They are all such cowards. Railed for years about all of this and now the billionaire owns their balls. — Republicans in Congress mostly shrug as Musk and DOGE set sights on spending www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n... - ThreadSky

fpwellman.bsky.social • 18 days ago

They are all such cowards. Railed for years about all of this and now the billionaire owns their balls. — Republicans in Congress mostly shrug as Musk and DOGE set sights on spending

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286426/congress-republicans-musk-doge-usaid?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2BVJ6cQGA1X3zeNHnZe9jUJnkw0H3g9HVYEQPSCBAg4EeykSX4LdkBy80_aem_nctY6-chVbA3xY8HSxaDdg

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mcjoan42.bsky.social•18 days ago

😡

oeishik.bsky.social•18 days ago

They have surrendered Congress to the executive. Hard to overstate how dangerous that is for our republic. https://youtu.be/b_mDTOKvyV8?si=SKdGXIKvMSIgfZop

conaturegal.bsky.social•18 days ago

Republicans are the biggest pansies I’ve ever seen in politics. They are meek cowards and I get so mad when I think of the men and women of our military over the years who gathered the courage to fight for democracy. The knees of these Republicans ninnies shake at the thought of a mean tweet.

firefrog49.bsky.social•18 days ago

They are all, Republican and democratic members, owned by the billionaires through campaign donations via Citizens United!

quirkypastor.bsky.social•18 days ago

La. Congressman John Kennedy literally told ppl to “call someone who cares.”

lameep.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's because they want to be invited to the next phase and see everyone else as Soilent Green.

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=DbM18a3gJ2TxA3xi

mtt88h.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s alarming that Republicans aint outraged over their personal data being accessed and manipulated. These unlawful actions don’t just target Democrats—all Americans are at risk. By ignoring this, they’re endangering their own rights and democracy itself. Musk and DOGE’s actions threaten everyone.

techdancer.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think its worse than that - many GOP APPROVE of what Musk is doing, wishing they'd had the balls to do it themselves.

mrlky.bsky.social•18 days ago

There are 18 Republican senators up for election in 2 years.

Voters must fund their opponents with a national organization #target18 to stop the illegal behavior

totalamateur.bsky.social•18 days ago

They don’t get it that Musk is making them obsolete. Congress won’t need to create laws as long as Musk is around. We don’t need them. We shouldn’t pay them. His efficiency dept will get around to them eventually. AI will see just how inefficient and ineffective Congress is and will eliminate it

ra59050.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is their plan too.

captain-corona.bsky.social•18 days ago

Americans are oblivious to all this.

But when they experience pain, they will wake up.

Economic pain or loss of job and freedoms. They will wake up.

You really don’t want to poke the bear Trump. Won’t end well.

donald-trumpshka.bsky.social•18 days ago

What's scary is Musk clearly has no idea what the fuck is going on--but he thinks he's a genius and God's gift to humanity.

noelleinsd.bsky.social•18 days ago

Top officials heads rolled, workers got locked out of bldg & computers, but nothing nefarious is going on?
Even if all cases in District Court win, who’s going to enforce it when DOJ & SCOTUS are in trumps pocket?
A military coup is needed to overthrow the evil & illegal dictator & regime!

rob772.bsky.social•18 days ago

A go fund me to deport, defund & asset seizure aimed at Muskow should be first on the Democrat agenda

redhdtere.bsky.social•17 days ago

Coward only starts to describe them

bec1951.bsky.social•18 days ago

Demand MAGA gives up their salaries for failing to uphold their oath of office!!!

edoggthered.bsky.social•18 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/edoggthered.bsky.social/post/3lhgqxi5mck2e

portlandval.bsky.social•17 days ago

The time was ripe for neutralizing both parties in Congress. Over the last ten years the Republicans have mostly become performance artists. So it isn’t a stretch to tell them to stand down and pretend they are still viable. The Dems may still be reachable but just barely. Only time will tell.

bengrim.bsky.social•17 days ago

Stop calling them cowards like they’ve gone through a hard fought moral dilemma. They’re lowlife profiteers, plain and simple.

bgbell.bsky.social•18 days ago

All their dreams are coming true…

rghamilton.bsky.social•18 days ago

When it becomes a Dictatorship, we must never forget it was the “Republicants” that opened the door and threw out the “Welcome” mat.

