Oh, you thought that old, demented, doddering fool Trump was going to be president?
Elon Musk isn't even president yet, but will be soon, and he is going to shut the government down because those woke Republicans in the house want to pay for disaster recovery and for the bills they have passed, as paltry as they may be.
Just remember people this is Elon's money they are proposing to spend on anything but his companies. We simply can't have that. Not while Elon is president.
Oh, you thought that old, demented doddering fool Trump was going to be president?
Bernie Sanders Blasts ‘President Elon Musk’ for Derailing Spending Deal
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying any lawmaker supporting the newly unveiled end-of-the-year continuing resolution funding deal should be voted out of office.
“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it. Will Republicans kiss the ring?” Sanders wrote in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday.
“Billionaires must not be allowed to run our government,” the prominent progressive senator added.
Musk made posts Wednesday calling for lawmakers who support the continuing resolution to be voted out of office. Sanders previously called out billionaires who have embraced President-elect Trump in support of their agendas.
“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 Wednesday.
“Please call your elected representatives right away to tell them how you feel!” he added in a separate post. “They are trying to get this passed today while no one is paying attention.”
Capitol Hill leaders are scrambling to pass a stopgap funding bill, called a continuing resolution (CR), to avoid a government shutdown Friday.
The bipartisan deal unveiled Tuesday night would push the funding deadline to March 14, giving the incoming Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress more time to discuss funding with Trump.
Musk, who is set to co-lead Trump’s newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, had come out against the deal early Wednesday morning in another post, saying it “should not pass.”
Similarly, Ramaswamy also urged lawmakers to vote against the deal Wednesday if they are “serious about government efficiency,” arguing it is “full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways and pork barrel politics”
“The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may ‘feel good’ today, but it’s like showering cocaine on an addict: it’s not compassion, it’s cruelty,” Ramaswamy wrote on X.
Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance also called for Republicans to approve a clean stopgap funding bill paired with a hike to the debt ceiling Wednesday, saying the previous government-funding measure negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should be torpedoed.
Trump said any Republican lawmaker who backs a CR without including an increase to the debt limit should face a primary challenge.
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REPUBLISHED BY:This is short. I was reading this New York Times piece this morning (I know, I know) about the year-end budget deal and everything that was in it.
This part jumped out:
Criminalizing the publication of “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions,” including deepfake pornography, and requiring social media platforms to have procedures in place to remove the content after being notified by a victim.
The real reason Elon Musk went ballistic over this bill was this provision.
It makes revenge porn, including deepfakes, illegal.
Musk does not want the incels on his shitty social media platform getting into trouble for posting revenge porn, and he does not want to have to do anything to remove their garbage from his site.
NOTE: The new bill that the GOP just rolled out and passed with Democratic support does NOT include this new law.
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