Elon Musk was roundly mocked on social media after attempting to spin his defeat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race into a win for voters’ rights.

That was already the law in Wisconsin, and Question 1 just protected it in the state’s Constitution. However, Musk had long focused on the state’s Supreme Court race and talked little about Question 1. He often posted on social media about the dangers or electing a liberal judge and poured $25 million into the state to support the conservative candidate.
However, Musk’s pick lost to the liberal candidate.

That led to Musk’s post on X downplaying the loss - and the round of mocking that followed.

The DOGE leader had also traveled to Wisconsin two days before the race to personally hand voters $1 million checks after giving a speech in which he wore a cheesehead hat.

“The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary,” the Tesla billionaire posted on X on Tuesday night.

Wednesday’s win by Democratic candidate Susan Crawford, over Brad Schimel, cemented a liberal majority for the next three years. In her acceptance speech, Crawford made reference to Musk and his campaign.

“I never could have imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin… and we won,” she said.

Crawford’s win keeps the court under a 4-3 liberal majority in the face of crucial litigation surrounding abortion access, voting rights and redistricting.

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    “The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary,” the Tesla billionaire posted on X on Tuesday night.

    Whoooo boy that’s some projection.

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    How do I get my $1 million check?

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    what we who are not US citizens cannot understand, is the talking about liberal or republican colour of professional judges, who are supposed to judge being somehold blindfolded, as to case unrelevant factors. Also that this winning judge seem to have accepted that money is one of those outer factors that is always to be accepted. The “country of freedom” seems more like a russian state model.

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      He’s a narcissistic idiot and a baby enemy of the United States. He deserves to be mocked mercilessly tactically engaged by our military the same way they do to the leaders of our other enemies like ISIS or Al Quaeda.

      Whether or not he’s truly an idiot, he should be treated as though the damage he’s doing is 100% intentional. He isn’t trying to cut government waste and failing at it, he’s destabilizing our country and the rest of the planet.

      He is a hostile enemy combatant.

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    Exploding Cybertrucks, exploding SpaceX rockets, self-driving Teslas falling for the Wile E. Coyote trick, now Wisconsin.

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    “The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary,” the Tesla billionaire posted on X on Tuesday night.

    There’s so much irony flowing off of that, you can watch the sea level rise in real time.

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    Props to musk. He’s doing what the rest of the oligarchs are doing. He’s just making it plainly obvious.

    Hopefully people then start to wake up to who their enemies truly are.

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      Hopefully people then start to wake up to who their enemies truly are.

      Themselves. The ruling class has nothing without useful idiots at their beck and call.

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    the long con, would be jailing every GOP, and trump for participating in the current coup, plus the billionaires.

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      yeah this was a massive and very public failure, complete with his ridiculous jump, giant checks and stupid face in a cheese hat. mango mussolini won’t like that.

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    If it were the dems doing that, the MAGA cunts would be screaming and yelling. But because grand daddy Elon did it, he gets a pass from the MAGA cunts.

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    personally hand voters $1 million checks after giving a speech in which he wore a cheesehead hat.

    But those who received the cheques were Republican contacts right?