Musk endured a wave of gloating
Democrats were tasting unfamiliar triumphalism on Wednesday after the election for a vacant Wisconsin supreme court seat turned into an emphatic repudiation of Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s richest supporter and key ally.
Musk endured a wave of gloating on Twitter/X, his own social media platform, after Brad Schimel, a Trump-endorsed judge that he spent $25m supporting, lost by 10 percentage points to Susan Crawford, whose victory sustained a 4-3 liberal majority on the court.
On a day that Trump has earmarked as “liberation day” to mark his long-awaited roll out of trade tariffs, Democrats seized on the result as a referendum on Musk – who has spearheaded the president’s slashing of federal government workers and spending programmes – while casting it as a platform for a recovery in next year’s congressional midterm elections.
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The result is politically significant because the court is due to issue abortion rulings while also deciding on electoral redistricting questions which now have the potential to help Democrats in future elections in a state where contests are traditionally close.
Let’s not get carried away here. Expect nothing, avoid disappointment.
They also approved an amendment to the state constitution enshrining voter ID (by an even wider margin), so yeah, don’t get carried away.
Maybe Musk shouldn’t have been inserting himself personally into the race? I feel if Peter Thiel had bought Twitter a lot of the bad toxic stuff would still be happening but we’d be none the wiser because he wouldn’t seek to draw attention to himself.
Musk has money alright, but absolutely zero gravitas. Parading around as a phony Cheesehead and trying to buy votes didn’t work. Score a win for real Americans, not rich clowns from South Africa.
Musk has now posted that he always knew he’d lose, but it was a tactical loss for positional gain. What a loser. He also then went out a bought a baby, presumably for a comfort toy.
He what now?
I’ve seen posts claiming Musk got himself declared guardian of an abandoned baby. In all honesty I’ve no idea if it’s true or just people shit posting. It’s one of those things that is so bizarre that it’s exactly what he would do to try a rehabilitate his image.
Lordee.
It seems the story is that he stopped paying child support for one of his extracurricular children, so not all that great for prettying up his image.
Huh, what a Prince. Not surprised, he’s alleged to have done that previously, not to mention ghosting one of his exes (Grimes) when she was trying to contact him about a health issue with a kid. He then shadow banned her for using X / Twitter to get his attention. Now he did lie on a Visa application, so should be deported. I’d almost be happy to see him in an El Salvadoran concentration camp.
That’s Putin’s style alright… Mar a Lago doesn’t have nearly enough deep elevator shafts.