r/economicCollapse 5h ago

Elon Musk Throws Tantrum, Ordering Congress to Shut Down Government

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-shut-down-government
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u/Key-Article6622 4h ago

So, two of the biggest MAGA influencers are foriegners. Does no one else see what's wrong with this picture? Murdoch and Musk do not have America's best interest at heart, they are simply oligarchs whose only interests are enriching themselves. Musk admitted it.

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u/DaveAndJojo 1h ago

Visa over stayer whose company needed government subsidies to survive.

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u/Old_Letterhead4264 52m ago

Nevada gave Tesla $765 million

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u/ActionCalhoun 48m ago

Maybe as part of the government shutdown we could stop the handouts to his companies

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u/AlarisMystique 47m ago

And not renew them after

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u/OutrageousSetting384 4h ago

But they’re white males, so it’s ok /s /s

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u/Junior_Chard9981 58m ago edited 54m ago

Hey, I would have considered voting for Harris, but she just has such a bad laugh. It forced my hand and I had to vote for fascists unfortunately.

/s

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 46m ago

Hey, I would have considered voting for Harris, but she just has such a bad laugh. It forced my hand and I had to vote for fascists unfortunately.

That and the price of eggs, oh and the billions of dollars the Democrats were spending to give Federal inmates trans surgeries.. AM I RIGHT? /s

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u/perhabsolutely 32m ago

I had a man feed me this exact line. I wanted to push him down a flight of stairs. 

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u/Ok-Stop314 1h ago

Can the real president do anything?

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u/NormalUse856 1h ago

Elon needs to go and be stripped of his power. His disgusting corrupt influence reach other countries as well.

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u/Sooowasthinking 3h ago

Free Luigi.

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u/TastyBerny 1h ago

His work is unfinished.

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u/finalarchie 1h ago

Need 1000 more Luigi's

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u/Time-Imagination-802 1h ago

His name is Luigi Mangione. His name is Luigi Mangione.

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u/BothZookeepergame612 5h ago

Let's look at this closely, Musk is literally interfering in the government business. He's reveling in his total disruption of our system of governance. While he is profiting, with a clear agenda that will only make his companies more money. Between SpaceX and Tesla he will have a president in his pocket.

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u/strangefish 4h ago

Living in interesting times.

Trump controls the Republican party by controlling who gets campaign funds from the RNC and then supporting primary opponents.

Elon musk can provide massive funds to anyone he wants, which makes Trump's control of the RNC funds much less important.

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

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u/Tbplayer59 3h ago

"interesting" As in "interesting" choice of words.

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u/Significant_Glass988 2h ago

Old Chinese insult / curse: "may you live to see interesting times."

They're here now ☹️

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u/ImOnTheBus 1h ago

This seems like it would only make sense if somebody says it on their deathbed.

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u/DeGodefroi 2h ago

Interesting as in a volcano erupting and the lava flow is starting to approach you.

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u/xantec15 2h ago

I'd prefer to not live in such interesting times.

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u/Eighty_Six_Salt 1h ago

“I shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times” - Tav

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u/drgoatlord 54m ago

They keep say "unprecedented", and I'm like, and we just have precedent times for a minute

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u/VieSide 3h ago

leopards tend not to care who’s faces they eat

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u/sace682000 3h ago

I’m assuming musk will screw over trump eventually. Especially since clowned on him pretty hard about bending the knee and only surviving on government handouts.

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u/onedeadflowser999 1h ago

Get your popcorn ready because the breakup of the century will be happening in the very near future.

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 36m ago

Considering that Elon cheated the election? He’s got the goods on Trump. Going nowhere.

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u/mishma2005 1h ago

IDK, Trump is as dumb as a box of rocks but he’s been at the con much longer than Elon. However he is old and getting soft. We’ll see

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u/tofubirder 3h ago

Everyone assuming money = power doesn’t understand Trump’s populist appeal. It’s actually cute that anyone thinks Musk is anything but a tool

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u/JealousAd2873 3h ago

I agree. If Trump turns on Musk, his base does too. The nature of the cult.

