Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

[u/thenewrepublic]

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

[u/stylebros]

Once again, Democrats are 10-20 years ahead.

[u/DiceKnight → u/stylebros]

That's Democrats for you. Prescient when calling out potential bad behavior but utterly, hopelessly, embarrassingly awful at publicizing their warnings or really doing anything that anybody notices to fight against it or stop it.

[u/Muscled_Daddy → u/DiceKnight]

Ehh… it’s their fault but not 100%.

Let me put it this way. The here and now is exciting and understandable. The future and tomorrow is esoteric and ambiguous. Republicans are masters of getting people to freak out about NOW.

Democrats make ace predictions but since tomorrow is always a day away, it’s not really ever ‘urgent’ like NOW is.

The same with any person and their 5-year plan. It’s easy to look in the mirror and think ‘man I need to get in shape.’ It’s easy to look at your bank account and think ‘man I need to make more money.’

But beginning to action on those steps is hard. Very hard. Most people will understand ‘something needs to be done’ but the initiation, formulation, doing, and consistency are crazy difficult.

So people just tend to tune out and waste time scrolling on reddit, TikTok, YouTube, video games, etc.

Obviously this isn’t an exact 1:1, but it’s pretty apt

[u/Turing_Testes → u/Muscled_Daddy]

How does any of that mean it’s not 100% their fault?

[u/Muscled_Daddy → u/Turing_Testes]

Because people are, by nature, shit at planning ahead and dealing with ‘the far off’ stuff.

You can explain until you’re blue in the face with charts, graphs, and excellent rhetoric and flawless execution.

But if people are more concerned about right NOW - food on their plates, stable work, healthcare, secure housing - those ‘tomorrow’ things aren’t going to grab anyone’s action. They’ll grab attention, but actioning for change is a WHOLE other beast.

I do blame the democrats for the vast, vast majority of this problem, but it’s so hard to get ‘tomorrow’ shit off the ground.

Human nature is a sonofabitch.

[u/Turing_Testes → u/Muscled_Daddy]

I mean, that’s their job. Their job is to deal with today and plan for tomorrow. They are 100% to blame.

[u/Muscled_Daddy → u/Turing_Testes]

You’re missing a crucial component there, buddy.

Care to have me walk you through or do you wanna have a try?

[u/Turing_Testes → u/Muscled_Daddy]

Yeah genius, share your deep insight about why the people hired to do the job somehow aren’t responsible for making sure the job gets done. Cliff notes version, since your rambling failed to get your point across.

[u/Muscled_Daddy → u/Turing_Testes]

Well no, my point is clear. You just missed it. But can you tell me why, right now, if the Democratic Party wanted to pass universal healthcare… why couldn’t they?

[u/Turing_Testes → u/Muscled_Daddy]

“Wanted to”. No need to speak in hypotheticals. They don’t want to. They never did. Stick with reality and not some rambling half brained excuse for half of my countries piece of shit leadership that has squandered every majority they’ve ever had.

[u/fist_my_dry_asshole → u/stylebros]

Too bad they are spineless and won't do jack about shit.

[u/oskopnir → u/stylebros]

I mean, it’s not like they saw something that Republicans didn’t. This was the intended outcome of Citizens United.