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Pluvious

(4,721 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 05:53 PM 12 hrs ago

Short piece, and absolutely hilarious - TSF & Eloon equals: Total shitshow... Go figure

As typical, Elon thinks he's the brilliant genius that can do anything he sets his mind to

But everything TSF touches turns to shit

What a team



Elon Musk’s $100 Million Plan to Help Trump Has a Hilarious Flaw
Elon Musk’s voter mobilization plan is already a total disaster.


A glitchy door-knocking app means Musk’s America PAC is paying canvassers, with no way to verify that the volunteers are actually getting the word out about Trump.

Uniquely in this campaign, canvassers are paid by the door. This gives people a way to hack the system. With no geolocator, canvassers can operate with little supervision, “speed-running” through their list or just playing hooky. Republicans have struggled with this in the past, with instances of volunteers falsifying data and just hanging out in a casino.

As opposed to Musk’s other functionality failures—like X’s buggy issues and Teslas bursting into flame—this particular Elon fail may actually give Democrats something to smile about. And though it may seem like a niche issue, Musk’s America PAC has essentially hijacked Trump’s door-knocking outreach operations, meaning that issues with the canvassing operation could have real implications on Trump’s outreach in swing states and on Musk’s chances to prove himself worthy to Trump.



https://newrepublic.com/post/187151/elon-musk-voter-plan-help-trump-flaw-disaster
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Short piece, and absolutely hilarious - TSF & Eloon equals: Total shitshow... Go figure (Original Post) Pluvious 12 hrs ago OP
I want in lame54 12 hrs ago #1
No evidence of any GOP ground game here in Nevada. pecosbob 11 hrs ago #2
Another near-miss usonian 11 hrs ago #3
Sound effect... 2naSalit 11 hrs ago #5
Over here in... 2naSalit 11 hrs ago #4

2naSalit

(91,507 posts)
4. Over here in...
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 06:45 PM
11 hrs ago

The small area of trumpy Montana I have seen one R door knocker for Tester's opponent and that's it. Mailers didn't start showing up until a few days ago, Ds have been all over it like the magats were four years ago. I have only seen about three actual -45 signs in the past several months even though he came here earlier.

Tester's opponent wants it bad but he's spending his own cash and Tester has three to one ads on the teevee. Fun fact about Montana teevee, it's a weird system where you have to have an antennae to receive signal and you can't get NBC station affiliates on the free system. That's a good thing because out here the NBC affiliates are all sinclaire network stations. You have to be on a satlleite or cable system to get all the channels. At least the state free system has four or five PBS channels.

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