• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    Wisconsin state bribery statute. I’m not seeing any wiggle room here. Someone should check this judge’s finances.

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    Trump stated in November that the Hatch Act was not to be enforced. This also means we can be harassed, threatened, cajoled, bribed, or just about anything, really, while standing in line to vote in 2028. If it even happens. It may. It may just count on the shenanigans happening in blue areas.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    They need to just show up and arrest him as soon as he hands over the giant check. The promise alone was a crime, but actually handing out the money makes it that much more of an open and shut case. Even if he claims that this isn’t a prize but hiring someone to be a spokesperson (as he did last time), that’s still just as illegal under Wisconsin law.

    He’s still the world’s richest man and there’s no telling what first lady Donald might do to try to get his fascist piggy bank out of jail, but it’s better than just sitting back and letting them buy votes.

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    Don’t think (stay)

    Drink your wine (home)

    Watch the fire burn (be)

    His problem’s not mine (safe)

    Just be that model citizen

    I wish I had a schilling

    for every senseless killing I’d buy a government

    America’s for sale

    And you can get a good deal on it

    And make a healthy profit

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      The whole of War on Errorism may have been correct but I think it was a tad too optimistic with the line “a million people are smart, smarter than one,” because, obviously, they aren’t.

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    It’s two 1 million dollar payment each going to random audience members right? At an event you’re only supposed to attend if you voted for the supreme Court there? Is that correct?

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      He changed it. He said that at first and then changed it to only people that signed some petition against judges that told trump he couldn’t do something. My guess is a lawyer looked at it and told him it was blatantly illegal.