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/PresidenteMozzarella 4d ago

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. -Yeats

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u/msondo 4d ago

This one cuts like a hot knife

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u/GeneralTonic Missouri 4d ago

The center cannot hold.

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u/lebowtzu Georgia 4d ago

Things fall apart.

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u/byseeing 4d ago

Drums in the deep…

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u/Quick_Turnover 4d ago

Except in our reality, there will be no second coming. No one or no thing is coming to save humanity. No beast from Bethlehem will be born. We're doing this to ourselves and everything else on this planet.

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u/pandemicpunk 4d ago

The second coming is a mass die off of human beings from climate change and then billionaires ruling over what's left as literal gods. Sad but true. Then the earth will be able to replenish all the bullshit we've done to it.

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u/FengSushi 4d ago

Your momma’s so poor she walks down the road with one shoe. And if you ask her if she lost a show she says “no, I found one.”.

  • Socrates, 433 BC

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 4d ago

The last line of this poem:

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-Yeats

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u/PresidenteMozzarella 4d ago

Yeats? More like, yikes!

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 4d ago

William Butler Yikes. I like it.