Musk said Wisconsin would decide the fate of Western civilization.
Photo: Billionaire Elon Musk spent the last several weeks urgently campaigning on Brad Schimel’s behalf, including a closing weekend appearance in the state, saying that he needed to win to retake the majority on the court. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Republicans lost decisively in Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Elon Musk is still saying everything is going according to plan.
Musk catapulted the state Supreme Court election into national view, vocally backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel — who also clinched President Donald Trump’s endorsement — and pouring millions into the efforts to get him elected. The Wisconsin election, Musk claimed, would decide the trajectory of not only the whole country, but perhaps all of “Western civilization” and “the future of the world,” as he said in a Spaces conversation on X hours before polls closed Tuesday.
But despite Musk’s effort to land Schimel a win, Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford overwhelmingly won Tuesday night’s election , securing the court’s liberal majority.
After warning of the dire stakes for the election, Musk changed his tune in the hours following the crushing defeat, seemingly indicating that the loss was all part of a bigger plan.
“I expected to lose, but there is value to losing a piece for a positional gain,” Musk replied to an X user early Wednesday morning.The tech entrepreneur, whose electric car company Tesla filed a lawsuit in the state earlier this year, had made Schimel’s campaign a personal project. Musk spent the last several weeks urgently campaigning on Schimel’s behalf, including a closing weekend appearance in the state , making the case that he needed to win to retake the majority on the court. (While technically a nonpartisan election, Schimel, a former state attorney general, was backed by Republicans and Crawford by Democrats.)
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Musk catapulted the state Supreme Court election into national view, vocally backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel — who also clinched President Donald Trump’s endorsement — and pouring millions into the efforts to get him elected.
The Wisconsin election, Musk claimed, would decide the trajectory of not only the whole country, but perhaps all of “Western civilization” and “the future of the world,” as he said in a Spaces conversation on X hours before polls closed Tuesday.
OMG-- The trajectory of all of Western civilization-- as well as "the future of the world" was just decided-- and most people I know didn't have even the slightest idea that happened!
I shake my head at a nation where it's the political bias of a court of law, rather than unbiased blind justice, that decides the future of a nation.
You are not alone.
After warning of the dire stakes for the election, Musk changed his tune in the hours following the crushing defeat, seemingly indicating that the loss was all part of a bigger plan.
Bullshit.
Then why spend so much money if he Knew he was going to lose?
“I expected to lose, but there is value to losing a piece for a positional gain,” Musk replied to an X user early Wednesday morning.
The tech entrepreneur, whose electric car company Tesla filed a lawsuit in the state earlier this year, had made Schimel’s campaign a personal project. Musk spent the last several weeks urgently campaigning on Schimel’s behalf, including a closing weekend appearance in the state
Well, after all, what did he expect-- running against a total schmiel!
Sure, who gives a damn about throwing 20 million bucks down the drain?
he's full of shit. He's saying that because he's embarrassed by the amount of money he spent and he didn't convince enough people to vote his way. It's almost like he's losing his edge
Msk and Trmp both declared this a great victory because another provision passed\
as the community overwhelmingly approved a Photo ID requirement to vote, along with 22 other states.
Which had nothing to do with Msk's interests.
This new court will eventually oversee the unwinding of the current gerrymandered voting district maps.
Somehow with a 50/50 party split in eligible voters the GOP wins 75% of elections.
But Msk really wants to open car dealerships in Wisconsin and he wants the case to go to the WI SC.
If it does, he will probably sue to have Crawford recuse herself, now.
Apparently Teslas haven't been selling well lately . .
The photo ID requirement had already been the law in Wisconsin since 2016. I don't see how this was any victory.
“I expected to lose, but there is value to losing a piece for a positional gain,”
On a 64 squares board game indeed, however life has an infinite number of squares and pieces. What's next Elon, some inane tripe about everyday ends in a 'Y'?
Elon has committed the ultimate sin, he's become boring.