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Fuck Elon Musk and fuck the NYT for writing the story up in such a bullshit way.

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Ta, Gary. Oh, FFS!!!

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Thank you for increasing my paranoia - I just checked my registration (good).

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“This” is out of control? 20-year-old rightwingers attempting to assassinate a former president, the first direct attempt on a potus since Reagan in 1981? Out of control indeed. Vote Blue, let’s protect America from dangerous weirdos on the right.

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False advertising is a right wing staple that goes back decades

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When you don't have anything that attracts voters, you need to lie, cheat and steal to stay in power. This is a known thing and has been for decades.

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seriously. where's willie horton?

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"Lies, and the lying liars who tell them!" Al Franken's title could well be applied to this PAC.

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Seems a long way to go to get vengeance on a daughter who doesn't like him.

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...but I can't help my elderly neighbors participate in voting without yutzes like Space Karen screeching about election interference and voter fraud. America. Fuck yeah.

I can't wait until this phony's financials are finally, inevitably, the subject of discovery in a very public lawsuit.

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What does it tell us about the competency of billionaires when Elon Musk can be zonked out of his mind on whatever and continues to be richer than ever even as he squandered what, 40 billion, in the Twitter purchase, it appeared as if he was intentionally tanking Twitter, and Tesla is not far behind. But yes, billionaires are so much bettor than the rest of us and they have worked so much harder that they deserve it all.

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Always the 'harvesting' with these guys.

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... which should tell us more about them than just about any other thing 🤔

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Elon’s video re: assassination attempt - “this is out of control”

Ya, the shooter was a Republican, riled up by the endless violent, apocalyptic rhetoric Trump shits outta his mouth.

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As I type, 492 comments so far, and surely 480 of them point out that only MAGA/Musk fanboys are going to fall for this and get fooled into thinking they're registered when they're not, and so where exactly is the downside?

So I won't mention that.

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Helps them later when they whine and pout about "STOLLEN!"

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Oh! I was going to not say that!!

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4

This is just ONE way in which what Elon and Donald (and Peter Thiel) are trying to do is cheating - and illegal

"When I worked as an election protection volunteer in STL County several people told us stories about a door to door voter registration drive than ended up being bogus. They found out they weren’t registered when they showed up to vote. They were all Black. It’s illegal to do this"

https://twitter.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1819668376362369457

And you KNOW Elon both wants apartheid and is ignorant of what may have been legal in apartheid SA but IS FELONIOUS in these United States.

So WE CANNOT afford to be ignorant about it -- AND we need to make sure his felonious treasonous behavior gets reported to the authorities who can take action ... and then we may STILL need to push them to take action.

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seems like a perfect opportunity to bust musk. if *someone* were to hack this database, it would be possible to find people on the list, ask if they had been contacted, and then check the voter rolls to see if there were any patterns in who and who did not get registered.

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Dean Obeidallah said the same

The trick is that someone (DOJ!!!) also has to actually be willing to prosecute

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No

We had that conversation yesterday and I will have to find it ... but 🍊 voters are, just for starters, not the only ones who will have their data CAPTURED.

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Well not said!

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Another Elon own goal

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Don't be such a Gloomy Gus, Gary. You're worried that left-leaning voters might not get registered because of this website? I'm hoping Trump-supporting dipshits won't realize they aren't registered.

They can waste all their money on Trump for all I care. What matters is that he won't get those votes on Election Day.

No follow-through. The story of every Republican's life, which also explains their sex lives.

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That's it: SMELLO' VISION.

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Just rewatched that Futurama episode this week

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Oh, so the promised $45 million per month was less cash and more “in-kind services.”

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