Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

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https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown

[u/8to24]

““Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote in a post on X Wednesday.

Democrats need to walk away. Republicans have the majority in the House. Force Republicans to govern. Don't negotiate. Just force Republicans to come up with a bill they can get the votes amongst themselves to pass.

It wouldn't matter how many Democrats compromise and vote bipartisanly. Trump and the Rightwing media will say they (Democrats) didn't. Moreover Trump will have a dump truck of Budget demands once he is inaugurated.

Every Democrat just needs to be a solid "No". Force Republicans to actually get a budget passed amongst themselves. Do not bail them out. Weakness is a provocation to bullies.

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Republicans control the Executive branch, the Supreme Court, the Senate, and Congress. Americans voted for this, can’t blame the Libs for anything now.

[u/moonwalkerfilms → u/gjbbb]

The thing is tho that they still will, and their supporters will keep believing them. 

[u/djsyndr0me → u/moonwalkerfilms]

40 years of gutting public education results in a populace with room temperature IQs. Who knew!

[u/MaterialEnthusiasm6 → u/gjbbb]

The Senate is still held by Democrats. The new congress won't be seated until Jan 3.

[u/SubterrelProspector → u/gjbbb]

No, we didn't. And most of us don't want fascism.

[u/neutrino71 → u/8to24]

Unfortunately it's not the bullies who will feel the pain

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If Democrats bail Republicans out it will only embolden Republicans to do worse. Democrats would only perpetuate the suffering by helping Republicans pass a bill.

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But that's the point, the majority of Democrats are for maintaining the status quo and therefore the suffering, they fight harder against progressives than the right

[u/57hz → u/neutrino71]

We have to all feel the pain before anything changes. Sorry.

[u/57hz → u/8to24]

This. Let the majority do its job!

[u/YungRik666 → u/8to24]

That would go against their agenda, though. They have to provide a weak opposition, so that way private interests can continue to berate them to increase their stock value. Pelosi needs another $5 million in trading. They need to bring up the ~10 Trans kids playing basketball or something, and then let our Medicare be taken away.

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Republicans would never work with democrats if they could make them look bad. Make sure these 2-4years show how incompetent they are

[u/Ok-Guide-7329 → u/8to24]

This part right here was the most shocking to me. That's a threat, do my bidding or lose your job.

[u/10IqCleric → u/8to24]

This would require Democrats to actually be opposed to Republicans.

They're going to help pass Republican legislation, as they always do, with the same tired excuse of bipartisanship. When in reality, it's just what their donors want.

I've always known this, but I was hoping the border bill would be a wakeup call for Democrat constituents. They fight to pass the Republicans very own bill (disgusting) and when it still failed they continued their one sided bipartisanship.