US Election 2024

Looks a bit desperate, paying people to sign a petition

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1843011773567578166

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Isnā€™t that bribery?

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Nah, only if he explicitly sayā€™s vote for X and we will pay you.

You could refer your friend and donate the proceeds to the Harris campaign.

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Good idea. The petition is meaningless if people are being paid to sign it though.

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Musk - ā€œJOIN OUR TEAM, Email us if you are interested in working on increasing voter registration and voter turnout. Pay starts at $30 per hour, with bonuses for performance.ā€

Possible job for illegal immigrants?

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Screenshot 2024-10-07 at 01-19-04 Elon Musk on X SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals &amp supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and @FEMA is both failing to help AND wonā€™t let others help. This is uncons...

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The petition is meaningless full stop. It has no more effect than the stupid ā€œFacebook does not have the permission to use my photosā€ type statement posts you see people add to their SM.

What it does do is give Musk, currently running a pro Trump GOTV effort, the names and current contact details of the target audience

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Nah, by paying for each person you convince to sign it, it sounds more like a pyramid scam

Andy Roddick has more passion for trolling MAGA on twitter than he ever had for tennis. He has turned into a low key grade A troll and its very funny to see

https://x.com/andyroddick/status/1843317564627128827

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Roddick is good, but Swalwell is the Master!

https://x.com/RepSwalwell/status/1842305237597422069

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This false messaging, disinformation, and outright lies about the federal response to this ā€œonce in a lifetimeā€ disaster really boils my piss.

I have friends who live in some of the most devastated areas, one Iā€™ve yet to hear from. Fuckwads like Gaetz (the pedo) are playing politics with peopleā€™s lives. It absolutely disgusts me, and Iā€™m not sure that if I ever encountered that asshat I real life, that I wouldnā€™t deck him where he stood. Unfortunately, itā€™s not just him. Much of Magaworld is running with these blatant lies. Forsaking of peopleā€™s wellbeing for your own political gain. Sums up the Trump GOP to a tee.

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I am not one to ever downplay their lying, but as much as a lot of this is a new breed of up is down, black is white lying, I do think there is something else going on as well. I think a lot it is how profoundly ignorant a lot of MAGA world are about how anything works. BY the time we get to anything involving a government response, they have absolutely zero frame of reference for what is supposed to happen, and what an effective response would look like. They then view any images that are discomforting, any obstacle or hardship that isnā€™t immediately addressed, as a failure of a response.

You see it a bit on how common it is for the goal posts to shift when people are challenged. If it was just about the lie they would stand their ground on FEMA not being there at all, but as they are just so committed to the idea that the response has been inadequate, with no idea of what an adequate response is supposed to look like, there is nothing you can say about what is already being done that will be viewed as enough.

They want FEAM on the ground.
FEMA are already there and, more importantly, coordinating with local authorities to give them they support they need
Ok, well they want choppers
There is a chopper in the photo you just posted complaining that FEMA arent there
Its not enough choppers. We need more to get the job done
How many?
More. And with flames painted on the side. How can you mount an effective response with plain green choppers.

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Meanwhile the weirdo running FL is dodging Momalaā€™s calls offering support.

Meanwhile Mike Johnson, another GOP nut job who belongs in the category of he didnā€™t mean what he said. And if you learn not to listen to him, youā€™ll realize he has an important message:

Stephanopoulos also pressed Johnson on whether he would acknowledge the fact that Trump lost the 2020 election, a loss that both the former president and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, his running mate, have declined to definitively confirm.

ā€œCan you say unequivocally that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump lost?ā€ Stephanopoulos asked.

ā€œSee, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. Itā€™s a gotcha game. You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when weā€™re talking about the future,ā€ Johnson said. ā€œWeā€™re not going to talk about what happened in 2020. Weā€™re going to talk about 2024.ā€

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Weirdo is not a racist as nobody believes what he says anyway:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/07/trump-immigrants-crime-00182702

ā€œget the government out of our life, itā€™s badā€

ā€œWaaā€¦ we need helpā€

Typical rightwing stupidity.

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I think itā€™s a very valuable insight into how the minds of a lot of people work (or donā€™t, Iā€™m sure some would say). Iā€™m not sure what actions one can implement in public communications of the back of this, but at the very least, I think it reveals a lot about what needs to be communicated to the public in times like these in order to reassure people, propaganda otherwise or not.

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So true,and when they want help who the f*** do they turn to?

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