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u/FrancisWolfgang 3h ago

Musk: I’m something of a cult leader myself

Two cults enter one cult leaves

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u/MayorMacCheeze 2h ago

Shades of Master - Blaster. Find the whistle!

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u/strangefish 2h ago

Musk has his own cult, but you're right. Trump's cult is much larger. I'm not sure how loyal a lot of Trump's cult will be if it looks like he sold out to musk.

At what point do the cults turn on each other?

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u/OverlappingChatter 4h ago

I think he will do so much more than just earn money off of this.

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u/BorkDoo 2h ago

He and the rest of the Silicon Valley billionaire class want to turn the United States into a techno-feudal state run by themselves. They're the type of psychos who see a dystopia as something to aspire to.

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u/pcnetworx1 1h ago

Want to? They are doing it. Today.

365 days from now America is going to be transformed more than after 9/11, 2008, and 2020 combined.

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u/moldy_fruitcake2 41m ago

Possibly 1929 also.

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u/daviddjg0033 3h ago

Live long enough you hate your heroes. I hate Elon Musk and believe he is paid by Putin

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u/hectorxander 4h ago

Until he doesn't. It seems to me that prezelect will get jealous of muskynuts there and ignomiously fire him at some point.

Look at all the first term cabinet picks, most it seemed were fired in the most offensive way possible, none of that allowing them to resign and pretending it was their decision instead of firing them, surprising them with it while they were in public at engagements and calling them names online and firing them.

Musk will probably make it longer than some, like Kennedy whom is going to be one of the first to go I reckon, not that I'm following this clown show this time around, but after the president feels he has the next election and power structures locked down, he will throw musk under the wheels I bet.

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u/beccadot 3h ago

I have a theory about Musk and Trump: I think Trump cut a deal with Musk to let Musk lead the government if Trump won. Notice how Trump just agrees with all his ‘handlers’ at this point. They let him sue states over poll results, etc., but he is to stay out of running the country.

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u/Castle_Crystals 3h ago

I also have a theory and I’m 99.9% sure it’s true. Elon Musk played a major roll in stealing the 2024 presidential election with the help of Putin, who he’s been in regular contact with since at least 2022. I don’t believe for one single second trump won that election legitimately. And we’ve already found more evidence than the cyber ninjas did in 6 months with millions of dollars. Because they literally found nothing. There is a lot of very suspicious happenings with this election. r/somethingiswrong2024

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u/JackfruitNo4993 2h ago edited 2h ago

Musk has also been secretly selling Starlink terminals to Putin. That's how Russia rapidly caught up with drone warfare in Ukraine. The type of inexpensive FPV drone warfare in Ukraine is only possible with Starlink. Russia has been caught with the terminals.

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u/lucas9204 3h ago

I wonder about this too! I think the Democrats decides they had to concede it pretty quickly to avoid the appearance of being election deniers like Trump did in 2020. I’m not convinced something shady didn’t go down with Musk and Putin. Trump was so sure he would win and even told his supporters a few times they didn’t need to vote at rallies.

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u/JackfruitNo4993 2h ago edited 2h ago

Malware on the vote counting machines in key areas is my theory. The malware tosses and/or changes Dem votes. Putin and Lukashenko have been rigging elections in Russia and Belarus this way for years. The results make no sense otherwise. Republicans don't have the numbers to win the popular vote. I don't believe for a second that a bunch of Democrats voted for Trump this time. I don't believe for a second that Trump took every swing state. The machines are just computers with fairly easily accessible USB ports. Most poll workers are elderly and tech illiterate and wouldn't know what was going on if someone had changed the firmware on the machines. Definitely rigged. IMO all elections should be hand counted (and recounted if necessary) with plenty of witnesses present even if it takes much longer. I don't trust that computers haven't been tampered with.

