Elon Musk is showing Trump and world that he alone has control over the US Congress......

[riversedge]

I do believe that is what is happening.
AND Trump??




Elon Musk is frantically trying to force an imminent government shutdown

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/elon-musk-is-frantically-trying-to-force-an-imminent-government-shutdown/59228/
Bill Palmer | 10:01 pm EST December 18, 2024



You know that tired old routine over the past two years? It’s the one where House Republicans vaguely act like they’re going to cause a government shutdown, but instead end up agreeing to a continuing resolution at the last minute each time. It allows them to give their anti-government conservative constituents something to sneer about, but it also keeps House Republicans from getting blamed for an actual government shutdown – which most Americans don’t want.

That same old routine is playing out yet again. Except this time, Elon Musk – who is not in any way a government official – is actively trying to force an imminent government shutdown. Come to think of it, the more accurate word might be “frantically” or even “manically.” Musk has posted dozens of crazed tweets today, all aimed at pressuring House Republicans into shutting down the government.

Why is Musk doing this? Well, for one thing, he’s insane. He’s also drunk on the imaginary government power that Trump has bestowed upon him. Musk now appears to believe he is the President, and the head of Congress, and the head of the Republican Party, and everything else rolled into one.
. . .


There’s no way to know what will happen as far as a shutdown. Perhaps House Republicans will blow off Musk and cave on a continuing resolution like they always do. Or maybe this time they’ll actually shut things down. But if that does happen, it would play poorly with most Americans – and it would play very poorly for Trump. His cabinet nominees are already an unpopular disaster for him. We can’t wait to see what a government shutdown would do to Trump right out of the gate. And Trump would surely end up blaming Musk.

[2naSalit]

1. The biggest...

Weenie wave ever.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Musk is on a narc high. He is addicted to drugs, fame, power.

He is acting more and more manic.
Drugs and bipolar mental illness?

[LymphocyteLover]

19. Yes, he is a psychological mess similar to trump actually

he is a white supremacist who wants to have dictatorial powers and rule the world

this is long but has good insightss
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-musk-from-his-biographer

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes many GOP leaders fit the same mold.

We see it over and over.

Mentally ill, sexual deviants, criminals, drug/alcohol addicts, racist, lust for money, power, fame.

This is the kind of person Putin recruits to be his puppets.

[LymphocyteLover]

56. it's definitely the mold since 2014 or so when Russia realized how they could mess with us

[Irish_Dem]

57. Yes. Humiliate our democracy, make us look like ignorant, mentally ill criminals.

We look ungovernable.

[magicarpet]

58. The Ketamine pResidency,...

... brought to us by Eloon Musk.

[Irish_Dem]

59. And the rest of the GOP crime syndicate.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. Muskrat is the biggest POS on the planet... he's the one who needs to be deported, not hard working immigrants!!

Preferably to Mars!!

[Irish_Dem]

33. Yes he lied to get a visa and his citizenship.

In a fair world, the US State Dept would conduct an investigation and he would be deported.

[Maru Kitteh]

32. Why bipolar?

Curious how you got there.

[Irish_Dem]

35. His behavior is classic manic behavior:

Constant texting, literally jumping around, flight of ideas, high energy, racing thoughts
inflated sense of self-worth, reckless behavior, irrationality, grandiosity, sucking all the air out of the room.

We see his narcissism as well.

All made much worse by his drug addiction.

[DeeDeeNY]

39. Musk claims to have Aspergers Syndrome

[Irish_Dem]

46. Could be, but what we are seeing is way more than that.

[sop]

3. He's also on drugs.

Elon can't get a security clearance because his drug use makes him so unstable. He's not even allowed access to SpaceX government projects.

[ChazInAz]

38. And since SpaceX itself

Is staffed with utterly brilliant people, it would do just fine without Musk screwing around, now that he's achieved his final Peter's Promotion.
Just my socialist mind scheming.

[DownriverDem]

4. Vance

must be PO. Musk is in charge.

[The Madcap]

5. I have heard he sleeps very little.

That has known negative psychological effects over the long term. Perhaps we are seeing them now.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Reminds me of something the late Princess Diana said to Martin Bashir.....

"There were three in this marriage. It got a bit crowded."

