Hey look, a foreigner actively engaging in voter fraud!
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It's too fucking bad that the FEC is essentially powerless due to partisan politics.
Republican partisan politics.
Oh, 100% - I should have been clearer that this erosion of enforcement is entirely driven by the GOP and quite intentional.
America badly needs electoral reform and viable third parties. This FPTP, pay-to-win system creates is such a dumpster fire.
This is in contrast to the regular legal type of vote buying of course.
You mean like the practice of handing out water, watm beverages, and sometimes snacks to people stuck in long waiting likes to vote in mostly southern and majority, minority districts. If only giving a $1 bottle of water away for free was nearly as bad as giving away $1,000,000 to potential voters.
Musk claims it is "a random $1 million payment each day to one registered voter" but is it really random or he is cherry picking 'specific' supporters?
I doubt anyone is getting money
"Another Melon Eusk won the daily lottery? Sure seems to be a common name!"
Garland: "I will treat this with as much importance as I do with everything surrounding Trump doing bad things...."
Money is free speech
And Speech is free money. Source: Skyrim
In principle, the same is true for the real world.
It it one of my favorite silly thought experiments: what could someone do if they were persuasive enough? The answer is, in principle, pretty much anything.
Imagine someone with the Devil's charisma; they can literally persuade anyone into anything. Such a person, coming from nowhere, could be running the entire country in an afternoon.
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Walk to the White House gate. Persuade the guard to let you in to meet a staffer.
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Meet the staffer. Persuade them to let you meet with the president and vice president.
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Persuade the Vice President to resign, and persuade the President to nominate you as the new VP and set up a meeting with key house and senate leaders.
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Persuade the House and Senate to confirm your nomination.
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Persuade the President to resign.
In the real world, if they had a high enough "charisma score," anyone could literally become president in a single afternoon. They could be an absolute nobody with zero background in leadership or high office. But if someone had some demonic ability to just talk people into anything, they could be running the country in an afternoon.
Good thing real life doesn't follow videogame logic
Accused of, huh?
Is this like that email that if you forwarded it, Bill Gates was gonna make you a bazillionaire, because he invented the Internet or something?
“Clearly illegal” has become the new “our best iPhone yet.”
You can expect to hear it very regularly and also expect that it will make zero difference.
Cool, so it’s fine if Mark Cuban does the same thing for the Democrats, right?
Right???
No. Is he though?
Of course he’s not, it’s a hypothetical question. It would be election interference if the Democrats did it.
The Republicans, however can ostensibly do whatever the crap they want without repercussions as the FEC looks on with their head all the way up their own sphincter.
Idiots Right-wingers will assert that George Soros is, no evidence wanted or needed.
I see articles like this stating he has donated $0 and doesn't intend to contribute anything. He also calls out Musk for what he is doing.
According to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks campaign financing, Cuban last donated to a candidate in 2002, when he gave $1,000 to Democratic California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren's campaign.
Of course, since most of the internet can't detect sarcasm, you're getting down voted.
Haha, oh well. As long as a few people see the obvious hypocrisy I’m trying to point out in our system. What does the FEC even do if not this kind of stuff????
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