Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world who has recently decided he is an expert on federal spending, says the only acceptable course of action is to shut the entire federal government down for at least one month. - ThreadSky

juddlegum.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world who has recently decided he is an expert on federal spending, says the only acceptable course of action is to shut the entire federal government down for at least one month.

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oxcub311.bsky.social•71 days ago

Because it won’t affect him. Keep saying it…”Let them eat cake.”

holdingontogether.bsky.social•71 days ago

He seems to think he’s an expert on everything.

mitch2266.bsky.social•71 days ago

Instead of his reality of being just another clown show moron who got lucky AF. We are so dead 💔😢😡💔😢😡

audrey60.bsky.social•71 days ago

That would pause those investigations into his companies would it

oxonreanimated.bsky.social•71 days ago

Wait a while, trumpty dumpty is apparently about to deport him. Along with his own wife and 4 of his children.

cogbarn.bsky.social•71 days ago

Let’s extend the shutdown indefinitely on the condition that only SpaceX contract payments are affected.

nebluefire.bsky.social•71 days ago

Turns out, Trump is right about immigrants ruining our country.

dsng480.bsky.social•71 days ago

Deport Musk.

hcexn.bsky.social•71 days ago

He is a narcissistic fool.

gramasje.bsky.social•71 days ago

😂

sheilaeloise.bsky.social•71 days ago

Horrible

mcgimleteye13.bsky.social•71 days ago

How about Musk doesn't get paid during a shutdown l?

edciting.bsky.social•70 days ago

The appropriators are, collectively, fiscally inept in extremis...irrational to expect them to act of sound mind when it comes to budgeting and related matters.

Zero to do with EMusk or VRam...or even Trump or Biden....Congress dug their own sarcophagus over many decades of conduct unbecoming.

lucyludlow.bsky.social•71 days ago

I hope people who read P2025 are aware that this is one of the ways Trump’s gang plans on appointing his nominees. If congress is gone for more than 3 days a nominee can be appointed by the President. If the President dismisses congress they have to leave. I actually wrote it verbatim. I’ll find it.

samwyzh.bsky.social•71 days ago

Maybe it is my pattern recognition going nuts, but with nearly every major western democracy shut down in Europe due to votes of no confidence, and now this big push from Elon, I think Russia is planning an international crisis while our governments are stalled out.

samwyzh.bsky.social•71 days ago

Russia can’t beat democracy and western powers, but it did leverage players in those governments to kneecap them with their own systems. So while we have runoffs and insular trade wars, Russia can keep blasting away at Ukraine and its peoples.

khisey.bsky.social•71 days ago

😏. Jerk

martinc7.bsky.social•71 days ago

Rand Paul and Elon Musk agreeing on something is 100% confirmation it’s the wrong thing to do.

nlcoombe.bsky.social•71 days ago

GOD HELP US!

irish-pawpaw.bsky.social•71 days ago

The man who relies on gov benefits, incentives and tax breaks to survive

peacockblu.bsky.social•71 days ago

Tell Leon that that's not how it works.

freitano2.bsky.social•71 days ago

But he loves him some fat government contracts. 🙄 His businesses probably could not survive without them. Corporate welfare gravy train. 🚂

lenbanco.bsky.social•71 days ago

When was Musk crowned? I must have missed that.

lucyludlow.bsky.social•70 days ago

Elon and Vivek. Musk is just TFG who always shows up at a lunch table, but no one wants to be an A-Hole. He’s just involved in shite for no known reason. Nobody really wants him there, but he’s loud AF and then Vivek is that one weird friend he has who just shows up. They’re the two weird friends.😂

lucyludlow.bsky.social•71 days ago

Back to P2025. Biden appointee agreed to a new contract with a Govt. employee union that will allow tens of thousands civil servants to work remotely for years ahead of Trump’s return to the White House. Their stated agenda is to fire all civil servants and replace them with recruited loyalists.

lucyludlow.bsky.social•71 days ago

No one that I’ve spoken to was aware that Musk was ever on a Ballot. Ramaswamy never worked for our Govt., ran for POTUS and stepped down. Neither one of them have ever worked for our Govt. Musk is Trumps cash machine and Ramaswamy is just rich. They don’t work for anyone. DOGE is not real. WTH?

bawbfromonline.bsky.social•71 days ago

Election Day

itus.bsky.social•71 days ago

Just getting warmed up. Wait until Musk decides that the Federal government needs to seize control of companies/competitors like Rivian.