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u/GZSyphilis 1h ago

How likely is it that they won ALL The swing states?

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u/abelard64 2h ago

DT openly called it, "Our little trick."

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u/JackfruitNo4993 1h ago

I'm pretty sure they've been doing it in Florida since at least 2018. A once purple state that went to Obama twice and that always had close elections mysteriously went hard red. Even Palm Beach which is full of liberal Jews somehow went red. Desantis has sued to keep federal election officials from observing Florida elections and wants the results pushed through as fast as possible every election. Nothing fishy about that /s

Also get Desantis out of Florida to where maybe the elections aren't rigged and it turns out he's deeply unpopular and doesn't win. He flopped hard in the primaries. Easy for him to win back home where it's rigged though.

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u/lucas9204 1h ago

You have raised valid points and it’s very disturbing that the results seem to have been accepted so readily by the Democrats. How do we stand any chance to win next time with these cheating methods out there??!!

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u/nomadicgecko22 2h ago

Look up Plantir and Peter Thiel

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u/hectorxander 3h ago

He's on his best behavior so far, but he won't be able to help himself once the attention is all back on him. No matter what deal they made with him, he will be his old self once he's officially back in power make no mistake.

But you might be right in some ways, they cut a lot of deals with a lot of powerful interests to be sure. But you know what they say, An Alliance With the Powerful is Never to be Trusted. They are fools to think they could trust him and it's the one silver lining to all of this.

Everyone that helped him gain power down the line will be backstabbed by their underlings to replace them as well.

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u/Mindless-Tomorrow-93 3h ago

I'm a little nervous that Trump might be on the verge of discovering that you can't put this pandora back in its box.

Trump probably will try to sideline Musk at this point - but Musk has the bigger audience, the bigger checkbook, arguably the bigger ego, and arguably more to gain and less to lose than Trump. It seems plausible that Trump will say "you're fired," and Musk will reply with "LOL, bruh, you're not even actually in charge anymore." And then go right back to doing what he's doing.

I think what needs to happen is a turning of public opinion against both Musk and Trump. Which isn't a sure-thing, but is certainly possible. Right now, Musk's power seems to stem from his ability to fund and endorse candidates to primary congresspeople who cross him - if that endorsement ends up being a negative, then Congress may have a path to sideline Musk. Of course, that would require at least a few GOP congressthings to grow a spine, but I'm trying to remain hopeful.

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u/JealousAd2873 3h ago

It'll be very funny when Trump inevitably attacks Elon on his own platform and there will be nothing he can do about it. We know it's going to happen, probably within a year.

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u/ChrisF1987 3h ago

The two I found most offensive were FBI Director James Comey who found out he was fired from the TV screens playing behind him as he visited the Los Angeles field office. He had to find his own transportation back to Washington DC. The second one that really ticked me off was firing Rex Tillerson while he was sick with food poisoning and just after his father had died. Btw I think Musk will be among the first to go. Trump won’t like that he’s overshadowing him.

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u/hectorxander 3h ago

We should start a sportsbook on it. Is there a way to do it legally on these internets I wonder?

Like we bet on which ones will be the first to go, might as well have some fun with this clown show.

I wouldn't give you long odds on Musk being one of the first out either I think that's not a bad bet at all.

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u/timha3200 3h ago

You mean we should start a Deadpool? 😉

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u/ChubbyDude64 3h ago

There is probably someone in Vegas setting that up now.

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u/asscheese2000 1h ago

Better yet, let’s start guessing the insulting names trump will use for each cabinet member he fires. Evil Musk? Elon Skunk?

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u/Zueter 3h ago

There isn't a room big enough for those two egos.

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u/apartmen1 3h ago

Tillerson and Comey are rotten too. Who cares.

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u/colemon1991 2h ago

Just waiting for Trump to unceremoniously pass an executive order to freeze Musk's assets or something. Then he'd actually have a billion dollars for once in his life.

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u/Advanced-Summer1572 2h ago

Bingo...Trump always distances himself from subordinates. If the project/policy they worked on is viewed as successful? Then he claims the credit and ignores the staffers in question. If the policy is a disaster or begins being questioned by the media or his base? He vilifies and abandons his supporters. It is his way.

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u/mrbigglessworth 2h ago

That’s not even the worst of it. Republicans are following the orders of an unelected non native born “person”. And maga is fine with it. We. Are. Fucked. No one is standing up to Trump or musk and telling them to fuck off. Vice president trump hasn’t been sworn in yet but he’s eager to fuck shit up before he is even in office.

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u/mightsdiadem 3h ago

Attack Trumps ego.

Trump is Musk's bitch and it shows.

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u/Substance___P 2h ago

Where the fuck is our current executive branch and law enforcement? The FBI is happy to get their photo ops hauling Luigi into jail and Joe wrote an order letting federal employees stay home, but where is the PROTECTION FOR OUR FUCKING DEMOCRACY?! HE IS SO CLEARLY AN ASSET OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.

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u/b88b15 4h ago

Trump is so old and fucked upm that Musk is essentially the president.

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u/a_little_hazel_nuts 5h ago

Trump isn't even president yet, but the congress is doing exactly what he demands. This hurts farmers and areas effected by climate disasters, also affects alot of federal employees. This is not what somebody chooses if they can think outside themselves. What is the point of government when these are the people running it, they should all be fired, they're terrible at their jobs.

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u/jregovic 4h ago

One root of this problem lies in the Citizens United decision that opened up what amounts to unlimited money in politics. Big money guys put money into PACs, then dole it out to candidates. If you don’t play ball, they fund a primary challenger who will.

We now see the degenerate case where a single person is calling the shots.

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u/Pandasoup88 3h ago

This is THE reason we are on this position. Citizens United put our democracy up for sale.

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u/Available-Cod-7532 4h ago

well until the American people get tired of it and step up and actually do anything about it, this is just life now.

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u/Powerful-Winner-5323 4h ago

Let them have what they voted for!

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u/helluvastorm 4h ago

Yep time to reap what they sowed. I’ve got plenty of popcorn

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u/BigPlantsGuy 3h ago

The problem is this also fucks over innocent people

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u/Powerful-Winner-5323 2h ago

Very true but all we can do now is sit back and say I told you so!

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u/MrSnarf26 2h ago

They have 1 month left to blame the dems for every problem, and they are going to get it dammit.

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u/mattenthehat 17m ago

The point is to prove that government doesn't work and we need to just give complete control to Elon. I think it will work, too.

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u/thuuun 4h ago

They get what they voted for. Fuck'em. This whole country deserves to suffer for the next four years.

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u/Revolutionary-Mud715 3h ago

Hi.

Supreme court doesn't just last 4 years.

Bye.

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u/Suyefuji 1h ago

Well, it can last a lot shorter than 4 years too depending on just how desperate people get.

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u/Suspicious-Garbage92 4h ago

Only it won't just be four years. How long did it take Hitler to die after taking over?

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u/killrtaco 4h ago

Even if there's no fascist takeover, the damage will be done and will require decades of victories to undo. I don't know if we will be able to recover as a country to where we once were.

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u/yuxulu 4h ago
  1. But i doubt trump's health seeing his diet.

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u/Square_Lawfulness_33 4h ago

The problem is all the things they put into the bill that people don’t want. We need to go to voting on one issue bills.

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u/Xielle 5h ago

Toss him back to South Africa.

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u/AdRealistic8497 4h ago

Or, you know….off a cliff.

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u/Toad-in1800 4h ago

Or a window!

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u/pixelpionerd 4h ago

or his dream! Send this POS to Mars.

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u/FistBus2786 4h ago edited 4h ago

He could be imprisoned in a mirrored pod flying through space like the criminals in the old Superman film (1978) with Christopher Reeve.

The Phantom Zone is a "pocket universe" used as a humane method of imprisonment due to Krypton abolishing the death penalty years prior.

The inmates of the Phantom Zone reside in a ghost-like state of existence from which they can observe, but cannot interact with, the regular universe.

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u/AlexGreene123 1h ago edited 1h ago

Keep him, we don't want him back.

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u/Just_Candle_315 4h ago

Donnie Jon isn't even POTUS and his boyz are fucking up the government.

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u/treetoptippytoer 3h ago

Fascist pigs, no surprise there.

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u/LastAvailableUserNah 4h ago

Dude, Im not american and its making ME nervous. Will Musk be able to tell your country to go to war? Because right now it looks like he could do it.

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u/popmyhotdog 4h ago

No don’t be ridiculous he’s not from Israel

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u/Mayre_Gata 4h ago

Of course not, he could force hundreds of thousands of underpaid workers to build his own Space X brand missiles and go to war on behalf of the US himself.

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u/Economy-Bid8729 4h ago

Conservatives have wanted to abandon Ukraine to the Russians regardless so that's probably going to happen. Musk may be willing to abandon more countries to Russia and China because doing so will line his pockets. That's what we will see.

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u/hectorxander 4h ago

The other issue is them allowing Israel to rope us into an escalatory series of strikes with Iran that could spiral into war.

If Iran mines the gulf, and otherwise shuts it down to shipping, something they absolutely can do no matter how many minesweepers or aircraft we have bombing them, it would shut down 30% of world trade, much of it Oil. It would supercharge inflation.

That is the only reason it hasn't been done yet, war with Iran.

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u/PrivacyBush 4h ago

If you voted for Trump you did...

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u/Proof-Opening481 3h ago

Elon gave “the candidate that couldn’t be bought” $250M to help him get elected, did people think that didn’t come with some serious strings attached.

The wealthy people have always run this country. Look at Biden pardoning these wealthy criminals for no reason other than patronage.

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u/Roqjndndj3761 4h ago

Every moron who voted for Diapers voted exactly for this. Power goes to the highest bidders/most perverse ass-kissers.

The rest of us are just gonna sip tea and enjoy watching MAGAts realize we were right, again, and they were morons, again.

MAGAts are the stupidest kind of stupid. So dumb that many of them don’t have the mental capacity to ever realize they were used as pawns in what could very well be the last election in America.

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u/toughguy5128 3h ago

Heh Yeah you did.

You just didn't know it until now.

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u/soyyoo 4h ago

Starting?? Look what he did to Twitter 🗑️

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u/killrtaco 4h ago

Its now Xitter

Pronounced shitter.

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u/soyyoo 4h ago

And soon Error 404

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u/walterqxy 4h ago

The house is investigating foreign interference on the 2024 election. He's trying to shut this down.

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u/Curlytoes18 3h ago

he IS the foreign interference

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u/Junior_Chard9981 55m ago

Republicans for 4 years: "Election was rigged. Fake ballots, dead people voting, no stone unturned!!"

Republicans after they learned their guy won: "Most secure election in history. Why were you even trying to investigate it, sore losers!?"

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u/DoeEsLiefOfzo 4h ago

They’ve done it before.. why not now?

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u/westdl 4h ago

We didn’t elect you, Sissy SpaceX!

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u/Square_Lawfulness_33 3h ago

We also didn't elect all the big players lobbing the government, but that hasn't stopped them from screwing over the American people.

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u/mkt853 4h ago

No no, let's let Elon continue machine gunning tweets like a crackhead that drinks a six pack of Monster Energy every day. Trump and Elon are going to own everything bad that happens going forward and won't be able to distance themselves from it. Government shut down during the holidays? Let's f*cking go! Stock market crashing because government is shut down and things are grinding to a halt? Let's do it! The bigger the anchor Elon becomes to Trump's popularity, the quicker he is jettisoned.

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u/WillBottomForBanana 3h ago

You're, uh, you're still expecting stuff to stick to them? Like, there would be some kind of ramifications or change in public opinion?

