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  • Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday to address a bid by the city’s top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing to award $1 million prizes to registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
  • Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner revealed his lawsuit against Musk and the America PAC “triggered an avalanche of [social media] posts from Musk’s followers,” many of whom “made antisemitic attacks on Krasner.”
  • Krasner’s lawsuit accuses Musk and the PAC of operating an illegal lottery and trying to influence voters in the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 93 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

For the love of Christ throw the entire fucking book at him

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 45 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He bought the book, and he’s scribbling in it with a crayon and burning pages

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago

After a remarkably short court hearing, Elon Musk has found the presiding judge in his own case guilty of "the woke mind virus" and sentenced him to 47 years in jail. The jury watched the ruling read in Musk's own halting and strange speech, collectively shrugged their shoulders, and went home. "Well he has all that money," said Anne Sodding, one of the jurors on the case. "He must be right, I guess." Mr. Musk has declined to comment and was last seen driving his Tesla Cyber Truck the wrong way down a one way street exiting the courthouse.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Too late, damage is done, if Trump wins he's guaranteed a federal pardon.

This is why they always win, because he wasn't put in jail after the first 9000 felonies.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

This is not a prosecution, this is a lawsuit for an order to desist, basically a temporary restraining order.

The potential crime would be against federal election laws, which could be either civil or criminal federal prosecutions.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Or at least a razor sharp copy of an Ayn Rand book.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll bet my life savings that he doesn't show up, and that he doesn't do any jail time because of that.

I say this in jest, but,

Eat your heart out Martha Stewart.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Normally I would agree with you, but a Philadelphia DA doesn't order Musk to appear in person without knowing what he'll do. It's warrant bait, pure and simple.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

This dude has more money than that whole state. No fucking chance.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Idk, I hope you're right. I agree about what it is but I don't think we agree how it'll shake out.

I think we want the same shake out, I'm just pessimistic here.

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 48 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Looking at that 2nd point: it's so odd that Trump's Republicans include hardcore Netanyahu-style Zionists AND unrepentant antisemites. It's like they want to cover all possible approaches to the wrong side of history.

As to the meat of the story, Legal Eagle made a video about the legality of the Musk lottery. It seems pretty clearly forbidden, but we've been down this road with rich Conservatives many times before...

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 hours ago

A fascist is a fascist.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just waiting for him to fail to appear and nothing be done about it.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 26 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Penalties if found guilty range from a fine to jail time. I wonder which he'd get... 🙄

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

A rescheduled court date, probably :/

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I would be fine with jail time

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

can't tell if pun intended