but in this case, hard to sugarcoat it: if just four years after the biggest electoral crime in modern US history, you see the world's richest man go on TV offering to straight up buy votes for a million dollars and you think it's "too political" to shut it down, what is the fucking point of you
Donated - and thanks for all you’re doing
A smart analysis of Musk's blatantly illegal efforts to buy the election for Trump. davekarpf.substack.com/p/turns-out-...
Elon Musk tries to disrupt electoral politics by doing a bunch of blatantly illegal shit
I love the details! Really enjoyed the article, especially the Koons anecdote.
And Trump did this with a town SUCCESSFULLY recovering from Rust Belt decay. He took a success story and turned it into a town riven by terror. He did it intentionally, to serve his own interests. He plans to do the same for America generally.
“you are certainly not going to be John Marshall. But you want to avoid the danger of being Roger Taney.” Welp …
Well, fuck. Was so looking forward to another season.
Actual, detrimental government actions: Cops guarding closed corporate stores, threatening people for taking water from abandoned trucks. County officials trying to shut down at least one free food site. City/county gov ignoring need for adequate water stockpiles after the 2023 system failure...
“In most places our goal is to address human rights violations,” [former US diplomat] Casey added. “We don’t have that in Jerusalem.” Yeah no shit.
“Haidar was finally put on a flight - but was unable to bring his wife.” Unconscionable.