Musk’s Super PAC Offers $47 to Those Who Help It Find Trump Voters
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/us/politics/elon-musk-47-dollars-petition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU4.CRPa.TXC4stbhTJVl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 1y
You can't force someone to vote for your candidate once they enter the election booth. This sounds like a way to make some easy money.
timewarp@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y
The $47 will never come. This is another grift/scam and probably crossed into illegal territory. Musk is desperate cause he knows if Trump loses that his career and reputation will be ruined.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Sounds like a good way make money off of a lawsuit settlement.
timewarp@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
I'm sure the Supreme Court justices will make an excuse as to why it is okay for him to do it.
FlowVoid@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
I'll take his mother's advice:
"You don’t have to register to vote. Have 10 fake names, go to 10 petitions and sign 10 times. That’s $4700, and it’s not illegal."
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Would it be illegal to put a bunch of fake names on that petition? I wonder...
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
It’s basically selling your data to a cunt. Only works if you live in a swing state and have a “referer” whom you can sell their data too.
He claims he’ll check but you could probably get away with a real address but fake names.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I mean, you could probably make a tidy bit of cash just submitting actual republican politicians.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y
+$47
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1y
Note that it is literally illegal to pay someone for voting a certain way, so there's no reason you can't take the money and vote for Kamala anyway.
SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
This is what desperation looks like.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y
I can't think of a better way to discredit a petition than offering cash for signatures.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
How the fuck is supporting the constitution conservative now? That's some bullshit.
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
If Conservative = 'good' (as in 'what I think is good'), then anything 'good' = Conservative.
Family? Conservative. Apple pie? Conservative. And so on.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Look into my eyes
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
That’s barely a dozen eggs!
drdalek@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
A useful idiot
SeattleRain@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
HELL YES