• Chris@lemmy.world
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    A little late there champ. You enabled the (other) fascists already, not sure there is coming back.

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    Man… Just shut the fuck up already and go away…

    I’m all for him hurting the GOP and Trump’s image, but he is the absolute furthest fucking thing from what a political leader needs to be… He’s just doing this because he’s an attention whore who’s pissed that everyone hates him. He needs needs to be forced into the cave of mundanity and nothingness like the dispicable little troll he is.

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    The most likely outcome is nothing.

    The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

    If they weren’t such incompetent idiots I’d suspect it was a ploy to create a controlled opposition.

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      The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

      Why would MAGA follow Elon Musk? Better question. Who would even follow Elon Musk? He’s hated by one side for being a literal Nazi and the other side for for going against Trump. I guess he still had his tech bro and crypto toadies but those people aren’t really a reliable voter base.

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          Wanted: Nazi Toadie to run for political office.

          Requirements: Must have 12 years experience writing AI prompts and understand how to use X.

          Experience giving blowjobs to a malformed penis a plus.

          Compensation depends on how corrupt you are.

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      The Democrats are the controlled opposition. Look how strongly they resist actual progressives versus how strongly they resist Trump.

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    Let’s be clear about what is upsetting Musk. He is in favour of the tax cuts to the rich. He just thinks that the poor should SUFFER MORE to make the tax cuts happen. He wants to keep all of the stuff that will benefit him, and cut all the stuff that keeps everyday Americans alive. Please don’t spin this as some kind of redemption arc for Musk. If anything, he upset that Trump isn’t even shittier.

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    Reminding everyone that the bill contains a change to the constitution and the balance of powers between the branches of government.

    If this passes the executive branch can no longer be bound by the judicial.

    It’s a dictatorship the second the house passes this, then the only way Trump will ever leave office is when he dies.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Musk wrote on X and ketamine.

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    You know, I heard a rumor that AOC should run for president as an independent party, because she’d never make it through the Democratic primaries, but that would be a terrible idea, because it would split the party. Let’s say 50% of the country is Democratic and 50% is Republican; if the Democratic vote gets split 25% for the Democrat candidate and 25% for AOC, but the Republican vote stays 50% for their candidate, then the Republicans win in a landslide. I have a feeling that this is why the two-party system is so ingrained into our politics.

    But if the Republicans also split their party into MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans at the same time, then that election becomes somewhat balanced again, and probably closer to what the founding fathers actually intended. Granted, Elon isn’t calling for a new party for a presidential election, just to stop this bill, but still, it’d be interesting to see an election with four viable candidates rather than two.

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    Elon could bring the whole regime down if he chose to do so.

    Twitter isn’t completely dead, and he could gear all propaganda on it to suit his whims.

    He could slice this administration to ribbons if he chose to apply himself to the goal.