You know who could really use part of those million dollar checks you're handing out to buy another election? All the people DOGE fired illegally that are out of a job and have trouble getting unemployment because of already overburdened underfunded systems just added a shit ton more people. #fElon

Prosecuting bribery wouldn’t hurt either.

This is without doubt a bribe, he needs locking up!

Elon has conflict of interest in Wisconsin 😐

OF course, the whole thing was rigged anyway, but that's beside the point. Why wasn't he arrested on the spot!

Wasn't this supposed to be against the law? Why didn't Wisconsin just ARREST THIS GUY? Send him to a county jail in Milwaukee to spend a night or two. If you or I pulled this shit, that's where we would be right now.

Has a billionaire ever gotten arrested in the US?

If the candidates are so good, why the f do they have to pay you to vote for them? It's like they know they're not the best ones.

Thousands of govt workers fired, losing homes, searching for jobs and not succeeding and the idiot who did it, running around on a stage with a block of cheese on his head. It’s truly disgusting

Kick his ass out of this fucking country

How is that even legal cause it’s tampering with an election. Arrest him 👍🏻

Can we just take his money and do our own thing anyway? That's how it works, right.

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@georgetakei.bsky.social how many millions can you and any of the affluent people you know raise to fund the bounty for Musk’s arrest?

Adolf Twitler could give me a check for a million bucks, I would take it and still vote against the magats

He wouldn't because he gave both of the checks to people who work directly for his interests. No "random lottery" landed on two Republican Muskrats.

Yup, corrupt as hell

Buying Votes is a crime. Imagine for a moment this was being done by a Democratic billionaire. How long do you think it would take before they were indicted and prosecuted. Yet this guy continues in full public view. So much for the Rule of Law under ANY Republican.

Whole US system is based on bribery like donations made by "donors"

And that didn’t start in 2025.

And he accused us protesting outside of being “paid actors” As he hands over checks to buy votes! He’s so full of shit.

A check to a Republican operative, as well.

Nothing says “free and fair elections” like a billionaire handing out $100 bills and golden tickets like he’s Willy Wonka of Democracy. Who knew civic duty now comes with a chance to hit the jackpot?

I love Bernie but why is he using X to do this? Seems counterproductive

Because most on X I would guess are not using Blusky.

It's likely to bounce. Only accept cash. Bennies or nothing.

Or politicians can run on their own money for a change.

Which means that only the rich will win. That would have given WI an idiot banker from CA as our newest Senator instead of keeping Dem Tammy Baldwin.

The system is rigged so only the rich win no matter what. But this would eat up some of their wealth. If we want actual change, we've got to overhaul the whole system or scrap it and start fresh, as is our constitutional right as citizens.

Yup

How? We've been "working on it" for decades, now...

Anyone who takes that check should be stripped of their right to vote and imprisoned! Selling out your country by selling your vote is akin to TREASON!

He's trash. This is what trash does.

And one and done term limits.

Rigging elections. MAGA and the GOP are a fucking joke. They make accusations of rigged elections and are completely unable to come up with any proof, but here we have the 2nd most senior member of the Trump administration openly bribing voters.

If those on the right had any dignity or integrity whatsoever, they'd join the real patriots defending their democracy against this shit rather than storming the capital for what predictably turned out to be absolutely no reason.

One of the check " winners", Nicholas Jacobs, a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, also happens to be the chairman of Wisconsin's College Republicans .In other words, Jacobs is a deeply embedded GOP operative masquerading as some ordinary Wisconsinite

True to form, he passed over poor & middle class voters to reward already wealthy Republicans.

After all the damage Musk has done to so many, how is the Wisconsin race too close to call? Maybe thanks to these lying, shameless bastards.

It looks like the ‘winners’ in Wisconsin are both affiliated with GOP leadership here or were huge donors. I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about that in the media.

