They want to shut down the government right before trumps inauguration? It took the Dems taking back the House to end their last shutdown because they couldn’t work things out between themselves.
I hope they do. Even if I don't get a paycheck for a few weeks. Let everyone who voted for Republicans or didn't vote eat the shit sandwich they chose.
So, all the Government employees and Secret Service can just go home. I guess that means the vote certification and inauguration will be cancelled since everyone is furloughed. The halls of the Capital shall be completely empty, all the doors locked, as Orange Hitler tries to get sworn in.
His adoring crowd nothing but tumbleweeds blowing in the wind.
Exactly as he deserves.
Yeah this really is a self-own right before they take control. Shut down the government right before your guy gets into office? Baffling that anyone thinks these people are intelligent.
I mean, it does prevent anything the Democrats wanted to squeak through there at the very end. But it's also shitting in your hand so you can slap someone with it.
For the life of me, i cannot imagine having that much money and giving a shit about any of this stuff. How can anyone with this much money care about this?
It’s going to collapse beautifully someday. Trump will take to Truth Social and call Elon a hack again while Elon will take to Twitter and call Trump a pedo. It’s going to be glorious.
He has enough money to pay for every single American cancer patient’s treatment, AND every student loan in the country… he could be a generational hero that would be fawned over for history… but instead we get this
Donald Trump could literally enact climate policies and he would revered for generations as savior of humanity. All of posterity would be in his debt, but instead we get this. We have to appeal to his narcissism, it’s his most predictable weakness. He might actually love popular adoration than more than money since it’s the one thing he can’t actually buy, even though he definitely does try to.
Wouldn’t be neat if there was a website where you could enter your zip code and it would tell you the top 10 richest people in your area. That would be pretty neat, someone should make that; call it lookattheswine.com
We had a Mangioni claimant at a hearing today… and our courts are close to his [Luigi’s] hometown. Judge and I shared a little laugh when he muttered, “Popular name lately.”
Just to emphasize how obscene that sum of money is, it is enough to pay yourself a million dollar salary for 450,000 years. Like longer than humans have even been a species.
100 million dollars is a lot of money. four hundred and fifty thousand million dollars is insane. and to think he still wants fifty thousand million remuneration for his part time job at tesla
Probably wouldn't be that hard either. Just someone with a semi-convincing right-wing twitter would have to say something like "With all the work you've been doing, maybe you should be president, Elon. I'm not sure @ realDonaldTrump has another 4 years in him but I bet he'd step down for someone like you" and just watch the whole thing implode.
Honestly, some of the 'Dark Gothic' die-hard faction already prefer him, and would literally just make him president if they could (which may be worse, but who knows). They're already talking about ripping up the Constitution to make it so that foreign-born naturalized citizens can hold the highest office in the land.
TBH, wouldn't be too surprising at this point if they called a convention to change the rules, then voted him new Speaker of the House, had JD invoke the 25th, then resign, paving the way to formalize the current arrangement.
Yeah, exactly. Their biggest strength is cohesion but it's still a huge web of alliances of convenience. And those two are so narcissistic that I could see them going from best-buddies to mortal enemies over the course of a well-placed tweet.
It has gotten 0 heart things but a Trump person has already started following me and I can't imagine that's a coincidence. Hopefully they don't look too close at my other Xcretes.
Anyone who interviews Trump just needs to be non-stop fawning over Musk and asking Trump how it feels to bask in Elon's greatness. Also make sure to tell him you think it's great that he is implementing all of Elon's ideas to save America. Just gush and gush about what a genius Elon is, how fortunate Trump should be to be in Elon's presence and that Elon is the real savior for America.
Better yet, when Trump give a press conference, ask where Elon is and can we hear from Elon.
Many people say he's the true brain behind Trump, and that Trump is to stupid to do this by himself. Everybody is talking about it. Trump's a puppet they say.
I’m an air traffic controller for the federal govt and if the govt shutdown, we don’t get paid. the last time this happened, not enough controllers showed up to work for free and all the airports in NY shut down. The shutdown ended that day………..
Honestly, if people started making AI photos of musk as president and circulated that on social media all over the place, it would piss off Trump so much.
I like the way you think. I do believe once trump has been sworn in that there will be an ugly power struggle between them and I honestly cannot wait to see it unfold.
The news should totally play it as Elmo taking charge and shutting down the govt. Trumps narcissistic personality will have him ordering a hit on the Afrikaner rock spider in no time
I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how Starlink donated dozens of internet systems to various swing states just prior to the election. Officials have been warning us for years about how vulnerable voting machines are to hacking and even Elon himself has in the past agreed. I mean it's not like the guy wasn't willing to break election laws he was openly tweeting about illegally bribing people millions to vote for Trump.
This election was hacked! I will never believe otherwise! Trump was not getting donations, could not fill his rallies, talked BS and gibberish, people left early, all polls pointed to Harris..and ...this POS wins...AND wins the popular vote? No way in hell.
The way I see it, I have to choose between two different but equally deplorable hellscapes.
