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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(118,215 posts)
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 06:56 PM Nov 2024

Team Trump Panics as "Hell" Breaks Loose in Elon Musk's Voting Plan

Elon Musk’s America PAC has Republican operatives more than a little concerned about Donald Trump’s ground game.

Nine Republican operatives and canvassers seemed alarmed about issues with the super PAC, which has reportedly collected a plethora of faked canvassing data, NBC News reported
d Friday.

As the PAC’s phony canvassing numbers were revealed, an operative close to the effort told NBC that “all hell has broken loose” inside the America PAC.

The PAC has reportedly received a large quantity of suspicious data from its canvassers, following reports that some had learned how to spoof their location to create the impression that they’d visited voters’ homes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/team-trump-panics-hell-breaks-181619048.html

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Team Trump Panics as "Hell" Breaks Loose in Elon Musk's Voting Plan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2024 OP
No panic on rape or espionage charges? But buying votes is a bridge too far? Brainfodder Nov 2024 #1
hey! mokeyz Nov 2024 #24
Elon didn't care whenTwitter was overwhelmed with fake bot accounts NickB79 Nov 2024 #2
You Laugh!! Damn Straight! lol We have Mark Ruffalo who Cha Nov 2024 #3
That means they will be somewhat blind knowing who to target in the final days. LOL nt Quixote1818 Nov 2024 #4
Musk hired some Trump quality grifters? keithbvadu2 Nov 2024 #5
To be honest, if I wasn't busy helping a couple qualified local candidates, I might consider taking that job just progressoid Nov 2024 #21
Musk could be Trump's brother by another mother Emrys Nov 2024 #6
Musk has provided a priceless gift to Fatfuk: Buns_of_Fire Nov 2024 #7
Musk and tsf will definitely turn on each other. rubbersole Nov 2024 #8
I'm betting on Wednesday morning. Dulcinea Nov 2024 #25
when will Elon learn? 4catsmom Nov 2024 #9
Everything Elon touches turns to crap, too. dchill Nov 2024 #10
To be fair, I wouldnt want to visit MAGA voter'ls either Johonny Nov 2024 #11
Donnie will get a CHARGE out of that news. usonian Nov 2024 #12
Canvassers spoofing their locations Deminpenn Nov 2024 #13
LOL, Karma!! n/t AntiFascist Nov 2024 #14
No worries, they can just get Musk back on stage somewhere ToxMarz Nov 2024 #15
Tee hee hee! Grifters getting grifted! DinahMoeHum Nov 2024 #16
Canvas saboteurs. Who could think it? bucolic_frolic Nov 2024 #17
You think his canvassers are cheating? Where would they get the idea cheating is OK? tclambert Nov 2024 #18
Et tu, Elon? NBachers Nov 2024 #19
The party of liars is shocked that their minions are lying to them. Wednesdays Nov 2024 #20
Party of scammers getting scammed Attilatheblond Nov 2024 #26
Hmm . . . Maybe, just maybe, Ms. Toad Nov 2024 #22
OK, but they have until 5 January to get it together struggle4progress Nov 2024 #23
Little late in the day to start worrying about the ground game peggysue2 Nov 2024 #27
Musk never gets anything right the first 10 times Bluetus Nov 2024 #28
Elon Musk has done a horrible job on a ground game LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2024 #29
This is what happens when you abandon tired and true GOTV methods to a snake oil salesman MistakenLamb Nov 2024 #30

Brainfodder

(7,181 posts)
1. No panic on rape or espionage charges? But buying votes is a bridge too far?
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:02 PM
Nov 2024

Start with pedos before or after all the other crooked politicians/Russian assets get theirs or perhaps concurrently?



NickB79

(19,737 posts)
2. Elon didn't care whenTwitter was overwhelmed with fake bot accounts
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:05 PM
Nov 2024

And now he's extended his acceptance of fake users to the Trump ground game.

Couldn't have happened to a better group of people.

