A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election
“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.” Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : What if they just assume there will be no harsher consequences than, perhaps, the wrist-slap kind of fines he's always gotten in court to-date in everything that's over and not still appeal-able. Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner : WILD: Elon and his legal team are floundering, making claims to get around one argument, not thinking about the larger picture or consequences. Here, they say it's not an illegal lottery because it's not random — even though Elon said it was. https://www.reuters.com/... Ryan Anderson / @kolchak : Elon is too busy to show up for mandatory court appearances but can drop 3 hours talking to Joe Rogan about video games. Mastodon: John Refior / @jrefior@hachyderm.io : “'The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,' Gober said Monday. ‘We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.’ — “'This was all a political marketing masquerading as a lottery,' Krasner testified Monday. 'That's what it is. A grift.'” … X: Miles Taylor / @milestaylorusa : BIG NEWS — Judge rules Elon's $1M Pennsylvania voter giveaways can continue. Mark my words: more billionaires will start doing this. And future elections will feel like lotteries. @jason : Technically, there is no difference between running a sweepstakes to register folks for a PAC, buying ads on ABC or paying for clicks from Facebook. It all backs into the same thing: ~$10-100 or so to put an American into a mailing list In fact, it's no different than having a celebrity perform at your rally and collecting their contact info Dave Troy / @davetroy : This is bad news not only because it validates his stupid election manipulation scheme, but it emboldens him to go further still. Brace yourselves, this is going to get very, very dark. Vote, and then pray. In that order. Mike Sacks / @mikesacksesq : Philly judge denies Krasner's request to block Musk's million-dollar lottery. No reasoning released yet but I suspect it's because of how close we are to Election Day rather than based on the merits of Musk's defense [image] Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : This win by Musk is primarily symbolic. Election Day is tomorrow, of course, and the Musk team has already cut 17 different $1 million checks to registered voters across the country, and there were no more checks to cut to Pennsylvania voters. But the legal win will probably Forums: r/NewsOfTheStupid : Elon Musk's $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says r/elonmusk : Elon Musk's $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says