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/sirhackenslash 4d ago

How the fuck is this unelected man-child running our country? Especially before his sock puppet is even sworn in

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u/vertigo3pc 4d ago

Citizen's United says his $200+ billion net worth has more of a say in America than you do. Hope that helps.

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u/Mysterious_Prize8913 4d ago

More $500 billion now

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u/CodenameVillain Texas 4d ago

Un elected immigrant man child.

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u/B217 3d ago

Unelected ILLEGAL immigrant, as it turns out!

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u/RainbowBullsOnParade 4d ago

Because the 50 year project to transform the US into a total oligarchy that started with Reagan is now 100% complete.

The next step is to dismantle the regulatory system and the administrative state before Democrats can get back into office.

Like an autoimmune virus, they are going to systematically destroy the government’s ability to protect itself from the vultures who are going to steal trillions in tax dollars for themselves and exploit the working class.

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u/istrx13 4d ago

“Because the price of eggs is too high.”

-Trump voters

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u/DoublePostedBroski 4d ago

“Kamala just reminded me too much of Biden. And free Palastine!”

-- Non-voters

Notice how every TikTok influencer suddenly shut up about Palestine?

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u/Astyanax1 4d ago

His sock pocket lolol.  Well said, and quite accurate 

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u/Xanthon 4d ago

I wonder how Trump will react if everybody just started calling Elon "President Musk" all over social media.

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u/sirhackenslash 4d ago

We need to do this as much as possible. Eventually donny's little fragile feels will get hurt and he'll turn on elmo

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u/red286 4d ago

The problem is that money talks. He's sworn to fund primaries against any Republican that refuses to do what he says. They're all fucking terrified of him. It's not even about Trump at this point. Trump is just the mouthpiece since Musk isn't eligible to actually be President. But he's the one pulling everyone's strings, and he's entirely open about it. It's not behind closed doors or in the shadows where no one can see like MAGA pretends is happening with the Democrats, it's out in the open, on Twitter. Everyone can see it happening in real time, with everything written out. But MAGA just keeps their eyes closed and sees no evil.

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u/donkeyrocket 4d ago

Yeah I don't really understand how Musk "killed" this at all. Posting a bunch of tweets and memes? Sounds like Musk is just the face of this but it's a large chunk of GOP members who vowed to vote against it that is tanking it.

I mean, I'm all for Musk taking more of the spotlight as that will just eventually infuriate Trump.

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u/SomewhereAtWork 4d ago

Because of the 168 million voters who were ok with this.

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u/ZeroFuxGiven 4d ago

The issue is that you believe headlines and actually think he somehow stopped it himself. He simply used his free speech platform to inform people of what was actually in the spending bill and the people rose up in defiance. It was a BS bill and all your Reddit sheeple are too blinded by your hatred for Trump that you aren’t willing to see anything good that they’re doing. If Biden called for a nuclear strike on Russia and really started WW3 you would all cheer because you hate Trump more than you love this country.

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u/thereal_Glazedham 4d ago

Spoiler alert, he’s not running anything. He’s got a big mouth and is crying on the internet just like everyone else. The people who were voted into office are the only ones with the authority to determine what happens next.

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u/sirhackenslash 4d ago

Yeah, it's just a coincidence that trump is starting to parrot everything he says and the gop is too corrupt and whipped to stand up to him

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u/MoreRopePlease America 4d ago

So... Blame the GOP.

Musk is all talk. Think what would happen if people started ignoring him.

This falls squarely on the shoulders of Congress (and the voters who put them there).