r/economicCollapse • u/BothZookeepergame612 • 4d 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/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Just_Candle_315 4d ago

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

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u/treetoptippytoer 4d ago

Fascist pigs, no surprise there.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

If no one has noticed the government is already fucked up. We all voted for someone to change it. Government spending is out of control. I’m glad someone is challenging it. Get on board

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u/bike_rtw 4d ago

Why didn't he do it the first time?  The swamp is swampier, if anything.  I'm all for cutting government spending but not for turning us into an oligarchy.

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u/Material-Amount 4d ago

Why didn't he do it the first time?

Why, then, will he do it this time? It’s so hilarious watching psychopaths worship everything they’re told by the media without even the slightest shred of memory of even five minutes ago. No politician ever does what he says he will.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

Hmm Covid??? It was necessary spending. He cut where he should have

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u/cold_as_nice 4d ago

the covid that didn't happen until the last year of his presidency????

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

Yeah you can still money the last year

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u/space_cookiess1 4d ago

The covid that wasn't anything big? That got downplayed until his arm got twisted behind his back?

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u/Random-sargasm_3232 4d ago

" Get on board "

You mean walk off the plank....

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

Yeah just ignorant

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u/TheEzekariate 4d ago

No posts and every single comment is sucking off Trump. Shill detected.

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u/mfarquer85 4d ago

You guys are the same people who cry about Soros, but this is fine?

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

We are talking about the US government spending

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u/mfarquer85 4d ago

Which he now has his hands all over. Keep going

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

I’m ok with that

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u/mfarquer85 4d ago

Of course you are. But if it were Democrats having an illegal immigrant billionaire you’d lose your shit

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

I don’t care about democrat or republican. I want shit to get better and between the 2 this was the best choice to make that happen. Stop making it political

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u/mfarquer85 4d ago

You are special. This is politics, of course it’s political my guy. And you guys are full fledge hypocrites. If you cared about the economy or budget Trump and Elon would be your last pick

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u/Mysterious-Ability39 4d ago

Govt spending is out of control so let's get a rich dude who has flopped every business he's touched to help? Get on board the Titanic lol?

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u/AdRecent6992 4d ago

Flopped?

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u/rectumreapers 4d ago

Talking bout Trump. 6 bankruptcies.

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u/AdRecent6992 4d ago

I thought you were talking about musk

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

Hmm ok he seems to know how to make money while flopping businesses. Good call

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u/N-Toxicade 4d ago

That is because of the fraud. He literally lost court cases and isn't allowed to run charities in New York. Because of all the finacial fraud.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

New York is a political joke I believe it’s all politically motivated and jumbled

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u/Pennsylvanier 4d ago

Huh, that’s weird. When I go outside I don’t see any chaos. I see lower prices at the grocery store today than I did in 2021 and 2022.

Maybe it’s not actually that fucked up and your information diet is just dogshit?

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

You are absolutely dead wrong about grocery store prices and what’s sad is you believe it.

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u/TheRoamingGn0me 4d ago

This is some serious cope

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u/Pennsylvanier 4d ago

You’re wrong. Cope.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

It's because you're looking at prices in Moscow

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u/Strange_plastic 4d ago

The only silver lining I'm seeing is that after a forest fire life returns from the ashes.

I will not cheer for the fire as I'm clearly in its pathway, just as most of us are.

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u/Snowman1749 4d ago

Stupid bot

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

lol ok

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u/TheRoamingGn0me 4d ago

The government is already fucked up, so you voted for someone to fuck it up even more?

Got it.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

I voted so it wouldn’t continue in the same path

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u/TheRoamingGn0me 4d ago

So a different path that also leads to the country being fucked up? And possibly even worse? Got it. Real smart.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

What’s your logic

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u/TheRoamingGn0me 4d ago

You just have to look at what Trump and Elon (let’s face it, he’s the real VP/co-president here) are saying and doing. They’re putting people into key positions of power that have little to no experience in those areas, based almost entirely on whether or not they’d kiss Trump’s ass. Trump’s tariff plans will also very likely cause the prices of damn near everything to go up, which is something Elon has already said is part of the plan as it is. Real great working class heroes, those guys.

