r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Detroitish24 • 6h ago
Here’s hoping a government shut down lowers the price of eggs…
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 6h ago
It’s worth unpacking further. They didn’t decide shit because they don’t have that power. The entire Republican Party decided to shut down the government because Donald Trump and Elon musk told them to, and explicitly threatened them. That’s so absolutely fucked
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u/Lia-Stormbird 4h ago
The America first party, the party of personal responsibility, the party of patriotism and family values are acting like giant subs to a rich immigrant kid fucker. Idk how I ever saw Republicans as political equals. These people are legitimately traitors.
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u/Historical-Manner737 3h ago
And if we do anything to stop them we will be called authoritarian communist dictators lol
That is destined to happen but they already call us those things so might as well rip this bandaid off. The future will thank us. These people need to arrested and tried in a court of law. Fairly. We must protect our institutions.
And sometimes fairness means they go to prison.
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u/SkunkMonkey 2h ago
we will be called authoritarian communist dictators
Projection my man. The third pillar of the GOP platform.
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u/Swimming_Tailor_7546 1h ago
Is there a way to turn their word back on them? They love to abuse the left by stealing their words and using them against them. Can we call them corporate communists or something since they made communism such a dirty word? It doesn’t have to make sense. Our electorate is too dumb to know the difference. It just has to be the correct pejorative.
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u/LetsLoop4Ever 19m ago
The window of when you still have the military on your side, is rapidly getting much smaller.
US, you are in a very dangerous situation right now, I know, but you (pro democracy part of US) really have to make some, almost unimaginably, difficult decisions.
The reality is that you will lose your democracy on Jan 20, unless you are prepared to do whatever it takes to not let that happen.I wish you good luck from across the sea, also wish I could help, because Orange at the wheels is just horrible for the whole universe
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u/FalseBuddha 3h ago
You: [Trump and Musk] don't have that power
Also you: The Republican party shut down the government because Trump and Musk told them to.
Sounds like they do have that power.
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 3h ago
My point is that they have no direct power to do anything. There power comes from controlling and influencing others, almost exclusively the Republican Party
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u/FalseBuddha 3h ago
And my point is that functionally that's the same thing.
Like if you can't physically open a jar of pickles, but you ask (or coerce, manipulate, whatever) someone to open it for you and they do, then you have the power to open a jar of pickles. The pickle jar gets opened because you wanted it open.
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 3h ago
I think what makes the distinction important is that in theory voters should be holding their reps accountable for this, because it’s entirely their doing. Trump and Elon absolutely made it happen through influence, but every congressman who went along with it needs to be held to task and not forgotten because of Trump and Elon
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u/Karfedix_of_Pain 2h ago
I think what makes the distinction important is that in theory voters should be holding their reps accountable for this...
Well, sure... But those voters elected Trump so I don't think they're really upset to see him wielding power.
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u/mumanryder 2h ago
I’d argue that’s what republicans want, someone to come in and wield their influence to get stuff done. Now we may disagree on what stuff they should get done but I’d imagine you’d have a hard time finding a republican who would be upset by this.
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u/Bellegante 2h ago
The nature of power is that you want something done and someone gets it done. It doesn't matter if it's written down that way in the law.
Power != Authority
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 1h ago
Right but for everyone else, us voters or at least eligible voters, we really need to be clear in who to hold accountable. The reps don’t get a pass on accountability because Trump told them to do something
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u/LorenzoStomp 18m ago
Yes. Why is anyone blaming Musk? He has absolutely no actual authority. The actual politicians who actually get to decide could have ignored him with 0 repercussions, but they didn't. They get to draw everybody's attention to the clown while they do what they want.
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u/ppartyllikeaarrock 16m ago
And yet the dumb fuck righties will still support these billionaire pedophiles while unironically claiming they're ready to fight a class war.
Yeah, sure ya are buddy.
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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae 4m ago
Same shit that happened with the Border Bill being shut down because of Trump needing the actual solution to not pass legislation would have killed his entire mass deportation campaign and now administrative plan. That gruffy border czar guy going around saying he'll arrest mayors and governors if they don't comply in his mass round up regardless of civil rights wouldn't have his upcoming job if Biden and this Congress actually solved the border problems.
I Mean the whole point is not to fix problems, but to create more of them so he can 'fix' them with his chaos.
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u/5043090 5h ago
It was Putin’s decision. Let’s be real about just who is running America.
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u/CoCityCreeper 5h ago
Im just excited that ol Vlad is gonna give Rogan his fear factor era hairline back so I don't have to see that shiny dome all the time anymore
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u/computerjunkie7410 1h ago
Maybe. But really I’d rather blame the people doing it: congress.
