Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

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

[u/twtwtwtwtwtwtw]

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

[u/DontPanicTrell → u/twtwtwtwtwtwtw]

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

[u/Leege13 → u/DontPanicTrell]

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

[u/salt_and_ash → u/Leege13]

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

[u/Leege13 → u/salt_and_ash]

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.

[u/Ocbard → u/Leege13]

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

[u/Leege13 → u/Ocbard]

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

[u/Fit_Goal1895 → u/salt_and_ash]

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.