{"id":15780,"date":"2026-02-15T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15780"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:56:56","slug":"elon-musk-shares-post-calling-out-democrats-for-all-voting-against-wyoming-grooming-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/elon-musk-shares-post-calling-out-democrats-for-all-voting-against-wyoming-grooming-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Shares Post Calling Out Democrats For All Voting Against Wyoming Grooming Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Of course the Demonrats voted against it in unison, as they deep down want to have sex with children. And really, they want to normalize pedophilia<\/a>, oh my bad, minor attracted persons. Perhaps this is what they have in common with Muslims that like to marry girls with single digit ages<\/a>, like their Satanic prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/10\/elon-musk-comments-on-wyoming-grooming-bill-that-sparked-party-divide\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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A vote on a bill aimed at establishing criminal penalties in Wyoming for the grooming of minors caught the eye of Elon Musk. He shared a post calling out Democrats for voting against the bill. However, 13 Republicans also voted against it.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Jen Kocher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A vote on a bill aimed at establishing criminal penalties in Wyoming for the grooming of minors caught the eye of Elon Musk. He shared a post calling out Democrats for voting against the bill. However, 13 Republicans also voted against it. (Wyoming State Capitol (Cowboy State Daily Staff), Inset: Elon Musk, Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A bill aimed at establishing criminal penalties for the grooming of minors for sexual intent barely cleared the required threshold in the Wyoming House of Representatives Monday on a highly partisan vote, and caught the eye of Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk, arguably the most powerful man in social media with more than 234 million followers on his X platform, shared a tweet highlighting that all House Democrats had voted against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Wow,” Musk wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s lost in the nuance of that viral tweet is that 13 Republicans also voted it down with Democrats saying the offenses outlined in the bill are already considered crimes by state statute and that lawmakers’ time is better spent this session focusing on the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

House Bill 9, \u201cGrooming of Children \u2014 Offenses and Amendments,\u201d barely passed the two-thirds majority vote needed during a budget session 43-19 to refer it to the House Judiciary Committee for discussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HB 9 seeks to define the specific behaviors that constitute grooming of minors for sexual offenses while tailoring the penalties based on ages of both the victim and perpetrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grooming behaviors as written in the bill include electronic communication as well as the deliberate acts purposefully done to persuade a minor to engage in sexual conduct or exploit minors through manipulation, trust building, emotional connection through online or in-person activities, as well as through third parties or indirect methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also defines sexual conduct whether actual or stimulated and the various acts thereof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill also outlines penalties based on age with the strictest penalties reserved for perpetrators 18 or older who abuse minors under 12 who could face no less than 25 years in prison with fines up to $50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill is in addition to House Bill 8, dubbed the \u201cStalking of Minors\u201d bill, that would make stalking a minor a felony. It passed introduction unanimously in the Wyoming House of Representatives Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going Viral<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the former head of the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), on Tuesday shared via X a \u201cLibs of TikTok\u201d post with the roll call of the vote on the Wyoming bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others took shots at Democrats in general with one commenter noting that more Republicans had actually voted against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, did not comment on Musk weighing in on the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, he told Cowboy State Daily in a text that it was his understanding that the crimes described in the bill are already covered by existing laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need to use time in a budget session on bills that are being used as political props instead of solving problems,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Ken Clouston, R-Gillette, also voted against the bill for similar reasons as Yin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that he\u2019d been advised that the HB 8 related to the stalking of minors, when combined with current law, would accomplish the same result as the proposed legislation, which is why he voted to introduce HB8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, too, noted the limited time and constraints of the 21-day budget session but he did signal his support for legislation moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs HB 9 continues to move forward, I do plan to support it as well,\u201d Clouston said in a text. \u201cBoth bills are strong and well-intended; my concern at the time was simply the practical limitation of advancing multiple similar policy bills during a budget session.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said there were several bills that he hasn\u2019t or will not vote on solely due to the \u201ccompressed nature of a budget session,\u201d but which he would otherwise be inclined to support during a general session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, too, did not comment on Musk\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting Ahead Of The Curve<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Allen Thompson, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police that is in support of HB 9, said he sees the proposed legislation as a means to further bridge the gap between stalking behavior and physical violations of a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson said language in the bill helps tighten the definition of what constitutes grooming behavior and sexual offenses while setting specific punishments based on the age of the perpetrator and the child and other measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, he said his group supports any legislation that protects children before they become physical victims of a crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this regard, Thompson sees HB 9 as bridging the gap between stalking and the starting point of the grooming process where abusers move toward actually physically abusing the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd when I say physical abuse that could be done to themselves through manipulation, it’s still physical,\u201d he said. \u201cThat stalking is a kind of intimidation that’s prosecutable, usually as a misdemeanor, sometimes as a felony, but this adds that felony level prosecution when it goes past stalking but doesn’t rise to sexual assault or sexual exploitation of children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed legislation has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee with no meeting date yet scheduled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course the Demonrats voted against it in unison, as they deep down want to have sex with children. And really, they want to normalize pedophilia, oh my bad, minor attracted persons. Perhaps this is what they have in common with Muslims that like to marry girls with single digit ages, like their Satanic prophet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoming"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15782,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions\/15782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}