Having Elon Musk in the picture just might be one of tRump's biggest regrets. For Musk, richer than Jeff Bezos and Zucky, whose EGO is bigger, has to be getting under tRump's skin.

The attention tRump craves and is ADDICTED to, is being foreshadowed by Elon. Musk is grabbing the headlines. Musk is nothing more than a pesky weed that is difficult to eradicate.

[mahina]

18. Four if we count Putin. Perhaps bringing Musk in is his demand.

[calimary]

55. Musk is throwing an awful lot of his own weight around.

The donald won’t be happy about that. And he may not be able to do much about it. He didn’t expect to have to deal with a “shadow president”.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Pass the popcorn, please.

I don't imagine that DonOld will take kindly to Eloon's attempts to grab power and attention. Also, there's no honor among thieves, and the ones in Congress appear to be growing sick of this m-fer's antics, as much as the rest of us are. It's hard to see them letting that crazy, drug-addled prick order them around. Eloon is fixin' to implode. Let's hope he takes a whole lot of them out with him.

[riversedge]

12. I am all for taking the whole vile repug party down with musk--but

it is not in the view of the day--or years -being pessimistic right now.

[Javaman]

8. he is full of hubris and will eventually fuck himself.

it will happen, just a matter of time.

the ego, narcissism and plane old arrogance will catch up to him. it always does with morons like him.

[lonely bird]

9. Imo

Trump who is mentally declining is focused on those who directly express adoration to him. As long as that continues he really doesn’t pay much attention to Musk. I think Musk pays him false adoration which is satisfactory enough.

[FalloutShelter]

36. Exactly on point.

Trump is in mental decline… all policy is just blather.
For him this is a HEIST. Anyone who helps load the gold is 👌 so long as they kiss his ass.

[rubbersole]

10. tsf appears to be too addled to stop him.

The public breakup of these weirdos might be the Christmas present the country needs. 💔🍿.

[NNadir]

11. President elect Musk is a channeling Caligula.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Or maybe channeling F.W. de Klerk, champion of apartheid.

[NNadir]

27. Prehaps you mean P.W Botha. De Klerk made peace...

...with Mandela, which I'm sure upset the family of President Elect Musk.

De Klerck was a white supremacist thug to be sure, but hardly as bad as President-elect Musk.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

37. Yeah, well President-Elect Muskrat needs to be impeached... like PRONTO!!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

47. Will he dub his FAVORITE TESLA a Senator?

Stranger things have happened.

[andym]

54. Maybe he is channeling Nero

who was supremely arrogant, but a do-er, and loved attention from the masses.

[bronxiteforever]

13. The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Musk,Inc.

All those Senators and Congresscritters are just secretaries taking dictation from the richest man in the world.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

41. +100!!

[kerouac2]

14. Shutdown would be blamed on Biden and dems

They will say it's necessary because of Democrats overspending and lazy Dems and immigrants milking the system and taking hard earned money from the real Americans (aka trumpers).. That will be gobbled up by knuckle dragging repukes as they watch our govt collapse.

Or maybe I'm just too negative lol

[Lonestarblue]

15. Acting President Musk already ruling the roost for his Trump puppet.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

16. So, during Musk's secret conversations with Putin

did he get permission from Putin to run our country instead of Trump?

Once he's inaugurated, I think Trump should just play golf and be glad he didn't have to go to prison. JD Vance can be his caddie.

Elon Musk can then get into a Tesla and drive our country into a ditch.

[riversedge]

17. Msnbc: Musk's wealth soars after Trump's win!! ...

Nothing about Trumps wealth that I can hear right now.

[Noel Kums]

22. This will be what causes Trump to lose it.

I can't wait.

[waterwatcher123]

20. Ask the GSA and Your Elected Officials to Demand Musk be Subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA

If you have a moment, consider writing to your U.S. Senators, Members of Congress, and the General Services Administration (GSA) to demand that they apply the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to Musk and Ramaswamy's so called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and to any group providing advice to the Trump Administration. These are the email addresses for the GSA, who oversee FACA for the U.S. government (one is for the inspector general).

