Why not just take the money and vote dem anyway?
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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
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'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.
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.
Won't happen. While I think all this institutional resistance is good. All of the lawsuits and judge rulings should only be seen as a way meant to delay. Fascism is here. You don't unravel it using the existing institutions and systems.
Delay and prepare. Learn who all your neighbors are. Make sure you can contact all of them quickly and that they can contact you. Your neighbors and your coworkers are who you should be organizing with. Talk to them. Find out who might be a target by ICE. Find out which one of them you can't trust. And of course. Arm yourself.
Elons not getting arrested but we don't have to let them arrest us either. If there is no justice for Elon we can't allow anymore injustice to us.
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.
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.
Throw the dirty immigrant deep in an El Salvadoran prison. Fucking dirtbag. Give him a taste of his own medicine.
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.
Put out an arrest on Peter Thiel too, since he is the real puppet master of all this bs.
Pls do, but we don't take that shit stain back
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.
Let me just hold my breath real quick
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.
please, please, please.....oh man...please....I love Wisconsin cheese....please.
Nice rhyme. I really like it.
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.
Good... something something shithole country (Trump's words, not mine)
Send fElon packing
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
Democratic Governors need to start flexing some power ASAP.
Obtain the warrant now, Wikler.