The election was over a month ago, and somehow, we continue to learn new, horrifying information. On Thursday, newly revealed Federal Election Commission filings showed that Elon Musk — notorious for his creepy birth rate obsession — was the sole funder behind one of the shadiest pro-Trump PACs this election cycle: RBG PAC. Named after the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal reproductive rights icon, the PAC’s whole purpose was to lie and claim that Donald Trump could be trusted to protect abortion rights — because, the PAC insisted, he and Ginsburg shared the same position on the issue.

The PAC materialized out of thin air just days before Election Day, filing its paperwork on October 16, the deadline for new super PACs to form. It immediately spent $20 million on ads, which featured women gently assuring their fellow women voters that “freedom to choose is important to me, and there’s been a lot of talk on where [Trump] stands. But he’s been clear: He does not support a federal abortion ban. Trump does support reasonable exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. His position is my position.”

RBG PAC’s website declared in large text, “Why did Ruth Bader Ginsburg agree with Donald Trump’s position on abortion? Because RBG believed that the federal government shouldn’t dictate our abortion laws. Donald Trump also does not support a federal ban on abortion. On this issue, great minds think alike.” The Musk-funded PAC’s main message was that Trump and Ginsburg both agreed abortion should be left up to the states, but this, obviously, isn’t true at all. First, because Trump, a serial liar, is not going to leave abortion up to the states. And second, because Ginsburg was clear she regarded abortion as a fundamental right no matter where you lived. She criticized Roe not because she supported abortion being left to the states, but because she feared a court ruling wouldn’t be enough to protect a right to abortion.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    [off topic]

    One of their favorite tactics is to wait until someone is dead and then distort [or flat out lie] about that person’s opinions during life.

    Ray Bradbury was mad that there were no space missions during the Obama years. After he died the Right tried to play off that Bradbury was a life long conservative who saw Obama as a traitor.