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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

I wear a cheese hat

Your arguments are invalid

[–] [email protected] 55 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

he payed for that election fair and square!!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Poor Musk was robbed, he was promised that if he paid generously, the election result would be guaranteed. In the end he was cheated, it's unfair. Cry, Cry, crocodile tears. 😭

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Because it’s the site where you can follow and interact with the most people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No one in their right mind should want to interact with the nazi-loving scum on that shit hole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (2 children)

It's almost as if there are many different people on that website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

And if they're still on there they're supporting a Nazi shit head. People need to migrate their communities. Stop being lazy. Stop being part of the problem. Get off the nazi website

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

I actually looked up the people I follow on X on other platforms such as Mastodon & Bluesky, I found 0 on Mastodon and 3 on Bluesky...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

And its a shitty thing for each of them to use the website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

You're entitled to your opinions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You spelled bots wrong homie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, there are bots. There are also a lot of real people, politicians, journalists, analysts, software engineers etc.

I actually tried to replace X a few weeks ago and considered Mastodon and Bluesky. Nobody I follow on X is on Mastodon, and only three are on Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Go outside? I have never used Twitter and live a perfectly normal life. I have access to plenty of information and opinions from paid subscriptions to newspapers and personal blogs. No one can communicate anything serious on Twitter. For sport highlights or similar - I get it. For anything else - a social tool - people have simply forgotten to go outside and do real stuff with real people. You are lying to yourself by saying Twitter provides something you can't live without.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

You answer to finding a platform that provides most of the information I want to have is to ... go outside? Do you think that's even remotely helpful?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Dont be lazy and find it elsewhere? I didnt realize twitter was where all new things come from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

I'm guessing you didn't read my comment two steps above...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours 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??

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He would be protected by the nazis in prison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

lol, how long before the prison Nazis get tired of his shit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

YOU LITERALLY BOUGHT VOTES

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

…Which is why he thinks it’s rigged…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Can't argue with that logic. CHECK AND MATE, LIBERAL!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago

Exactly like Trump.

[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Oh look, Conservatives sowing more doubt and mistrust because they can't handle it when faced with how unpopular they are.

Quelle surprise.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Sowing like planting seeds not sewing like creating a garment

But now that I think about it they both kinda work... sewing the threads of lies.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

You know, I looked at that and knew it looked wrong but brain couldn't figure out why.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"I WASNT ABLE TO BUY THIS ELECTION DESPITE MY VAST WEALTH, SO OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT THIS ELECTION AND STOLE IT WITH THEIR VAST WEALTH, ITS THE ONLY CONCEIVABLE REASON WHY I COULD POSSIBLY LOSE!"

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day 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 🖕

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk boosted a post by Alex Jones featuring Roger Stone

It's like a who's who of absolutely garbage people.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

Elon, this isn't an auction you disphit

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (6 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Space Nazi abuses ketamine- that’s an established fact. And ketamine abuse can do horrible things to your urogenital tract. So it might not be botched gender affirming surgery that is his pee pee problem, but ketamine side effects.

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