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Republicans embrace "our prime minister" Elon Musk

www.axios.com Just a moment...

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"Thank god Elon Musk bought Twitter, because that's the only way we would even know what's in this bill," Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) said of Musk's efforts to kill the bipartisan bill on CNN's "State of the Union."
Are you illiterate? Do you not have staff that can read and summarize the bill for you?
- He can read the letters R and D just fine, thank you very much.
- 50% of your fucking job is knowing what's in bills and the other half is voting on them.
  
  Wrong. 10% of your fucking job is writing bills so long and complicated that nobody has time to read them.
- He was elected to lead, not to read
- I thought it's sarcasm
  
  If the Republicans weren't all so far up Elon's ass right now I'd be more willing to believe that.

It's wild how this is just allowed to happen
- Money. Money is why they allowed it. You can trace this all back to the Citizens United decision by the SCOTUS, and beyond. The only way this ends is by reversing that and properly taxing wealth, which won’t happen without a true populist movement. Otherwise, it’ll just be more Adjustors. There is a nonviolent path, but I simply cannot see the wealthy and powerful choosing it.
  
  When your economy (and now, political system, and by extension, judiciary) rewards those who are most amoral and ruthless, violence is necessarily the end result. The only questions are when, how bad, for how long, and who wins.
  
  They'll choose the nonviolent path once they've had a clear preview of the alternative.
- Good thing "oligarch" is just used when describing Russian conditions. That would neeeever happen here in the west.
  
  Yep, it's not oligarchy if it's just the world's richest neo-Nazi "advising" Trump

Yes, but: Hagerty pushed back on Democrats' assertions that Musk is pulling Trump's strings, saying Trump is "clearly the leader" of the Republican Party.
A good sign of being the leader is constantly having to say you are the leader
- I know I am well liked because I tell myself I am well liked.
  
  @foggy: I saw that you posted in r/dogs posts in support of the dogs. You're good.
  I would 100% share my beer with you if I knew who you were. Good people of the world need to come together. Lately I begin to understand the theme in many Chinese stories about "unification" being a central goal for society. Its the only way to get the good stuff done. Otherwise we're stuck with a few corrupt peoples worst impulses.

all hail President Musk

THE DEEP STATE IS RUNNING AMERICA KAMALA IS CONTROLLING JOE IF KAMALA WINS THE DEEP STATE WILL ACTUALLY CONTROL HER
I listened to this shit for a decade now they're literally just doing it openly. Every. Single. Critique. Is. an. Admission. Fuck.

Der Reichs Fürer?

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