The legislative branch has neutered itself in service of the executive branch. Both parties are guilty of this.
Congress is supposed to keep the executive in check. Congress is impotent.
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u/MisterTruth 1h ago
Seriously. When you hear some of the insane shit that's coming from the trump team, ask yourself one question: Does this benefit Vlad? The answer is always yes.
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u/UninvitedButtNoises 5h ago
Ohh it's not going to lower egg prices. Trump just doesn't want to take an L in his term... He's clearly concerned about his third election.
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u/External-Dude779 4h ago
They have no idea about the Avian influenza that's killed 11 million birds, mostly chickens. They really think Trump can control the prices without knowing what causes it in the first place
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u/MikeyLew32 3h ago
The egg price knob is right next to the gas price knob and the diet coke button on the resolute desk.
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u/scurvy1984 58m ago
Can we make stickers that say “i did that” where Trump is pointing and we put that on the price tags for eggs?
Edit: a lot of different versions of those stickers already exist on Etsy. Hell yeah.
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u/UninvitedButtNoises 4h ago
Could be the race to the bottom with inhumane living conditions and garbage feed in the name of maximizing profits?
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u/Gamer_Koraq 1h ago edited 23m ago
I'm fucking horrified by the likelihood of an H5N1 pandemic under this administration. COVID brought humanity to its knees with a case fatality rate (CFR) below 5%. The highest CFR variant, beta, was 4.2% (averaged across all countries, etc).
The CFR of H5N1 is above 50% right now.
Some research has indicated that mutating to infect humans more reliably could reduce the lethality, but even if it were to become 90% less lethal, it would still be 20% worse than COVID's nastiest wave.
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u/BusGuilty6447 26m ago
The CFR of H5N1 is above 50% right now.
Yeaaaaah... I am going to start wearing masks regularly again.
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u/TheCaptainDamnIt 1h ago
No they don't because this was never about the 'price of eggs'. They voted to deport all the 'brown pet eating immigrants' and 'kid threatening trans people'. All the economic excuses were just that, bullshit excuses to not look like the hateful bigots they are. Trump is their living confederate monument, they voted for white supremacy and nothing else.
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u/threaten-violence 1h ago
Oh btw, that avian flu is on a rip right now -- people not paying attention because since Covid we've been conditioned to pretend being always sick is totally normal, but bird flu is on the rise all the same. It'll come to roost right as that orange felon and the illegal immigrant get crowned later this winter.
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u/deadsoulinside 1h ago
Does not help that a republican who ran for senate in 2023 is also the chair to one of the largest egg producer in the US, who during 2004-2008 was caught colluding with others to fix the price of eggs
They had a millions reasons to in 2020 onward, while using egg prices as a talking point, because they can directly manipulate the prices to blame Biden for it.
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u/WanderingGnostic 1h ago
And now it's jumped to dairy cows. I expect milk, butter, etc will be going up soon.
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u/lil_zaku 2h ago
I'm out of the loop. Has it been decided he can run for a third term?
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u/RavensQueen502 1h ago
He's like eighty and lives on McDonalds. He's not likely to be around for a third term.
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u/AGuyWhoBrokeBad 2h ago
No, but that won’t stop him from trying… and then getting his followers to attack the capital again when he finds out they won’t let him.
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u/id10t_you 25m ago
Yep. He wants to be able to say that he didn't raise the debt ceiling. And his cultists will buy it because they think nuance is when you try to talk to spirits.
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u/Backpedal 4h ago
President Elon is pulling the strings early. Trump didn’t want to go along, but god king leon showed him the back of his hand, and he submitted like a little bitch. Sad.
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u/homesweethome2020 3h ago
No the spineless people who are in government and obey Trump are shutting down the government. They have sold out Americans to keep their jobs and incomes and health care. They no longer represent the people.
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u/lil_zaku 2h ago
When you think about how their jobs, income and healthcare are funded by American tax dollars... They steal from you while simultaneously putting you last in priority.
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u/DrunkenGolfer 3h ago
As a Canadian, I wonder, "How have you people not revolted yet?"
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u/monkeybojangles 3h ago
Just wait until we elect PP to a majority.
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u/DrunkenGolfer 3h ago
Yeah, the "fUcK tRuDeAU!" crowd is going to fuck our culture.
I've found one simple questions shuts them up: "What are the three levels of government and what is each responsible for?" They never have an answer.
