trump jumps out in front of the parade, pretending to lead it.

[rightwinger]

That's ALWAYS the case.

 

[postman]

Just include any and all members of Congress will be executed if they deficit spend in the Amendment.

Next?

Does the amendment (think of the 21st, 12th, etc) override the 5th and 6th amendments?

 

[Nostra]

Wouldn't that take a law?

(this is where your head explodes in an endless loop of saying there doesn't have to be a law)

Nope.

 

[postman]

Nope.

Then the amendment would have to repeal part of the 5th and 6th and 14th amendments. And portions of Article 1.

 

[berg80]

That's not true, his tweets are boosted on X so they bypass some filters (one of the benefits of owning the platform), if users don't want to read them, they can block him or just doom scroll past his tweets.

Filters? I didn't realize there were any.

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk​

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

An NBC News review identified 150 verified "Premium" accounts that have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content.

www.nbcnews.com

Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime.

NBC News found that at least 150 paid “Premium” subscriber X accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content on X in recent months, often in apparent violation of X’s rules. The paid accounts posting the content all consistently posted antisemitic or pro-Nazi material. Examples included praise of Nazi soldiers, sharing of Nazi symbols and denials of the Holocaust.

 

[berg80]

MAGA Republicans led by Elon Musk and under pressure from Donald Trump are now poised to ruin Christmas with a government shutdown and New Year’s with an internecine fight over whether Mike Johnson will be re-elected as speaker of the House.

With a government shutdown deadline looming tomorrow, Trump blew up the bipartisan deal for a continuing resolution to fund the government through mid-March via an unhinged social media post late Wednesday afternoon. The details of the CR itself barely matter because this isn’t about legislation or compromise or striking a deal. It’s about creating a public spectacle, and nothing made that more clear than Trump’s last-minute demand that Congress raise the debt ceiling before he even takes office.

Those are the facts of what happened, but after years of GOP brinksmanship, chronic self-ownage, disarray, and dysfunction, it is hard to credibly muster the same kind of alarm or dismay in the face of these facts.

Republicans Turn Eating Their Own Into A Spectator Sport

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Welcome to chaos 2.0.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Time to fund Congress this way (and ALL politicians).

Pay them the federal minimum wage.

Pay them commission on actual bills they pass or laws they repeal that help the TAX PAYING/WORKING citizens, NOT themselves.

Let them buy the same health care insurance options we all have, and get fucked over for them.

Let them contribute to Social Security, and retire on that!!! No special lending, no special 401Ks, NO investments of any kind.

Federal government workers get the same insurance benefits as members of Congress. They are managed by OPM and you select the plan you want. The "Cadillac plans" come out of the salary. I had BC/BS when I worked for the government and paid several hundreds of dollars a month for my family's coverage.

 

[Nostra]

MAGA Republicans led by Elon Musk and under pressure from Donald Trump are now poised to ruin Christmas with a government shutdown and New Year’s with an internecine fight over whether Mike Johnson will be re-elected as speaker of the House.

With a government shutdown deadline looming tomorrow, Trump blew up the bipartisan deal for a continuing resolution to fund the government through mid-March via an unhinged social media post late Wednesday afternoon. The details of the CR itself barely matter because this isn’t about legislation or compromise or striking a deal. It’s about creating a public spectacle, and nothing made that more clear than Trump’s last-minute demand that Congress raise the debt ceiling before he even takes office.

Those are the facts of what happened, but after years of GOP brinksmanship, chronic self-ownage, disarray, and dysfunction, it is hard to credibly muster the same kind of alarm or dismay in the face of these facts.

Republicans Turn Eating Their Own Into A Spectator Sport

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Welcome to chaos 2.0.

Where is Tater? Shouldn't he put down the oatmeal long enough to try to prevent the impending Biden shutdown?

 

[berg80]

Your butt hurt just won't go away, huh?

Trump Tossed a Debt Limit Grenade Into Spending Talks. Here’s Why.​

President-elect Donald J. Trump injected debt limit politics into already-fraught congressional spending talks this week, urging lawmakers to lift the debt limit or abolish it entirely before he takes office next month.

The re-emergence of the debt limit comes 18 months after Republicans and Democrats staved off a fiscal crisis and agreed to suspend a cap on how much the government can borrow until after the 2024 presidential election. That was supposed to clear the decks and sidestep a politically difficult vote during the heat of campaign season.

But now the problem is waiting for Mr. Trump. As he prepares to push an agenda of tax cuts and border security, Mr. Trump fears that a debt limit fight next year could interfere. His plans are expected to cost trillions of dollars, much of which will most likely need to come from borrowed funds. A drawn-out debt limit fight next year could force Mr. Trump and Republicans to bow to the demands of Democrats and could consume the congressional calendar.

Trump Tossed a Debt Limit Grenade Into Spending Talks. Here’s Why.

President-elect Donald J. Trump was forced to negotiate with Democrats over the borrowing cap during his first term.

www.nytimes.com

You've just begun bending over for His Orangeness.

 

[Nostra]

Trump Tossed a Debt Limit Grenade Into Spending Talks. Here’s Why.​

President-elect Donald J. Trump injected debt limit politics into already-fraught congressional spending talks this week, urging lawmakers to lift the debt limit or abolish it entirely before he takes office next month.