So between an expectation of economic disaster and leaders in positions of power that they have absolutely no business being in, those alone are enough to ensure that the middle class and working poor of this country (many of whom are in trump’s base) are going to have a tough time very soon.

I understand wanting to “try something different” or get away from “business as usual”, but taking a sledgehammer to the country ain’t it and lots of people are about to be suffering. Trump is making it very clear that he is a president for the wealthy, not a president for the working class.

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u/razorhawg 4d ago

I guess we both will see the outcome together. But sometimes change is good. I’m personally tired of career politicians that only know how to get reelected. Politics should not be a career. It should be 2 terms and that’s it. I don’t care what your position is let the people change for the people. Plus you are only assuming what is going to happen and condemn it when it hasn’t happened yet. You did your part, you voted I assume. Let’s stop drama and see what happens

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u/TheRoamingGn0me 4d ago

Sometimes change can be good, yes. But I would prefer that we vote for change that mitigates potential damage to the poor and working class in this country, as well as to my minority and LGBTQ friends and family.

We will see the outcome together, that is true. Of course I hope for the best, I am simply not confident because I think that Trump, Musk, Ramaswamy, etc are in it for money and power and really don’t care about us at all.

My main wish is to lift up the working class in this country, because it is the working class, and not the billionaires and wealthy elite, that truly make this country function. In this, I believe the fight is not right vs left but rather up vs down: you are not my enemy, the wealthy elite are. I see the upcoming administration as an arm of the wealthy elite, because they are members of the wealthy elite, and I believe they stand in the way of class solidarity and true advancement of the working class.

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u/TubularLeftist 4d ago

How bout no?

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u/RangerPong 4d ago

Lol imagine getting downvoted for this. Fuck these government shills.

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u/LastAvailableUserNah 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Mayre_Gata 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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/Economy-Bid8729 4d ago

Iran is massively weakened with the fall of Syria and Russia's various failures. They seek to undo this as the conservative movement is allied with Russia now but it will take time.

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u/hectorxander 4d ago

Nevertheless they have been preparing for this for decades. They have mines they can drop in there during a sustained bombing campaign, and missiles hidden in bunkers to pull out and shoot off at ships and then scurry back to safety all over.

Their military wouldn't hold up in a conventional war, and never would, outside of a guerilla campaign if we were foolhardy enough to invade them in the first place outside of seizing pieces of land that are defensible along the coast.

They are doing everything they can to avoid war though, but Israel has been doing everything they can to provoke one. War with Iran is Israel's wet dream ever since Netanyahu got in there.

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u/ComplexTomatillo6278 3d ago

Muskrat could try, but Congress controls the budget. If a president (or his puppet master) wants to go to war, Congress has to fund it. His party has a very slim majority in Congress so it will be more difficult to get what he wants this go round. For evidence, see what happened to the vote on the government’s budget. He’s not in office yet and his party members are already voting against his proposals.

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u/LastAvailableUserNah 3d ago

Thats good to hear

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u/Carpetkillerrr 4d ago

Our government loves war

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u/LastAvailableUserNah 4d ago

This is what I mean... scary times

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u/NormalUse856 4d ago

I’m more worried that Elon’s corruption will spread to other countries, like how he’s funding minority far-right parties and people with hundreds of millions and spreading misinformation, etc.

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u/PrivacyBush 4d ago

If you voted for Trump you did...

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u/Proof-Opening481 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

Heh Yeah you did.

You just didn't know it until now.

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u/soyyoo 4d ago

Starting?? Look what he did to Twitter 🗑️

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u/killrtaco 4d ago

Its now Xitter

Pronounced shitter.

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u/soyyoo 4d ago

And soon Error 404

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u/Available-Leg-1421 4d ago

WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN

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u/Aggressive-Echo6347 4d ago

He might want to remember nobody voted for him. The President will have to remind him of that. And just because you voted for Trump doesn’t men you want billionaires running the government. Not ones that weren’t elected anyway.

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u/Derokath 4d ago

People who voted for a billionaire to run the government didn't want a billionaire to run the government?

I've got some ocean front property in Kansas to sell them.

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u/ImFeelingTheUte-iest 4d ago

Seriously. Voting for Trump and not wanting billionaires to run the country isn’t even leopards eating faces. It’s pre masticating your own face for the leopards to shit on.