We’re about to get a front row seat as to how Putin amalgamated so much power in Russia.

mxburbank.bsky.social•71 days ago

Private citizen Elon Musk thinks the fact that he bought Trump means he has actual authority. He does not, and people around him are going to get very sick of him very fast, money or not.

titusoates6.bsky.social•71 days ago

God I hope so but I’m afraid to assume anything anymore

ed-never-forget.bsky.social•71 days ago

This from the POS who donated $400M + Twitter user information (via Saudi Prince $$) to push an AI driven MAGA propaganda campaign ...

This POS now addressing American citizens on the heels of discovering 10's of 1000's of Syrian grave sites filled with executed political opponents

WAKE THE F UP!!

canny-cat.bsky.social•71 days ago

Just like he is an "expert" on rockets, and an "expert" on electric cars, and an "expert" on computer systems. He just buys people who are smarter than him.

dollymad1812.bsky.social•71 days ago

When YOLO turns into FAFO

cozybooksonly.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's important to report what Musk is doing and tweeting out. But he has no power and only has power if we, the public, and independent media gives him power. I have called all my elected officials to emphasize that they don't follow Musk, they work for me and their constituents.

sciantixo.bsky.social•71 days ago

Straitjackets anyone?

johannah1372.bsky.social•71 days ago

He hates this country and her citizens. That’s the only conclusion one can draw given his speech and actions.

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•71 days ago

That pathetic little moron is gonna kill our economy.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

Not a bug. That's a feature.

cogbarn.bsky.social•71 days ago

So he can buy up America’s assets at fire-sale prices and lease them back. There’s a reason why he grabbed the @america Twitter handle from its previous holder.

He’ll feel like a failure if he doesn’t become the world’s first trillionaire.

orwellonedibles.bsky.social•71 days ago

He won’t have any $ to buy anything when his Tesla fraud stock drops 90%

cogbarn.bsky.social•71 days ago

Tesla is still public, and King Elon’s stake is only 20% … a shareholder rebellion is theoretically possible (though unlikely, since Vanguard etc presumably approve of everything he’s doing to destroy the U.S. government)

orwellonedibles.bsky.social•71 days ago

A shareholder rebellion? The stock will dump with everything else when the bubble pops. Sell sell sell.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

But it won't.

orwellonedibles.bsky.social•71 days ago

If you think the economy will crash and Tesla stock won’t, I have some fartcoins to sell you

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•71 days ago

Nah, he's a bug. He's a fucking cockroach. He's ugly, disgusting, and hard to get rid of.

elusiveapricity.bsky.social•71 days ago

Well, of course👇
Our government gave him billions of our tax money in grants, subsidies, & tax breaks.
He is our biggest national security contractor.
“We are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official said of Musk’s role.
We must do what he tells us to do 🤷🏼‍♀️
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

notmuchfun.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk is an idiot.

veggiemetalrunner.bsky.social•71 days ago

it passed the Senate, Paul didn't stop it. also Paul is a piece of shit

nodamnway61.bsky.social•71 days ago

Elon is just begging someone to kill him.

jaydeekay.bsky.social•71 days ago

Elmo Muskrat is PURE EVIL.

ronhole.bsky.social•71 days ago

In before the media announces that "The Democrats Shut Down The Government."

justinthaler.bsky.social•71 days ago

Good thing Elon's not President...oh wait.

mleroi.bsky.social•71 days ago

justinthaler.bsky.social•71 days ago

Who takes pictures of two piles of shit and puts it on the front page is my only question.

gilpo.bsky.social•70 days ago

McPaper, that's who

fowlwords.bsky.social•71 days ago

Worth noting. fElon is 6’-1.5”

danielmedic.bsky.social•71 days ago

He really is mind-bogglingly stupid.

historista.bsky.social•71 days ago

Shut down government for one month, pay everyone's mortgages, rental fees, insurance costs, fuel bills, grocery bills, debt fees, and retraining expanses, so that everyone can be fully employed by the corporate sector after the month break?

drpaulitious.bsky.social•71 days ago

I'm sure if it was a good idea to "shut down the government" for a period of time between election and inauguration, someone would have figured it out and done it long ago.