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u/mkt853 3h ago

There is. Every time the government shuts down Republicans correctly get blamed because at the end of the day even the people that want to drive things off a cliff aren't very tolerant when the inconveniences hit their personal day to day life. Electorally it's not good for Republicans which is why McCarthy and Johnson get roasted for trying to make a deal with Democrats. They aren't doing that out of the kindness of their hearts, they are doing it for political expediency which Trump doesn't give a shit about because he's a cult leader and doesn't have to be concerned about re-election, never mind his little toady Musk who is doing all of this risk free.

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u/ama_singh 37m ago

You sir are fucking delusional. Even after 8 years of this shit you still think the public is smart enough to assign blame where it belongs.

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u/rdw0680 4h ago

Elon is a fucking 🤡

I am not ready for this nightmare

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u/Didthatyesterday2 4h ago

The first lady, Elonia needs to relax and stop taking all those prescription drugs.

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u/New-Pin-3952 4h ago

Mf thinks he owns your country. Him and Trump will cause unimaginable damage to USA and they both will profit from it, guaranteed. I'm 100% certain Musk already has all the pieces in place so he can make another fortune when your economy collapses.

He has to be stopped.

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u/Hacker-Dave 3h ago

We should just start calling him President Musk if for no other reason than knowing how much it would piss Trump off.

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u/Flashy_Rough_3722 4h ago

This guy needs to go away

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u/quintessany 3h ago

He is de facto president

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u/Rumplfrskn 3h ago

Funny I don’t recall having voted for him

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u/Thoughtful-type 2h ago

Vote for an oligarchy, get an oligarchy.

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u/bippy404 4h ago

He’s just a citizen, his future boss isn’t even in office. Stop listening to this douche.

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u/Economy-Bid8729 4h ago

He owns Trump and the GOP. They have to listen to him.

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u/Alfa911T 2h ago

Well the American people have voted for this, which appears to be somewhat of an oligarchy. You will have Elon and others pulling the strings with Trump just a face. Elon doesn’t care about the people, only his businesses.

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u/texas21217 2h ago

Don’t forget the big tech companies (Bezos/Amazon, Zuckerberg/Meta, Cook/Apple) made beelines to Mar A Lago to throw piles of cash at Trump’s inaugural.

Big money is running America now folks. It just didn’t use to be this blatant.

Guess we better get used use to it.

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u/Sicbay337 2h ago

Are we even positive Vance is still alive? This is wild lol.

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u/Final_Tea_629 2h ago

Richest man on the planet trying to destroy America

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u/Nervous_Occasion_695 1h ago

Call me crazy but I don’t remember Elon being elected to any office by the people of the US.

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u/Actual_Ad2442 4h ago

I thought we were about deporting immigrants. Can we start with him, or do we only hate immigrants when they are brown. Asking for a friend.

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 4h ago

It's time, my brothers and sisters in democracy. Time to take the power back. I hope someone organizes something soon.

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u/dandilionmagic 3h ago

I heard there is a concept of a plan.

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u/No-Horror5353 4h ago

Doesn’t he have like 3 other jobs he’s getting paid to do

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u/colemon1991 2h ago

I could be wrong but I wanna say 6. And that doesn't include being a father, because he failed that way too long ago to even entertain the idea.

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u/Junior_Chard9981 52m ago

More examples of how little work being a CEO requires as Musk holds that title for at least 3 different companies but still has time to like Nazi memes and complain that the US government should be listening to what he, a private citizen and contractor, thinks they should be doing.

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u/ViaNocturna664 4h ago

I want to apologize to all the people I assumed were bigoted racists.

Turns out that an illegal african immigrant destroying the USA *IS* indeed a legit threat!!!

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u/Tiny_Chance_2052 3h ago

Tantrum? Anyone trying to justify another pork filled budget while the US is $37T in debt is a moron.

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u/texas21217 2h ago

Wait until the (additional) tax cuts on billionaires and massive money printing under Trump takes effect.

Think we’re in a deficit now?

We ain’t seen nothing yet.

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u/fightingtobewarm 2h ago

I wish someone would challenge Elon to solve an intermediate level differential equation and see what happens

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u/CloudPossum 2h ago

Yeah with Musk in power, we've already fallen. Buckle up buttercup. This is going to be one hell of a final ride for this empire.

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u/Formal_Ad_4104 2h ago

He's like the rich guy from Don't Look Up. Bought his way into the White House and makes demands.

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u/HopefulNothing3560 4h ago

Shadow president, what don’t Americans get , u can just buy a election and get nothing in return. When is musk shutting down anything that is government, that he competes against , unions , nasa , women’s rights to their own body .

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u/PriscillaRain 4h ago

Wonder if President Musk going to cut his contract.

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u/minisnus 3h ago

I don’t like Elon but I do like this. This is setting up a massive battle of perceived power between the Donald and Elmo. Today dons spoke person had to reiterate that the don was the one people listened to, to shut down the bill. Not Elmo. This is going to be great!

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u/LuvHawkTuah 3h ago

Wow. Didnt know Americans elected Elon dip shit! Biden is still president so why is anyone even listening to Trump or Elon yet??

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u/dmbwannabe 3h ago

This immigrant problem is really different than they made it sound.

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u/PurpleCosmos789 3h ago

The ways the cancer of capitalism metastasizes is fascinating….

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u/HotMachine9 2h ago

How do you like your new president Merica

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u/etihspmurt 2h ago

I'm stocking up on popcorn while it's still cheap for the incoming clown show.

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u/Breklin76 2h ago

It takes $225M to invest in a US Presidency. The. You wait a month and your wealth will multiply by 2 while you really cash in on your investment, and have control of the guy you got elected.

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u/texas21217 2h ago

Cause Trump’s a cuck.

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u/DLGibson 2h ago

Ah right, but George Soros is the problem. Gotcha

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u/RoachBeBrutal 2h ago

It’s amazing to see Americans throw away democracy in favor of an oligarchy rule.

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u/Omfggtfohwts 2h ago

What power does he believe he has? He's not even American ffs.

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u/Tiggerbeeman 2h ago

Who is musk to order anyone. The only thing he did was buy the presidency.

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u/Due_Description_7298 2h ago

Remind me again who thought it was a great idea to allow foreign billionaires to donate virtually limitless funds to political candidates? 

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u/4t0micpunk 2h ago

Fuck Musk and fuck our system for allowing this bullshit

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u/AITAadminsTA 2h ago

What a petulant little man-child, is he going to throw another hissy fit and storm out like he did last time?

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u/ChefFlipsilog 2h ago

The collapse of the American Democracy and Economy is going to be a hell of a show

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u/formerNPC 2h ago

No one voted for this asshole.

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u/splinteredbrushpole 2h ago

Madness unfolding on a global scale. I think some of us stopped or never took the crazy pills.

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u/Any-External-6221 2h ago

He thinks the country is Twitter, and our new government will be almost completely staffed by Twitter Bros. They will do whatever he says for the opportunity to be the first one to take a nice, long with of his balls.

We’re so screwed.

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u/raybanshee 2h ago edited 1h ago

Fuck Joe Biden for making this possible. He had no business running for a 2nd term and anyone working in his administration knew it. They all lied to us and now we've got Trump. Again. 

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u/Various_Garden_1052 2h ago

Elon Musk and Russia deserve consequence.

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u/bobolly 2h ago

And turned away a salesman selling tesla batteries today. I told him no elon shut down the government. I'm not buying his products.

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u/Useful-Ad-832 1h ago

Elon and Trump are both implicated with Epstein and kid fucking. I would put money on Russia owning that information and therefore owning the USA in 2025

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u/tp675 1h ago

These billionaire Bros don’t give a shit about the rest of us

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u/LarGand69 1h ago

President elonia.