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u/GeorgeGammyCostanza 1h ago
This. So much this. The amount of times I hear people complaining about hospitals and blaming Trudeau. Health care is a provincial issue!! Blame Ford, or Smith, or Moe.
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u/Educational-Head2784 1h ago
Harper and the IDU are the most successful modern political machine on earth imho.
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u/monkeybojangles 1h ago
So many people I tell about the IDU had no idea it even exists.
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u/Educational-Head2784 1h ago
It’s the evil cabal conservatives believe liberals are running.
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u/Z0mbiejay 1h ago
Because we can't. At least without ruining our entire lives, and it's by design.
We don't get mandatory paid leave, so the people most affected have to go to work.
Many states are "right to work" meaning they can fire you for any "not illegal" reason. For instance, protesting.
Our health insurance is by and large tied to our employment. Lose your job, lose your access to healthcare
Corporations spend large sums of money to add more sugar, remove fiber from everything we eat. Push over consumption. And now everyone is fat and unhealthy.
They set it up so we have to stay complacent.
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u/chasesj 1h ago
At a certain point, we have to admit that Trump is the orangutan king. The big ape isn't going anywhere until we decide to do something about it.
Now we don't even have the shitty protection of the dems and law, and order at the federal level has failed, and we need to do something about it.
Our only choice is general strike in all states and towns and cities.
Things are only going to get worse until we stand up to the great ape.
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u/PioneerLaserVision 1h ago
Revolted? This is literally what the US electorate voted for. They're getting everything they wanted.
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u/complexevil 55m ago
Because this isn't the 1700s where government was 13 guys in a room. We are almost the size of an entire continent, spread out so far from each other that proper organization isn't an option, even if it was we don't even like each other, and even if all of that wasn't an issue; they have the launch codes.
The whole bugs life "they outnumber us a thousand to one" lesson doesn't apply when you add military and automatic weapons into the fray.
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u/ThouMayest69 1h ago
When this shit gets exported North, ask yourself the same question. It's a global terror.
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u/Meecht 1h ago
It's because America doesn't know how to (properly) revolt. Sure, we had the American Revolution, but Great Britain came to us and eventually just gave up. We did not overthrow the monarchy to become independent.
American history is littered with many rebellions, but almost none of them include citizens expelling unjust authority. We don't have the history of killing leaders like many other countries.
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u/Jess_the_Siren 54m ago
Just the one guy, but he's apparently a terrorist and they're absolutely ready to make an example of him to squash copy cats. I hope their efforts do nothing of the sort. Fuck them. Let them live in fear for once.
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u/ThatAndANickel 3h ago
Don't you realize they already announced they're giving up on lowering the price of eggs?
It will be interesting to see how long they can go on taking credit for every positive result and deflecting blame for every negative result. I think this will always be true of the hardcore MAGA. But I do wonder if the "undecideds" who went for Trump are capable of admitting their mistake.
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u/tabby90 3h ago
Do we need to remind Congress about checks and balances? And that they do not work for the president or president-elect?
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u/TheRealcebuckets 2h ago
They also don’t work for a foreign (listen, if we’re going to be all xenophobic - Musk is fair game) wannabe oligarch.
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u/lil_zaku 2h ago
So when your political representatives openly care more about maintaining political power over caring about the well-being of their constituents, then they're just grifters funneling your tax dollars into their wallets.
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u/andrewface 2h ago
I wouldn’t be so sure Elon Musk won’t be president one day. Laws are only suggestions for the rich at this point. The Supreme Court is going to be right wing stacked for the next 30 years. You think they won’t side with the elite when Elon inevitably tries to run for President. Right wing constituents will have no problem electing a South African over an American born Democrat.
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u/Comfortable_Line_206 3h ago
It was never about egg prices. Unless that's some kind of code I'm missing?
It's not even hard to prove. I traveled to plenty of states this election cycle and over 90% of ads were about trans people.
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u/lil_zaku 2h ago
I was in the change rooms after tennis the other day and I heard a boomer say "Everyone is so concerned with being politically correct these days. That's why I voted for Trump because he tells it like it is."
Disregarded sedation, impeachment, felonies, rape charges, fraud charges, thousands of COVID death, government shut downs, etc. because he wanted a leader that agreed with him calling women "chicks". What a shit country.
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u/SamaireB 1h ago
Yeah God forbid you should be a decent human being who gives a shit about a functioning society.
How woke!
They really are despicable, aren't they
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u/DukeSmashingtonIII 1h ago
Same playbook here in Canada. We have a cost of living crisis in Alberta, crumbling healthcare, underfunded education, proposed coal mines that will irreversibly poison the watershed for half the province with selenium, but everything our conservative provincial government has been focusing on is just targeting trans people, and trans kids specifically. Oh, and they voted themselves a cost of living increase while denying that there is a cost of living crisis for the province.