I call this evidence - and I am sure it will hold up in court as such. Do you know that Tesla, and he himself personally on most of them, is involved in 1750 lawsuits - 200 in China? It is a matter of time for his house of cards to tumble. #20NewProvinces

Absolutely! Why is it that these mega donors are more than willing to donate to elections but will bitch and moan about the idea of paying their fair share in taxes.

Disgusting

America needs federal elections which are exclusively financed by taxpayer money. A level ‘freedom of speech’ playing field for all voters.

100% - because the money always wants it’s quid pro quo. Level the playing field.

Citizens United is the cause of most of the current fiasco we find ourselves in.

Bernie is literally no better. He spent two primary campaigns literally lying to Americans to gain support.

From the fact that he hasn’t been arrested for corruption I have to assume this is not illegal in America? You’ve got some weird laws over there (female reproductive rights = illegal. Bribing senators = legal).

We are all watching this happen, but no one is doing anything about it. Just more talk. We need action and it won't come from congress.

And fElon still can't understand why people are being mean to him.

Of 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 the GOP and it mega-backers fought (with money) to win Citizens United in court because they could see the writing on the wall... unlimited money in politics was the 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 way they could compete. This coup has been in the works for a long time and the only way to reverse CU is at the polls!

How is he not on trial for this? How is the legal? If not legal, why are charges not pressed? What is so god damned hypnotic about these assholes that no one will charge them with their obvious crimes?

And just where did all those millions of dollars go? Are the television stations in Wisconsin suddenly very rich? Any chance Brewers games will be broadcast for free this season?

I totally agree, when money is raised the correct way there is no room for financial corruption, and the candidate earns much respect

Please corrupt me! I desperately need some corruption right now. Things are tight. $1Million will be fine.

The problem with this. Bernie is that everyone knew that Citizens United had to be overturned back in 2015. No one expect it to be overturned during Trump's first term in office but Biden had 4 years to do something too. That failure is on the shoulders of Democrats.

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What is stopping people from taking the money then voting differently?

Nothing except he isn't randomly giving the money. It would be hilarious to make him give every single person who votes the money regardless of how they vote as a penalty.

Money didn't exist until an open source distributed ledger was created. #bitcoin

In case anyone is still unsure about the reasons behind why the obscenely rich tech bros are funding the current political takeover: youtu.be/fIR70MAf12E

They plan on bringing back company towns. That's going to be the micro prisons. Only they are going to be chrome plated with kiosks everywhere

100%. And no one is stopping them. But I also think that most people don't have any idea what's actually happening behind the scenes.

Another DAY older, sorry. Though with workloads being what they are, might as well be

"You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another year older and deeper in debt St Peter dont you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store"

At stake in Wisconsin is whether or not Wisconsin continues to rig elections through gerrymandering Gerrymandering is vote suppression - It shapes EVERYTHING a state legislature does

It's difficult to be more blatant about election interference than handing an enormous million dollar check to someone who voted the way you want.

He never got charged for election crimes in Pa. 💔 And we all watched him do it on tv 💔💔💔

Willy w@nker & the chocolate orange factory.

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Elon has to resort to bribery for votes because Republican policies are literally killing people and the planet. Don’t sell out your state! Let’s go #Wisco #resist #VoteCrawford

Our SCOTUS should be ashamed of this. This started with them. There is no shame , though, just apparent t hatred of the America we should be.

The GOP has been working for decades to corrupt the Supreme Court. The reason you have the current problems is because they have now achieved that aim. Democrats should be making it known that when they win they will be going after them for any acts they have committed that are contrary to the

Constitution, like giving immunity to a President or breaking the law by taking bribes.

The amount of money being spent to buy politicians is obscene. There should be a limit of $1000 max from any individual. Corporations already buy votes and politicians with their lobbyists. Elections aren't auctions. They should be by and for the people only. Pay for play is bribery, ILLEGAL!

