Chris Hayes: I can't believe this is real! It's like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

[Dennis Donovan]

Chris Hayes
‪@chrislhayes.bsky.social‬
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

‪PatriotTakes 🇺🇸‬ ‪
@patriottakes.bsky.social‬
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In a video posted by Elon Musk’s PAC, a $1M check recipient linked voting to receiving the money:

“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
Video in BlueSky link below

March 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3llonnv7rvc2a

[Celerity]

1. of course she has a Russian first name (Ekaterina) lololol

[GreenWave]

4. I noticed that too. The money probably goes back to him...

[ShazzieB]

18. The name is also Romanian.

The Russian form of Catherine is similar but usually romanized as Ekaterina or Yekaterina (sometimes Yecaterina, depending on who you ask).

(SOURCES:
https://www.behindthename.com/name/ecaterina
https://www.behindthename.com/name/yekaterina
https://nameberry.com/list/16/catherinekatherines-international-variations

Make of all that what you will, but I wouldn't jump to any conclusions based on a Russian-ish first name. For all we know, her parents may have named her after famed Romanian gymnast Ecaterina Szabo.

[GreenWave]

19. We didn't arrive at any hasty conclusions.

2 things: It seems suspicious given who Musk is.
AND They published her name by showing the Big Check.

[ShazzieB]

15. Deleted due to being accidently posted in the wrong place.

[Celerity]

16. I was not jumping to any conclusions. I was just making an ironic observation.

[ShazzieB]

17. I actually meant that as a reply to someone else.

I am going to delete that and repost it in the right place. Sorry for any confusion!

[Gore1FL]

2. The price of 30 silver pieces has really inflated in the last couple of millennia. nt

[Walleye]

3. The major players in right wing politics have become so immoral

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Can’t Even in their imagination, conceive of people who are honest, ethical, and sincere in their attempt to do their duty. They have no idea what that would look like because they have nobody near them like that.

[Cirsium]

5. Yikes

I hope they are not immortal.

[Walleye]

8. Yikes is right. I just caught that. Thank you.

[Norrrm]

6. Soros must be broke now with all that he has supposedly paid out.

Soros must be broke now with all that he has supposedly paid out.

Conservatives will believe any lie, especially if it involves Soros.

This prosperous looking guy claims he has gotten rich from Soros.

And the Congressman 'believes' him.

[Mosby]

9. And yet this lie is being promoted by TYT, who claim to be progressives.

Go figure.

[themaguffin]

7. "My name is Natasha. Elon say he give money. He give me money."

[BattleRow]

12. Me love you long time...

[forgotmylogin]

10. ElonMusk Peron, la santa Elonista...

If democracy survives, none of the repubes' complaints about Democrats are valid ever again since they're doing the things they accuse the left of doing.

[Linda ladeewolf]

11. Elon Musk, the Soros of the right. Only it's okay for them. They get Russian money through the NRA as well.

[Skittles]

20. what kills me is

Musk, who bought an American president and LITERALLY BRIBES repuke voters, is now crying about "funded Tesla protests"

[Linda ladeewolf]

22. He whines about it being funded, but I bet the protesters are doing it for free!

They don’t need to be paid to go after him.

[aeromanKC]

13. I did everything they told me to to do.

Just like Germany circa 1939.

[patphil]

14. My guess is that the "winners" were pre-selected in advance", if they're real people at all.

It's all part of the huge grift that defines the Musk/Trump presidency....all part of the plan to steal a trillion dollars from the Federal Government, and ending our Constitutional Democratic Republic in the process.

[vapor2]

21. Wasn't it the appeals court that said this was legit?