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

"The Scope of the FACA

The Federal Advisory Committee Act applies to “any committee, board, commission, council, conference, panel, task force, or other similar group, or any subcommittee or other subgroup thereof” established by Congress, the President, or a federal agency (or used by the President or a federal agency) “in the interest of obtaining advice or recommendations[.]” Loosely speaking: if the federal government creates or exercises direct control over an advisory body, that body is subject to the FACA. However, committees “composed wholly of fulltime, or permanent part-time, officers or employees of the Federal Government” are excluded from the statute.

The FACA imposes a variety of accountability measures on advisory committees and the agencies they advise. A detailed charter must be filed when a committee is formed, a copy of which is kept in a public database maintained by the General Services Administration. The committee must operate under the supervision of a designated federal officer, who in turn reports to a committee management officer tasked with overseeing all of an agency’s advisory committees. The agency to which a committee reports must also fulfill certain reporting requirements and maintain financial records concerning a committee’s operations.

Most importantly, an advisory committee’s proceedings and records must (with narrow exceptions) be open to the public. A committee is required to announce its meetings in the Federal Register, and members of the public must be allowed to attend those meetings and/or provide input on the committee’s work. The committee must also keep minutes of its proceedings and proactively make those minutes—along with the rest of the committee’s records—available for public review. Courts have held that the disclosure of committee records must be contemporaneous with the meetings they pertain to so that members of the public can follow the committee’s work."

https://epic.org/issues/open-government/federal-advisory-committee-act/

[Orrex]

23. If Trump gets to pretend to be in control, he's content

All he wants is attention and adulation, and Musk’s fascist agenda meshes perfectly with that.

[Borogove]

24. Musk is an idiot savant while Trump is just an idiot.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Yes government shutdown. Musk threatens their re-election. Musk wants his tax cut.

Musk is driving this money grab. Trump is letting him do it. Biden has no options either. We are being dictated to.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. Musk is the dictator. Trump is the front man.

[Vinca]

30. I'm really surprised the Narcissist-In-Chief is putting up with this.

[Traildogbob]

31. All Dems need to

Be at the inauguration, and everyone with an orange had sock puppet of Trump.
Putin is controlling the strings of Musk that controls the strings of Trump that controls the strings of GQP.
And they are all about to get tangled into a knot, choking America to death.
Trump is the 🍆, Musk is the creamy white 🥔

[Escape]

34. IMPEACH MUSK!

[JustAnotherGen]

40. It's simpler than that

He wants the tax cut he promised billionaires during the campaign.
He needs the debt ceiling lifted now, so that day one his lackey can get sworn in and move forward with increasing the national debt, giving billionaires their tax cut, and eliminating the services for people who paid for them (like Veterans Health Care).

[TNNurse]

42. If we pit Musk vs Trump

what would happen? Donnie doesn't want anyone to have more attention or money than he does.

[mwb970]

43. Selfishness and greed are the underpinnings of evil and immorality.

Both President Musk and his sidekick trump are overflowing with both of these qualities.

[turbinetree]

44. Hey US SUPREME COURT is this your fucking vision of Money is Free Speech..........Citizens United .......

where a dickhead bought the presidency..............for 380 million and is now playing fucking god and he is not even elected or for that matter did he break the law when he didn't follow the rules to be a citizen when he first slithered into this country, maybe you can ask him...............................and how's that wanna be fascist wanna be state working for you...........

[hay rick]

45. Elon's holiday request...

[Blue_Tires]

48. How is this any different from Donnie directly

Ordering Mike Johnson what to do and when to do it from mar-a-lago the last two years?

[Ferryboat]

49. Dancing Dipshit has tsf force shutdown

Ensuring chaos in house. MJ out Rs unable to agree. Jeffries becomes speaker.

Hopefully

[UTUSN]

50. We should be wedge-trolling Drumpf by calling MUSK co-president, real-president, shadow-president

[D. Spaulding]

51. And the fact that he is using disinformation to do it

should forever sink any credibility he has to have any involvement in government.
He spread several outright lies about the spending bill to millions of followers that led to the House pulling it.

[republianmushroom]

52. Musk, he is the power.

[allegorical oracle]

53. We have three POTUSES: A sitting one, an elect-one, and a shadow one. Wonder

what Biden's thinking about this hideous, insulting power siege.