Summary
Musk is trying to backtrack on his previous demands to shut down the government.
Elon Musk initially supported a government shutdown, criticizing Republicans who backed a continuing resolution and calling for no new bills until Donald Trump retakes office.
His posts on X encouraged GOP hardliners and contributed to chaos in Congress.
After a bipartisan spending bill failed to pass, Musk blamed Democrats, ignoring that 38 Republicans also voted against it.
Facing backlash for his earlier remarks, Musk is now deflecting responsibility as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggles to avoid a shutdown.
I’m fucking mad about them cutting PBM reform and I hope other people are too.
Most people don’t even know what PBMs do, and how it fucks then over.
Guarantee he hasn’t realized shit. In his mind, it was the best idea in the world when he had it, and now it’s the best idea in the world to walk it back. He’s so brilliant, he was right twice about the same thing.
Whoever wrote this headline hasn’t met a true narcissist.
Not only that but he tweeted something around 100 times that day. Someone got their “special medicine” and went on a bender confident they knew everything. And now they’ve come down and they’re confident they still do but can’t admit they were off their gourd for a day. Like a typical narcissist yes.
The guy has basically admitted takes K to not face personal accountability.
If that’s true and he’s not a full-blown sociopath with resistance to the impact of his actions, we just have to wait is for him to need to dose up so high he never leaves his k-hole and we can get back to never talking about him ever again.
It’s pretty hard to OD on K, if not impossible in most cases. So not likely. I share your desire to stop hearing about this asshole though.
That’d be nice but seems unlikely
You basically have to deliberately try to OD on ketamine, and even then you’re unlikely to be successful if you’re snorting it, easier if you’re injecting it. It was created to be a safer alternative to morphine
He’s 2 steps ahead and we’re just tripping over each other while wallowing through his feces trying to compete up
I’m confused, why is he walking it back?
Because he cares about “looking like he was right the whole time”, because he’s a narcissist.
Republicans: Have a majority in the House
House spending bill: Fails to pass
How could Democrats do this??
See I’m not saying nothing horrible is gonna happen.
I just saying Im not as scared as the doomers.
They’re all so fucking hungry for power they’re gonna eat each other before we have to worry about eating the rich.
Fingers crossed.
Musk has been positioning himself pretty well to be a single big bad. I’m hoping he can cause enough fracturing and dysfunction to kill Project 2025
He is an insufferable weakling who is probably gonna be a focal point of hate within the Republican party. Also he is a South African, regardless of all other factors he is a foreigner and I hope he gets the Mick treatment.
I hate Musk far more than I hate bigotry, I encourage open bigotry and racism against the rich. At least then its useful.
Well no to your last point, it’s long past suppertime.
Shouldn’t have run for President then. 🤷
He can’t. He’s an immigrant, and technically not even a legal one.
Deny. Defend. Deport.
FAFO?
This is already starting out so well and they haven’t even taken office. Have they started construction on the ceiling cutouts Elon will need to marionette the orange genius around with?
Next time I hear that government should be run like a business…
The response is easy…
“That’s exactly what Musk thought”
Oh, did someone brief Musk in between ketamine hits?
Sure, if “to brief” is analogous with “to pants”.
What I don’t get is why anyone in power (except maybe Captain Cheeto) actually bothers to listen to him in the first place. It’s not like he has any actual authority. Congress is absolutely free to ignore him entirely, and they should — regardless of which side of the aisle they’re on.
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
He can use his money to support challengers in their next elections. He’s already said he’s going to do this to the Democrats. As we’ve seen with AIPAC recently, it doesn’t take much money to unseat politicians. Musk has enough money to basically control congress.
Because he’s paying off Trump’s legal debt is my best guess.
I could be wrong, but that’s my head canon at least.
Happens all the time https://youtu.be/cdTgKarqTQ0
nooo, you were doing so well too!
/S
Trump is going to realize very quickly that musk is a massive liability and, worse than that is his mind, wants to run the show himself.
The fallout between the two of them will be fun to watch. I predict musk will find out very quickly that “his” people on Twitter are actually Trump people.
Trump is going to realize
Bold claim.
I bet that guy has trouble wiping his own ass.
No trouble at all! Marco does a fantastic job and powders it with lambswool afterwards.
Oh I can’t wait until we start seeing all of the Trump vs. Musk headlines. It’ll be catastrophically epic.
