Where do I even start? It seems to have not occurred to anyone that no one here is helpless? When you are "generally relenting" you have agency, you're making a choice. That's not the same as helplessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u... - ThreadSky

dceiver.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Where do I even start? It seems to have not occurred to anyone that no one here is helpless? When you are "generally relenting" you have agency, you're making a choice. That's not the same as helplessness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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pinemikey.bsky.social•18 days ago

Those people, who being in the White House, are among the cultists of the cult. Tough to break that obeisance reflex.

bluegirlredstate.bsky.social•18 days ago

I feel hopeless. They have destroyed everything we care about and we’re just picking over the ashes at this point. Ready to leave and start somewhere new while we can still get out.

dailytrix.bsky.social•18 days ago

"What's the harm in humoring him?"

annacolorado.bsky.social•18 days ago

Aren’t they all supposed to be Alpha males?

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think the lack of alpha males among the GOP was comprehensively proven in the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates; these people were practically bred since birth to be led

annbe54.bsky.social•18 days ago

Any idiot can cut costs. The hard part is doing it with an understanding of the actual impact. As Elon should have learned from his business failures, cost cutting isn't successful if it causes critical systems to fail.

eustacescrubber.bsky.social•18 days ago

They’re cowards.

occamshavecream.bsky.social•18 days ago

Also, right there IN THE FIRST SENTENCE:

“Senior government officials”

I mean, if not you, ffs, WHO?

alainsaffel.bsky.social•18 days ago

In letting MuskMelon run wild, these elected officials are content to let him destroy the place. When (not if) control is regained and people are held accountable they can point at him. Plausible deniability. Spineless. Americans are right to be pissed off and need to take action.

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's also wild to me that anyone in the Trump administration was holding out hope for Congress to reassert itself, a thing that Congress is under strict orders from the Trump administration to NOT do.

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

It was in fact, reported just today that GOP Senators have simply decided to abdicate their power and give Musk the run of the shop.

https://www.notus.org/congress/trump-musk-treasury-spending

houseofsparrows.bsky.social•18 days ago

what the hell I thought the Democrats were supposed to be the spineless ones here

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

lotta invertebrateness going around

eckfactory.bsky.social•18 days ago

drichards915.bsky.social•18 days ago

Because they are weenies. "Concerned" weenies in some cases, but weenies nonetheless.

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

"Some, like North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, even acknowledged that what Musk is doing is unconstitutional — but 'nobody should bellyache about that.'” Suck it, "Trump officials!"

nslayton.bsky.social•18 days ago

How many people are going to die before someone does something?

dceiver.bsky.social•18 days ago

per Chuck Schumer, lots

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/02/2025/trump-will-screw-up-schumer-plots-the-democratic-comeback

nslayton.bsky.social•18 days ago

I really hate that I pay attention to the news.

brayzgirl.bsky.social•18 days ago

Hasn’t he already screwed up? This is ALL illegal! WTF @chuckschumer.com

nslayton.bsky.social•18 days ago

We live in hell. This is hell.

doomscroll.bsky.social•18 days ago

No no. We live in something many other countries have gone through. Now is the time for a fight back

annbe54.bsky.social•18 days ago

He should be impeached for violating his oath to uphold the Constitution - and admitting it.

anthonywhitford.com•18 days ago

Government is officially a Toxic Work Environment.

When you don’t feel supported, you’re not going to do your best.

The problem is from the top!

stacigol.bsky.social•18 days ago

By participating and voting affirmative for his ridiculous nominees is “pretending” things are normal. Sickening. He doesn’t follow the rule of law, by going along you are agreeing.

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