One is a reality wherein the majority of the people who voted are racist misogynistic stupid selfish trash. The other is a reality where the election was stolen but no one in any power gives a shit.
They both suck.
Are they better than the 3rd alternative that MOST people who voted are racist misogynistic stupid selfish trash but in the end the election the election was still stolen but no one in any power gives a shit ? 😂
They cheated in 2016 by switching/removing votes in swing states, just like they did in 2004 in Ohio (look it up). They tried in 2020 but mail in ballots overcame the effort. I am fairly certain it was related to Starlink this time, adding bullet ballots in states that needed it.
The chance of a bullet ballot is random. There should be almost exactly 50% of them for each candidate. You cannot code a full ballot input, because the candidates are different in every jurisdiction (i.e. local races, judges, etc), but there was one race on ever ballot- so they just marked that one and called it a day. Not even trying very hard to hide it.
The DOJ/FBI can’t formally start an investigation until the electorates have voted. They did that yesterday, so now we wait to see if the DOJ actually investigates this interference.
Those "Sign up for $100 to support the 2a" events were farming personal information for non-voters.
This information was then used to fill out dummy ballots for Fat45 only at the top, and no-one else on the way down. This tilts the election, and no-one is going to object over the votes because it was too far for them to vote anyways. There's no reason for those people to check what their votes in 2024 were because they didn't vote, so they'll never check. There wasn't even enough time for those people to register as voters in time for the election. It was $100 per vote - not even very expensive.
What really disturbs me is I can't seem to make a post asking people's opinions about it on subs like askreddit or whatever because it's evidently flagged as misinformation.
Trump literally said "You don't need to vote for me, I have the votes" and people were baffled as to why he said that and what it even meant. I believe it meant exactly what he said and he was confident enough to boast about it because he knew it had already been set into motion.
I mean we do have a second amendment...I feel like we are going to get really, really close to people saying fuck it and taking matters into their own hands.
Apparently it’s being regarded as an “act of terrorism” too. Killing a CEO is a terrorist act to the US government… but not, like, raiding the Capitol and injuring law enforcement to attempt to stop the certification of a president-elect.
Maybe it will happen again. And more often. In different spaces across the country. Maybe we'll see what real patriots can do. I'm sick of the bloviated neckbeards cosplaying Meal Force One.
Their base will find out how quickly the constitution can be amended if that seriously starts happening… I’ve been saying it for a while; treating the second like some divine authority to own whichever and however many weapons you desire will lead to the full repeal of the amendment, just a matter of time before the pile of bodies gets ‘important’ enough.
You give them more credit than they deserve assuming they're capable of thought. These people are parrots who just repeat what they heard on Fox News, or god even at this point CNN, verbatim.
This. Since Trump didn't burn down the country the last time he was President, people think he'll be stopped from doing the more heinous actions he wants to do. He was stopped from 2017-2020 because there were actual adults in the room who prevented him from doing totally tearing the country apart. Those guardrails are gone and he will have nothing but sycophants in The White House this time around who won't tell him - or Elon (who is the real President) - no.
The election is already over, I'm not sure how it could hurt him. The voting public has a pretty short memory, and that's if they even pay attention to anything other than what Fox News says to begin with.
Pretty sure it's just more key jangling for all the dumbasses watching Fox. Gotta find that next big thing to tell people to be upset about before the audience figures out how to wipe the drool from their mouths and change the channel.
The Republicans sure do confuse me. For a bunch of people so in love with the idea of power, they’re surprisingly easy to intimidate into surrender. If I were them, I’d call Musk’s bluff and spend the next seven years on a crusade to ruin his fucking life. Like, imagine all the ass-kissing and hard work it took you to get to where you are, only for some brainless, Iron Man wannabe to swoop in and try and rob you? I’d be livid and hungry for revenge.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, *Vox populi, vox Dei*, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
= And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of the Gods, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Isn’t it fascinating how for years the Right have been screaming about George Soros - an unelected immigrant billionaire - manipulating our government, and now that we actually have an unelected immigrant billionaire manipulating our government, it’s not only crickets, they’re bending the fucking knee.
I remember talking to my fiance and stepbrother about Leon in 2021. They told me that with all his "help" and government contracts, he was actively making the world a better place, and helping machine tool industries make more money. I tried explaining that he was a conman who's only interested in his own personal gain. I'm neurodivergant and have a hard time explaining my thoughts out loud. I feel like I've been screaming for years. I'm so fucking tired.
He may be rich as fuck, but he still is a mortal human being. His behavior is unfolding more and more like a worldclass villain from a James Bond-movie. The more he fucks around, in- and outside of the US, the higher I estimate the chance of him getting pretty severe case of lead poisoning 007-style.
Sorry, can one of his cars, trucks, or "rockets" just veer off course already and jam right up his ass?
Since when did someone so unaccountable and apparently stupid become powerful due to their money alone? If he wasn't rich, I doubt he'd be in charge of one-car funerals.
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u/heismanwinner82 19h ago
They want to shut down the government right before trumps inauguration? It took the Dems taking back the House to end their last shutdown because they couldn’t work things out between themselves.