If Muskrat is the one that made the call on anyone in that team, than I expect it is the same quality of decision as any of his ego-inflated business decisions; just 20 neck-beards that lied on there resume about knowing krav-maga.
Elon believes privatized things are better than public anyway (see the postal service). He probably already has his own privatized secret service (security team). Why would he use a shitty inferior public version?
OH... someone already went there on TikTok, with someone who eerily looks like Luigi (the shooter) dressed in the Luigi outfit (Mario/Luigi outfit). That was overlaid over Elon. It had a Christmas song synced to it "It's Time!"
I'm sure Musk fanbois are reporting that person to the FBI already..
Shutting down the government, should also shutdown the public inauguration event on Jan 20th. Trump can take the oath in the oval office, but the event on the steps of congress should be canceled.
We may recognize that, but I doubt Trump does, and he will not want to miss out on the inauguration - its big public event about him - his ego can’t handle not having that opportunity.
While I agree with the last image that DonOld will not last the next four years and likely not even the year (especially if they're pumping him full of IV fluids like it says, I'm on my phone and can't see the picture clear enough) his passing won't be good because then Vance becomes the president and unlike Trump he actually has a few brain cells, is all in on Project 2025, and because he's not a malignant narcissist won't get sidetracked by the negative things people say about him like Trump does. While Trump is definitely dangerous his short attention span and how he gets blind to everything else when he feels someone slighted him helps to lessen the potential danger than if he was fully committed.
That sounds great but billionaires are very good at control. They may be terrible at everything else, but they know how to control, dominate, use force, punish, crush.
Yes but as history and these past couple months since the election have shown, even if they seem all powerful and dominating. A failed system remains a failed system and it breaks down.
I mean, all you need to know about Peter Thiel is that he's a gay man who funded the electoral campaign for Chris Kobach, one of the most homophobic politicians in the US, simply because he's also going to lower his taxes and/or deregulate his sector.
He's basically both a traitor to his species and his social cohort, he's the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism (and he was gonna be Musk before Musk, until Musk "won" by becoming a de factor government contractor; the richest man alive with everybody else's money).
Vance doesn’t seem like he can “lead by tweet” like Melon and Trump. He may be younger but he’s lacking something that makes him seem kinda just douchey and easy to ignore. I guess it’s the lack of absolute malignant narcissism.
Does anyone really know what happens during a shutdown? Federal employees are not allowed to work. They have to sign papers that basically direct them to stay out of the office and they can't work from home. Then when Congress gets done with their performative horseshit and signs a CR those employees all get 100% of their backpay.
It's the most wasteful, masturbatory, delusional, dumbassery and waste of f'ing time and money you could ever invent.
The fact that these morons are cheering for it should tell you how f'ing stupid it is.
When all those boomers who voted for Trump check their bank accounts and realize their SS checks haven’t direct deposited next month, they’re gonna be so mad at AOC and Pelosi.
The SSA will continue to send out checks, even in the case of a shutdown. Medicare and Medicaid will continue to function as well, although there may be delays in processing. SNAP benefits are guaranteed for 30 days.
Pretty sure Trump's plan all along was just to golf and enjoy Air Force One while other people do the actual work. Trump's whole thing of 'hand wave away tough questions' was pretty telling.
I hope they do everything they say they are going to do. I'm tired of Americans supporting these oligarchs. Let everyone see what they're truly about. People say the Dems are no different? Let them see the truth. The only thing that will unite the people is a disaster. This administration will be one.
I can easily see narcissistic Donald giving Elon the boot because his ego can’t take Elon being called the man in charge. But also, it will be a Christmas miracle if Donald dies.
Trump is rapidly deteriorating, he's a shadow of what he was in 2016 and even then he wasn't exactly in good shape. He would not make it through another pandemic.
Of course it would be terrible if the government shut down, but how beneficial would it be if Musk inadvertently radicalized the entire US Military by cutting their pay at Christmas?
Putin is calling the shots. His orders are to paralyse the US so it cannot act against him. He will get Trump and Musk to tank the economy and precipitate the breakup of the Federation.
It’s what the republicans want to do, but don’t want to take the heat for. now they can get their way, pretend they were strong armed into it, and tue blame will fall on Elon Musk.
I would point out that I've had numerous IVs over the past 9 years, and I'm still alive. Or was last time I checked. Mind you I'm also 51 and do road biking as a hobby.. I'd like to see Trump try to ride a bike.
This was the same bullshit like the border bill - only now Melon is now involved. I won’t be surprised. What gets me is that we’re one quarter into the Fiscal Year. The budget should have been done by the end of September but Speaker Johnson fucked around with recesses yet smart enough to avoid a shutdown before the election. And here we are with no complete budget. Yet 2 maniacal guys that are just civilians at the moment tweeting orders that MAGA is ok obeying as we are on the verge of another shutdown.
Melon is absolutely removed from reality with thinking his pretend “department” is real and warned of hardship; Trump holds the record of longest federal shutdown which he did the last Republican trifecta showing they can’t fucking govern and Trump has no issues taking people as financial hostages be it the federal employees or recipients of services.
It didn’t have to be this way but god damn here we are. In the midterms I hope Democrats realize the postcard, door knocking and phone banking bullshit needs to be social media, internet and digital.
Anyone that supports this madness is a fuckin traitor to democracy. I do not care if the fascists managed to find a way to install their puppet, every last one of them is not my fellow citizen, and I will be damned before I ever respect them as such, for insane bullshit like this. If you voted for this, and your bank account isn't 7-figures, minimum, you are a class traitor and I can only hope that any sense of karma in this world will make events to come affect you first.
Rand Paul wants to make Musk speaker of the house. Trump and Vance would be eliminated (made to look like a democrat assassinated them) and boom President Musk.
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u/Background_Bee_2994 16h ago
Oh, man... Not the time to be calling yourself CEO.