Elon Musk promises to award $1m every day to voters as he steps up campaigning for Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/elon-musk-promises-to-award-1m-every-day-to-voters-as-he-steps-up-campaigning-for-trump
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
The billionaire Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma will pay $6B & serve 0 prison for knowingly selling horrendous amounts of OxyContin while claiming it was non-addictive—resulting in 564K+ American deaths by Opioid overdose.😓 And that doesn’t even begin to contemplate the global harm and deaths the Sackler family caused.
And for all that suffering and atrocity—not one person will go to prison. Not one.
“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.”
Domestic terrorist Daniel Perry shot a BLM protester four times in the chest. He wrote about wanting to kill BLM protesters beforehand. He later admitted to killing a homeless man
And now it’s discovered he was texting children for sex
This is the man Greg Abbott wants to pardon.
This is Texas.
https://www.texasobserver.org/daniel-perry-pardon-greg-abbott-garrett-foster/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/daniel-perry-racist-comments-social-media/index.html
Elon Musk lost $13 billion in 24 hours on Thursday, and he’s still the world’s second richest person
Don't tell me billionaires can't afford a wealth tax.
WaPo piece by Aaron Blake https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/fox-news-most-trusted-ad-poll/
On Fox "News" ad in the NYT.
"While 30 percent of Americans considered it at least “trustworthy,” more than 4 in 10 labeled it “untrustworthy.” Its negative-14 split on trustworthiness vs. untrustworthiness was worse than every other TV news outlet, and it was also worse than 20 of the other 21 media outlets tested. Fox nipped only the conservative news site Breitbart, which came in at negative-15."
Major new story today from @ProPublica: Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow