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Me, standing in line, secretly not knowing who I will vote for, desperately waiting for a volunteer of any party to hand me the water bottle that will help me decide who to vote for:
It's okay. The justice department asked him to stop and they've made it very clear that if he keeps doing it they will firmly but politely ask him to stop a second time
To be fair, the warning was “we are investigating this. Please stop, or we this will get litigious.” Federal prosecutors have a 95%+ success at prosecutions. They don’t bring charges till they have a airtight case.
@SnuubScadoob wait till you hear about project 2025... they're planning on allowing judges to dish out slaps on the wrist. Talk about cruel and unusual 🤫
I thought Elliott Carver was cartoonish but I liked Tomorrow Never Dies in spite of him. Now I have to give every past and future bond film a villain pass because I know now anything is possible.
@@Aarkwrite tech CEO villains were a cliche around late 90s, has to be after Wall Street, they usually wore a suit though like every Michael Douglas character, not a French (aka stalin coat), which might be pushing it.
I like Legal Eagle, but this video is complete BS! I signed the petition and have no intention of voting for Trump. Complete trash for someone who claims to be a legal expert starting out a with a statement that paying someone to sign a petition is "buying votes". Buying votes actually requires that you inform a person that they need to vote a certain way then paying them for it, which Elon is not doing
@@pierregravel-primeau702 Problem is, for stocks and values to rise, you dont have to believe in anything. Or actually do anything. Just follow trends, surf the trends say the things that cause trends. And so an white south African son of an emerald mine owner went from filthy rich to obsceanly rich.
When I was holding voter registration drives in 2020, I was warned that if I gave out candy, I couldn't withhold that candy from anybody. It can't be an incentive to register to vote. It was illegal, and I could be fined (or for partisan drives, the campaign could be fined). Yet offering up to $1,000,000 at random seems fine, for some reason...
Because the government gives Tesla a ton of subsidies so if the government went after Musk, it'd make them look bad since they've given him millions of your hard-earned dollars. Follow the money.
You see, there’s your mistake. You tried bribery (even if accidentally) without being rich first. You can’t go to jail for bribery if you have enough money to bribe judges.
Because he's offering it to people who sign a petition, not register to vote or vote. It is very simple to comprehend. You just have to not be an idiot to comprehend it.
They seriously need to get rid of PACs. Only individual people should be allowed to donate to a politician and with a hard limit. All meeting with lobbyists should also be monitored. Just because a person or organization has more money doesn't mean they should have more right to our politicians. One vote one person should go beyond the ballot box. They have that office to represent us all not the privileged few.
Have you seen the small donation graph? Harris has over 4x more small donations then Trump. How that wouldn't concern even the most avid Trump supporter is baffling. Especially considering that was one of their big reason for supporting Trump the first time. ("He isn't bought by billionaires")
Billionaires are subject to the same laws as your average poor person if you support the right. Otherwise if you're Mark Zuckerberg doing the exact same thing as Elon Musk but in 2020 for the Democrats, you're allowed to do whatever you want.
Does anyone else find it wild that it's de facto policy to wait until after an election where there is likely illegal vote buying happening to investigate or prosecute said vote buying?
It’s to prevent incumbents from publicly opening investigations with questionable grounds against opponents to temporarily tarnish their reputation right as it matter most. And broadly speaking it’s a good policy. Just look at the impact of what announcing further email investigations did to Clinton in 2016. Nothing came of it , but it slammed her reputation at exactly the right time to sway centrists and undecideds on Election Day. The issue here is that the policy is impractical if it involves campaign violations, especially if the repercussions are limited to fines. In such cases it should be allowed if violations are egregious or blatant
Yup. Saying "We don't want to prejudice you against the party doing the blatantly bad and illegal thing right when the campaign approaches its climax, _because_ it is too close to that climax" is absurd rationale. Sixty days out from election day is precisely when people start doing the most desperate and likely-to-be-illegal things. If a person dressed in one party's paraphernalia turns up with a weapon to an early voting station or post office and attacks everyone who voted for any other party, would that person go unprosecuted until after the election because it might prejudice people against that party?
fines should be a % of your income, not a set amount. it would be equally painful to each person. set amounts are nothing to the rich and devistating to the poor.
@@tomlxyz its not bribery lmao you guys are genuinely brain dead. 🤣 offering money to spend 2 seconds "signing" an online petition has never and will never be bribery. You guys just don't like who's doing it and suddenly don't want billionaires giving away their money. Hypocrites the lot of you.
Nobody ever said it was illegal tf. Just that it was cringy. Plus it doesn't state you have to be a trump supporter just that you are able to vote and are committed the second amendment and freedom of speech
@@masonsuarez7096 Actually when just walking down a line of people that been out for 7+ hours waiting to vote and giving EVERYONE a water has been declared illegal
@@MAFDOMiNUS What has been moved? There were claims last month that what Swift did just by asking people to register was illegal. She did not offer money or hold a lottery (which is only something states can do except with a specific license)
If convinced, he just has to pay $10,000 from the approximately $10 billion he has immediately available. If you have $60,000, that's like paying a fine of 6 cents.
The thing that really scares me about people like Elon, is that there is no way that one of his lawyers didn't point out that this would be illigal (or at least probably illegal), which means he in the best case scenario thought he knew better and ignored the lawyer, or in the worst case; he didn't care he broke the law, and assumes he can easely pay for his problems to go away. That second one is really scary, because he seems to be right. And how long before he feels untouchable enough to do something truly heinous and destructive.
Elon is richer than the DOJ and he's willing to use his wealth to get what he wants. Don't forget that he's from South Africa and has benefitted greatly from Apartheid and slavery. He is openly daring the DOJ to do something and they already blinked.
He hasn't broken any laws technically. He basically said "I might give you $1M if you sign this thing saying you love the constitution". None of that is illegal and he said so in this video.
Bribing people to vote for you: The final, desperate act of a political party that's fully abandoned any notion of democracy, the rule of law, or any semblance of wanting to live in a civilized society.
You mean like not having a primary to choose their candidate, picking a candidate who campaigned to defund the police, and basically just being the party of degeneracy in general?
Trump supporters will turn a blind eye to this. Elon, the richest man in the world currently, is quite literally on the campaign trail with Trump, doing his own town halls on behalf of Trump, paying people to register to vote, and doing million dollar lotteries. But somehow, Trump supporters have convinced themselves that Kamala has the interest of billionaires. You literally cannot make this up. There has to be a medical term for this 😂
It’s funny because you know damn well if anyone did this on the democrat side theyd be protesting like crazy. Idk if its a medical term but one word that fits is delusional
Y'all didn't screech when Mark Zuckerberg was supporting you in literally the same way in 2020, so I don't wanna hear anything from you brainlets unless you're condemning both. But you won't. 😊
@@prodmoirathats not the point, the point of "bad things" is fraudulent election interference also known as bying votes. It is a federal crime to do so and what are the consequences for the rich doing said crime again ... ohh right, nothing.
@@prodmoira Giving away money at the polling stations, so long as they sign a political petition, thereby incentivising more people to vote from one side than the other. That is election interference. Musk may be exploiting a legal loophole to get away with it, but it's very blatant election interference all the same. Even better: even if the US judiciary try to prosecute him, how long will that last if his guy wins?
There’s a new ad I’ve been seeing here on RU-vid that says “your vote is private but your friends and family can see if you voted and how often, so vote!” Isn’t that voter intimidation? If so, isn’t that illegal? We hope that people vote, but I don’t think anybody is allowed to pressure them to. Or can they?
@@jasminehurst4810 I understand that they’re public records, but the way they say it is as if that should be the reason to feel like you have to vote. “If you don’t vote, your friends are gonna find out, and you don’t want conflict with your friends”. It’s got that kinda vibe.
@@remnant1018 You SHOULD feel like you have to vote, ffs. The ad literally is just saying the obvious: if you're lazy and not engaged with your responsibilities as a citizen people are going to rightfully see you as lazy and not engaged with your responsibilities as a citizen. Frankly, people who don't vote should be more than shamed. In some countries, it's a crime not to, like dodging jury duty. Your complaint here is ridiculous.
They have money though,so it's just wasting tax payers money to try and convict them. Did you know though if you have the money you can privately hire a court and judge and go for your own prosecution..
@@User-tn2cm I do to. Hopefully after this election cycle. Trump says he wont run again. So hopefully the Republican party can return to normal. We need reasonable conservatives and reasonable liberals in this country to keep one side from going too radical.
UK Labour politicians have been campaigning for Harris in the USA... that's foreign interference. and why is she the candidate anyways when she lost the primaries? She only got the position through a coup. I'm surprised taytay isn't doing this, but it's pretty tame compared to the other shenanigans by the left.
@@dgarner2693 I think Trump said if he lost last time we’d never see him again, so I guarantee if he’s still alive (and not in jail) he’ll run even if they have to drag him out to shout slurs at the crowd from his hospital bed.
@@patrickcardon1643 its totaly clear what will happen. nato will be dissolved, russia will get a new national memorial day, the "day of the new united russia" with 26 new "part autonom" russian republics like poland, germany, france etc. YOU on the other hand will be: 1: a so called "trusted neighbour" who will document the behaviour of your neighbours, including visits, political jokes or "political speeches". once a month you will report to the new federal police called "secret state police", translate it to german and you will understand, some neighbours will disappear and YOU will get the first right to rummage their belongings as a "reward". or 2: you will sit in this new formed "education camps" under food scarcity and build cheap crap to make up for the lack of imports from china to walmart. If you are lucky, trump wouldnt use collective guild and you are ALONE in this camp, otherwise you can see, from time to time, your family members in the distance. Thats only true if he doesnt think of a new "final solution", google it to find out what the camps would look like in THAT case. or 3: you are in limbo international, traveling from country to country to NOT get deported back to the US since europe is now russia, canada and mexico will do NOTHING to postbone or stop an us invasion, getting ripped of of every dollar you have from human trafficker not to mention the violence and death on the way. so, in short form, the future under trump, a little bit borrowed from the 1930s.
I hear trumpies trying to say that Michael Bloomberg paid a lot of money to elect Joe Biden, so yes, they are having meltdowns over left-wing billionaires doing this
Also worth noting that the same law, states that it is also illegal to ACCEPT PAYMENT, so all of those people that have already signed the petition and collected any money, or won the $1 million, are also at risk of getting indicted.
It wasn't exactly free, he spent $44 billions to get that username. Anyone who thinks Elon is a genuine nice, honest guy with only good intentions probably drives a Tesla and believes Robotaxi is just around the corner.
The blatant unethical behavior people are getting away with is absolutely mind boggling. The moral bankruptcy on display with flashing lights and blinking signs is disgusting.
I agree. It's also pretty wild that it's $10k and or 5 years! Making $10k per month is a good income but it's not outrageous. A $10k fine would certainly sting but it wouldn't be life destroying. Now you sentence a person to 5 years in prison and they are out $300k, their house, their spouse, and 2 1/2 years of their life! In the case of a multi-billionaire, a $10k check wouldn't be worth the time to bend down and pick up off the floor, yet a 5 year sentence would be an unbelievable penalty. If the justice system pegged the financial penalties to a percentage of wealth, it could make the wrongdoer feel enough pain to be a deterrent and bring cash into the public coffers rather than spend it on incarcerations.
Or apply inflation. That $10k is $81k in today money. (But I think you're right fwiw. Fines affect the poor and middleclass, and are less than nothing to billionaires.)
I haven't heard them called "voting day snags", I've heard of democracy sausages though (same thing, sausage sizzle at a voting centre/polling booth). When it's at a school, sometimes the money goes to new facilities for it too, which I think is nice.
A PAC can't give more than about $5000 to a candidate per election. The loophole in citizens united is that they can spend as much as they want to support a candidate, but only if they don't coordinate their actions with the candidate, the party, or the campaign. What Musk is doing certainly seems like coordination....
Why aren't we talking about the leader of a PAC directly colluding with the campaign, even going so far as to speak at his rally? That's also very illegal
Why would that be illegal? For Super Pacs that is illegal. With super pacs corporations can donate unlimited money and therefore are not allowed to work together with the politician campaign. Otherwise it would be bribery
I think he's cleverly NOT saying he's giving money to people to vote Republican, only to sign a petition. ANYONE could sign the petition and then vote Democrat. Sounds like a loophole...
I do think it's a flawed law, as it shouldn't be a crime to incentivise people to vote, only to vote in a particular way. In the spirit of what's good for the goose being good for the gander, Musk technically shouldn't be considered as doing the wrong thing either, if that was all he was doing. The problem is the context. America is so polarised that the political leanings of most people and even companies like Ben & Jerry's are clear to see, and so any incentives coming from them are clearly identifiable as being politically biased.
@@Zzyzzyzzs no law is perfect. Of course there are some issues with the fact that incentivising people to vote is technically illegal. But incentivising people to vote can always be done selectively, and if paying people to vote or to register is allowed, rich people will always find a loophole to select who they're incentivising if you word it in any way that allows some incentivising at all. And let's be honest, anyone who wants to incentivise people to vote almost never wants them to vote for the other party.
"THhheeeY ArReE PaaaaaYyyIng IMmgIIggggRraannTts tOo VoTe!" Trump literally just keeps on piling crimes, along with Elon Musk and his crime syndicate. There's no bottom to these rich people. Why is it that Ghislaine Maxwell gets 20 years in prison for influencing tens of minors, but influencing potentially millions of people to choose their leader differently, who might as well come and arrest their families and force them into military front lines in wars. People are so willing to give up their own freedoms they're literally clapping about it.
This actually bothers me less than the IRS having turned a blind eye for the last 80 years to all those megachurches directly involving themselves in politics, and telling their congregations who and what to vote for. Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, etc. owe _billions_ in back taxes for their involvement. But they get a free pass. Decade after decade.
I am curious of all the money and endorsement that unions give to parties and candidates bothers you at all? I have never had a job that required me to donate to a particular church, but lots of jobs require you to pay off the union.
I signed the petition, I referred 3 people to those petitions, I recieved an email from Elon's PAC stating that I would receive a check in the mail in several days. Two weeks later no check. So... even if it is illegal, seems like he is going above and beyond and not even living up to his side of the contract.
Make sure to keep up on the class action suit that the Cards Against Humanities are planning on taking Musk to court with :) you might get a few bucks from it but hey it's bucks directly snatched from Musk's coffers lol
Elon is all in on Trump willing. As long as Trump wins he is immune and doesnt need to pay anything. Elon is everything Republicans hated. They lost all their values and would let a rich foreigner who doesnt care about America control the election.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 yeah we do. It’s not that big a deal honestly we have pre polls and postal so you’re never actually waiting long to vote. I like that all of Australia has a say. I think it makes it truly democratic. My state has the state election this Saturday actually!
The funny thing is, given Trump and Musk's histories of not paying money due to clients, I doubt that the offer will last, and regardless who wins, I can almost guarantee that they won't follow through. If Trump wins, he won't want to pay people because of course he won't. If Kamala wins, he'd withhold the lottery because the effort didn't work to his advantage.
40% So you only get $600,000 and the government would get money. So really it's already money Musk gave to the campaign probably so no different then a hat or something.
