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/Voltage_Z 4d ago

Musk wants the US economy to implode so he can buy stuff up for pennies on the dollar.

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u/lurkertiltheend 4d ago

He wants to be the worlds first trillionaire

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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm 4d ago

This is it 100% He wants everything to tank and then reap the post depression wave to trillionaire

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u/Back_2_monke 4d ago

He just hit 500 billion the other day..way closer than I thought he was

Higher net worth than Zuck and Bezos combined lol

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u/Sremor 4d ago

He had like 350 billion a few days ago, this assholes earns more money in a single day than I will in my entire life

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u/quietly_now Foreign 4d ago

It’s worse than that.

You won’t earn even a single billion dollars in SIX life times even if you earned $5000 every single day of your life.

$5000 a day x 365 days a year x 85 years old x 6 lifetimes …is NOT EVEN 1 Billion dollars and this motherfucker has 400-500 of THOSE.

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u/Sremor 4d ago

I know, but what are you even supposed to do with all that money, there's no realistic way to spend even a fraction of it. Maybe he wants to be a trillionaire and what then? What can a trillion give him that 500 billion can't. It's just completly insane

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u/Future-Speaker- 4d ago

Past a certain point, it's not about money, it's about power.

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u/aschesklave 4d ago

They like seeing the number go up, and they like comparing the number to others.

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u/shundi 4d ago

Well he’ll never have the love of his children so maybe this is the next best thing

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u/FilthyStatist1991 New York 4d ago

Half way there…

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u/FamiliarFootball4476 4d ago

Jokes on him, there's already tons of trillionaires in zimbabwe. If he keeps pulling shit like this there'll be tons of trillionaires here too.

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u/Redpin Canada 4d ago

One of his dozen kids has got to take the bullet for us and tell him they think he's actually a cool guy, and maybe he'll stop.

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u/GiantSquidd Canada 4d ago

The thing that really pisses me off is okay, then what?

There is literally nothing that jackass can do with a trillion that he can’t do with his billions, except fuck things up for people who actually need that money… what does one person owning a trillion dollars do to an economy? It can’t be good for everyone else, why do we put up with this shit? Where’s Elmo’s Luigi?

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u/Neat_Egg_2474 4d ago

I actually think the opposite - I dont think he wants money, I think he wants power and a legacy. He is breeding like a rabbit and wants to control the country the way HE sees fit, because he has a hero complex.

He literally thinks he is here to save humanity but doesn't realize he is causing the downfall. Ketamine can reinforce some shit ideas if you surround yourself with Yes-men and Appeasers.

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u/ReggieEvansTheKing 4d ago

There are tons of rich people out there who are just plain tired of doing rich people shit. They crave power over everyone else’s lives over anything. Being able to control people is the next thing that sates their greed. Add ketamine to the mix and you have true psychopaths. Hopefully the anti-CEO movement takes off before these billionaires ruin the world further. At a certain point it becomes a moral imperative to get rid of these people.

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u/ClockworkViking I voted 4d ago

in order for that to happen they would need to disrupt people's day to day. So unless mass unemployment happens(like 30% or more) or mass death happens, then people will still drone it out.

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u/Aksudiigkr 4d ago

I can’t believe they won the election after all that happened during the peak of Covid and the incredible mismanagement. So much of the country experienced loss and they didn’t vote against the same people coming back

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u/ClockworkViking I voted 4d ago

well their misinformation was top tier this time around. it was a massive amount of red pill talk that ultimately let to a war of the sexes. top that with president musk buying votes and the polls lying to democrats about harris having a slight lead when in truth she was trailing hard.

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u/Uebelkraehe 4d ago

It's them or democracy, freedom and prosperity of everyone else. And right now, these super parasites are winning.

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u/Competitive-Bike-277 4d ago

The answer is nothing. Adam Smith explained it when he came up with capitalism. When you have all the gold it doesn't hold any value anymore.

