MAGA Musk: Black Recruits Claim They Were Duped…
What does it say about Donald Trump when his billionaire bosom buddy, Elon Musk, has to trick people, largely Black people, into canvassing for the Trump marketing campaign?
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According to The Guardian, Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort for Trump has come below fire after paid canvases reported that they really didn’t know who they have been canvassing for till they have been already on the job, and that they have been principally transported paddy wagon-style in circumstances that have been unsafe and demeaning.
From the Guardian:
Workers recruited by Musk’s America Pac to canvass within the battleground state of Michigan solely found they have been working for the Space X and Tesla entrepreneur to drum up voter turnout for Trump after signing non-disclosure agreements, Wired reported.
“I knew nothing of the job, or much of the job description, other than going door to door and asking the voters who are they voting for,” a canvasser who was flown to Michigan from one other state informed the web site. “Then, after I signed over an NDA, is when I found out we are for Republicans and with Trump.”
The canvassers additionally stated they confronted threats to their working circumstances in the event that they failed to satisfy stringent door-knocking targets.
The disclosure comes after the Guardian revealed severe query marks about Musk’s voter turnout effort in Nevada and Arizona amid experiences that up to 25% of reported door knocks within the state could possibly be fraudulent.
Not solely have been canvassers apparently unaware that they have been stumping for Trump, however one recruit stated he didn’t know Musk was concerned in till they “overheard my supervisor and a few others mention Elon Musk” by identify. It’s virtually as if Apartheid Vader understands that people, particularly Black people, don’t like him or his rust-orange-tinted Klan-ish comrade.
Canvassers recruited for Musk’s political Blaxploitation ring additionally reported being informed to knock on 1,000 doorways a week and to attain a 17-22% engagement fee, and in the event that they didn’t meet that quota, they’d finish up paying for his or her own lodging, together with journey round Michigan, motel rooms and their flights home.
“What’s gonna happen is, they’re gonna stop paying for these [motel] rooms, and then you’re gonna end up having to pay for it yourself,” a supervisor is heard telling recruits in a recording obtained by Wired. “You can’t do that with no money.”
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The Guardian famous that none of the recruits featured within the report had legitimate driver’s licenses, which might imply they have been depending on the transportation supplied for them. Those recruits stated they have been promised they’d have rental vehicles to trip round Michigan neighborhoods with, however, as a substitute, they have been pushed round within the back of U-Haul vans with no seat belts and have been dropped off 40 minutes aside from one another so they might go knocking on the doorways of strangers in communities they have been unfamiliar with.
More from the Guardian:
A video purportedly shot from inside a van confirmed largely Black employees separated from the motive force by a cage-like construction. The driver was recorded as telling the employees that he was in ache and having issue driving.
“I just had surgery, bro,” the U-Haul driver informed the canvassers. “Like half of my foot is cut off.”
Bruh — what within the Kunta Kinte?
It seems that Musk’s political motion committee is a step or two shy of tricking Black people into sharecropping. It’s price mentioning that the information of his alleged exploits in Michigan comes shortly after his PAC got here below fire in Pennsylvania, the place a decide has summoned him to seem in courtroom to reply for a lawsuit difficult the legality of his $1m sweepstakes giveaway for registered (Trump) voters who signal his petition on free speech. (Because Phony Stark is all about free speech, as long as you’re not anti-Trump, journalists who make him look silly, or non-profit organizers who reported on how racist Twitter (now X) grew to become below his possession.)
It’s virtually as if Elon Musk’s complete existence in politics is one yuge rip-off, and his fame is so shady that he has to hustle victims into working for him and Trump.
Sad.
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