Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown

https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown

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  1. >House Speaker Mike Johnson appears to be getting cyberbullied by “efficiency” czar Elon Musk, over his continuing resolution.

    >Johnson’s resolution, which was released Tuesday, grants $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers, $100 billion for disaster relief, and enough money to keep the government open until March. It also opens the door for pay raises for members of Congress, among a slate of other things buried in the 1,547-page bill.

    >But not everyone is happy, especially Musk, the unelected billionaire who wants to slash government funding for pretty much everything except the military through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

  2. Because Elon get’s off on chaos that doesn’t impact him.

  3. Where’s the line between bullying and terrorism? Asking for the other 99%!

  4. I find it so cool that someone we did not vote for and doesn’t hold a cabinet position can wield so much power. He sounds like one of those CEOs that people hate.

  5. So in private industry, if the board of directors and executives cant agree on priorities, do they just shut down the company until they figure it out? Because that seems to be what Trump and Musk believe.

  6. It’s a bipartisan bill to HELP THE NATION, and Musk just wants anarchy. Who the fuck is running the country elected officials or Musk? There is no need to answer that.

  7. Of note: the stock market lost all of it’s post-election gains in 2 hours this afternoon. Freefall into the close and still trading lower after-hours. You might say it was because of the Fed announcement of the as-expect quarter-point cut, but that was a hugely bad fed announcement. Govt shutdown looming right before christmas might do it though.

  8. Biden needs to sic the capital police on the government trespasser.

  9. Musk really seems to think he’s in charge. Can’t imagine why tho. Lol.

  10. Well President-elect Musk said we have to go through some pain for the next few years, and it looks like he is making good on his campaign promise.

  11. It’s considered bullying when you go after someone with less money than you, but it’s terrorism when you go after someone with more money than you.

    Welcome to our capitalist country.

  12. Said it before and I’ll say it again. Joe needs to run with the SCOTUS immunity decision. Elon needs to be renditioned to a CIA black site. His douchiness aside, he is a threat to national security.

  13. I must have missed the part when America voted and made Elon Musk president.

  14. Trump is the ultimate example of what happens when you sell your government to the highest bidder.

  15. Musk doesn’t care. He can still feed his family and enjoy the holidays. If we shutdown all those government workers are not getting paid until things start up again.

  16. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this continuing resolution (like so many others) largely an effort to authorize payment for things the government has already approved? Blocking the payments is about the same as me refusing to pay my mortgage or car payments. The time to cut the budget is when the spending bills are first introduced, not when it comes time to pay for them.

  17. Fuck is he gonna do?

    It’s 2 years until the next election cycle. No one is gonna remember any bad shit politicians do right now when the time comes to vote again.

  18. Maybe Luigi should run for president on a platform of reining in ceos 🤔

  21. Imagine controlling all 3 branches of government and still shutting down the government, these are not serious people. 

  23. Defeating the US from inside. Russia doesn’t need to fight the US gov’t if there isn’t one. Hope the pay was good for selling out America to foreign dictators.

  24. What if — hear me out — what if we abolished the concept of “essential employees”? Cut the power in the Capitol Building, shut down the air traffic controllers [1], shut down the Presidential Protection Detail, shut down ICE and Border Patrol… Actually **close** the government.

    (And stop paying employees for the time off, unlike us contractors who get the days off unpaid)

    [1] an Air Traffic Control sick-out is what finally ended the 5-week shutdown in 2019. LaGuardia Airport, I think?

  25. How long do you think it will take Republicans to realize they aren’t going to get shit done for at least the next 2 years. They have to work with Democrats to be able to do anything with this slim margin. It’s going to be great watching them try to monkey F a football for the next 2 years… lol

  26. Shut it down fuck it. The people voted for this shit and Trump will be in office soon so fuck em

  28. Americans: we’re tired of being ruled over by billionaires.
    Monkey paw: how about just one incredibly stupid billionaire?

  29. Where is Luigi!? We have found another person for you💩 🤣JK.

  30. I love the comment of shutting down the government for 33 days. Nothing bad will happen. Christmas is next week, no one wants to have their flights canceled between TSA agents or air traffic controllers don’t show up to work.

  31. >““Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote in a post on X Wednesday.

    Democrats need to walk away. Republicans have the majority in the House. Force Republicans to govern. Don’t negotiate. Just force Republicans to come up with a bill they can get the votes amongst themselves to pass.

    It wouldn’t matter how many Democrats compromise and vote bipartisanly. Trump and the Rightwing media will say they (Democrats) didn’t. Moreover Trump will have a dump truck of Budget demands once he is inaugurated.

    Every Democrat just needs to be a solid “No”. Force Republicans to actually get a budget passed amongst themselves. Do not bail them out. Weakness is a provocation to bullies.

  32. Trump is going to privatize everything he can into First Lady Elmo’s portfolio.

  33. I mean, of course, Putin is asking for this… why wouldn’t he be?

  35. Fuck leon. He needs to stop carrying around his toddler like a human shield.

  36. Effing hell, Muskrat should be nowhere near the White House.

  37. How is it legal for this motherfucker to be able to effectively make government decisions? As much as I hate Trump, at least America did vote for his sorry ass. Complete fucking oligarchy if this shit is allowed to continue.

  38. Why are we letting the illegal South African migrant have any say in things again?

    Just deport him Joe. Strip his citizenship and deport him. It would be the funniest fucking thing.

  39. Congress needs to step in on this clown. Congrats “both candidates are bad” people.

  40. Isn’t it fascinating how for years the Right have been screaming about George Soros – an unelected immigrant billionaire – manipulating our government, and now that we *actually have an unelected immigrant billionaire manipulating our government*, it’s not only crickets, they’re bending the fucking knee.

    Fuck, I’m so tired of this shit.

  41. Republicans complained about Harris because she wasn’t primary voted, yet Musk, who holds no political office nor has ever run for election or received any votes from the American people, is trying to act like he’s part of the executive branch

  42. Not sure what the end result is here. If the gov’t stays shutdown, then what. I know MAGAts love the prospect of turning Washington upside down. But how does that keep the price of eggs down, much less unemployment. And wait to see what happens if seniors don’t get their social security checks.

    But hey, you guys voted for this. These guys are fanatics, and they don’t care and they aren’t taking hostages. You folks really need to watch out………..because the natural end to all this is everyone losing their jobs, and not just in the Beltway.

  44. That jerk is messing with the paychecks of the military personnel all over the world. They don’t get paid millions. They have bills to pay. And of course, this is being done just a few days before Christmas. Elon musk does not hold a political position, he’s not a licensed attorney, and he’s not the voice of working Americans. I swear we are watching the decline of this country.

  45. I find I’m already back to typing the most common sentence used during the 2016-2020 crime family administration: Don’t negotiate with terrorists.

    It serves no purpose to society, and even for those who are too undereducated and credulous to know better (Republican politicians) they inevitably get torched by the terrorists too.

    Musk is the organ grinder and Trump is the monkey, and the only way they can get away with these daily acts of economic and social terrorism is if people listen to them. Tune out the Twitter and Trump Social blog posts and 99% of this plague goes away.

    Oh, the ketamine addict is unhappy with the government staying open? We didn’t care because we didn’t his bloviations.

    The rape addict bizarrely wants a higher debt ceiling despite claiming he’s going to cut the deficit and the debt in the first nine minutes of his reign? Didn’t hear it, don’t care. Call us when he’s in power and makes it official.

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