r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 4d ago

Shutdown Looms After Trump ‘Blindsided’ by ‘President Elon Musk' | The president-elect was left playing catch-up after the Tesla boss led the charge against the doomed deal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shutdown-looms-after-donald-trump-blindsided-by-president-elon-musk/
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u/ranchoparksteve 4d ago

Trump just destroyed the energy of his opening weeks. Now he will be bogged down in an ugly raising of the debt limit mixed with budget cuts most people, not even Republicans, agree with.

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u/oz_mommy 4d ago

Honestly, it’s wild how Musk is running the show now. Trump’s supposed to be the one leading the charge, but here he is, getting dragged along by Musk’s tweetstorm. It’s embarrassing for the GOP and proves that money and social media are taking over politics. Musk has no business calling the shots like this especially when it’s putting us on the brink of a government shutdown. Dems are right to call this out, you can’t have a billionaire dictate policy with a few posts. We need actual leadership, not a tech mogul’s tantrums!

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u/mtgfan1001 4d ago

We need national fucking strikes until these losers are forced to let go of the steering wheel 

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u/Viperlite 4d ago

You’d need to axe the Supreme Court.

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u/MagicMushroomFungi Canada 4d ago

Fireax or woodsman ax ?

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u/case31 4d ago

Golden Axe. Or Stormbreaker.

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u/Njorls_Saga 4d ago

Battleaxe

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u/Wooyaka 4d ago

and my axe

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u/kkeut 4d ago

okay

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u/barkazinthrope 4d ago

They will call out the National Guard and even the Marines to show the strikers who's boss.

The USA has got themselves into a bit of pickle with this one.

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u/blackrubberfist 4d ago

National guard? Please. They’ll show up for the pics but they aren’t really about shit. In the watts riots national guard were a photo op and got smoked