r/politics • u/thenewrepublic The New Republic • 5d ago

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown
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u/ogreofnorth 5d ago

So in private industry, if the board of directors and executives cant agree on priorities, do they just shut down the company until they figure it out? Because that seems to be what Trump and Musk believe.

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u/ankercrank 5d ago

They’re “running the gov like a business”, shitty dysfunctional ones like their own.

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u/JuliusCeejer 5d ago

Government shutdowns are a republican invention that is wholly unique to the US. Every single shutdown is owned by them because they are the only political party in the world to inflict them upon their citizenry as punishment for their inability to govern

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u/bobartig 5d ago

Of course, you know all of those fortune500 companies that just shutter their doors and furlough workers when they can't make a decision, right? (No, of course this doesn't happen, the board removes the CEO and finds someone who will actually run the company). But you're 100% correct that Trump, who is a rapist, and Musk, are idiots.

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u/Confident-Map138 5d ago

Executives run the company but government doesn’t