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In early October, some signatories received hand deliveries of $47 in cash, posing for photo-ops to tout the deal. Most, though, are expecting checks in the mail, and some have grown impatient. One issue, to judge by replies to Musk’s posts on X (formerly Twitter), is that voters have misread the terms of the America PAC offer, and think that just signing the petition will earn them money. “WHERE’S MY $47? I SIGNED ALREADY,” one Donald Trump supporter replied to Musk on Sunday. “I signed up and didn’t get $47,” another X user attempted to inform Musk earlier this month, appending a skull emoji to his message. And even those who apparently understood the referral system have complained of not receiving payments. “I signed up three people but didn’t get the $47,” another person replied to Musk this week, adding, “still glad I did it but wondering if that was a scam.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

I'm absolutely shocked that the guy who skipped out on paying his employees' severance pay, the rent for his facilities and office spaces, and various vendors and other companies is also not paying out the bribe money he offered people... Shocked I tell you... Who could have possibly forseen this?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 57 minutes ago (2 children)

I'm still waiting on my 600 bucks from Biden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

Wait......context?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 33 minutes ago

It's way more than that.

Sadly, once you've dropped $27B on genocide, there's just not a lot left to go around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

wtf the lying grifter con artist man didn't pay me?!

elon wouldn't scam me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

The CyberCuck didn’t become a billionaire by handing out money, you rubes. He will never pay up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

It's just an homage to Trump, who is famous for not paying bills!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The $47 payments are two years away.

  • elmo
[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

Elon innovating corporate finance by scrapping net30 payment terms and switching to net730

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

And he’ll do the same in his next bit lol if he doesn’t actually pay, no laws broken

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I am just shocked. SHOCKED! Well. Not that shocked.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 hours ago

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You can’t scam Elmo out of $47 if he’s already scamming you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

The Epstein island bros never pay their debts. Shout out to Ken Griffin the money propping up these fucking assholes.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully he never pays, and those folks get jaded and stay home instead of voting for trump.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

From the article

A Trump voter in Pennsylvania tells Rolling Stone that he had his girlfriend sign the petition and list him as a referrer. “If it were anyone other than Elon Musk doing this I wouldn’t trust it,” he says. But he is frustrated at receiving no confirmation message or further communication from the Super PAC since then. “Part of me thinks it’s B.S. just to rally up votes,” he admits, in which case he plans to “have a field day slandering [Musk], and Trump might just lose my vote.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yet another way the education system has failed that Trump voter: it's not "slander" if it's true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

He's probably so used to Trump calling facts slander

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

They'll be mad at Elon, not Trump. But one can hope.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 hours ago

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