JemmyWorkers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
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America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
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This is literally human trafficking. They were transported believing they would have room and board and then coerced to work to get that benefit.
This is awful. At the same time, it's not at all surprising that they had to resort to these sort of tactics in order to get anyone to canvas for them.
LillyPipYeah, we all saw it. It was very public.
I’ll be glad to finally see some sort of comeuppance in a decade or so, maybe.
e: Perhaps he’ll even be fined 0.0000000000000001% of his net worth. That’ll show him.
Honestly, the only shocking part is that people are shocked. It's not like Elon wasn't quite open about the piece of shit he is. I'll never understand why people choose to cherry pick the good stuff people in power say. I mean you don't even have to catch him at a bad time, the guy is a walking wreck, the only success he has is when he hops on a successful ship before he fucking sinks it. So in a way I'm glad he joined Trump, hopefully he can work his magic and bring his shit down too.
shoulderoforionWho woulda thought that Elon's PAC would have such unrealistic quotas akin to N. Korea’s poopie laws. I bet the problem is communism. Vote for Trump so that billionaires like Elon can protect the masses from communism by... distributing his ill-gotten gains indiscriminately. Huh...
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These are the same ones who were spoofing gps and making up responses to meet quotas....
So the only ones making quota are the fakes, and everyone else gets fired for not meeting the standard.
And all of this is a complete waste of money.
The problem here is that it seems some coercive measures were used (e.g. being threatened with unaffordable hotel bills) which probably got at least some workers to canvas for a candidate whom they didn't support. (It also explains why some felt compelled to cheat, though in this instance I wasn't really feeling bad about it either way.)
Ultimately this is what we want though - CItizens United (2010) meant big money was able to get into play. So it's good when that big money for MAGA instead ends up wasted like this - less money for the other side to competently defeat Harris.
Gotta out-grift the grifter somehow I guess
I wonder if anything would have stopped them for campaigning for Harris.
"Hi! Just want to say I got scammed into canvassing for Donald Trump. They didn't tell me I was campaigning for him, or campaigning *at all*, and now I've been flown far from home and threatened to have my hotel taken away if I don't knock doors for Trump. Have a nice day!"
Imagine how hypocritical it would be if the Trump campaign treated its workers with respect
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