democracywatchusa.bsky.social•18 days ago

Let's be real. Republicans in Congress absolutely want these cuts. They just want someone else to do it for them and not have a roll call for voters.

indnial.bsky.social•18 days ago

Because they’ll take credit for any of its success and throw him under the bus for any of its failures. It’s a win/win for them.

cshockr.bsky.social•18 days ago

And the Broligarchy is just ramping up

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

rhestondavis.bsky.social•18 days ago

Does he own their balls, or is he doing what they want? He's in there finding the money to cover all the tax cuts that the rich want, so why would Republican senators be super-motivated to stop that? Tax cuts for the rich is something they already knew was part of their party's plan.

reluctantranger.bsky.social•17 days ago

“Sets sights on spending” is the most recent example of why I will *not* be coming to NPR’s rescue.

collettej.bsky.social•18 days ago

Almost like they’re in on it. Mmhhh

chadtimmerman.bsky.social•18 days ago

For years they harped that coastal elites are running the country, now we have the dumbest people imaginable out here destroying everything.

Gleefully handing the country over to right-wing billionaires that will rob all of us with a smile on their face. And the GOP loves it

frolickinggadfly.bsky.social•18 days ago

The Trumpublicans are essentially handing over their congressional legislating duties to Muskrat and his pack of parasitic cyber trolls. Doing so frees them up to hold more of their kangaroo court hearings to investigate the Bidens, 'woke' policies, and Jewish space lasers.

azjpm.bsky.social•18 days ago

They are weak as fuck.

allanschlosser.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ignoring their oath of office and the rule of law, Hill Republicans have traded conservatism for collaborationism.

larkworthyantfarm.bsky.social•18 days ago

They don’t get it that the man with the golden balls will geld them.

dognutz.bsky.social•18 days ago

For a known crackhead

sekkuto.bsky.social•18 days ago

Literal decades of conspiracy theories about George Soros… were they just jealous that they didn’t have a foreign billionaire shadow leader of their own?

pkbrooks.bsky.social•18 days ago

They were never brave to begin with. They’re pragmatists with zero skin in the game. No matter what happens they’ll still be wealthy and insulated from the problems and will of their constituents. We need term limits. Congress was never supposed to be a career.

outofduckstogive.bsky.social•18 days ago

They want whats coming because they will get a piece of the pie. This is why war is looking more likely if we want to keep them from getting us killed. We need to organize before they consolidate power.

We need to accept that they the enemy and deal with the aftermath.

Fight or be their slaves!

mostlymidmodern.bsky.social•18 days ago

Since Congress no longer has a purpose, perhaps they will be the next to get that “fork in the road” email.

birdy0403.bsky.social•18 days ago

I don't think they're cowards, they want this. They want a christo fascist state

essybea53.bsky.social•18 days ago

🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

formermoderatedem.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think our senators are too old to understand the gravity of the situation.

They’re immature, grandstanding racists that should have retired decades ago but there’s too much money in insider trading and corruption. Too many of them take the bureaucracy for granted and believe too much of their bs.

wandqueen.bsky.social•18 days ago

Not just cowards - traitors, against their fellow citizens and their country.

geographyisdestiny.bsky.social•18 days ago

Republicans have no moral compass because Christianity is void of moral character.

hlaferrara1.bsky.social•18 days ago

And Hillarys emails from a server that Bills office maintained

They have already copied all of our data and will store it somewhere.

For sale future sale to someone.

Or extort.

flomobbq.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yeah it was all, Soros this and George Soros that…

thunderballs2.bsky.social•18 days ago

Congressional democrats need a new strategy. Instead of wasting their breath on trump/Musk they should start railing about John Thune and Mike Johnson and their utter and complete capitulation on protecting the constitution. For God's sake, they swore to uphold it.

ms-lj.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s not shrugging- they are giddy and jumping up and down. They’ve wanted zero accountability since the 80’s at least.

feoranne.bsky.social•18 days ago

So when is DOGE going to the DOD? Seems alot of waste is there.

elisafromca.bsky.social•18 days ago

Citizens United working as planned

sattelitedog.com•18 days ago

jjcharlie.bsky.social•18 days ago

Musk bought the presidency for $250 million,

I wonder how much he bought the congress for?

dmpj.bsky.social•18 days ago

Spineless bastards

birdydownunder.bsky.social•17 days ago

Can the press stop calling it DOGE and start calling it Elon Musk?