Thanks for reminding me that at times, Elon doesn't pay for anything. Especially recently since Elon was forced to pay a bakery money for a rush order that he stiffed
Musk's lawyer will actually cite that Elon doesn't like paying and his words aren't a binding contract as he's very famous for corporate puffery as an entertainer.
Having seen this happen in other countries, I'm just laughing at America for leaving legal loopholes all over the place for Trump and his cronies to skip right through.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Elon clearly implying that conservatives are the supporters of free speech is very ironic coming from the guy who bans people that make fun of him and is actively campaigning for a candidate that has publicly stated he wants to gut the 1st Amendment.
Also 2nd amendment... he's toting for it too, but not all of it, just every other part of it than the "well regulated" portion. No regultions, all militia.
Please, the DOJ is way too afraid to act. They will just settle with him, apologize they even thought about a lawsuit or criminal proceedings and then pay his lawyer's fees and promise to never interfere with any of his illegal actions in the future. This the the BIden DOJ, Elon can literally kill people with robocars and they'll look the other way.
He did not break the law. This video does not accurately apply the law to Musk's actions. I suggest you look into this yourself instead of trusting random people on the internet.
@@doi5451 The guy is literally quoting the law and giving examples as precedent. And all you have to say in opposition is "NUH-UH!" Yeah, I think I will trust the legal expert.
That whole US voting systems seems so bizarre to me as European. I register my new adress with local council (as I am legally obliged to for reasons of taxes, waste disposal fees etc.) once I move there. And when an election is coming up, I automatically get a letter with date, time and where my local voting station is + a form to request an absentee ballot in case I can't make it and a pre-stamped and adressed envelope with which to post it to the local councils election office. Btw.: Elections are always on Sunday. All I am required to do to vote is show up with that letter and any form of ID and I'm done. Max waiting time I ever encoutered was 5 minutes, usually it's 0. Ballots are counted over night and ratified by the time you have your morning coffee, with the nation wide official results being ready the same day. Concession and victory speeches usually happen 1-2 hours after poll closure on election day, because the first projections (released 1 Minute after voting deadline) rarely ever differ by more than 0.5% - 1% from the actual results.
over in my state of washington (the one with seattle, not the capitol) voting by mail is standard, with plenty of ballot drop boxes dotted around the state as well as some in-person voting centers for those who need it. it makes the whole process so easy and i love it! it sucks that voting is such a struggle in other states (and i wish elections were always on weekends)
Here in UK things are similar with a few differences. Elections are not on a Sunday but the voting stations are typically not far from your house with virtually no queue and they are open from 7am until 10pm so anyone no matter what there shift can make it. You can also apply for a postal vote or proxy vote (a nominated person to vote on your behalf). You do still have to register to vote but it is dead easy and you get prompted to do it if you are not already registered. I imagine almost everyone is. The rest is pretty similar. How does the US get it so wrong?!
Similar here in Canada too. Every time I fill out my income taxes I can check a box that allows them to share my data with Elections Canada. Last Saturday, I voted in our provincial election. We received a voter card in the mail about a month before and I brought that and my ID with me to the local voting place 1 minute down the road. No lineup and voted and left within 2 minutes. It's always crazy to me how US politics are so backwards they're actively making it as difficult as possible for some people to vote while calling themselves a democracy. Seriously wishing them luck with this vote. If there is a significant blue vote this election, I hope with all my heart gerrymandering and anti-democratic practices can start to be peeled away in all States successfully this time.
The American system sucks in many multiple ways. They marketed themselves as an example of democracy and freedom to be followed. It’s really a very weak example and they don’t even know it.
He’s paying for the signing of a petition. Signing a petition is not voting. Signing a petition is not registering to vote. You guys really struggle with word definitions huh?
