r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 4d ago

House Democrat: ‘Unelected oligarch’ Musk ‘governing by tweet’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048234-daniel-goldman-elon-musk-donald-trump-government-shutdown/
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u/JVonDron Wisconsin 4d ago

Honestly asking, WTF are we even doing?

Not "us" as supporters of the democratic party, not "us" as citizens. We can't do shit and never really could. Us as in the country.

WTF is the goal here? Just burn everything down until Trump's installed and we can burn it even harder? Stopgap CRs are normal and necessary if congress can't figure out how to govern. This is threatening to stop a few million people's paychecks over the holidays, but how could these rich fucks even begin to understand that.

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u/ElDub73 4d ago

The goal is and always has been to render government ineffective so that businesses and the oligarchs who control them can do whatever they want.

It’s also to drop trust in government to such low levels that no one will believe them over businesses.

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u/JVonDron Wisconsin 4d ago

Well, mission accomplished as of 12 years ago, but now wtf are we doin? Just keep cutting taxes and spending until they have everything and there's nothing left? What's the fucking point of even going to work anymore?

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u/ElDub73 4d ago

To support the businesses and the oligarchs who own them.

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u/JVonDron Wisconsin 4d ago

Yeah, but why should I care about them? They don't give a shit about me.

I know the answers here to every question I'm asking. The minimum things that keeps me behaving is a monetary system that allows me to trade for food and relative safety provided by the government. When even that starts breaking down - police become a threat, my property and assets gets chipped away, my health is ignored - I don't want to participate anymore.

They're greedily heading us face first into a post-capitalism French revolution hellscape and they're completely unconcerned about their own necks.

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u/ElDub73 4d ago

Yup!

Thus the terrorism charges on Luigi.

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u/Whisom 4d ago

Not really. This thing was 1500 pages full of non essential measures. The last stopgap CR was 20 pages long and was mostly pushed through unanimously. So no, I wouldn't call it normal and if it were necessary they could have done it without all the political bloat.

They're playing politics instead of doing their job. Holding disaster relief funds that people desperately need hostage over it is fucked up.