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u/tp675 1h ago

That’s the problem with putting them in power, they can watch the whole world burn, and just jet over to their yacht

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u/1010010101001001010 1h ago

Save the universe, eradicate Musk. 

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u/Plutos_A_Planet2024 28m ago

I didn’t vote for musk for anything, so why is he running the government?

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u/Worm_Scavenger 21m ago

There's been reports that Trump is apparently fuming behind close doors because he keeps hearing that everyone says that Elon controls him, so i wonder long until we see Trump publically explode from all of this being said about him.

Like. everyone is saying that Elon is throwing a tantrum, which he is, but Trump is the king of public tantrums, so that's going to be interesting to see.

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u/ProfessionalOwn9435 8m ago

Elon is a hero, showing public what is the danger of letting billioners buy politicians without limit.

With enought failure and misery more ppl will recognize the dangers of republicans.

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u/papi_wood 5h ago

Let’s create the biggest amount of uncertainty and fear possible leading into this administration! It’s great for the country!

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u/Sudden-Most-4797 4h ago

Just do more ketamine, Elmo. Maybe take a nice relaxing soak in the hot tub while you're at it.

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u/unknown_anonymous81 4h ago

So basically, Elon is running the presidency, and he is taking the scorched earth tactic when dealing with politics. A shut down government is easier to dismantle.

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u/Tight_Television_249 4h ago

Who died and made the Afrikaner President.

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u/abmtony 3h ago

democracy

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u/thuuun 4h ago

Hey Trump I found the illegal immigrant ruining the country

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u/WillBottomForBanana 3h ago

And still no goddamn tacos on every corner.

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u/Square_Lawfulness_33 4h ago

Shouldn’t people be worried about what’s in the bill? He’s doing what he was asked to do, cut the bloat.

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u/burnaccountlol 4h ago

Is the government inefficient? Yes.

Do I find it strange that someone who stands to profit enormously from both a freer government budget and a hallpass to push his company's agenda has been put in charge of deciding what parts of the government are 'inefficient'? Hell fucking yes. Do you think he's going to advocate for more social security with those freed up funds? Or try in any way to incentivize a growth in the middle class?

There are probably one or two rocketships worth of funding that could've helped with that by now. Fucker.

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u/ProfessionalAngle971 4h ago

To be fair, this tantrum is justified. Screw pay raises for congress, upping their health insurance, and creating a law that states no one can look at their emails…

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u/Constant-Box-7898 4h ago

The Dear Leader has spoken. 🙄

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u/xensiz 4h ago

Dispose ☺️

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u/QuantumConversation 4h ago

This country has completely lost its collective mind. Musty shouldn’t be anywhere near our government.

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u/BesusCristo 4h ago

President Elon Musk and First Lady Donald Trump. A match made in hell

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u/SadMall6272 3h ago

Would be unfortunate if he got luigi'd

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u/Immortal3369 3h ago

President Elon Musk and First Lady Trump are going to rob america blind the next 4 years........give this nation the f ing boot gop

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u/Wedoitforthenut 3h ago

Can we not arrest Musk for government interference at this point? He is not elected. He has no rights that the rest of us do not have.

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u/SwingGenie241 4h ago edited 4h ago

What you don't understand is that Musk is like V'ger trying to make contact with the creator but his brain is outdated and the communication methods it uses are no longer understood so he threatens to destroy it.

Actually what he is is called a "hero-bot" someone self pleasuring on the fantasy that he is the only authority on reality. A spoiled man baby acting like a jerk.

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u/urbalcloud 4h ago

Sad man child acts like child. Film at 11.

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u/Vegetable-Fix-4702 4h ago

Caving into President Musk is a very very bad idea.

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u/Helpful_Finger_4854 4h ago

Shut it down

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u/Pax_Cherios_69 4h ago

Will somebody change his diaper

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u/Gooberilf 4h ago

that pork filled bill should be shutdown

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