We gotta get that fool out of politics if not the whole country

Hello Wisconsin! Please don’t fall for this rich guy’s scheme.

How is this NOT illegal? Isn't this a CRIME???

The only thing that will save us is removing money out of politics... it's about survival.

This is election bribery, which is a crime and the punishment is imprisonment in a democratic country under the rule of law.

The oldest say in the political science world. Power corrupts & total power corrupts totally. What the republicans r striving for. Be aware

If only there were a limit on campaign spending, like in European democracies. ‘Donations’ are the power tool of oligarchs.

Repubs don’t ever win unless they are cheating. They talk about fair & honest elections, they need to take a look in the mirror.

Don’t you also have 2 senators from each State regardless of size? That is stupid. Each Senator should represent the same number of people.

With the fascists every accusation (Stop the Steal) is a confession

They have looked in the mirror, and their choice is deliberate and calculated.

That’s the disgusting part. The gop is complicit in the overthrow of our republic

Oh, it's beyond complicity. They appear to be all in.

All in is right

Terrorist

Wouldn’t it be great to see how elections went if Citizen United, gerrymandering, and the Electoral College were abolished and voting day was a national holiday?

Buying votes is still illegal, he's looking at some hefty time behind bars once the US justice system cranks itself into action, whenever that may be...

Roberts will go down in history as the chief reason the USA is in this position. It’s all on him and the Republican cult.

HEY! What'd I do?!

Hahaha smarten up 🙅🏼‍♀️😭😭😭👊🏼🇨🇦🔥

No, I know. I also made a Canada apology on YouTube. Look at my home page here if you want to see it.

The alternative would be a communist society.

Only an obstruction-proof Dem super-majority can accomplish what Americans want but they're still too ignorant or misinformed to know it.

He's not funding her election. This isn't money he's giving to her campaign. This is just a straight up bribe to people who will vote the way he wants, to come vote rather than stay home. This should be wildly illegal in any democracy.

We must also prosecute those who violate campaign finance and voter influence laws.

It is so weird that he is even allowed to do that. I mean, we know that bribery has been used in politics, but here in Brazil no one would dare to do this openly, because in our law IT IS A GODAMN CRIME and both the person paying and anyone being paid would face repercussions. US is so wild.

I’m sure those checks will bounce

Arrest this man

Well, at least nobody was corrupted into changing their vote, as Muck saw to it that the "winners" were MAGA activists anyway... ...and he planned the money to come full circle with Shimel allowing dirct Tesla sales in Wisconsin.

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And while your at it @sanders.senate.gov, lets bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Stopping the money and misinformation will go a long way to restoring sanity. www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/top....

"your" Tip: if someone can't even write a sentence correctly, their other ideas are likely just as flawed.

Also also: bsky.app/profile/liza...

And they get to decide if it's false and defamatory

Also: bsky.app/profile/liza...

The FD never banned “lies” or “misinformation” or “propaganda” or whatever. At most, it required *different* lies. The government has never been empowered to declare what is and is not “fake news”.

You should read the links you post. Wanting this back is silly.

Please, please , please grant me the ability to meet him in a dark alley one night. He can bring his boys along if he wants to. They can get some of this too.

This should be illegal. Astonishing!

‘Citizens united’ has nothing to do with citizenship and it’s not uniting anybody.

Bernie left out the part about hanging these traitorous bastards!

This should be illegal! England limits campaign spending. How can we get this done? The people want this. There’s more rational, freedom minded patriots than we are led to believe. We the People have risen and we’re ready to fight.✊🇺🇸💙

Most European countries limit campaign spending. No surprise here.

Ok, so what can we do to make this happen here? How bout we quit whining and start working?

