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One thing for sure: The Musk family is all in for Donald Trump — and election lies.

While Elon Musk — carmaker, owner of Twitter/X, government contractor and conspiracy theorist — was hopping around the stage at a rally for Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, his mother was suggesting a way for Trump supporters to cheat in November’s presidential election against Kamala Harris.

Maye Musk, by the way, has 1.1 million followers on Twitter/X, her reach no doubt helped by the owner.

When her son tweeted, “Super important to get all your friends and family to register to vote. Georgia’s registration deadline is Monday!!” Maye Musk offered her own voting strategy.

“The Democrats have given us another option,” she tweeted. “You don’t have to register to vote. On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too.

Actually, that is illegal — and even Twitter/X’s fact-checking labeled it so with an embarrassing community note that explained, “This is, in fact, illegal,” while citing the law. But that wasn’t all: Maye Musk’s tweet drew immediate and brutal mocking on social media...


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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 104 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't her husband hook up with his step daughter or something?

[–] aniki@lemmy.zip 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

And it explains so much.

The whole God damn family is whack

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce

I mean biologically yes but fuck, not like this! >_<' What a sicko.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I too could have gone places if I had, umm, apartheid mining wealth

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That’s why we gotta make this fucker pay his fair share of taxes. Then we can have his.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

“The Democrats have given us another option,” she tweeted. “You don’t have to register to vote. On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too.”

These people are delusional. They really believe that the Democrats have implemented some mass-scale vote cheating program, despite there being no evidence of that and plenty of evidence that the Republicans have been preventing people voting, gerrymandering districts, placing state election officials who refuse to certify anything but a Republican win, loading the courts with biased judges, and (in some cases) voting multiple times. It's another accusation that's a confession.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

My hope is that someday science will isolate the gene that causes this kind of personality, so that we can start putting something in the water to finally cure it.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Would it fuck them up if they do so? Would the recomendation itself be seen as a guide to fuck up elections and therefore a criminal offense?

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Muskjack Eloomer.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Slave whipper says what? Burn in hell, dear.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Everything about Musk is going to cause me to start posting this now:

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

May the Musks receive as much from the world as they have given in kind.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Letme@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love to hear from more politicians parents. For instance, what would Fred Trump have to say about his son leading the American Nazi movement in 2024?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago

He'd love it.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean didn't that family leave south africa the way certain german families left germany for argentina after world war 2?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

Yup, due to running brutal emerald mines... also there was weird incest stuff. The Musk family is just fucked up all around.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago

Hey DOJ take note

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Go back to Mortal Kombat.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Good for Twitter users.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Just more foreign election interference.