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.”

  • @mipadaitu
    link
    English
    632 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      582 months ago

      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.”

      • @grue
        link
        English
        312 months ago

        Yet another way the education system has failed that Trump voter: it’s not “slander” if it’s true.

        • @fluxion
          link
          English
          162 months ago

          He’s probably so used to Trump calling facts slander

          • @mycodesucks
            link
            1
            edit-2
            2 months ago

            The education system most likely didn’t fail Trump voters as much as these are the stupid a**holes in your school who thought they knew better than everyone else and they didn’t need to internalize anything. The school systems did fail US by letting them graduate though.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          52 months ago

          Yet another way the education system has failed that Trump voter: In print, it’s libel.

    • Rhaedas
      link
      fedilink
      92 months ago

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