• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    “Endorsement” meaning the 25 45 million a month to a PAC…

    How the fuck are we not going after them for this?

    The PAC system is incredibly fucked, but outside of a handful of progressives no politicians want to admit it’s legal bribery

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      No it’s not bribery. He changed his stance for Musk’s endorsement. Musk then exercised his free speech into a Trump PAC. There was no coordination. Besides, even if there was coordination, it was a just a gratuity after the service!

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      Every ad should be a clip of Trump raging against electric cars, then the Musk tweet, then a clip of him praising electric cars. End with: do you really think he works for you?

      I’m sure you can build more ads on this theme with the millions of other things he flip flopped on when someone promised him a bag of cash.

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        That should be one ad. Another should be about him turning on every one of his supporters that he’s turned on. Trump: on your side as long as it’s still convenient for him.

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      “We” aren’t going after them for this because they all do it, Trump just said it out loud. Welcome to American politics. This will never get fixed because the people in power stand to lose millions of dollars if it does. People will posture, pander, and pretend, but they will never get a majority willing to take the pay cut and actually fix it. It’s the a glitch in a capitalist republic.

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        Oh it can totally be fixed. People change their tune really quick when they can’t put food in their mouths, and others change faster within close proximity to wood chippers.

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          The most recent group of people that acted on their emotional desires in this vain did so in support of the man who is taking money from a billionaire (hundred-billionare?) to stay in power in exchange for changing their policy position to favor the donor. This group failed and many were convicted of federal crimes.

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            When did people attack billionaires? I’m not talking about the government.