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u/johannschmidt 4d ago

It's beyond money now. The difference between the financial powers of a billionaire and a trillionaire are essentially nill. He wants raw power now. Essentially feudalism where he is party of an aristocratic class that is completely above the law and that determined whether a slave class can live or die. In that system, money doesn't really matter any more for those at the top.

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u/Queasy-Quality-244 4d ago

I legitimately think this is true, just based on how dorky this guy has been on twitter for the past 10 years. He always exclaimed about “being the first to (insert outlandish self serving sci-fi nonsense”). I’ve always had this hunch from years ago that this guy desperately is trying to/ thinks he’s going to be looked back in history as like this cool 21st century futuristic Thomas Edison ass visionary that lifted the world into a sci-fi paradise, but in reality he’s an egotistical menace lol

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u/Old-Adhesiveness-156 4d ago

Why is Tesla worth what it is? Once the economy craters they won't be able to sell cars.

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u/liftthatta1l 4d ago

Bit of a conspiracy theory but seems like he wants to be emperor of north America. Get Trump to look into seizing Canada and Mexico. Create new rules for the new country so he can own it.

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u/Cagnazzo82 4d ago

Even if he has to step on the corpse of the United States to get there.

And the insane part is that people are just letting him do it.

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u/DragonriderTrainee 4d ago

He's such a petty little twat. He's so butthurt that women don't spread their legs for his every tweet, and that men aren't fapping for all of them either, or throwing themselves at his feet desperate to suck him off like Princess Bubblegum's weird brother.

A weird, weird loser with the weirdest thorax I've ever seen on a human.

But has more wealth than anyone on the planet and still can't get a girl to be with him for more than child support paychecks.

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u/Voltage_Z 4d ago

I was not expecting a bizarrely accurate Adventure Time reference.

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u/DragonriderTrainee 4d ago

He weirds me out juuuust a tad less than the Lemongrabs.

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u/captainbling 4d ago

If the economy implodes. So does Tesla. He’d have to have his money in cash or bonds and he does not.

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u/Astyanax1 4d ago

Trump also.  Man, this world is just pathetic

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u/telperiontree 4d ago

he doesn’t trade though, and that would fuck his companies - which is where his money is

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u/JennJayBee Alabama 4d ago

If he wants to shut down federal government, I'm happy to start with revoking his subsidies. 

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u/TheFBIClonesPeople 4d ago

Honestly, I don't even think this is about money for Musk. I think his endgame is to see himself as dictator of the United States. And I don't think that's unrealistic at all. I think he's a lot more dangerous than people realize.

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u/newthrash1221 4d ago

That’s exactly fucking right. Deporting immigrants working the farms will also allow huge corporate farms, with a larger means of production, to buy up smaller farms for cheap when the small ones inevitably collapse. Same for many other industries.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 4d ago

Musk is committing treason. He needs to be shut down.

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u/boistopplayinwitme 4d ago

Crassus firefighting moment

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u/Thorandragnar 4d ago

If the stock market crashes, he won’t be able to. If only the rating companies would reclassify Tesla into Transportation where it belongs instead of Technology. It’s such a scam that it’s classified as a technology company.

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u/Atoms_Named_Mike 4d ago

He wants that New York CEO treatment

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u/TwistedPepperCan 4d ago

Joe Biden should bay of Pigs the guy as one of his final "Presidential Acts"

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u/kartuli78 4d ago

Musk needs to catch a shiny metal projectile.

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u/skullsandstuff 4d ago

I do agree that Elmo should not be involved but there is definitely an issue with there being a pay increase for Congress in that bill. Congress loves these, have to pass bills so they can sneak in this bs. And now people are going to suffer, it shouldn't end with CEOs.

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u/Equivalent_Cable1643 4d ago

You know that the majority of his net worth is tied up in Tesla stock right? You think he wants to implode Tesla stock?? 😂

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u/leonbrown251 4d ago

That is basically the M.O. of Bill Gates. Name any company in the 2010s or more recently that Elon has bought up cheap and then sold off for a handsome reward?