Elon Musk Shuts Down the Government

The freak no one voted for is exercising way too much control over our lives.

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Admittedly, the fascist from South Africa, currently the wealthiest person in the world, has accomplished many things that have influenced our lives. As much as I dislike him, I must admit that I would love to have had .001 percent as much success as he has had. As someone who has built brands and companies that only Russians have heard of and enjoyed, I know how hard it is to create sustainable ideas over decades. I used PayPal yesterday.

While Musk no longer has skin in the Paypal game, he created it with the other fascist seen in the image above, Peter Thiel. Musk’s “vision” made my life easier yesterday but also potentially made life harder for tens of millions of Americans yesterday. Elon Musk tweeted five words late Tuesday night: “This bill should not pass.”

Until those words appeared on the platform Musk purchased and turned into the digital version of the Volkischer Beobachter (the daily newspaper of the Nazi Party) — “Twitter” — the House was on its way to passing a continuing resolution that would have funded the government into next year. In his new, and what is shaping up to be his unlimited-in-power role as the head of the DOGE (not to be confused with DOUCHE), Musk decided the budget was precisely the kind of thing that needed to be eradicated in his quest for remaking a more efficient government.

Over the ensuing 12 hours, Musk went on a prolific tirade against the bill — with more than 60 updates, some of which boosted false claims — that stood out even for a chronic poster who has commanded an audience of more than 200 million followers by broadcasting his largely uninhibited views on the site he owns.

By midday, Musk’s barrage was increasingly acerbic, decrying the bill as “terrible,” “criminal,” “outrageous,” “horrible,” “unconscionable,” “crazy,” and, ultimately, “an insane crime.” He also took aim at those who would support it.

“Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday (A Government Shutdown Looked Unlikely).

Elon Musk does not employ Americans, but Donald Trump has given him power over them, which has never before been enjoyed by a private citizen. He has been told that he can tear down and rebuild the federal government to make it function more efficiently. The unspoken part is that America should be run more like one of Musk’s companies. I don’t doubt that, in theory, Musk does see some ways to make the sprawling federal bureaucracy work better, but there is an inconvenient truth that this weirdo misses: This is not a race to make America more financially successful as if the country was in a pitched battle with other countries. That is simply not how countries are governed.

Each Tweet that he sends out threatening to destroy rebellious politicians is a form of bullying that scares cowardly politicians into submission. The cowards opting for shutting down the government were chosen by their constituents to go to Washington to make things better and not to cave into threats from an unelected, above-the-law BFF of the president-elect.

Trump stayed largely silent on the measure through Wednesday afternoon, putting Musk in the unusual position of exerting more influence on the bill than the incoming president. Finally, by late afternoon, Trump, too, aired his opposition.

“Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF,” he said in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance. “… THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!”

But Musk seemed to force the tipping point (A Government Shutdown Looked Unlikely).

Some are calling Musk a co-president. Others have hinted that Trump won’t tolerate losing any of the spotlight to Musk. There is one problem for Trump, though: the 200 million followers Musk has on Twitter. If Trump tries to do away with Musk the way he has with other people who grew sick of him — or refused to break the law — in his previous administration, Musk has a voice that few of those people had. He has the same talent for lying and bluster and is as immoral and vengeful as Trump. Musk is, in many ways, Trump’s reflection in the mirror.

Some have commented that Musk can only make suggestions, and it is up to Congress to accept them. After yesterday’s display of muscle-flexing by Musk, no Congress in the world will silence him and pooh-pooh his suggestions for turning the United States into another Musk corporation.