chernynkaya.bsky.social•71 days ago

He’s lost his damn mind. And he’s an a-hole too.

keeblerd.bsky.social•71 days ago

This is why we should not allow the elite the keys to our kingdom. He has no idea how actual real Americans struggle financially . The people who can’t work and the people who they buy goods and services from.

fetchinketch555.bsky.social•71 days ago

I have a better idea!!!!

edlucke.bsky.social•71 days ago

the guy couldn't engineer a paper clip .

imchuckmiller.bsky.social•71 days ago

The ticking has begun. This is going to be delicious to watch.

materialmatters.bsky.social•71 days ago

proconsul musk has spoken

injore.bsky.social•71 days ago

The only acceptable course (even if it’s fantastical rn) is if he and the other members of the .01%) actually paid their fair share of state and federal taxes. That would fund a lot right there. The politicians we elected into office over the years that let this happen have a lot to answer for, too.

kidcharlemagne62.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk is such a Randean fanboy 🤮

lovecircle.bsky.social•71 days ago

hollyinfrance.bsky.social•71 days ago

Muskrat, like most narcissists, has delusions of grandeur & self-importance.

cedarplace.bsky.social•71 days ago

Rand Paul and Elon Musk,
both bffs of Putin.

mrjoebrian.bsky.social•71 days ago

Say what you want but this president and his team are so good at ruining things. They aren’t even officially allowed to start ruining yet!

plopseven.bsky.social•71 days ago

Billionaires need to be afraid of government, not allowed to take it over.

Government filled with billionaires is a corporate & hostile takeover of democracy. Don’t get it twisted. We can either have billionaires or democracy, but not both.

deannyg.bsky.social•71 days ago

Government shut down just before Christmas… should be wildly popular with voters. Wait… is this what they mean by a war on Christmas?

carlray.bsky.social•71 days ago

Who elected this guy.

trukaduk.bsky.social•71 days ago

Fuck Elon Musk

newsview.bsky.social•71 days ago

Here’s a song about Elon.

Like, share, and subscribe, and follow!

The Great Destroyer (The Ballad Of Elon Musk)
https://youtu.be/OtvIsb-9WWU

lesliehilton0131.bsky.social•71 days ago

Fu@k him.

not-a-sheeple.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk is an egomaniacal drug addict. He only suspects that he understands government budgets and spending. He touts crypto because he can fleece people. Why would anyone trust his opinions regarding taxpayer dollars and government spending? He and Trump want to scrap Social Security and Medicare!

zoopaul.bsky.social•71 days ago

An imbecile.

crazy4sherman.bsky.social•71 days ago

good idea... what could possibly go wrong. 🗑️🔥🎪🤡

micheil.bsky.social•71 days ago

At some point just let them fuck shit up. Make it quick so they get voted out in two years. Y’all think there is some interim solution. Wild.

laresistance47.bsky.social•71 days ago

Elon Musk - one of the biggest Welfare Queens ever

Show your support of the Resistance - OFFLINE IN REAL LIFE - outside of our media bubbles!

#LaResistance47 #Resist #TheResistance

https://www.laresistance47.com/shop/p/musk-short

bcobbler.bsky.social•71 days ago

Still think Id be more beneficial to trade musk to Iran for an old egg salad sammich….. just sayin.

tracyforner.bsky.social•71 days ago

Elon can FATWO

almightynoodle1.bsky.social•70 days ago

Remember when he threw a brick at the cybertruck and smashed the un-smashable window? That cybertruck is America.

karmageddon.bsky.social•71 days ago

Get that son of a bitch migrant criminal out of our government!

vincefil.bsky.social•71 days ago

Are these asshats gonna tell the American public that military and civil service paychecks will stop if the government shuts down? Or do they just not care?

saltyheffa.bsky.social•71 days ago

He claims to have expertise in a whole bunch of areas, but he does not. He's incredibly awkward and hateful.

billy2pilgrim.bsky.social•71 days ago

What a fucking piece of shit

montyandalfie.bsky.social•71 days ago

Trump cost Americans 11 billion in economic damage when he shut down the government last time. It added to his creating largest 1-term debt ever, 7.5 trillion, to start it up again. And then he also crashed the economy....

kraigpeck.bsky.social•71 days ago

Most of us used to think that destroying our government could only come with a foreign military invasion. It turns out that it may just take one billionaire working in concert with other billionaires.

hlacey.bsky.social•71 days ago

On what sane planet is one legislator in a body of 100 given the authority to stop the entire chamber from considering a vital bill? The Senate's procedures are so ridiculously antiquated and irrational that it's appalling.

ahunaj.bsky.social•71 days ago

He is not a legislator. DOGE is not a real department and Muskrat has zero authority.

hlacey.bsky.social•71 days ago

I was talking about Sen. Paul, not Musk.

gyudongiovanni.bsky.social•71 days ago

Well, it’ll get everyone used to being fucked over by TFG and Elonia early, so nobody will complain after he’s sworn in and does what he said he’d do.

lcwlaw1.bsky.social•71 days ago

Food lines again thanks to Republicans!
Merry Christmas 🎄

artisanb-2013.bsky.social•71 days ago

Isn’t he a CEO.

Hugh……

trixiebeldame.bsky.social•71 days ago

Thinking that a nation needs to be run as a biz is run is like thinking that a family should operate as a military barracks does.

#firemusk
#fuckmusk

destcygnusx1.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's their way of tweaking the stats about Biden's stock market run. Petty viciousness.

wendychaulk60.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yes because we all know regular folks can get their groceries on credit…..as Trump said during his last term. Out of touch with f^^king reality.

samziegler.bsky.social•71 days ago

Will be interesting to see how what is left of mainstream media tries to both sides this.

soldiergirl.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk and JFK Jr. must be doing drugs together. Alot of worm holes in their brains. These worthless rich idiots are running the asylum, or also could be referred to as the animal house, which use to be called the White House.

swhitmire.bsky.social•71 days ago

Every time he opens his mouth, or his Twitter post, he proves beyond a doubt that he’s no genius.

djohn9713.bsky.social•71 days ago

sneakys.bsky.social•71 days ago

I wish Congress had an actual spine and willingness to exert their very real authority to put Musk in his place.

swillymountain56.bsky.social•71 days ago

Kakocracy!

andremchi.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yeah and we will probably let him do it!!

ljubica1.bsky.social•71 days ago

What gives him the power? Sorry but as a non-American I don't understand. What gives Musk the power?

thewhiner.bsky.social•71 days ago

He should do a test run and shut Twitter down for a month, and then report back on the strategy's success.

fightback.bsky.social•71 days ago

Short term spending bill includes a Congressional pay raise so it will pass.

sail2it.bsky.social•71 days ago

In return all government expenditures, grants, and funds for Space X, Tesla, and Starlink can be abandoned too. Great savings. He can simply donate the services as a patriot.

cromabu.bsky.social•71 days ago

Hey MAGAts, can’t wait to watch your guys shut the government down because you thought eggs were to expensive.

Idiots.

pagancelticwitch.bsky.social•71 days ago

MuskRat is another arsehat with a malignant narcissist personality disorder. His Mommy didn't whoop his arse enough!

razorgasm.bsky.social•71 days ago

Let's do it NOW ! ;)

bobsue.bsky.social•71 days ago

He's a dangerous fuckwit who should have ZERO authority on what happens here.
His ass needs deported. He can call it in from over seas.
#FEM

lin11c.bsky.social•71 days ago

Does this mean the MAGAt Congress critters aren't going to get the pay raise that they voted in for themselves? Boo hoo. 😆

jettye.bsky.social•71 days ago

So glad we elected him to run our country! (:::sarcasm:::)

artypaula.bsky.social•70 days ago

Peas in a pod - two of the most simple minded frauds on earth

missrevo.bsky.social•71 days ago

He probably just wants to take a vacation on his $500 million dollar yacht. Doesn’t wanna have to worry about the country while he’s enjoying himself in the Canary Islands.

bchanson.bsky.social•71 days ago

He is the smartest. Duh!

drmarinaarcher.bsky.social•70 days ago

Let them have...not even cake?

bbjran8.bsky.social•71 days ago

For God’s sake! Where does this type come from? Committee for Brexit? Or is he one of those kids who built lovely things with blocks and then kicked them all down.

tc0320.bsky.social•71 days ago

Can someone explain what will happen if Musk shuts down the govt until Donald Trump is in office but all venues and personnel that would be required to inaugurate Trump would be ... shut down???

jesstheemess.bsky.social•71 days ago

God why does our downfall have to be so STUPID at the same time. I'm already tired.

nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social•71 days ago

Elon is an idiot. But I am sure Vladimir will be happy

stacyandsuki.bsky.social•71 days ago

Gag me with a fucking spoon. Elon Musk can fuck all the way off. I am entirely sick of him. God, can he just take a vacation so we don’t have to see him again for a while. So frustrating!

newsview.bsky.social•71 days ago

Here’s a song about Elon.

