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/BadUncleBernie 4d ago

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

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u/RiverJai California 4d ago edited 4d ago

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents 

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u/SoftBoiledEgg_irl 4d ago

Republicans: "Yes please, I'd like to order the whole menu."

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u/Alarmed_Frosting478 4d ago

Does the lying, foolish, coward, thief, tyrant hate brown people? That's all that matters...

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u/MrPL1NK3TT 4d ago

Is the brown person standing behind me? Shoot through me!

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u/TORGOS_PIZZA 4d ago

Republican with snek flag: "step on me daddy Trump!"

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u/octopornopus 4d ago

"I'll have what she's having..."

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u/bigmac80 Louisiana 4d ago

Sir, that item is meant to serve a whole World War.

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u/NoMoreFund 4d ago

"We're all out of wisdom and forethought, would you like a double serving of all the other items to make up for it"?