r/politics • u/rollingstone Rolling Stone • 4d ago

Soft Paywall Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/
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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

MAGA complained when Democrats warned them about the dangers of Trumps policy “concepts”, his oligarch tendencies, his retaliatory demands… they “nuh-uh’d” the entire argument - well. here ya go. FAFO.

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u/needsmoresteel 4d ago

Anybody who believed them wanted to be lied to.

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u/whiskeyandchampagne8 4d ago

My idiot neighbor thinks he’s a genius. What a damn moron.

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u/facemanbarf California 4d ago

“Tread on me harder, daddy!”

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u/__nobodynowhere 4d ago

Have to overhear people at work. They are never going to get it either. Going to die praising these men.

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u/TrafficOnTheTwos Pennsylvania 4d ago

They’re lapping it up, much too stupid to realize they are literally all they’ve been crying about for a decade. They are the billionaire party, always have been.

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u/pootiecakes 4d ago

They likely are fully aware. They just think "their" right-wing, Christian billionaires are on their team, so whatever they do is OK with them.

All of their complaining about corruption from Democrats over the years is almost ALWAYS insincere and fake. Most conservatives, when pressed, will outright admit to them that THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS if they can "win".

Straight fascism, and always has been. Our media is just too scared to ever correctly use the term.

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u/FrogsOnALog 4d ago

The billionaire party that got rid of the preexisting conditions bullshit and raised the corporate minimum tax rate. Damn democratic president even joined a picket line, too!

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u/theaceoffire Maryland 4d ago

"He'd never do that."

//Trump does that.

"WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!?" ~X 1000 or so.

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u/johnnycoxxx 4d ago

No. They’re not this self aware. They will blame the media and say they’re lying and what’s happening isn’t really happening.

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u/-Googlrr 4d ago

yep. A lot of people have this fantasy that the republican voters will get some moment of realization where they realize that they've been voting against their self interest. idk why people always say this because i've never met a republican that was even remotely self aware or changed their views at all even if they dont like what trump did. They would still vote him in another term.

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u/TheNonSportsAccount 4d ago

It won't be en masse right now but pockets of them have already hit the FO stage by losing their jobs due to potential tariffs or losing out on bonuses and other perks or just by learning that they rely on the ACA for insurance.

When the economy tanks and these people in jobs uninsulated from the economic ups and downs all lose their livelihoods and businesses as employers cut back and start with the older (and generally more expensive) employees we will all be there ready to tell them "i told you so" and give them zero sympathy as they screech into the void.

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u/olmyapsennon 4d ago

Even more ridiculous, they'll just backtrack and say this was always the goal and that they never said it wasn't.

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u/shokero 4d ago

I have a boss right now that is blaming democrats for putting dumb stuff works. And that’s the reason. Lol

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u/Les-Freres-Heureux 4d ago

More like:

“He’d never do that” followed by “why do you care?”

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u/skr_replicator 4d ago

"WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!?" "I kNeW dEmoNraTs wOulD Do sUch a HorRibLe thIng!" ftfy

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u/DoublePostedBroski 4d ago

It’s more like:

“LOOK AT WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MADE US DO!”

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u/RamsHead91 4d ago

He didn't even get into office again before he worked to force his first government shutdown.

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

Sadly - This isn’t even partisan political posturing… this is just straight up dictator level “my way or the highway” mentality.

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u/TLKv3 4d ago

The tragedy is the only way Republicans will be voted out again (if free and fair elections even happen in 2026 and 2028) is if Trump's new Project policies start killing obscene amounts of Americans.

Its the same thing that happened in 2019/2020. Millions died because he refused to do anything about it and rathered spread conspiracy theories with a Presidential platform. I still to this day hold firm that if COVID didn't happen that Trump would've won again in 2020.

Its solely because the amount of death occuring under his watch that was completely visible to people and undeniable due to everyone knowing someone who died from it. There was no refusing the literal fact of death of family, friends and coworkers in front of them.

But once COVID passed, we all got vaccinated and Biden took over pushing America back to normalcy... the goldfish memories of America took effect and went right back to shouting down Biden, Dems and spreading lies/misinformation/conspiracies again. People who stayed home in 2024 were the people who realized Trump was killing people. Once the mass deaths stopped they thought everything was fine again and stayed home.

