The problem is that Republicans are being told that there is proof. That the fraud is rampant and everyone knows it. It's just that "they" keep removing and hiding the information.
My mom seriously believes that there is mountains of proof and that she has seen it in the past, but can't find it anymore because it has been deleted from the internet.
You're probably right there. Looking up the onky quoted I've been able to find from Musk on the topic, I think he's been careful not to incriminate himself directly. Either that or he's been lucky in his phrasing...
That said, your point isn't wrong. $10,000 is nothing in this context. Criminal fines should be in direct proportion to a person's income. Also, statutes, when they mention monetary value, should peg that value to invlation, income, or some other metric that scales with time. We have SOOOOO many laws on the books that use ridiculous numbers by modern standards but were reasonable at the time they were enacted.
It's so dumb that you're getting downvoted for telling people the truth that they don't want to hear. Of course you can't just "prosecute the board". Individually, they may or may not be complicit.
It does seem that Musk could be seen as obviously complicit, though, since he is the one out there making the pitch. DOJ should be able to go after him, criminally, if the activity continues, right?
I don't hope anyone met trajedy. If someone's MAGA parents did, I hope they posted enough on social media to show that they made their decisions because of Trump's statements. I hope there is enough there to charge Trump with something like negligent homicide.
Trump's language during his speech in the video is so cowardly. "Some people are saying that they aren't helping these areas because they are republican." Hey, asshole, who is "some people"? If Trump weren't a coward he would say "I think that" instead of "Some people are saying that". He's too much of a coward to own his own rhetoric, though.
I don't really think of Thanksgiving in its original context at this point. I think of it as a day for family and togetherness. I wish we could just rebrand it as that and drop all of the fake, sappy stories about pilgrims and native americans getting along.
I'm going to old all over the place. When I was a teen in the late 90s I worked at a grocery store. We were open 24/7 except three times per year. We closed at noon on Thanksgiving (reopened at 5am the next day), noon on Christmas Eve through Christmas Day, and noon on New Years Eve. We always had assholes come in to try to "get one thing that I forgot" but turned them away because they'd inevitably try to load up a full cart. We were given strict instructions to turn everyone away starring at noon sharp.
Now, grocery stores just stay open. Like, really, you can't close even a couple of times per year to let people be with their families?
Thank you. I'm glad to see someone else saying this. RawStory should be banned. They are as much disinformation as anything on the right. They take things out of context, twist the wording, and sometimes blatantly lie just to create rage bait. The biggest things they achieve making the left look as bad as the right and giving Trump legitimate ammunition to use when he says the media are out to get him.
I carry around PowerPoint presentations that contain huge loops of satellite data. I love my 1TB USB stick.