Summary
Democrats Stansbury and Raskin introduced the “Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act,” which targets Elon Musk’s dismantling of federal services through the DOGE cost-cutting scheme.
It seeks personal liability for Musk, amid lawsuits and concerns over sensitive data access.
The proposal aims to protect taxpayers and critical federal operations against unauthorized actions.
No one elected Hitler either - he was appointed chancellor by German president Hindenburg.
We’ve been following the pre-Nazi playbook to the letter, and an octogenarian just handing out a fuck-ton of power to a vocal shitstain is one of the many parallels.
This is NOT what I meant when I said NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! I meant POOR BROWN ONES not RICH ones STEALING my Social Security Information!
Why is nobody opening any action against Musk’s legal status? He’ll probably win, but anything in his defense would set precedent for defending other immigrants.
Throw the fucker in jail
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Not even gonna get to a vote. No one in the GOP cares. Good effort guys.
Doesn’t matter. The most important thing for dems to do right now is signal they don’t like this. Their goal is getting the house in 2026 so they can run hearings for the second half of the Trump presidency.
An even better goal is to grab a few senate seats too so they can go for a possible impeachment.
they would literally have to win every single seat up in 2026 to have that shot.
considering the states with senate races in 2026, there’s a ‘nearest-to-zero as you can possibly get’ chance of that happening.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
just reclaiming a simple majority will be extremely difficult.
How will they do that though?
And even if they could, is impeachment going to somehow stop Trump this time, when it didn’t last time and he’s more powerful now? Sure, try whatever you can, but it still feels like the Democrats have not realized they’re up against a massively popular Nazi movement that is already in government and conducting purges.
Thats why you need both the senate and the house. Impeachment means nothing if you dont have both chambers because you need the other to actually enforce the impeachment
The other issue would be getting ANYONE to actually remove him from office. I don’t trust Congress to do it, I don’t trust the judiciary to order it, and I sure don’t trust any federal law enforcement agency to do it now.
It is not massively popular. Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that. These mouth-breathing troglodytes are in the very slim minority as far as the whole population goes. A lot of the people voting for him actually did not know what they were voting for - I was just talking to one of my friends overseas and they had no idea about quite literally ANY of the things Trump and Musk are doing. I told them about the Department of Education, USAID, the Treasury access, and the concentration camps, and then they interrupted to offer to let me stay with them and seek asylum from the government here.
Many people in the US were in the same boat. The Fediverse gives the people on it a lot of information most people don’t ever see, and the more people learn about what’s actually going on the more people will start to oppose it.
Defeatist
Thanks Copernicus
It got a news article. That’s better than crying in the fetal position for another 2 years.
They need more of this. How about an “Anti-Enabling Act”?
Can some person explain why they can’t just go to the police and have him arrested? Why do these empty actions?
Not sure if you are being serious or not. Police do not exist in society to protect the people, they exist to protect the rich.
Any police officer who attempted to arrest one of the richest people would immediately be hit with a lawsuit, likely lose their job within a couple days, and be shunned by the rest of their gang. Not to mention the situation could easily escalate given that most rich people have private guards who are equally armed to defend themselves in case of any Luigi’s.
Additionally police don’t tend to just go arrest high profile people without a lot of justification for doing so ahead of time, such as an arrest warrant, and lots of paper work.
If someone went to a police precinct and told them to arrest him, they’d probably first get a good laugh out of the people behind the desk, and then told to leave immediately.
True, all rich people have escaped the law, not a single one behind bars, ever, I never realized that!
No one is saying they can’t be put behind bars. Try to name a billionaire that was arrested in the US that got arrested without a mountain of paperwork, slow judicial due diligence, and they eventually went to prison.
They are not above the law, but they can control it when they need to. Cops do not fear you or me, but they certainly fear the powerful, and money is often synonymous with power in the US.
Sam Bankman-Fried
You kiddn’? He’s rich and white. He’s like Mr. Nimbus; he controls the police!
This NEEDS to happen.
Democrats finally noticed the clown show? Musk’s been playing meme-stock messiah while regulators snoozed. Now they’re scrambling to write laws that should’ve existed before letting a hype-man cosplay as economy-in-chief. Newsflash: billionaires aren’t your friends.
This bill’s a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Musk’s empire thrives on legal gray zones and fanboys who think SEC stands for “Suggestions Eventually Cancelled.” Meanwhile, Dogecoin’s just his latest grift—digital confetti for pump-and-dump sycophants.
Democracy’s a joke? Obviously. But watching Dems pretend to rein in their own Frankenstein? Peak comedy. Next up: laws ensuring water’s wet.
Kinda sad ya gotta legislate something that friggin obvious
Ok, sure, but wouldn’t he just get a pardon? Isn’t this why the duo of the world’s richest man and the most corrupt(able) president so perfectly sinister? Feels bad man
You can’t pardon away a law. They’re seeking liability not criminal punishment and conviction.
It’s not really intended to cause Musk harm, but to force Republicans to explicitly vote for musks continued assholery
but to force Republicans to explicitly vote for musks continued assholery
You say that as though it’ll cause even a second of hesitation from those shitstains to enthusiastically vote for musk’s continued assholery…
Having a paper trail that they did so will be important if we ever regain control of our country. I want every receipt of every action to be a matter of national history data.
And? So what? It’s important to make them vote because the alternative is letting them get away without stating their position. Then when the elections roll around they just claim they never supported the unpopular shit they did. Don’t let them memory hole their abuses in real time.
A President can pardon federal criminal convictions. He can’t erase civil liability if people personally sue Musk.
How about get rid of Qualified Immunity?
They know they can’t do anything, but everyone was yelling “Do something!”.