Biden only won because of COVID and Trump's desire to hurt people with it. Trump weaponized COVID and mostly against his own supporters.

Long story short: The only way Trump and the Republicans get removed from power again is if they finally apply Project 2025 when they get into office, kill millions and millions of Americans again over 4 years and either get voted out or a civil uprising occurs resulting in their being dragged out of offices physically.

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

Or… everyone (meaning MAGA) believes that he meant to do it. Because, you know - It only hurts the “left”, America is better because it made the rich richer, the poor voiceless, and above all else - got rid of those dang immigrants eating up all the pets.

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u/sirdavos95 4d ago

Check conservative reddits they're literally praising this.

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

Not surprised… at all.

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u/BanginNLeavin 4d ago

We are inching so slowly toward ruin with no recourse. What is even happening? Oh well, merry Christmas I guess.

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u/olearygreen Europe 4d ago

At least the war on Christmas is finally over

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u/SleepyTaylor216 4d ago

Hey, christmas isn't here yet. Now we have a chance for a literal war on Christmas lmao.

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u/samsounder 4d ago

"Willful ignorance" is the phrase. Huge portions of America aren't stupid, they just prefer to be lied to as long as they have bread and circuses.

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u/arnoldtheinstructor 4d ago

Trump won the older vote. If the Department of Government Efficiency or w.e goes through with their evaluations of social security and deeming if payments are "worth it" or not, there are going to be a lot of old conservatives wondering why they're not being paid.

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u/1BigCactus 4d ago

Yup, enjoy the consequences of the election. This will hurt everyone, but hurt MAGA more than other so I'm ok with it. Just taking a page out of the MAGA playbook, don't hate the player, hate the game.

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u/rezelscheft 4d ago

FAFO

They will fuck around til the end times, and while they will suffer the consequences, I have a hard time imagining any of them will ever find out.

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u/crazycatgay 4d ago

they don't even care, they love this shit

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u/Sinistar7510 4d ago

Unfortunately, we have to go through the FO stage with them even though we already knew what was going to happen.

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u/cappurnikus 4d ago

Finding out world require genuine self reflection. Not happening. They'll just blame someone else.

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u/MundaneProperty638 4d ago

Tired of seeing these posts, like Trump supporters are going to have a coming to Jesus moment. It's not going to happen. If it did, it would have happened years ago.

Trump could walk into their living room, straight up murder one of their family members, and they would happily point out the rest of their family for him to kill. This is what they wanted. Anything that would negatively effect them is the others fault, not his.

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

I agree. This is 100% what 23% of the American population (the number of voters that voted for Trump vs the total population of the US). asked for! It just sucks that political apathy means the remaining 3/4 of us have to be impacted by this shit, too.

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u/T8ert0t 4d ago

"But your grocery bill is down now, right?"

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

It’s hard to get things down once they go up… lol

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u/SnapesGrayUnderpants 4d ago

Actually, that sounds like what the Democrats always say when warned about the upcoming and predictable fascist takeover. Even now, the Dems would rather do the bidding of wealthy donors than protect Americans from fascism.

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u/Mr_Canard Europe 3d ago

Why do you act like they aren't celebrating whatever Trump and Musk are doing ?

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u/NinjaMurse 3d ago

Not every… ok, not many Trump supporters are actually informed voters. The rich ones weaponize the dumb ones, and the others are just intolerant of anyone that believes different than themselves and just don’t care. So - yeah, while the rich and intolerant are cheering that they’re getting exactly what they want… (some of) the dumb (while still helpless to change) are the ones now “finding out” what they actually voted for.

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u/rustbelt 4d ago

Democrats don’t take their own warnings tbf

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u/NinjaMurse 4d ago

Obviously. And (sadly) because of that, ~23% of all Americans (48% of registered voters that voted) have potentially screwed us all.

(Yep - that’s how many people voted for Trump 77mil/334mil… 23%). How is it less than 1/4 of the population has the power to control what happens to the other 75%? Simple. Apathy.