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- 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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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.
A fascist is a fascist.
Can’t usher in the messiah and Armageddon without both.
Gotta kill lots of people first.
If a normal person had done this crime with $20 payouts, they would be in jail by now.
Oh please. Pathetic. This is the wet lettuce slap Musk was predicting.
Queue a big song and dance about corrupt courts stifling free speech and manipulating elections. Great opportunity to splash headlines everywhere about a lottery whereby you can win $1m by voting for Trump, because he’s a very rich and very successful businessman.
This whole shit show is cooked. There is no justice, honesty, or transparency. It’s just idiots pissing in each others pockets all the way down.
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.
Kinky
I admit, the idea of pissing on the faces of billionaires does get me a little hard…
But only if they weren’t into it.
Just waiting for him to fail to appear and nothing be done about it.
Bannon just got out of jail for ignoring a subpoena
Penalties if found guilty range from a fine to jail time. I wonder which he’d get… 🙄
Actually, in his case, I’d wager they range from NOTHING to jail time.
A rescheduled court date, probably :/
And probably anywhere between six months and three years from now 🙄
I would be fine with jail time
can’t tell if pun intended
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.
Normally I would agree with you, but a Philadelphia DA doesn’t order Musk to appear in person without knowing what he’ll do. It’s warrant bait, pure and simple.
This dude has more money than that whole state. No fucking chance.
PA GDP is over $1T.
What I’m trying to say here is that his budget to remain free will far exceed the states budget to try and put him in prison.
I would love to be wrong on this.
The United States GDP is £25 Trillion. Musk and his peers have £35 Trillion in offshore tax havens (as of 2016).
Idk, I hope you’re right. I agree about what it is but I don’t think we agree how it’ll shake out.
I think we want the same shake out, I’m just pessimistic here.
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.
You can’t pardon a State Crime
… Until the Supreme Court invents a crazy new precedent that goes against the Constitution.
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.
To be fair, he’s also breaking Pennsylvanian lottery laws which he could be prosecuted for on a state level.
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.
