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Summary

Elon Musk, after spending $21 million backing conservative Brad Schimel in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, amplified election fraud claims following Schimel’s loss to liberal judge Susan Crawford.

Musk boosted a post by Alex Jones featuring Roger Stone, who alleged mail-in vote fraud. Schimel rejected the claims, urging supporters to accept the results.

Musk pivoted to highlighting a voter ID ballot measure, though Wisconsin already requires ID. Critics see his reaction as echoing Trump-era denialism.

Despite GOP pressure, Schimel’s concession stood out for its rare break from MAGA conspiracy rhetoric.

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How can this man walk freely on the street? He would get shanked in prison and those dudes have to make knives with toothbrushes and other garbage.

This idiot just walks around and no one shoots their shot.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago

Well, I mean he had an entire security detail deputized by the US Marshalls....so it's not like he's just walking out in the open. The guy surrounds himself with sycophants and other billionaires, it's the only way to completely isolate yourself from reality.

I don't think he's really made an actual public appearance since being booed on stage at that chapel show, and that was by people going to see an unfunny transphobe.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (24 children)

I want to know why anyone still uses that shitty Nazi site he bought.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

YOU LITERALLY BOUGHT VOTES

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's been able to get whatever he wants by throwing money at it his whole life, so when it doesn't work he automatically cries foul.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Exactly like Trump.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

…Which is why he thinks it’s rigged…

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 42 points 1 week ago

Elon, this isn't an auction you disphit

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Your attempts to steal an election were subverted and now you're complaining. Fucking GOLD.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

Everything is stolen when your a South African Nazi fascist who was unable to buy the vote they wanted.

Hey F’Elon; how about returning those billions of dollars you’ve stolen from the U.S. government (and many other governments) over the past decade.

Fuck you Elon 🖕

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is a guy who wants to blame the world for his botched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ.

No wonder he hates trans people so much.

No wonder he has so many ivf babies with multiple women.

No wonder he wants to experiment on unwilling human subjects in El Salvador until he can get the neuralink chip to work (he wants to be able to push a button to get off. He has been waiting years for his tantric release. There is no other way)

No wonder he’s so rich yet seems so unhappy.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

botched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ

I keep hearing this around here. Is there any actual reason to think it's true?

Even if the bit about the surgery is true, it's a very reductive explanation of issues which clearly aren't new in his life. He was brought up by far-right parents and his father apparently showed him no love. He has been poisonously insecure all his life, only now he has the power to inflict his psychological troubles on the world. Ever since he got financially lucky in the 1990s, he has had the money to buy influence and pay people to do what he wants, so he has never become equipped to deal with people as equals and has all kinds of issues and insecurities around power. He discovered early that, while he had trouble making friends, he could make an impression on people by being edgy and controversial, and has never managed to move beyond this into a more mature persona.

I feel like saying "it's all because of his wonky penis" trivializes how profoundly this man's life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche. It also implicitly insults anyone else who doesn't have "normal" genitalia.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how profoundly this man’s life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche.

Why should we give a single fuck? This guy lies, cheat and sayd himself he thinks empathy is a weakness. Why should have any towards him. He calls everyone he disagree losers, called my prime minister "girl" and openly makes nazi salutes, and you want us to play the "Tell me about chilhood Elon" card? He's a little narcissist privilege bitch who's been exploiting people all his life, and I will be happy to take a piss on his grave. And I have no doubt the size of his dick (it's obviously tiny) is one of the reasons he want's to make the world suffer.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not that I feel any particular sympathy for Elon Musk. But I'm sure there are lots of people living with small dicks who don't experience any need to become crazy Nazis, and lots of crazy Nazis with sizeable penises. I just feel this whole "a man needs a big dick to be secure, and any insecure man has a small dick" thing is a somewhat offensive outlook.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

The reason to make fun of his dick size is because that's one of the only way that we can get to him. This guys controls half of the planet, the only thing we have is to make fun of him on social networks. You can call him a racist pos, transphobe, hateful, he actually takes prides into this. But call him a small dick and you just know he will spent the night convincing himself he as the biggest dick on the planet. Just like Donald the pedo and crowd size.

I'm sure a lot a men with small dicks are perfectly happy and secure about themselves, because they don't live in a superficial privilege bubble, just like lots of men rock their grey hairs and balding. But you got to admit Musk screams insecurity so it's totally fine to assume the size of dick is something he thinks about all the time.

The only way we can be sure is to inspect the genitals.

Prove there is a penis that can get an erection.

Otherwise “he” might be using the WRONG BATHROOM!!!!!!!

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I looked into it a week or two ago and couldn't find any definitive evidence. It seems plausible because Musk is well known for being into plastic surgery and IVF, but other than a musician who knows Grimes publicly claiming that Grimes confirmed it to them, I didn't see anything that looked convincing.

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

If he wanted us to care, he should try using empathy. He went in the opposite direction and now reaps what he has sown.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elon and the mangly inch looool

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is it possible he literally cannot have orgasms and sexual release? Can't he get pegged or something, maybe Neuralink has a backdoor to his Backdoor. Analink

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He thinks it's "stolen" because he also thought he had bought it and thus owned it.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

He still has his receipts! But there's a no-return policy for purchased elections.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I guess maybe? Since technically, he did buy it, right? But this is sort of like calling the cops because someone stole your heroin, isn’t it??

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

At this point, I don't see how we can ever trust conservative again. They kept showing they won't play by any rules, they are willing to lie, cheat and manipulate to get what they want. The left needs to radicalize his actions, you cannot negotiate with cheaters.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago

With the right, it’s. Always. Projection.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

3..2..1.. wooowww, is he REALLY saying that? I am SO surprised and I really NEVAH expected this to happen! Oh my God, did this really happen?

Nah, of course not

We all knew immediately after her win that this was the next step. First try to cheat, if that doesn't work, lie about the other cheating to get what you want.

Elmo is a mysigenic sociopathic narcissist sho actively destroys and ends lives.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

See! I TOLD you! That this was Rigged and NOT that Republicans are Predictable Babies who claim EVERY SINGLE ELECTION THEY LOSE is Rigged!

[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's about time someone besides Democrats spent buttloads of money in order to lose it all.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He and Trump and GOP aren't petty there. They inject more distrust about the whole idea of voting. Rich people and corporation can lobby, but they still can't directly buy an election or a cabinet seat in the open. They spend a lot to push up some candidate after ensuring their loyalty, and it seems suboptimal to them. There is a golden moment where you probably can game the system to make max profits and then grab the bag and run. Because democracies are at least stable, and when they roll into dictatorships, you stop playing solitaire, it's now blackjack and you are walking a thin line between bankruptcy and being shot dead by a firing squad, because your elected politician has too much power to be securely bought.

I feel like it's disproportionally favors developing startups\companies\scams who need some boost to start to break even, or old blood that can tolerate some pain if they may consume every other actor on the scene.

There are benefactors to that, and they are the worst people on the market who would only accelerate the collapse for their short term gains.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Waaaaaaaaaa!

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

OF COURSE it was. Nobody would legitimately not sleep with Musk, I mean not want to be his daughter, I mean, not vote the way he dictated unless there was outside influence.

Couldn't be him.

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