action movie and are too stupid to understand what they are doing.
- Pls do, but we don't take that shit stain back
- Billionaires found a cheat code with stochastic terror. Super effective and seems impossible to legislate around.

I think this went to court during the presidential election and if I remember correctly the court said that you can pay people to encourage them to vote but you cant pay them to vote for a certain candidate. So I dont see this going anywhere.
- vote* (instead of last pay)

Throw the dirty immigrant deep in an El Salvadoran prison. Fucking dirtbag. Give him a taste of his own medicine.
- It's imperative they perp walk him through the street in chains with 20 armed police officers first. Maybe the mayor can come out for the photo op

please, please, please.....oh man...please....I love Wisconsin cheese....please.
- Nice rhyme. I really like it.

Good! Someone lock him up!
- White rich rascist getting arrested in america? You guys are hilarious

Why not just take the money and vote dem anyway?
- Nobody's getting the money, it's going to predetermined "winners" like last time so it isn't technically a lottery.
  And it's not about the money, it's about getting people to vote that wouldn't otherwise

I've wanted to see him arrested for a while now too. I wonder if there's a way to class-action sue him for trashing the government/economy. After all, he's unelected and not even technically a government employee - just some rich asshole granted authority without mandate.

Good... something something shithole country (Trump's words, not mine)
Send fElon packing
- You have to be pretty naive to think this will even have the slightest of consequences. Maybe his tesla stock will drop slightly more but that's it...

Let me just hold my breath real quick

If I were a republican voter (I'm not), and the richest man in the world was buying votes for my preferred party, that would be a huge red flag because it's very obvious that my own interests are not well aligned with the richest man in the world.
- I keep waiting for this day of realization (that doesn't come):
- If you were a republican voter or even on the fence, it means you would not be thinking about it like that using logic.
  
  I hear what you're saying, but I think my point is that it doesn't require "logic" it's just basic threat aversion.
  Perhaps the missing link is that people don't realise that Musk's interests are not aligned with their own.

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Our tax dollars made him so rich he is now an enemy of the free world. He has already declared war on the working class we need to neutralize this threat for the future of democracy in the world. This needs to happen NOW!

Democratic Governors need to start flexing some power ASAP.

How have we not learned from Trump's legacy that there's a net worth threshold that once breached is a permanent get out of jail card?
This isn't complicated--these oligarchs have been definitively above the law since the very first days that laws existed

Let me know when an actual arrest warrant is issued. Until then, this is political theater.

Obtain the warrant now, Wikler.

Can't wait to see footage of him melting down in a cell.
No ketamine. No hand servants. Nobody listening to his threats.
- He will be granted bond and, being rich, bond out almost immediately after any booking. Unless the judge has balls enough to not grant bond, which is doubtful, he's gonna be there all of a couple hours.
  
  He will be under house arrest and will be allowed to stay within any home, car, or aircraft that he owns.
  
  Just make no grugs or alcohol part of his bond conditions. He'll break that pretty quick and give the judge even more leverage to lock him up, even if temporarily

Don't Worry! The COURTS are on that! They have their Stern Letters READY TO GO!

Yes, lock him up!!!
I’m going to dream real good tonight…even if I know it would never come to pass.

Lock him up!

This isn’t going to happen.
Trump already made a point of saying, in November, after he won, he would go after anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act. I’ve already posted the 6 min speech several times, it doesn’t show up in Google searches for some reason. YouTube. RFK channel. Trump 1A speech. Green crayon subtitles. 6min.

Is this how we start Civil War II? Because I sincerely think Trump would declare war on Wisconsin if this ends up happening.
- Lets Fucking Gooooooo
  Everyone that plays HOI knows the Civil War is the good timeline, in Germany or America.

I don't think most people get a direct, personal warning of the possibility of being arrested.

Dream a little dream with me...
Don't let me disturb you, I'm just gonna park these here:
- !Cyberstuck@lemmy.ca for more schadenfreude.

Arrest is too good for Musk.
- Would dumping a bucket of boiling piss down his throat be too good ?
  
  I'll allow it.

No way his puppy doesn't pardon him.
Elon is never going to face accountability through the judicial system
- The president can't pardon someone for state crimes.
  
  Who is going to stop him ? They're already blackbagging people, and you still think there are laws.
  
  Sorry, He'll executive order. Just like all his other totally legal executive orders.

About fucking time. Let's see if they actually bring charges.
If this piece of filth can literally offer million dollar prizes to people that vote how he wants then we have no need of a government any longer.

Do it do it!

Why did they warn him first? How stupid was that?
- What, is he going to go into hiding and lay low?
  
  I would assume he would just defund the state law enforcement agencies premptively using DOGE.