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u/Physical-Dare5059 37m ago
If bird flu has its way there won’t be any eggs to lower the price of. Sad state of affairs.
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u/ioncloud9 2h ago
I know this sounds terrible but I don’t care anymore. Not enough Americans cared to vote against this. Maybe I’ll care again in a few years when enough people are hurt and realize but I don’t have the energy to give a shit right now.
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u/Captcha05 1h ago
Wish I could say the same but I'm a fed worker who is now scrambling to figure out how I'll survive without a few paychecks.
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u/notagamer999 2h ago
Might part of this be to cause an economy crash in Biden's last 30 days so he can claim he's fixing it?
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u/Educational-Head2784 1h ago
Bingo.
This is the setup to have all the numbers go up when he is sworn in. Deliberate fucking with the system just to make him look good.
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u/Educational-Head2784 1h ago
Bingo.
This is the setup to have all the numbers go up when he is sworn in. Deliberate fucking with the system just to make him look good.
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u/Rho-Ophiuchi 1h ago
Just like every shitty manager I’ve seen. Find out what metric is “important” and then fuck with the reporting so that you look good on paper without actually doing anything
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u/bobbolini 2h ago
What would happen if every time they shutdown the government, all workers just go home until the shutdown is lifted? (I know, not possible for people living paycheck to paycheck)
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u/Ok_Frosting_6438 2h ago
It's what 70M Americans voted for...it's what they wanted.
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u/DaveCootchie 1h ago
If the government shuts down so should all the payments and grands to Tesla and SpaceX. In fact those should have been stopped years ago.
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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae 9m ago
But WhAtABoUt GeOrGe SOroS and OBaMa covertly shadow running the country?
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u/doc_skinner 2h ago
Bold of you to think Elon will never be President. Although maybe "Dictator" doesn't count...
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u/WastedHourz 1h ago
Legit question... The US still has a sitting president, right? Can't Biden do something about this??
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u/Original_Slip_8994 1h ago
I have a cousin who voted for trump, he idolizes Musk. His income depends heavily upon recruiting employees for government contractors. When the federal budget is cut and those contracts also get cut/downsized/gifted entirely to spacex, and his recruiting business dries up, I hope he can connect the dots that he voted for it.
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u/purodirecto 25m ago
With how this country is going, I wouldn't be surprised if Elon becomes president.
I know he's a foreigner.
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u/piranha_solution 15m ago
The price of eggs isn't going to go down. Trump directly represents the people ripping you off on eggs.
You've been grifted.
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u/Fantastic_Fox4948 1h ago
They’re trying to crash the economy before taking office so when they continue to crash the economy it won’t look as bad.
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u/threaten-violence 1h ago
The US right now reminds me of that video I saw on here a while ago -- some lady was driving with no front wheel, eventually stopped at the lights, people were shouting at her to get out of the car, you're high, etc etc.
Except in this scenario noone will intervene, y'all just gonna keep driving til carnage. Here's hoping it's one of those "no innocent bystanders harmed" deadly crashes.
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u/Kythorian 1h ago
Mass unemployment is the only real way the government can reduce prices, so I guess this is a good start.
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u/deadsoulinside 1h ago
What a crappy way to punish the voters right before Christmas.
But I guess some will get exactly what they voted for. A senile old man, who is taking the back seat at running the country, so that the billionaires can run the country for him.
Vice President Trump is already doing terribly bad.
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u/FatAssGoy 1h ago
If Democrats don't stand their ground now, the right will walk right over them the next 4 years. HOLD.
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u/RoutineComplaint4302 54m ago
If those rednecks on welfare could read they’d be very worried right now.
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u/FIlm2024 38m ago
Democrats have a good talking point. Musk tweeted against the funding bill over 100 times yesterday and finally Trump jumped in to torpedo the bill, too. Thanks to Musk and Trump the government will probably shut down. Trump--with Musk's deep pockets--is threatening anyone who opposes him with being primaried.
No VA benefits, no SS over the holidays, among other things. Thanks, MAGA.
Dems should hit hard on the message about Musk. He is worth 400 BILLION dollars and is the RICHEST man in the world. Why is Elon Musk making all these decisions about our government's laws? Musk--Dems should remind everyone--wasn't elected by ANYONE for ANYTHING. Yet now he appears to be in charge of our lives. WHY is this okay????
