Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:I swear to god, if Schumer frees up some moderate Ds to keep the government open...

Just let the Republicans own everything at this point. Force them to explicitly identify the parts of the government they want to fund, and the parts they want to shutter. Stop playing ball. Redacted.

BurtReynolds wrote:Democrats have to support the spending bill! It's too dangerous to fight back now!

Republicans have to support the spending bill! It's too dangerous to fight back now!

Don't worry guys, next time we'll fix it, we promise!

tragabigzanda wrote:Burt is right guys, even if McP is right too. "Bothering Elon" is not a win, nor should it be a goal, nor should it inform anyone's thinking about what's happening. Being a little butthurt means nothing when you are the richest man in the world, enjoy preferred access to the levers that govern our public markets, and exclusive access to the levers that operate the inner-workings of the government engine.

Elon is not losing, at all. He is actually crushing it, and by "it" I mean breaking things to line his own pockets. A $100B loss last week will likely be a $200B gain in a year when he scoops up all the preferred stocks, and destroys all the regulations, to drive his companies to lucrative government contracts and private market access.

I take Elon's apparent discomfort in that interview to be more around him asking himself "Is this actually fun? Making everyone hate me because I broke everything?" Like, he probably went into this thinking it would be fun, but is now realizing that actually building things, and sending rockets to space, is actually way more fun. Now he has to spend all day with a bunch of political wonks and weird evangelicals, while the quality of pu**y he will get is arguably way worse. But I'm sure he'll sleep just fine, because when you have $330B dollars, it's still probably pretty easy to fall asleep.

tragabigzanda wrote:Schumer backs away from shutdown, says he'll vote to advance GOP bill

Spoiler: show

dimejinky99 wrote:This is surely it for him

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopeq ... ntroversy/

wease wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This is surely it for him

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopeq ... ntroversy/

Why would you think this would be the thing that would bring him down?

Bi_3 wrote:

wease wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This is surely it for him

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopeq ... ntroversy/

Why would you think this would be the thing that would bring him down?

The quote is technically correct... but the fact he retweeted this should put to rest any doubt about his fit for leadership in government as the distinction made in the tweet doesn't matter.

wease wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

wease wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This is surely it for him

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopeq ... ntroversy/

Why would you think this would be the thing that would bring him down?

The quote is technically correct... but the fact he retweeted this should put to rest any doubt about his fit for leadership in government as the distinction made in the tweet doesn't matter.

There’s never been any doubt.

Again, why would this be the thing that brings him down? Trump either agrees or doesn’t care which means MAGA agrees or doesn’t care which means the Republican Party either agrees or doesn’t care.