{"id":46018,"date":"2025-03-28T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=46018"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:29:15","slug":"if-elon-buys-the-judge-the-judge-cant-tell-elon-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2025\/03\/if-elon-buys-the-judge-the-judge-cant-tell-elon-no\/","title":{"rendered":"If Elon Buys the Judge, the Judge Can\u2019t Tell Elon \u201cNo.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Elon Musk at CPAC February 2025. Source: Wikimedia Commons by Gage Skidmore https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/22007612@N05<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Elon Musk appears to think he bought the presidency, and Trump seems to agree with him.<\/p>\n

Musk attends and dominates<\/a> presidential cabinet meetings. The Attorney General<\/a> of the United<\/a> States<\/a> and evidently the entire Department of Justice<\/a> seems to be operating as Elon\u2019s private cops and prosecutor. The Commerce Secretary of the United States of America went on national tv<\/a> and issued an unseemly and probably illegal<\/a> (if laws were enforced against billionaires) pitch for people to buy stock in Elon\u2019s Tesla.<\/p>\n

Our government is looking more and more like government of Elon, for Elon and by Elon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s aiming to buy himself<\/a> a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why would the richest man in the world \u2014 a man who already has our federal government under his thumb \u2014 want to buy a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the best way to answer that is with a cliche. Here it is: If you have the courts, you can do anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

I heard people saying that cliche a lot after the Supreme Court granted America\u2019s presidents the power of kings in the immunity decision they gave Donald Trump last summer. While courts alone may not enable a billionaire to do anything, <\/i>honest courts can force power mad billionaires to hear the word \u201cno\u201d once in a while.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Power mad billionaires are not accustomed to hearing \u201cno.\u201d They don\u2019t like it. In fact, they don\u2019t like it so much that they open up their big fat wallets and spend what to the rest of us are enormous sums to \u2026 dare I say it? \u2026 buy Supreme Court seats in states around the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not know Elon Musk. I can\u2019t say what he feels in his heart or what he thinks. But he looks like a power mad billionaire who is stripping the United States of America down to the bone even as I type this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He rakes in billions<\/a> of dollars from our government, but all he talks about cutting are things that help you and me. He wants to destroy Social Security, Medicare, FEMA, vaccines, food banks, Medicaid. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the pork barrel for Elon doesn\u2019t appear to be \u201cwaste\u201d in his eyes. It\u2019s not getting cut. In fact, there are a number of stories about him using the incredible power he wields in our government to line his pockets<\/a> with even more of our taxpayer dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Elon\u2019s dumped a lot of money on the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Right now, he\u2019s running a lottery in which he\u2019ll hold a drawing and give the winner of the drawing a million dollars<\/a>. All people have to do to get into the drawing is sign a petition Elon is circulating.<\/p>\n

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Copyright by Rebecca Hamilton, All Rights Reserved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, everyone who signs that petition will then be targeted with an unending river of propaganda and lies designed to wash their little brains out so thoroughly they would inform on their own grandma if Elon and his right wing buddies wanted them to.<\/p>\n

Getting names and contact information; that\u2019s the purpose of the whole drawing. From Elon\u2019s perspective, a million dollars is cheap money to get his hands on so many people he can target, brain wash and use to advance Elon\u2019s quest for power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Elon\u2019s money, it looks like this little race for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin is going to set campaign finance records<\/a>. I have no idea if he will succeed in buying the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He\u2019s already bought the presidency, so it would be foolish to count Elon and his money out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing I know for sure is that I don\u2019t want to live in the world that Elon is creating. I don\u2019t want to be a serf. I don\u2019t want my grandchildren to live in the poverty, fear and hopelessness of a South American dictatorship where a few ruthless people own everything, including the police, the courts and the Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I often attend mass at a shrine that the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City built to honor Blessed Stanley Rother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Father Stanley Rother was an Oklahoma farm boy who grew up to be a missionary priest in Guatemala. He was murdered by the same kind of government that this regime we have in Washington is trying to create here in America. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe that Elon Musk is trying to buy the Supreme Court in Wisconsin to use that court to strengthen the hold that anti-Christ satanic fascist evil already has on so much of our country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t live in Wisconsin. All I can do is wait and see if evil will triumph.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have the courts, you can do anything. <\/i>That\u2019s a cliche.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like most cliches, it has a lot of truth in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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