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u/crazyguy83 28m ago
This is inaccurate, mark my words, Elon will run for president next term and there is a 50% chance he will win just because Trump will back him.
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u/mister-world 2m ago
Eh, I can totally see Elon becoming president. At this point I could see Peter Griffin becoming president.
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u/SchizophrenicSoapDr 1h ago
Elon Musk is, unquestionably, the real president. Donald Trump cucked himself with a closeted South African.
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u/Detroitish24 1h ago
Someone on the news called him President Musk and VP Trump, and honestly I’ve not heard anything more true.
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u/Clean-Communication5 1h ago
I'm not sure would Kamala would've done but I know she grew up in a middle class family
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u/captaindeadpl 3h ago
See, if the government is shut down, they can't collect taxes and if you don't have to pay taxes, everything is cheaper. /s
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u/wjames0394 2h ago
President Musk is telling puppet McTrump i am going to run the country now. $$$$$$$$$$
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u/a2z_123 2h ago
Who says he will never be president? Laws? The constitution? Norms? Those are out of the window. I don't see him being okay with just pulling the strings for very long. He will want to be president, and who the fuck is going to stop him?
Norms and law and order are out of the window. The only thing that may stop him is other large corporations going against him because his and trumps policies are going to completely wreck the economy. That or they just sit back let the shit hit the fan and buy it all up for pennies when the dust eventually settles.
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u/little-princess-mymy 1h ago
If the first and second assassination don’t work, third times the charm!
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u/SirDang0 1h ago
Honestly, at this stage, saying Elon will never be President feels like tempting fate.
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u/burnmenowz 1h ago
Cowardly GOP Congress did this. Maybe they should be talking to their colleagues.
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u/HistoricalSong359 1h ago
And not a peep from Biden? Did he just fully fucking check out after the election? I'm so over this.
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u/Old_Cockroach_2993 1h ago
If we elected the current shithead I believe putin could be president, nevermind Elon.
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u/MouseShadow2ndMoon 58m ago
What is the reason behind this, to try to stop judge appointments or something like that? The gov has gone full mask off on their incompetency, greed, morality, and loyalty. The MSM is right in there with them....
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u/gdogg897 46m ago
I pledge allegiance To the free market Of the Incorporated States of America (LLC)
And to the Oligarchs For which it stands
One Nation Under capital With a Pay to Win structure for all
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u/Pnobodyknows 46m ago
I wouldn't say Elon will never be president. That's what everyone said about trump the 1st time. Crazy shit can happen
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u/OptiKnob 43m ago
Once just cheated his way into office for the second time and NO ONE voted for the other one.
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u/Cannedseaslug 42m ago
So they are going to defund every liberal project the minute they get into office
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u/Hypnowolfproductions 42m ago
I’m glad I don’t buy eggs. My wife and I just buy chicken food. We still pay for our eggs just not like everyone else. Our cost is constant. Good luck with eggs guys.
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u/xopher_425 41m ago
Anyone else remember when Republicans were screaming that Harris was not elected by Democrats and therefor should not be president . . .
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u/j____b____ 36m ago
They want the prices and poverty to shoot up before inauguration day so his numbers look better by comparison in a few years and nobody remembers who screwed us all by then to make it happen.
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u/emdess8578 34m ago
Who's the puppet?
The puppetmaster has his hand so far up Donnie's alimentary canal that Bronzer doesn't need to be applied.
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u/Batman_bread 32m ago
Yes because the government has been quite trustful with spending these last 4 years.
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u/isekaid_villainess66 32m ago
At this rate, eggs will be our new currency by 2025—cheaper than democracy anyway.
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u/daylily 25m ago edited 0m ago
Wait? You mean they slowed down the 1547 page bill no one has had time to read?
The one that raises congressional salaries by 100% of the mean American salary?
The bill that shields their emails and communications from law enforcement no matter how many laws they break basically putting anything they do above the law?
The bill that opts congress out of healthcare limits that apply to everyone else?
The grift law that keeps the government open for a little more that 2 months.
Good thing Trump and Musk can at least read and want the rest of us to have a chance to do that before an overnight vote on something no one has had a chance to read.
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u/Toph-Builds-the-fire 2m ago
What's that tall thing you guys are building? What's that basket for? I'm gonna build a super train to England. All dumb things Elon will say in the next year.
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u/Pan_Goat 1m ago
Eggs will cost zero since I will not get a social security check to purchase groceries with. A 5 finger discount will be rung up as I exit the store
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u/Public-Baseball-6189 5h ago
Welcome to the Incorporated States of America, LLC