Elon now has real political power to flex and as we know he is a dumbass extraordinaire. Now he's come out railing against a stopgap funding bill that's chock full of pork because that's how you grease the skids

We are in for a rough four years

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/18/elon-musk-government-shutdown-bill-doge

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    Somebody back in October or November predicted Musk would be assassinated in December. At the time I was like, "yeah, okay, buddy". I think about that a lot recently.

  • rando895@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 hours ago

    I mean at this point the billionaires should just force a huge recession and use the opportunity to buy up all the businesses that go under, and homes that are foreclosed. They definitely have a big enough stranglehold on political economy

  • Runcible [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    I get that I might be off base but it's still not clear to me why people think Elon has a ton of power now that he didn't previously. Trump's presidency doesn't translate into Elon's power because Trump already got what he wanted and has no loyalty whatsoever. I thought it seemed pretty likely that this relationship was doomed because neither personality is able to restrain their own damaging bullshit and stay focused on their goals so why would they work well together?

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      Yeah people seem to forget that under the first Trump term, every other week there would be a new wormtongue sweet talking Trump into his or her idea of what to do, and then Trump would get bored or annoyed with them and move on to another advisor.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      The short answer is the chuds love him and so he can put pressure on reps with the bully pulpit

      Musk I think is happy to be a sycophant, he spends basically all his time on Twitter grovelling for attention, I don't see him taking issue with playing second fiddle to trump. We will see

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    It cannot be stressed enough how bad this would be: if Musk and his DOGE start cutting deficits, the US economy is going into recession. This is just the first of many to come, if they indeed let it happen.

    And I suspect the New Republicans will want to let that happen, because why not? The New Republicans want Trump to endure a bad economy under his tenure, while they get to punish the voters for not voting for Kamala. “See, this is what happens if you let Trump win.”

    This is going to be extremely bad.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      1 day ago

      yeah the dems are in full "FAFO" mode. they are absolutely giddy for this. apparently every one that posts about how happy they are for the "voters to get what they deserve" is fully insulated and independently wealthy.

      so yeah the party's actual base.

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      That's just the thing, if America eats shit economically the way it really might, then I'm not sure the union remains intact by the end of the decade. Like, suburbanite grillman guys who have never had to even think about having to tighten their belt will suddenly not be about to get there jalapeno poppers at Applebee's, or afford the gas to go to an NFL game... And that's the same type of dude who's built themselves a small armory in their basement. Trump comes in promising the world, but plummets the country into 3rd world levels of poverty - that ain't going to end well for them.

  • sisatici [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    He is a billionaire he always had political power in USA lol

  • vertexarray [any]
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    2 days ago

    I've been saying it for years: warlordism is the slimmest form of government