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Who wants to tell them?
I volunteer as tribute!
HEY CHUMPS! Y'ALL GOT PLAYED BY A CONMAN! MUSK AND TRUMP DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT ANY OF YOU! MAYBE THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS, HUH?
RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT GENEROUS. IF THEY WERE GENEROUS THEY WOULDN'T BE RICH PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF GENEROUS.
Isn't it illegal to pay for voting and to be paid? Or, is it just illegal to pay for votes?
Not if you're among the ultra-rich. Supreme Court has decided that rules are for the poors.
I know the former is, but not sure if the recipient is on the hook or not.
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I know right? Whatever would have given them the idea that he has ever done anything he's promised? All the failed promises with Tesla? The boring company?
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100 dollars? yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?
And didn't even get the money up front.
yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?
Consider that Trump had something like a 47% approval rating on the day of the election.
Also, yes. People are broke af, hate their neighborhood, hate their country, and hate everyone who has governed it since JFK. If someone offered you $100 for a pile of shit, you'd take the deal, too.
The joke of it all is that they believed a career con-artist would pay out, not that they gleefully pawned the broke down jalopy of a nation-state at the first opportunity.
Do not think for a second that they won't try to do it again.
To be fair, I'd hate my life, too, if I lived next to a bunch of MAGA morons.
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Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments
In Murica..?!
The guy whose companies don't pay debts didn't pay debts? Who could have seen this coming?!
Edit: changed from singular to plural.
The guy's not a Lannister. I mean, he probably would fuck his sister, but still...
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Yeah no shit.
Paying them would be illegal
Conning them isn’t.
Well, it's still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty
Penalty?
It's more like a processing fee :)
Screwed over by the world's richest man?
Yeah, well so was the rest of the nation...
Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤
Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!
Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs... common mistake.
No one has ever become a billionaire by paying people what they’re owed
When one of the two biggest black holes for cash on the entire planet promise to make things better for you if you just do this thing they want to happen, you shouldn't be surprised if at the end of the process you have less money and they have more money. Elon Musk is expert at making money move from you to him. So is Jeff Besos. It doesn't have to be direct from you to them via a payment, just know that they are sucking up the money, and if you ever, ever, ever do something they want you to do, you can be 100% sure it's because after they're done, you have less money and they have more.
That crowd loves grifters and con-men. That Trump crowd acts like peasants just to get close to the proximity of wealth.
@dwazou can't get prosecuted for buying votes if you never pay
[insert smirks and taps forehead meme]
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It goes to show how dumb people are
All you have to do is wave some money around in their face and make promises to them
.... and they'll do whatever you ask them to do .... then when all is said and done, you can just walk away and never give anyone anything.
Maurice: 'To my right, heh, to everyone's right in fact, we have congressman Alex Shrub; the youngest state congressman to ever be elected by Vice City and now a respected man in the capital. Mr. Shrub got elected because he has great hair and says things that make you nod your head. His campaign appealed to the wealthy because he set all of us at ease by confirming, "It's okay to be rich, as long as you say you care about the children." Mr. Shrub, welcome!'
Alex: 'That's not entirely true, Maurice. My campaign also appealed to the poor... who were too stupid to understand what I'm saying, so I held up pretty pictures and then I gave out candy bars to appeal to their most base insticts.'
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No. Fucking. Shit.
It only makes sense that you could buy a presidency in an uber capitalistic country.
Sometimes, news is surprising.
This is not one of those times.
So the only question really is whether it's more the case that he's not paying because there's a chance that he could be prosecuted for buying votes or if he's not paying just because he's a lying sack of shit who doesn't keep promises.
Or both.
I'm thinking both.
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I am not surprised at all
GTFOutta here! Seriously!? I am shocked.
SHOCKED!
Sold your country to a guy Tesla wants to pay 58b a year to so he can tank it for $100 and he doesn’t pay.
Cool.
Living by the Christian values of “promise” 😂😂😂
No shit.
Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.
Because of course he wouldn't pay up. The man could literally afford to take more money than any one person could ever spend in their life, put it in a pile and set it on fire, and not be any more than a fraction of a percent poorer, but he's still such an unfathomably awful cunt that he just has to stiff people anyway.
Surprise?
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