The re-emergence of the debt limit comes 18 months after Republicans and Democrats staved off a fiscal crisis and agreed to suspend a cap on how much the government can borrow until after the 2024 presidential election. That was supposed to clear the decks and sidestep a politically difficult vote during the heat of campaign season.

But now the problem is waiting for Mr. Trump. As he prepares to push an agenda of tax cuts and border security, Mr. Trump fears that a debt limit fight next year could interfere. His plans are expected to cost trillions of dollars, much of which will most likely need to come from borrowed funds. A drawn-out debt limit fight next year could force Mr. Trump and Republicans to bow to the demands of Democrats and could consume the congressional calendar.

Trump Tossed a Debt Limit Grenade Into Spending Talks. Here’s Why.

President-elect Donald J. Trump was forced to negotiate with Democrats over the borrowing cap during his first term.

www.nytimes.com

You've just begun bending over for His Orangeness.

Where is Tater?

 

[TimFitz]

You are wrong, as always.

Until there is a balanced budget amendment it’s all smoke and mirrors.

I’m sure I’m right.

You’re a Trump sheep.

Haven’t you figured out by now that Trump and Musk are playing you again??????

No ether one of them gives a damn about spending. It’s all a show.

zTrump has made a lifetime out of borrowed money.

His last regieme was all borrow and spend. They didn’t even bother to try and sell it with the old trickle down fairy tale.

Now Musk is chairman of an imaginary government commission. In possession of the right wing tribe’s biggest megaphone.

Trump clearly intends to borrow and spend his way through the rest of his reign.

Never mind the empty drivel that comes out of the right wing noise machine whenever Republicans are out of office.

 

[TimFitz]

Where is Tater?

I assume you mean Joe Biden. He has 21 days left. He may call Trump’s bluff.

But better to watch Trump bully the GOP Congress and bully Mike Johnson into insignificance.

 

[hjmick]

Elon Musk leads charge to kill spending bill meant to avert government shutdown​

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is already flexing his newfound political muscle even before his ally President-elect Donald Trump has taken the oath of office.

Musk helped lead a revolt Wednesday to try to stop a bipartisan funding bill in a direct challenge to the authority of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and others in Republican leadership who helped craft the measure. And in a remarkable turn, the revolt appeared to succeed at least for a day, throwing budget negotiations into chaos and increasing the odds of a government shutdown this weekend.

Musk posted to X about the funding bill more than 100 times over the course of the day. He repeatedly called the bill “criminal” and asked his followers to call their representatives, but he also posted memes, including one of him taking a sword to the bill and another referring to the “Kill Bill” films from director Quentin Tarantino. Later in the day, the phrase “Kill Bill” was on X’s list of trending topics in the United States.

Musk announced his opposition to the bill at 4:15 a.m. ET Wednesday.

“This bill should not pass,” he said on X.

The statement put Musk out on a limb as one of the first political figures to come out against the bill, but 13 hours later Trump himself spoke out in agreement.

'Elon Musk has killed the bill': Tech billionaire flexes newfound political muscle

The tech billionaire posted about the funding bill more than 100 times Wednesday, helping lead a charge that appears to have increased the likelihood of a shutdown.

www.nbcnews.com

As I recall, Repub members of the board are fond of railing against "unelected officials," or who they refer to by the fictional term "deep state," controlling the government in nefarious ways. Yet here we have the unelected co-president, Elon Musk, a man who paid $250M to be in the position he's in, killing a bipartisan budget bill as a Christmas shutdown draws near. That's a lot of power.

The orange enemy of the state tried to play catchup but the timing of their respective public remarks, made thru competing social media platforms, made it obvious who decided the bill needed to be killed.

What will Elon decide next?

Hey, Elon bought the office, it's his to do with as he pleases...

 

[Unkotare]

...​

You've just begun bending over for His Orangeness.

 

[Rawley]

Welcome to chaos 2.0.

Just the way your cult leader Schumer planned it.

 

[Nostra]

I assume you mean Joe Biden. He has 21 days left. He may call Trump’s bluff.

But better to watch Trump bully the GOP Congress and bully Mike Johnson into insignificance.

Shouldn't Tater try to avoid the Biden shutdown?

 

[Unkotare]

I’m sure I’m right.

You’re a Trump sheep.

Haven’t you figured out by now that Trump and Musk are playing you again??????

No ether one of them gives a damn about spending. It’s all a show.

zTrump has made a lifetime out of borrowed money.

His last regieme was all borrow and spend. They didn’t even bother to try and sell it with the old trickle down fairy tale.

Now Musk is chairman of an imaginary government commission. In possession of the right wing tribe’s biggest megaphone.

Trump clearly intends to borrow and spend his way through the rest of his reign.

Never mind the empty drivel that comes out of the right wing noise machine whenever Republicans are out of office.

 

[Rawley]

Shouldn't Tater try to avoid the Biden shutdown?

Has anyone seen Biden? Isn't he at the beach, again?

 

[postman]

Hey, Elon bought the office, it's his to do with as he pleases...

Elon has no "office" until Trump creates one on January 20th 2025.

 

[OldFlame]

I'll try to judge President Musk on how he governs, and try not to fixate on how he gained power.

So which is it, is Trump an arrogant, narcissist dictator wannabe, or is he willing to give all of his power over to Musk?