What Skipping Dipshit Elon Musk Is Doing Has to Be Illegal, Right?

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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OA1080 - As a weary nation watches the world's richest man try to buy a federal election in plain sight, we stop to consider the question which has so long plagued Elon Musk: There's gotta be a crime here, right? Somewhere?

There has been plenty of debate this week about the legality of Musk’s $1 million daily lottery for registered US voters in swing states, but there is something far more insidious going on in this story beyond the headlines. Matt explains how the Federal Elections Commission has recently taken the Supreme Court’s perfectly good joke way too far before we consider what the rapidly evolving rules around super PACs could mean for the future of fair elections in the United States.

Finally, we drop a seasonal footnote to discuss how some Massachusetts 8th graders recently helped to close out a 332-year-old criminal case.

“Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general” ABC News (10/22/2024)
“Elon Musk’s Big Business and Conflicts of Interest With the U.S. Government” The New York Times (10/20/2024)
“A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed,” Shane Goldmacher The New York Times (6/10/2024)
The Illusion of Independence: How Unregulated Coordination is Undermining Our Democracy, and What Can Be Done to Stop It, The Campaign Legal Center (11/30/2023)
FEC Advisory Opinion 2024-01 (3/20/2024)
FEC Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub’s dissent from Advisory Opinion 2024-07 (addressing Lindsay Graham campaign’s question re: super PAC campaign fundraising coordination)

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0:00.0	So just a yes or no you still do not have a plan? I have concepts of a plan. That is a damning non-answer. I'm not trying to...
0:15.0	That is a damning non-answer.
0:20.0	I'm not trying to make it about myself, your honor.
0:27.1	I'm just trying to show his bias toward the defendant.
0:30.5	Just don't make it about yourself. Something simple as a crack pipe, a use crack pipe.
0:37.0	The rules were that you got to
0:40.0	going to fact check. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:47.0	This is episode 1080.
0:48.0	Oh, that was one of my favorite video games as a kid.
0:51.0	1080.
0:52.0	I'm doing six snowboarding tricks down a hill with someone who probably
0:57.3	doesn't get what I'm talking about. Matt Cameron, real life lawyer, how you doing?
1:01.3	All right, all right. Although I am a little
1:03.3	concerned that we might be both going to prison sometime the next year. Yeah, well, you
1:07.6	only live once, so. Let's do it. Would we do anything differently knowing
1:11.9	we're gonna go to prison in the next year now?
1:13.7	So let's just keep doing it. Crimes have already been committed, but I don't know if you saw this, but just leaked the possible
1:19.8	top jobs and the new Trump administration. And I did. To particular surprise, well, well okay no surprises obviously we all knew that
1:26.0	alien cannon was going to be rewarded we knew that but it's still shocking to see it
1:29.4	on paper that she's being second on the list she's being floated for Attorney General of the United States.
1:34.3	Well, it's also, and we'll get into it after the break,
1:36.3	but my question is, why announce, did they need to do that?
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