@@Wood.Architect But being a registered voter is *required* in order to sign the petition, and signing the petition is met with a financial reward. Therefore, it is by proxy an invitation for people who are not yet registered to do so in order to receive money. I don't struggle with the idea of using a vaguely-worded petition with no concrete aim and no published list of signatories as a thin disguise for incentivising people to register. I also don't struggle with forming the connection between the petition creator's indirect donations of money to voters and his direct donations of money to one of the candidates in the election.
11:40 The key point will be #1: what "consideration" is given to participate. Is giving out your contact details consideration? Is registering to vote consideration? Merely signing a petition probably doesn't count.
The only way this will matter is if he gets jail time. Fines aren't going to do anything because if it's punishable by a fine then it's just legal for a price, and he's shown he's more than willing to throw his money away.
This exactly, when fines are mentioned I pay zero attention because unless it’s in the billions it’s pointless. Jail time is what talks and putting a permanent felony mark next to his name.
He did not break the law. This video has spread misinformation and you believed it without question. I strongly suggest you stop doing this and do your own research, since this is how dangerous misinformation gets spread.
@@KaceisLezy Firstly, he claimed that the petition was an illegal lottery. It does not qualify as this because the consideration is not valuable to both parties; it is only a small amount of basic information. Consideration must be considered valuable to both parties for it to make a lottery illegal. Next, he said the petition would be a violation of section 597. In summary, section 597 says that it is illegal to pay people to register to vote. Technically, Elon is only incentivising it by making it a requirement for a reward.
Also how long is "well I'm running for office, so..." going to be a prosecution shield? I get the concern of influencing voters, but a certain political party is taking the piss on this one.
That's literally the only reason that Joe Biden ran for president. He was being investigated for corruption, so he runs for president and then gets to be above the law.
Australia has "Democracy Sausage". A few years ago, some vendors started selling sausages outside of polling locations and it caught on. Now it is something of an elections tradition. However, they aren't free. You buy your democracy sausage and the revenues are used to fund the operation of the facilities that serve as polling locations. Sounds like a great solution to me.
@@glenmorrison8080 the recognises a monarch part is hilarious, I honestly don't know much about what the governor general does or if they've done anything of note recently and, controversial opinion alert, I think voting should be mandatory everywhere (with an option to say something along the lines of "I hate all the options, y'all can go to hell")
Please don’t put your ads at the end. It ruins the run time for your algorithm. We skip them anyway, and placing an ad in the middle somewhere means we skip it and watch till the end, making your runtime better. Just a thought. Y’all have a good day.
Take your blinkers off, the UK governments have just been exposed for donating funds to the democrats to support Harris and were in the middle of organising a trip for 100 of its own members to an all expensive paid trip to the US to help her campaign, this is electoral interference and is illegal in both nations, the UK government are now in a mess trying to answer some very hard questions on their interference. What is good for the goose is also good for the gander - but you weren't aware of any of this because this channel is a mouthpiece for the democrats and only give info that favours their bias, had they actually been professional and impartial they would be also exposing the democrats for the worse crime of accepting foreign interference in an election.
Please do not believe everything you hear on the internet. The claims in this video are false. What Musk did is not against the law. I strongly suggest you research these things in more detail and come to your own conclusions instead.
The big difference betwenn what cards against humanitiy does and what Elon does is that Elon does it exclusively in swing states. Why? Is the second amendment only in danger in swing states? It makes it OBVIOUS that the goal is to reward people helping elect Trump.
Cool. Who's going to *actually do something about it*? If someone called the cops on me doing something like this, I'd have been in jail in under an hour. Where's the spine in law enforcement? Why is the governor saying weak shit like "law enforcement should take a look into it"?
Yes it's in part because the rich play by different rules but also this is a real political chess game at this point. Anyone in an elected position needs to consider "Is this going to help my side more than the other" just like how sometimes a lawyer won't object because of how it will make them look to the jury. Maybe they think it's going to rally Trump supporters even more and make undecided people feel like the Democrats really ARE trying to suppress the vote.