DOGE is made up. Without a law from Congress, it does not exist.

db0rg.bsky.social•18 days ago

Mike Johnson needs to go.

neoblaque.bsky.social•18 days ago

Since they aren't voting for these things, the GOP thinks they are without electoral liability, and there is no fine that can hurt Musk.

They think that we won't remember if they flood the zone with BS when push comes to shove.

dachsy.bsky.social•18 days ago

Little do they realize, if they do not do something to stop this, their jobs will be obsolete. Why would musk need them if he’s in control?

internist.bsky.social•17 days ago

Musk: The most hated man in America
BOYCOTT Tesla
DOGE is illegal
Arrest Musk & his minions
Coup d’etat by Musk & Trump
DUMP TESLA (stock & vehicles)
#musk #tesla #DOGE #trump #criminal #coup #HIPAA
#HHS #CMS #boycott #sedition #hackers #illegal #Medicare #starlink #NOAA #treason

derob966.bsky.social•18 days ago

Unfortunately I believe they have made it their mission to sit back and let this happen while dreams of oligarchy dance in their heads. They have no interest in future elections because they don’t think there will be any and they have no interest in their constituents now that they are where they in

rudelyvangelder.bsky.social•18 days ago

This Department of Government Elimination has been the GOP’s goal for decades. In Musk, they got Grover Norquist's “pen”. In Trump, they got Grover Norquist’s “idiot to hold it."

mjsew-n-sew.bsky.social•18 days ago

Don't question them about spending. MSM - grow a pair and demand to know if they're ok with unvetted children plugging in hard drives and stealing our information! Ask them if they're ok with overwriting code!

gerrymanders.bsky.social•18 days ago

If you're wondering what their endgame is, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=5RpPTRcz1no

heyheydown1.bsky.social•18 days ago

20:00 min mark shows the steps in play.

Entire video is incredible

heyheydown1.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ps. I posted that over a week ago and it was hard to get views on it.

Techbros have lulled people into a coma

gerrymanders.bsky.social•18 days ago

Well let's keep posting it until people pay attention. This is basically the groundwork for Project 2025.

jsbloomfield.bsky.social•18 days ago

Please follow Jenny Cohn and look at her thread on National Network.

@jennycohn.bsky.social

loudlily.bsky.social•18 days ago

I kept hoping someone would have some courage, but I continue to be disappointed.

kingfisher2025.bsky.social•18 days ago

The GOP is not a political party. They’re henchmen for a new regime.

ebm413.bsky.social•18 days ago

What happened to the republicans? They are literally just sitting back and watching trump and musk disrupt all of our agencies. Put in a cabinet that is unqualified. Remove people that actually run the government. Their cowards

wakemeupwhenhedies.bsky.social•17 days ago

Cowards and Criminals. There is not an honest one in the bunch.

emmarose40150.bsky.social•18 days ago

They've been cowards since Trump arrived on the scene, so what's new?

mpmamajama.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s amazing to see how they flip their moral outrage on and off.

magafree.bsky.social•18 days ago

The mostly silent coup progressed over the past four years as the Republican Party was purged of the remaining handful of people who might resist taking down democracy. There’s no Republicans left in Congress who will fight.

lucidnation.bsky.social•18 days ago

From this point on, everyone should refer to Musk as "President Musk." That's because the only thing Trump hates is to have someone else be in the spotlight and now that he's Musk's bitch, it's only right to call it what it is.

billharder.bsky.social•18 days ago

Are they actually quietly for Trump and his policies, are they against them but afraid of getting primaried if they cross Trump, or are they actually avoiding the inevitable and ever more credible death threats to them and their families?

heyheydown1.bsky.social•18 days ago

No honour among thieves

christinamoran.bsky.social•18 days ago

What we have in offices that took oaths .. the politicians.. they are padding their nests so they survive.. they aren’t going to sacrifice or fight for anyone ..” I have my own family” is the motto

bikeguy2024.bsky.social•18 days ago

He's killing children, he's killing mothers, he's killing fathers. Around the world! You were hungry and he took away your food. You were thirsty and he kicked over your water. RESIST, IMPEACH, JAIL FOTUS!