Musk’s political committee, America PAC, announced that Scott A, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, was the first to be gifted the surprise million-dollar donation for signing up

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.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • skozzii@lemmy.ca
        10·
        2 days ago

        Ah yes, I remember when we spend years calling for Trump’s arrest, this should go well with speedy results…

      • Maiq@lemy.lol
        3·
        3 days ago

        Saw that, I’m not an optimist but I do have hope!

        Just saw your handle, hilarious!

    • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
      101·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
        9·
        3 days ago

        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.

    • oakey66@lemmy.world
      503·
      4 days ago

      It is illegal but Bidens DOJ set the precedent that musk would go unpunished in the 2024 election.

        • oakey66@lemmy.world
          48·
          4 days ago

          Elon Musk broke federal law in Pennsylvania when he tried this same lottery bullshit. It was discussed at length that Merrick Garland was either a coward or complicit in the overrun of the federal government. He also should have prosecuted Trump in his first term for the coupe attempt. The second run should not have been allowed to happen.

          • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
            181·
            3 days ago

            Biden was a decent governmental manager, but we needed a President who was courageous enough to be more than that, and go after the existential threat of MAGA. HitlerPig and MAGA are the biggest national security threat this nation has seen since the Civil War, and Biden let us down by appointing not only a REPUBLICAN to be AG, but about the weakest Republican in existence. Then Biden didn’t push him to aggressively pursue HitlerPig, giving him a two year head start to run out the clock.

            • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              14·
              3 days ago

              Yeah, Biden’s term was simply quiet. For the most part, the government ran properly and things didn’t break. But he also refused to actually spur the DOJ into action, because he didn’t want it to be seen as a frivolous witch hunt. He was more focused on keeping the peace than he was on actually protecting the country from domestic threats.

              • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
                7·
                3 days ago

                Damn, I could have written that word for word. Absofuckinlutely. If WWII taught us anything, its that you can’t give Nazis one fucking inch, and they must be crushed without mercy.

            • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Well who you voting for? No Democrats fit that bill they are all cowards who just care about keeping their cushy job.

              • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                I’ll still vote for Democrats because at least they aren’t Traitors, actively trying to destroy America.

                If you feel a bicycle is too underpowered, you don’t stop using it, and start using a really dangerous, hillbilly-engineered backyard vehicle built by a bunch of ignorant yahoos, which regularly blows up, killing its occupants. You keep using the slower, safer bicycle until you can find a better option.

            • mycelium underground@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              3 days ago

              A decent government manager would not let the integrity of the government fall apart on their watch. They wouldn’t let election fraud go.

              Biden is a useless piece of shit at best.

          • Serinus@lemmy.world
            123·
            4 days ago

            If I had to pick one person (other than Putin) who is the most responsible for all of this, I’d say Robert Mueller.

            He had the best chance to put him down, and he bitched out.

            • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
              15·
              4 days ago

              Mueller did his job. Barr redacted the information before handing it to Congress. Congress tried to get the full report but Trump and Barr stonewalled them.

              • foggy@lemmy.world
                6·
                3 days ago

                Barr distanced himself far from Trump after Jan 6th and no one brings up that guilty fuck anymore.

                • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
                  3·
                  3 days ago

                  Harris did lol, she liked that all of his people were voting for her. Really worked out for her. Instead she should have been pushing for them all to stand trial.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      36·
      4 days ago

      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…

    • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
      59·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        15·
        4 days ago

        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?

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    66·
    4 days ago

    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?!?

        • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          What’s really not? If you think Trump or SCOTUS plan on allowing any sort of actual election to happen you’re sadly mistaken…

          Barring something drastic happening, we’re cooked.

          • Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
            47·
            2 days ago

            Negative Kimosabe. If that was a real actual possibility the protests would be real, and big and i would be a part of them.

            No… if trump goes rouge and tries to stay in power, that is exactly why we bare arms.

            I’ve seen so many now that are expressing great fear like yourself.

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
              9·
              2 days ago

              that is exactly why we bare arms

              I don’t know how tank tops will stop trump but you do you. /s

              But hey, remember when the overturning of roe v wade was just fear mongering and they wouldn’t really do it? How project 2025 wasn’t actually what they planned to do? How the supreme court would never grant broad immunity to a president? At this point, assuming Trump would try to keep power past 28 is just good sense.

              • Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
                14·
                2 days ago

                Ok, I can see what you’re saying, but those things compared to Trump seizing control of the White House are much different things. I think yes, many idol worshipping Trumpsters would like Trump to take control, but that’s a small group compared to Republicans on the whole. Many Republicans own weapons for this reason. This is a democracy, everyone votes to choose our president. No wanna be dictators allowed.

                Trump understands all this, he’s not going to start a civil war. If he does anything, I think he might try to make a 3rd term a thing, but he would do it through legal channels.

                • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  much different things

                  In scale maybe, but fundamentally it’s all about consolidating power and dismantling democracy.

                  but he would do it through legal channels.

                  Why start now? Also nothing short of a constitutional amendment can make that happen legally (unless the Supreme Court declares the constitution unconstitutional, hah). Even if he personally doesn’t retain power, I expect Republicans to dismantle the system to the point that they can just install another sycophant.

            • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
              21·
              2 days ago

              Stop blustering the whole we bare arms is just bull shit Americans tell themselves so they don’t feel bad when kids kill each other.

              • Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
                11·
                2 days ago

                Lol right, no, it’s literally because we don’t want a tyrannical government. Also, look at England, that’s what we don’t want.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    I’d take his million dollars and tell him I’ll vote for whoever he asks for

    Then go vote for the other side.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    13·
    4 days ago

    Wow! It would be REALLY REALLY Difficult for Him to END World Hunger when he’s SO STINGEY with his Money!

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Imagine flexing on being able to end world hunger and deciding giving Nazis money was a better use of your dollars.

  • jmantothe64@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 days ago

    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