Musk should be arrested for buying votes and election interference but that's not going to happen.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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I will be honest. I have heard about comupances since Muiller. I am still waiting.
I heard someone say he was like a Hank Hill type of person, so he might have just been naive.
Behold the power of cheese.
I like how it's clearly gone through a front-end collision, but then there's a giant cheese on top of it
Nah it just kinda did that collision not needed, the cheese just kinda materialized.
Finally, some decent news...
What boggles my mind is that people bitch about taxes and here there was over 100 million in one state just for judge election.
Couldn't, we spend a 100 million in better ways?
Who's good at infrastructure math? Is that one bridge? Is that like 4 roads? Idk...
The Milwaukee Zoo Interchange cost $1.7B.
Wisconsin currently has $4.5B sitting right there in the bank. This happened because Republicans don't want to give the Democratic governor a win by doing, say, a big infrastructure project, paying for school lunches, or just giving it back to citizens as a tax credit. The good news is that the Supreme Court win means nobody is going to try to push through ultra gerrymandered maps again, and Democrats have a chance to take control of the legislature next election.
Probably enough to feed school lunches for the year.
I would wager that a fiduciary would be capable of setting up a trust with $100,000,000 that would be capable of paying for school lunches, books, and teaching supplies, in perpetuity. Wisconsin doesn't have too large of a population.
But that would raise entitled communist brats, who think that grown ups will just feed them for free... Like... Who do you think is going to work at McDonald's or in mines after they deport all immigrants?!? Kids need to stay hungry to be more motivated to work /S
That's not the cost of running the election, that's the parties spending on the election, correct? So those funds were never going to go into infrastructure. I definitely agree we overspend on politics for politics sake, but please don't conflate political party funds with government funds.
Think the point is that so much money shouldn't be available to spend on politics like this. This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side (and even then people were talking about how campaign finance was broken).
This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side
I don't disagree there's too much money in politics, but let's compare apples-to-apples. With inflation, $100M in 2025 would be ~$54M in 2000.
We're also talking about a state election not nationwide. This should be an apples to oranges thing in terms of spending.
Sure, but your previous comment said:
This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side
But that's not true if they're both 2000/2025 dollars. So at least now the dollars are apples-to-apples.
Absolutely , $100 million is a whole ton of money. It’s not a good excuse, but maybe it is spent in the state’s economy?… don’t make it ok but at least I hope it helped keep some newspapers alive or something.
Reminds me of the door knockers who got paid to shill some libertarian a while back. So Many reports of people with absolutely no motivation, reading the scripts, and sometimes even leaving with a vote for bernie.
Campaign funds are not the same as government funds and aren't coming from taxes. And while I agree with you that it seems like a waste of money, the money was spent to fight against Musk and Trump's corruption which is ultimately very worth the investment.
despite his backing from Elon Musk and former President Trump.
If only that was his most current title...
It is technically correct though and I think we should all take to calling him that 'cause you just know it would piss him off
despite his backing from president Elon Musk and his bitch tRump.
Eat shit, Leon
Good eat shit fascists.
I assume now they'll work on helping the remaining liberal justices quit to avoid whatever bizarre targeted punishment EO is soon to be coming their way. It worked for the lawyers.
Dude literally tried to buy votes. They allowed it to happen and he still lost.
But it was enough to get those seats in Fla