Cha

(306,812 posts)
3. You Laugh!! Damn Straight! lol We have Mark Ruffalo who
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:09 PM
Nov 2024

I just got a Text talking about Progressive PCCC Ground GOTV in MI, PA, AZ, Etc!

progressoid

(50,929 posts)
21. To be honest, if I wasn't busy helping a couple qualified local candidates, I might consider taking that job just
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:37 PM
Nov 2024

to fuck with Musk.

Emrys

(8,117 posts)
6. Musk could be Trump's brother by another mother
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:38 PM
Nov 2024

Musk thought running a social media site was easy and others were just making it look hard, employing too many people, and treating them too well, so as a genius, he'd obviously be able to do much better and build it into a behemoth that people would gladly allow to take over most aspects of their lives. $30-odd billion later and counting ...

Trump, the political genius, squandered most of the GOP's funds on self-serving legal fees, so there was little choice but to hand everything over to Musk to take care of.

Musk thought running a PAC and a GOTV organization was easy, and all he had to do was throw money at it, hire in some cheap labour, treat it like dirt, ramp up the hate machine, and the votes would roll in ... Unmotivated people who're being shafted by their boss tend to cut corners and fake results to meet ridiculous inhuman quotas when threatened with not getting paid, or being stranded penniless far from home. Whocoodanode?

Twitter under Musk has had negative consequences, but it's also contributed to the demise of the right as it got too cocky in its echo chamber and just thought it had to MAGA harder and everyone would be converted or crushed.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,062 posts)
7. Musk has provided a priceless gift to Fatfuk:
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:42 PM
Nov 2024

No, not just the money. TSF now has someone to blame when he gets his mammoth ass handed to him on Tuesday.

Dulcinea

(7,779 posts)
25. I'm betting on Wednesday morning.
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:50 PM
Nov 2024

Or whenever the results are final. Nothing is ever Dolt 45's fault.

ToxMarz

(2,256 posts)
15. No worries, they can just get Musk back on stage somewhere
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 08:48 PM
Nov 2024

jumping around like a 12 year old that just got his first boner, and all the bro voters will leap into action to save the election for Trump.

tclambert

(11,150 posts)
18. You think his canvassers are cheating? Where would they get the idea cheating is OK?
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:09 PM
Nov 2024

Somebody must have set a bad role model for them.

Attilatheblond

(5,035 posts)
26. Party of scammers getting scammed
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:50 PM
Nov 2024

Gotta love it.

No volunteers on the MAGA side? Only mercenaries? ROFL

Ms. Toad

(35,851 posts)
22. Hmm . . . Maybe, just maybe,
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:41 PM
Nov 2024

people who are passionate about what they are doing do a better job canvasing, phone banking, gathering signatures for ballot issues, etc. than people who are paid per door knock/signature/call.

(I seem to recall problems with signatures gathered by paid canvassers, resulting in ballot issues being rejected because of too many fake signatures.)

peggysue2

(11,566 posts)
27. Little late in the day to start worrying about the ground game
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 10:01 PM
Nov 2024

Republicans should have started worrying once the announcement was made Musk was taking over, a man with absolutely no experience in running any campaign function, let alone an effective ground game. You don't start 30 days before Election Day to successfully pull something like this off.

Billionaire incompetence! Will go down in history as the worst campaign, ever.



Bluetus

(523 posts)
28. Musk never gets anything right the first 10 times
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 10:47 PM
Nov 2024

He is a world-class con man, so he has been able to raise enough money to cover the fact that all of his products come in 5-10 years late and the first 5 releases are crap. That's who he is and how he rolls. So nobody should be surprised that his first foray into retail politics is a giant F-up.

MistakenLamb

(790 posts)
30. This is what happens when you abandon tired and true GOTV methods to a snake oil salesman
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 06:03 AM
Nov 2024

Made his daughter in law in charge of the RNC and gave over turnout to a pathetic little nerd who knows nothing about voter turnout and overspent billions on Twitter

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