Like, share, and subscribe, and follow!

The Great Destroyer (The Ballad Of Elon Musk)
https://youtu.be/OtvIsb-9WWU

sfurey.bsky.social•71 days ago

I want every Dem including the President & VP blasting Elon Musk for saying any damn thing about the budget of our country. If they don', his involvement will continue ot be normalized.

kolinzkay.bsky.social•71 days ago

First Banana is as stupid as a bunch of rocks.

coloradocatmom.bsky.social•71 days ago

The evergreen Elon post: "Some of you may die..."

liquorstorelisa.bsky.social•71 days ago

Whatever to stop Elon from.being investigated obviously

nicolaasstulting.bsky.social•71 days ago

The acceptable course of action is to defund the richest man in the world, if he is going to use his wealth to try to control our government. He does not deserve his government contracts if he is trying to undermine Congress. We need to get him out of our government before he does permanent harm.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

Starting to wonder if Luigi can be let go for just a day or two.

montyandalfie.bsky.social•71 days ago

Don't worry, plenty more disgruntled magas and wingnutz, like Luigi and the other 2 that tried for trump, coming when president elon and vp trump crash the economy (again)

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

How is it morons like him become billionaires while decent people struggle?

bawbfromonline.bsky.social•71 days ago

Because he’s not a decent person.

steveireland.bsky.social•71 days ago

But you have to admit that your question has nothing to do with the original post, which I was responding to.

steveireland.bsky.social•71 days ago

Because Trump was chosen by the uneducated. We need to do a much better job of educating if we want America to have a chance of surviving.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

What does that have to do with Musk becoming a billionaire?

steveireland.bsky.social•71 days ago

Absolutely nothing.

illfaded.bsky.social•71 days ago

My question is how the hell does America generate so many morons that look up to that creep. Our society is deeply flawed.

dixonij.bsky.social•71 days ago

Steinbeck is often misquoted as saying "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Actually was "...Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist..."

But still basically the same jist.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

“One day you two could become a billionaire if only you work hard enough…”

It’s a lie that the masses have been sold.

Each and every billionaire was given the wealth to start their fortune with.

egoode.bsky.social•71 days ago

Ask yourself why they’re telling white america not to go to college.

stilltrill.bsky.social•70 days ago

Decency & extreme wealth don’t mix. It’s almost requirement for billionaires to be psychopaths. Literally the only way anyone can amass that amount of wealth is through theft & exploitation.

bobsue.bsky.social•71 days ago

Decent people won't step on other folks heads to get what they need.

glendalehatter.bsky.social•70 days ago

Like he’s an expert in social media and coding, EVs, and spacecraft…

tleighb.bsky.social•71 days ago

How many Tesla's & Cybertrucks have blown up?!?! 🙄

charmradejones.bsky.social•71 days ago

Of course, the dirty little Nazi will pull the trigger.

flacotx.bsky.social•71 days ago

In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote "It can't happen here", but we are here, and already past the Bierhalle putsch stage. The intentions of Musk and Trump are obvious. They are not taking control of the US government to help us. The only question is whether American people will surrender without a fight.

fowlwords.bsky.social•71 days ago

I previously worked for fElon back when he supported Hillary…. and can attest that he thinks he knows a lot about a lot.

usedtobeslp.bsky.social•71 days ago

I’m of the mind to say fine, let them but only if democrats will finally speak out loudly and relentlessly about whose fault it is. If this is what people voted for, let them experience it. Sorry to all of us who didn’t though.

digitalmb.bsky.social•71 days ago

I can't communicate how much I LOATHE it that people actually listen to this unserious criminal

Elon Musk - Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past - Hysteria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40RU5Nx6U&pp=ygUNZWxvbiBoeXN0ZXJpYQ%3D%3D

sueric.bsky.social•71 days ago

No one elected that varmint. When will congressional leaders pipe up and tell him to stand down?

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