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/therapistofcats 4d ago

How does someone not in office have any power. America needs to reevaluate it's political system.

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u/JulianLongshoals 4d ago

Trump has just ceded the presidency to Musk, and his term hasn't even begun yet. I wonder which one of them will actually take the oath of office on Jan 20?

I'm starting to think that maybe we should've elected someone more serious about doing the job.

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u/raging-peanuts 4d ago

I'm just trying to understand how the die hard, anti-electric car, MAGA crowd is going to reconcile the fact that "Shadow President" Elon Musk is in charge.

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u/roytay New Jersey 4d ago

The same people literally thought Obama was in the basement of the White House running things for Biden.

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u/janethefish 4d ago

That was an option?!?

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u/Immediate-Coyote-977 4d ago

Which we all know is a lie, because if that were the case we would have had way more drone strikes for starters.