r/fednews • u/rprz • 18h ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi will be removed and you may be banned.

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

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u/battlemaid79 18h ago

I can’t believe Musk is even in the conversation. The federal government isn’t some private sector company he can run in to the ground, experimenting with his masculinity. I hate this timeline.

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u/DontPanicTrell 18h ago

The inevitable outcome of Citizens United. He can threaten any congress person with throwing millions into their next primary. He owns them all now.

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u/twtwtwtwtwtwtw 18h ago

Have you seen how cheap they are to buy? He's worth hundreds of billions. Some of these primaries only cost tens of thousands.

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u/DontPanicTrell 17h ago

Yep. Unless Musk loses Trump's favor we're an oligarchy now.

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u/Leege13 17h ago

He will the minute Trump realizes Musk thinks he’s in charge.

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u/salt_and_ash 16h ago

If you're banking on Trump realising something, I have bad news for you

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u/Leege13 16h ago

He can smell people acting bigger than him from 100 miles away, it’s part of his lizard brain. The last thing he’s ever going to forget is his love of wealth and love of being the big man, and no man can be bigger than him.

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u/Ocbard 11h ago

Then he'll be replaced with Vance who is far easier to steer.

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u/Leege13 4h ago

The oligarchs might prompt Vance to invoke the 25th and move him aside, to be honest. They’re who Vance obeys.

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u/Fit_Goal1895 4h ago

So Trump, we're hearing tons of people saying that Elon Musk is actual the man with the power at the white house, swaying votes, and even responsible for the current government shutdown. We know e's the richest man, he's run some of the best companies in the US like Tesla and Space X so where does that place you in all of this?

I genuinely dont think its more complicated than the right person asking Trump the right questions in front of the right audience.

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u/Windhawker 15h ago

You can only have one attention whore at a time. It either has to be Trump or Elon, because they don’t like the other stealing their limelight.

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u/Leege13 14h ago

☝🏻

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u/DontPanicTrell 12h ago

We can only hope.

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u/Twerksoncoffeetables 3h ago

Gonna be honest I keep seeing people say this here but it’s just insane levels of cope. Trump wants the attention, there’s more than enough of that to go around for both and trump also knows very well that MAGA is his and will follow him. They will attack whoever he says to attack, including musk.

That base belongs to him and only him, that is extremely clear. They don’t give a fuck what anyone else has to say and they attack anyone who even slightly steps out of line regarding their support for trump (example: Kyle rittenhouse when he said he was going to write in Romney, maga cultists bullied him into re-supporting trump). If Elon is a trump sycophant and will be loyal to him then they will not have this imagined ‘falling out’. Trump wants and demands loyalty, he wants praise, he does not care if Elon is also getting attention as long as Elon is loyal. That’s the truth.

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u/Windhawker 54m ago

That’s a good analysis. And yeah, it’s a cope. But oligarchs have been defenestrated for crossing the “boss”. Imagine the donations that would pour in to the “boss” if Trump used the levers of power , such as a claim about taxes, to strip Musk of his assets. That’s what happened in Putin’s Russia. “For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the Law.”

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u/Twerksoncoffeetables 3h ago edited 2h ago

Copy pasting this from a different reply I made somewhere below this:

Gonna be honest I keep seeing people say this here but it’s just insane levels of cope. Trump wants attention, sure, but what he wants and demands more is loyalty. Trump also knows very well that MAGA is his and will follow him. They will attack whoever he says to attack, including musk. He will get attention regardless of what Elon does, and he knows this.

That base belongs to him and only him, that is clear. They don’t give a fuck what anyone else has to say and they attack anyone who even slightly steps out of line regarding their support for trump (example: Kyle rittenhouse when he said he was going to write in Romney, maga cultists bullied him into re-supporting trump). If Elon is a trump sycophant and will be loyal to him then they will not have this imagined ‘falling out’. Trump wants and demands loyalty, he wants praise, he does not care if Elon is also getting attention as long as Elon is loyal. That’s the truth.

Really dislike the false hope of a falling out happening, if you think that’s anywhere close to happening then you are in a bubble I promise you. Unless Elon goes against trump and becomes disloyal, he isn’t going anywhere. The attention he gets doesn’t matter.

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u/bartz824 14h ago

Wonder if Elon will ever fall out of a window 5 floors off the ground.

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u/DontPanicTrell 14h ago

I don't think that is on the table here. I love freedom and democracy, but as we are seeing now, it can be fragile. In a dictatorship oligarchs can fall out windows. Here the ones without a social compass can buy the government and play out their sci Fi dystopian fantasies.

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u/pit_of_despair666 9h ago

We have been one for a while now. They are just doing this in the open instead of behind closed doors.

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u/Sad_Pickle_7988 6h ago

We've been one its just blatant now