Elon Must is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition
Elon Must is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition
Isn't that fucking illegal?
If it were for actual votes, yes. But this is money for signing that a petition a PAC Musk runs has created.
Give me the $100 first (completely and irrevocably non-retractable). After I (in my sole judgement and by my sole timeline) am 100% convinced it's mine, then I'll sign.
To all those wondering how this is legal: nowhere does it ask people to vote for Trump. The petition asks people to pledge their support for the Constitution, free speech, and the 2nd Amendment. Signing it does not indicate you are voting for Trump. But I could absolutely see the signatures being used for propaganda.
Shit sign me up! If Trump wins I get 100 dollars if he loses I get 100 dollars.
Wait is it really illegal for a billionaire to pay voters $100 from their own pocket for voters to sign a pledge? Even if the pledge was titled "so Trump wins"
Not sure if it is explicitly illegal but there would absolutely be lawsuits with good reason. Imagine a district where 51% of the people sign a pledge to vote for a candidate but the candidate only gets 47% of the vote and losses the election. The candidate with the pledged voters would scream voter fraud and their backers would likely get violent. Considering we had that happen with almost zero voter fraud in 2020, it would not be an unlikely scenario.
can we sign up, take his money, and vote Harris?
if a million people do this it adds up fast
The petition is saying you support free speech, the second amendment, and the Constitution. You can certainly support all of those and vote for Harris.
That might make it easier for him to claim election fraud. He might try to argue about how the election results don't match with the number of people who took his money.
Good thing it’s not a legal document and doesn’t prove any intent whatsoever.
Such a dumb argument but MAGA would 100% believe it and dash their lives against the US government to make it true.
pretty fucking close to vote buying if you ask me
I’ll take his money and then not vote for Trump. It’s not like he can tell.
He can, though. In another post about Cards Against Humanity's project, they explained how criminally easy it was to create a PAC, request and acquire voters information. They can see your registered voter information and who you've voted for in the past.
Edit: Someone corrected me that you can't see exactly who people voted for, but, you can see party affiliation, and if you voted. Going by that data, he can assume you voted for the party you're affiliated with.
Highly doubt Musk will pay, also hilarious that the reason is "to protect constitutional rights" when the person who he is endorsing has 0 integrity for that asides for freedom of his own speech...
And only the speech where he lies, or is racist, or sexist.
The term you're looking for is bribery.
The term is actually "electioneering." And, he's getting close to the illegal kind.
Jesus titty-fucking Christ. If someone like George Soros were paying people to vote for Harris, right-wingers would be losing their collective shit and flinging it at the moon.
The double standard is amazing.
They don't care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.
Conservatism has been aptly summarized as "There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect." That's pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.
I thought I remembered Michael Moore buying ramen and stuff to get students out to vote and he got in trouble for that. https://www.acslaw.org/?post_type=acsblog&p=1035
Turns out it was overturned or ignored, but didn't stop republicans from whining.
…which, at this point, makes it completely predictable.
The double standard is amazing.
"Yes, but I'm right."
They think their collective belief in the correctness of their group identity is more important than law. This explains why right-wing politics doesn't care about consequences.
Well yeah, but this a white guy doing it-- so you know...it just CAN'T be wrong!
$100 ehh, I guess cards against humanity did get to him :D
This is showing how desperate they are which maybe they know something about Trump’s chances to avoid prison.
the guy who famously never pays his vendors or his rent until he gets evicted is promising to send money?
wow sign me up...No water or other assistance for voters in contested areas.
Here’s $100 to say you like trump.
Man, this is a fucked up place.
No, say you like trump, sign this and that, ...
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then maybe, I mean who knows right? Maybe get paid. Donald always pays his debts so why shouldn't his helper do it too?
Right?
I really liked this line:
But it’s also possible that Musk is simply doing the rich guy thing—and the classic rich tech guy thing—of walking into a new situation and assuming all of his ideas are important.
What a chud.
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I'm going to slap the next person who tells me racism is over and everyone is treated equal.
How the hell is this even LEGAL? This is the state of our country? Really? Blatant bribing? Corruption? And it's STILL a close race?
the fucker is basically telling how he is going to cause horrible damage to americas economy yet those people still want to vote him. I wonder if they just want to destroy their country so awful people can remake it into something terrible. If they succeed, soviets will win in the end, as didnt they blatantly gloat at some point how they will destroy america from within? This whole thing has been fueled by russia from the beginning after all.
Seems It's only illegal if you run out of lawyers.
and this is lawful? actually legal? What the hell is USA??
Rome 2.0
It's legal because they're paying for registrations not votes, you can't see who someone voted for just that they voted and if they registered as a party member or independent.
It's actually explicitly illegal to pay to get people to register to vote.
You can tell capitalists are getting desperate when they start offering
brides... bribes ... to voters during an electionEDIT: beautiful how a simple typo can grab people's attention so much
I don't know but I think that any minimally civilized country would be a crime... just saying
PS: I forgot that the US isn't a civilized country and they live under a plutocracy of Capital
This shit, 1000%, should be illegal
lol he will never deliver.
Jesus fucking Christ literally billionaires buying elections... Will they riot? Of course not because they win with this. If Mark Cuban offered the same thing for Harris there would be blood in the streets and Fox news would be calling for his head after Trumps coronation...
The real question is... why aren't we rioting about it?
I think this can be used as “evidence” that more people voted for trump than Harris.
For example, elon says that he paid 1000 people for this in a certain district but the vote tallies show that only 500 votes for trump in that area. It would add to the magats incorrect belief that they were cheated. Then the magats would want to start a civil war over it.
I hope I’m wrong.
This isn’t payments for votes though
I didn’t say he was. Did you mean to reply to me?
When he wore a black MAGA hat, he was "dark MAGA". Is this... cheese MAGA?
Yo go get the money but then still vote Harris. What's he gonna do lol?
Get the money, donate to the Harris campaign.
$100 LOL i'm not looking into this, but is it actually $100, or some bullshittery like a free year of blue checkmark on twitter
Buying votes straight up. The only way this could get any worse is if it was funded by Trump or if Trump did it himself.
It would be hilarious if Trump asked Musk for $100 for voting Trump though
I wouldn't put it past Trump to beg for and attempt to haggle over $100.
Turnip does not pay any bills. He's just a grifter.
Do I get the money first?
Edit: Aw, beans. It's for Pennsylvania voters.
As I said before. I imagine my friends would be real helpful in signing up.
As if he’ll pay them, can’t even pay his IT bills
won't.
Of course he can, but he won't
Amateur hour shit. Ask the other billionaires the correct way of buying elections if any of them still want to hang out with you at Epstein's
when the numbers start getting this close, buying electoral college electors to convince them to be faithless starts to be possible. Its probably not even very expensive, compared to what you can grift off a presidency.
He could up that to $100k and never even notice