Because the wealthy can fund PACs and super PACs and influence elections through that, lobbying, and more. Not biting the hand that feeds you and all that
I wonder if lawyers ever feel some sort of despair at how one sided and unjust the law is, with how rich people can flagrantly break the law, sometimes multiple times in a row, and get away with it scot free (minor fee aside), while regular people go to jail and lose vast chunks of their life to back-breaking prison labor.
no they don't, lawyers infact feel very good and happy. Lawyers love money more than anything. Remember the lawyers who cancelled Elons payout? yea, They wanted 6 BILLIONS in fees. I'm sure lawyers are feeling despair because regular people to vote!
Devin certainly does. You can see it in some of his earlier videos, including the ones on repealing Roe v Wade and the presidential immunity decision from SCOTUS. Devin really does believe in the rule of law and is visibly disturbed by how quickly that is eroding over the last few years.
I genuinely fear that if the government doesn’t persecute Elon or trump for genuine crimes, this country will become facist. And I’m not an overly dramatic person, in fact for all of the previous elections I’ve lived through, I felt safe in this country despite who sat in the president’s chair. But something’s changed in America and it feels scarily real and deceptively dangerous.
It’s spelled fascist. We need a better media. Fox News is at the heart of this problem in many ways. Many of these illegal activities aren’t even recognized by republicans who already have a massive confirmation bias. Dictators weaponizing a group of hateful ignorant people is history repeating itself. we need people in swing states to realize how serious this is, since your vote kind of only matters if you live in a swing state. I hope the national popular vote compact actually goes somewhere.
I believe that you are paranoid from the misinformation you have been hearing. Let me be clear: Musk has done nothing illegal by giving money to the people in this petition. I made a comment breaking down each of the laws he was at risk of violating and how he did not violate them. This video did not properly explain what was happening, and even contradicted itself several times. I beg you, please look into these things if they scare you. There is often so much more under the surface that is critical to know.
You shouldn't need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to run for a public office. It is insane to me that this is how our elections are run at this point. Why does Kamala have $1 billion dollars to run for president? Why was that the sole reason that Joe Biden was forced out because they felt he wouldn't get enough donation funds after that one debate? It's asinine and it just shows how completely lopsided our political system is. I have never donated a dollar to any political campaign, even for candidates I support and I never will.
Every candidate should get a government funded budget proportionate to whatever is reasonable for the scale of the election they're running for. With discounts from media outlets for their ads, and equal time for the candidates. That way politicians wouldn't have to spend most of their time raising funds, regular people wouldn't get bombarded with political ads and requests for money, and buying political influence would be less of a thing
@@WlatPziupp it sorta works in New Zealand. 🇳🇿 (each party gets an election budget from treasury based on how many mp’s they have and individuals must declare donations over 15000. Parties also get pinged if they overspend their advertising allowance)
Yeah that's true. But the distinction is also true. It's not illegal because it's buying votes, since petition blah. But it's an illegal lottery anyway
@@Pierre-LucBeauregard That's neither here nor there. It is illegal to bribe someone _to register to vote,_ irrespective of which candidate they vote for. Did you watch the video?
Oh something will happen - and consequences will happen to the rest of us, not for them. More deregulation, more invasion of our rights, more corruption, more of all of the bad stuff we're dreading.
18:30 as a food enthusiast, there is NOTHING wrong with freezing ingredients. It's done to keep them fresh. What *can* happen is freezure burn or damage with food is frozen at too low temperatures or for too long. But in general, ingredients being frozen does not effect its quality. However, you will need to let your ingredients defrost completely and pat it dry before use, otherwise this may effect the end product.
Yup. Draining the ecologically important swamp that helps mitigate both droughts and floods in the surrounding area so they can make a new member's-only golf course. Tale as old as time. Wait. Did people think 'drain the swamp' meant something else?