That’s not up to me. I live in 🇪🇺

I live in a blue dot, in ruby red Ohio, can’t see your flag enough to understand where you are. If you’re in the USA, no matter where, you have a voice. Find a group to amplify it. If not in USA, be like Canada, please call out this evil. Our voices, joined, will be heard.✊💙🇺🇸

Oh you can’t do that, Bernie. It’s unconstitutional. Think of the billions of little George Washingtons you’d be depriving of a voice!😢

Not only we need to #AbolishCitizensUnited but we also need to #DefundMusk and send him back to South Africa completely empty handed, or to El Salvador's gulag.

He knows to many state secrets at this point. He needs to be held in Gitmo for life. Or...we do have specific punishments for anyone convicted of treason... I like that option.

I think the guillotine would be perfect for him, just so he can feel how his french counterparts from 1789 felt!

REPEAL THE FUCK OUT OF CITIZENS UNITED. Corporations are not people.

Actually they are legal persons.

Legal, but not real. They are amoral and should be treated as such. Start holding the real flesh and blood board members and owners accountable for their corporations activities. Destroy the business jail the responsible board members.

Right, so we destroy so businesses. And then what? You sound hopelessly naive.

Please don’t call me naive because I don’t worship money or judge someone’s worth by that abstract construct. No amount of late stage capitalism will awaken your morality or spirituality to simply coexist on the planet you think you own. You don’t own shit.

lol your bio says it all Dick. Thanks for your opinion. I think the definition of “legal persons” is a conscientious human being with a moral soul. Douchebag venture capitalists do not apply.

Obviously you are ignorant on the subject, so kindly read this article about legal persons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_p...

So corporations can fuck people over and own shit and sue stuff. Sounds like decent human behavior all right. Lawyers. You spend your time gaming the system instead of practicing human decency. Parasites and vampires who grow up to be politicians. Respectfully you wipe your ass with the rule of law.

We MUST end Citizens United!

And why is he doing it, you might ask? Because Tesla filed suit in January in an effort to change a Wisconsin law that forbids the company from selling directly to consumers. In that state, car companies must contract with unaffiliated businesses to sell its cars there. Tesla doesn't want to share.

Shhhhhh…

Citizens United will go down in history as the beginning of the end for American democracy.

Imagine, this world is SHIT because of 4 white men at 70+ 🤬🤦 Donald Trump (78) Benjamin Netanyahu (75) Vladimir Putin (72) Xi Jinping (71) Men should seriously have NO POWER position after the age of 70. Retire already!

I mean this is just illegal. This doesnt have anything to do with citizens united good or bad to my knowledge

If this isn’t election interference then what is????

Why is this legal?

Every democracy in the world should legislate to prevent organisations from donating to politicians/parties. Limit it to individuals only and limit the amount to no more than 10,000 (dollars/pounds/euros) per person

Amen!

SICK! behavior!

People never get the shit kicked out of them anymore. Bring back punching idiots in the face

We need to use this win as a rally to keep the momentum going and for future wins! I purpose we start using hashtag #ItStartsWithWisconsin FOR ALL FUTURE WINS TO SEND tRump and MuskRat the message!!!

Buying votes again Elon! How corrupt.

It works.... So get off your high horse and fight fire with fire. Do the crap they do. Standing still as the better man is worse then actively working as the villain. That is how he won.

"Joe Biden just wants to pay for black people to stay at home and make babies" -people who would accept that check now but said that previous to the last election

Campaigning and advertising for politicians should be largely illegal. It should take NO MONEY to run for office. The fact that it's pay-to-play is part of why our republic is failing.

Do like all civilized countries do, take the money out of politics

Impunity corrupts - it literally causes brain damage as the ability to exercise ethical judgement atrophies. Vast sums of money is just another way we grant impunity. #EndImpunity

That needs to be taken to court

2 We have allowed this to create a breeding ground for corruption, paving the way for the wealthiest to buy our elections. Musk is more blatant than any other because THIS REGIME IS NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!

1. We have for far too long neglected to achieve meaningful campaign reform/oversight in addition to term limits.

We don't need to celebrate April Fool's, our country is the biggest April Fool.

