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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday to address a bid by the city’s top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing to award $1 million prizes to registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
- Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner revealed his lawsuit against Musk and the America PAC “triggered an avalanche of [social media] posts from Musk’s followers,” many of whom “made antisemitic attacks on Krasner.”
- Krasner’s lawsuit accuses Musk and the PAC of operating an illegal lottery and trying to influence voters in the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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For the love of Christ throw the entire fucking book at him
Too late, damage is done, if Trump wins he’s guaranteed a federal pardon.
This is why they always win, because he wasn’t put in jail after the first 9000 felonies.
This is a state crime.
This is not a prosecution, this is a lawsuit for an order to desist, basically a temporary restraining order.
The potential crime would be against federal election laws, which could be either civil or criminal federal prosecutions.
Very interesting. More complicated than I realized. Thanks for the correction.
He bought the book, and he’s scribbling in it with a crayon and burning pages
After a remarkably short court hearing, Elon Musk has found the presiding judge in his own case guilty of “the woke mind virus” and sentenced him to 47 years in jail. The jury watched the ruling read in Musk’s own halting and strange speech, collectively shrugged their shoulders, and went home. “Well he has all that money,” said Anne Sodding, one of the jurors on the case. “He must be right, I guess.” Mr. Musk has declined to comment and was last seen driving his Tesla Cyber Truck the wrong way down a one way street exiting the courthouse.
Or at least a razor sharp copy of an Ayn Rand book.
Looking at that 2nd point: it’s so odd that Trump’s Republicans include hardcore Netanyahu-style Zionists AND unrepentant antisemites. It’s like they want to cover all possible approaches to the wrong side of history.
As to the meat of the story, Legal Eagle made a video about the legality of the Musk lottery. It seems pretty clearly forbidden, but we’ve been down this road with rich Conservatives many times before…
it’s so odd that Trump’s Republicans include hardcore Netanyahu-style Zionists AND unrepentant antisemites.
Not as odd as you think, especially if those unrepentant antisemites are also evangelicals. They believe that all the Jews have to return to Israel, by force if necessary, for Jesus to return. Plenty of others also want to force all the Jews to live in Israel because they want rigidly-enforced ethnostates. Either way, they don’t like Jews, they just find them useful. In fact, the evangelicals expect them all to be thrown into Hell by Jesus when he returns.
And Trump’s message is support for bigotry- all bigots welcome
Not all bigots.
You damn well better pay fealty to the white masters.
I’ll bet my life savings that he doesn’t show up, and that he doesn’t do any jail time because of that.
I say this in jest, but,
Eat your heart out Martha Stewart.
If a normal person had done this crime with $20 payouts, they would be in jail by now.
Ahhh, I finally understand trickle down economics.
I’d like to trickle some of my “economics” down Elon’s face.
You want to throw money in his face? Weird.
Maybe not money, but it has its practical uses so maybe we could work out a trade.