Assuming the image of the pledge screen is accurate, it appears to only be the first name and either city or county of residence. Still not great, but probably not enough to positively identify a "winner" of this effort by Elon. Fortunately, I don't see real harm coming to the lucky few chosen as a result of this, at least not from a wholly unrelated source.
@@LucasDePaola Lucrative target? He's supposed to pay tax on this. Right? If he does not, it's tax evasion. The IRS has a purpose: Apply the rules so it's hard to cheat. You got a problem with that?
@@andrezcabara2774 I'll remove my comment since you've turned it into something much more serious than it really is. For reference, it was a light hearted joke at who would really be looking at the winner (Uncle Sam)
It could be argued that the US$1M 'prizes' are proceeds of crime, and those who give away or receive such proceeds are at risk of having all of their assets seized until the affected parties can demonstrate at their own cost that all other assets were legitimately obtained
I live in Georgia... Can I get the million dollar "not a bribe" for registering and still vote for the candidate who isn't a traitor to the United States Constitution?
It is blatantly illegal. The law is quite clear on offering financial incentives to vote a specific way. The definition of what a bribe is makes it quite clear.
As I've said multiple times already. None of you had complaints about Mark Zuckerberg doing the same thing in 2020. But I guess it's somehow different if he was supporting democrats huh? 😊
Like january 6th was not done by a well regulated militia... Reading skill is not very good at the SUPREME court... Maybe it is because of Critical Race Theory... LOL
It's 100% illegal in all EU countries. This would be shut down immediately. The US is more of a corporate aristocracy than a democracy, though. The democracy isn't quite as bad of a facade as it is in Russia or North Korea, but it's still more or less a facade in the 19th century style - so, Karl Marx's criticisms of government don't hold as much water any more... except in the US, it's still completely valid.
Please, don't encourage the right to accuse anyone as being "Marxist". We Americans still aren't ready to have an adult conversation about the history of political thought. Let's just say it's anti-democractic, and otherwise stick to words that an average Republican can understand without being triggered.
What about the simple unethical concept of doing a lottery for signing a petition?? I mean, how many people would sign the petition not caring about the cause but just because they want the money?? That in itself is unethical and the total count of signature should be invalid anyway
It is not a lottery. LegalEagle did not inform the viewers that, for it to be a lottery, the entrant must give up something of valuable worth to both parties. I strongly suggest you look further into this stuff and draw your own conclusions instead of listening to people who only claim to be professionals.
@doi5451 Tell me that you didn't watch the video without telling me that you didn't watch the video. He said exactly that and argued that the thing of value is the voter's information and signature on the petition. If you think your information isn't valuable, remember that Facebook and Google make billions selling your information.
Yes, Musk can have an opinion but he can't do this. He shouldn't be able to do this. He has an enormous platform, insane wealth and troubling influence over the American Government that includes the military. He takes on American Government contracts - Yes, he can have an opinion since he is technically a person but he is not your everyday person. His influence is a wide net. The fact that he feels he should be allowed to do this, and it's not conflicting just shows his entitled his-way-or-the-high-way, lack of self-awareness selfish personality. All of this is disgusting and I hope America can fix it at some point.
I didn't hear you guys screeching in 2020 when Mark Zuckerberg did literally the same thing but for the Democrats. Either call out both or stop wasting your breath.
@@englishpolishmememan8892did he though? He financed with millions, but that's not the question here (even imo should also be illegal). He did not organise a fake lottery trying to buy voters from swing states, which is illegal and it's what Musk did. Now, your comment is bad and you should feel bad.
The saddest aspect of Musk potentially spending 5 years in prison, is that his companies will do better without him making decisions for them. So if he does get locked up, it's just going to make him richer.
LMFAO, that's not how America's system works, votes or irrelevant, Elon just needs to push the needle in a few cities in Swing States. These people are fickle and easily swayed by the promise of paradise and FSD one day.
You pretend like this will have more of an influence than your average piece of popular media. I wouldn't listen to everything you hear on the internet