It's just also illegal

Deport musk to mars.

Yes, but it would seem the lottery was rigged. Musk gave those checks not to everyday citizens, but people who work for GOP organizations. It's all a grift.

That was the reality and it didn’t work anyway.

Yes this!

Agreed

All attempts to regulate capitalism have only served to delay oligarchy. Democracy has not survived capitalism. So long as wealth can be infinitely accumulated for private interest, the rich will get richer and richer until they own the country itself. No more kings. No more nobles.

I hope those 2 people turn around and vote 🗳 Blue!

1. Republican controlled Supreme Court gave us the Citizens United case allowing unlimited donations to political campaigns. 2. Democrats want to terminate this horrific decision; Republicans are happy about this destructive decision. 3. Republicans now have government by the rich, for the rich

Funding fascism! 😡

Will likely bounce

Join Canada then...we have public funding...

Where I come from that wouldn't be considered democracy. That would be considered cheating. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I avoid the news, is this being covered by the media?

Horrible and then Elon wanders why we all hate him. He was just saying Soros was paying people to protest now he is paying people for votes.

Not to brag, but in France it would be considered bribery, and he would be jailed.

Political donations are bribery. Elections should be funded by taxes. Just how easy that would be if corporations and billionaires were taxed properly. There is absolutely no excuse for anyone to be a billionaire. Don’t you have anti trust laws? You did so why not bring them back.

It's considered bribery here. He's just bribing the people who would put him in jail also.

It's against the law in Wisconsin. He was sued. He did it anyway. I agree, he should be jailed.

“Open the floodgates to spending without limit”

And no, he's not even actually "raffling" them off to random people who might be helped, he's choosing the winners and they are people helping him out. This is the second time he has chosen the winners of supposedly random contests.

The saddest thing is that the USA has always prided itself on being the democratic flagship nation even though it’s a two party state where both parties needed to be funded by big business to survive. This was never democracy. It was the next rung up the ladder from China, Russia and North Korea.

Correct

The "lottery" was fixed. www.theverge.com/politics/640...

Of course it was. Not only is it illegal to pay for votes, it's illegal to advertise a "lottery" where the winners are already pre-determined.

"Money is free speech". So said the Court. 🤬

Ending Citizens United is a moot point, when the fascist disembowel our democracy. Stop the Fascist coup first.

$1 million for Musk is equivalent to ~$0.25 for someone making $60,000 per year

This is exactly why no corporate Democrat will be our leader. If you take corporate donations your time in the Democrat Party was the 80’s. No corporate money allowed. This is why.

There ought to be a law

How about instead he gives the money to WIC, SNAP, and other organizations that support working families!

I want to know if those checks actually cleared. Phony Stark isn't exactly an honest or trustworthy person and it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn it was all bullshit for publicity with a binding NDA signed in triplicate from the two rubes handed giant checks. People chosen long ahead of time.

If I were the recipient of that check, I would not want my name out there. Just sayin'.

That's right.

Knock that Domino down!

I REALLY want to know. How is bribery not illegal in the US? I mean he’s sitting in the market place offering to buy votes 🤦‍♀️

For scale, this is the equivalent of a person with $300,000 in the bank giving a homeless person $1.

Here’s some unrefined starting points 1 Term limits congress+ courts 2 Kill citizen united limit political $$$ 3 No insider trading +Emoluments w/teeth Strengthens Congress, weakens Presidency + Parties and makes our system work

I'm surprised they showed the recipient's full name on the check.

So, English is not my native language, but I believe this is called 'a bribe'

And in most countries it is illegal. It may well be illegal in the US but so far the enforcing authorities are falling in line with autocracy.

Hard to argue with that. When billionaires can drop a million like pocket change to sway votes, it’s not democracy—it’s an auction. #MoneyInPolitics #CampaignFinance #WisconsinVotes #DemocracyNotForSale

Nothing dodgy going on here, move along.