Whataboutisms are not a valid defense against the original accusation or claim. Of course one can append a counter-accusation of hypocrisy, but that says nothing about whether the primary subject was justified or not.
Accusations of hypocrisy should be a separate subject. Initiating that claim is not a whataboutism.
Did nobody here read the article?
partially prefilled absentee ballot applications
Not ballots, or fake ballots, or even sample ballots. Applications for absentee ballots. They only got a letter of reprimand because seriously, who gives a shit that that they were sending out applications (again: not ballots!)
Because there isn’t one. The PAC wasn’t sending out ballots, real or fake - it was sending absentee ballot applications that were partially refilled with the applicants’ information. Presumably their name and address at least, since how else could they mail it.
No wonder they only got a letter of reprimand. This is truly making a mountain out of a molehill.
Fuck them and fuck Musk, but the outrage for this is ridiculous.
“But he’s got … ham.”