Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Republican Senators Say They're Fine Handing Their Power to Elon Musk

Musk's actions may be unconstitutional but "nobody should bellyache about that," Sen. Thom Tillis said.

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Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation's communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures. Musk isn't a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.

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-- Rep. Jamie Raskin (@raskin.house.gov) February 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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This Won't End Well.

Acknowledging that it's unconstitutional but that nobody should "bellyache" about it is not just stupid and Cowardly it's basically making the role of Congress a rubber stamp for the Executive.

The SCOTUS will make the Power Grabs all LEGAL. The Courts are the last bastion of real independence but Trump has corrupted the SCOTUS so eventually his agenda will become settled law.

Authoritarian Government is the use of the Legislative branch to give top down control an illusion of general consensus. This is the most dangerous period in American History in my opinion.

Trump will capture the other two branches of government and start a World War.

At a Minimum there will be regional Wars in Iran and possibly Latin America.

Israel is another huge Tripwire for War. They will Connive with the US to Dominate the entire ME. Of course that will cause Wars itself.

I see multiple flashpoints for violence in the coming year or two.

Domestic policy will be to create Fear of Government throughout the country. Gitmo will be the American Buchenwald. A place for anyone who resists. Outside of the protection of the Bill of Rights.

Zed seemed Extreme in the past. No longer. He was correct in almost every detail about the incredible danger Trump is to everything America should be.

Interesting Times. God help US.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-02-05 09:46 AM

Cultists gonna Cult.

Trumpublicans will bend over whenever Trump tells them to.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 11:12 AM

It's a ------- coup

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-02-05 11:48 AM

Musk was appointed by the POTUS

he has the full authorization of the POTUS>...the sole elected representative of the people as a whole.

the potus campaigned on it and he won in both EC and pop vote....

He was given the authority by the president to uncover unaccounted funds.

he can't fire or hire or power to shut anything down.

HE DOES have power to go through every financial record INCLUDING THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC.

so suck it....

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:18 PM

#4

Trump's Executive Orders are in many cases illegal; they effect areas that are the perview of Congress and or the Courts, not the Executive.

btw... when did you first become infatuated with Nazi Oligarchs?

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 01:22 PM

Musk was appointed by the POTUS

he has the full authorization of the POTUS>...the sole elected representative of the people as a whole.

the potus campaigned on it and he won in both EC and pop vote....

He was given the authority by the president to uncover unaccounted funds.

he can't fire or hire or power to shut anything down.

HE DOES have power to go through every financial record INCLUDING THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC.

so suck it....

Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:18 PM | Reply

Musk does not have the authority to be doing what he is doing. Congress didn't give him that authority. Civics 101. Just sayin

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-05 01:23 PM

Shrimpdick is a Nazi loving idiot.

Dumbest, Person, Here....so suck it.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-02-05 01:26 PM

and the question is still...WHY are your hearts bleeding for corrupt politicians and their groups......that are discovered a little

more day by day almost hour by hour.

DO YOU get a cut of the cash cow ?

SUCH AS>...........THIS FROM a homeland security committee hearing

every 2-3 months 600,000,000 went to an NGO facilitating illegal immigration...and not to US citizens in need

such as North Carolina...

dems have been exposed....and there's no going back....EVER !!

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:31 PM

Shrimpdick is a Nazi loving idiot.

Dumbest, Person, Here....so suck it.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer

I'm just proud that a scum sucking punk like you can put more than 3 words together.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:32 PM

Unless boaz shows up and says something even dumber, #4 will probably be the most ridiculous thing I'll read all day.

#10 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-05 01:32 PM

#8

Because it's 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater', you insufferable dope!

If there's problems, we can address them individually, not destroy the mechanisms already in place.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 01:35 PM

------- is defying the courts by continuing the funding freeze

Where the constitutionalists at?

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-05 01:37 PM

Musk does not have the authority to be doing what he is doing. Congress didn't give him that authority. Civics 101. Just sayin

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr a

don't be stupid...like the f....g moronic a whole from post 7..

"The president can create and issue executive orders without gaining consent from congress."

you remember those from biden,,,,things leftist agreed with virtually 100% of the time.

He created DOGE the first day he was back with an EO. naming Musk as the man in charge.

and don't give me BS about money....Biden spent BILLIONS with a move of his pen....

apparently you were a public school failure in civic 101

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:40 PM

Unless boaz shows up and says something even dumber, #4 will probably be the most ridiculous thing I'll read all day.

#10 | Posted by qcp

while you're at it...take #10 and sick it up your butt..

#14 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:42 PM

MAGA Trumpers are hopelessly stupid. It's amazing how stupid they really are. Sighhhhhhh

#15 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-05 01:43 PM

Trump's Executive Orders are in many cases illegal; they effect areas that are the perview of Congress and or the Courts, not the Executive.

btw... when did you first become infatuated with Nazi Oligarchs?

#5 | Posted by Corky

of course they are....just like we predicted would be puked out here.

but biden's were all perfectly legal..

lying sack of ----.

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:44 PM

well that's enough exposure to the real problem in america

--public school failures playing like they know shvt about anything..

AND I HOPE BOAZ does show up...because when he does they're always one or more of you showing your

true racist f...g selves...

so good day to each of you reincarnations of Karl Childers and may you kill some babies today /

protest honesty in government funding and make DAMN SURE you support the terrorists in the middle east.

#17 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:52 PM

"The president can create and issue executive orders without gaining consent from congress."

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan

forgot to include....this is from the Associated Press from January 22, 2025

look it up sally.

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 01:55 PM

Shut up, little man.

#19 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-05 02:14 PM

Nobody is claiming EOs are illegal in and of themselves, dips^*+.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-05 02:25 PM

Biden wasn't usurping powers reserved for the Congress and the Courts as DJT is doing.

But hey, Shrimpbrains has that name for a reason.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 02:32 PM

holy gessush....help me please.

all musk is doing or can do is go through the books and show the country just what BS democrats principally have

done with tax payer money...

he can't fire or do anything about it except make it public and LOTS of the money is hidden.

that's where the engineers are writing code to uncover frauuent gvt spending.

WTF are you worried about unless you support the fraud....or are in on it ?

--if you're opposed to that then you're in favor of crooked political lying trash....

so why would you go nuts about it ?

MAYBE it was the DEI MUSICAL ??? ahahahahha

#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 02:33 PM

CUBA.....74 million in "democracy promotion" VANISHED without oversight.

and you people don't give a s--t...

--20 million FKN DOLLARS to Iraq for an Iraqi version of seseme street to GROOM children.

---and the most ILLEGAL act of all....27 MILLION to fund left wing persecutions of political opponents here and around the globe.

so much for that "no one's above the law" BS from you fck liars..

#23 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-05 02:35 PM

God MAGA Trumpers are lost causes I am afraid. Lordy have mercy.

#24 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-05 02:38 PM

#22
He's too stupid to be in on it, he still thinks it's a coup for exposing coruption

#25 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-05 02:38 PM

twitter.com

#26 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-05 03:00 PM

You're still stupid enough to think it's about rooting out corruption.

Idiot.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-05 03:14 PM

Congressional Republicans would be fine with dissolving the three branches of government and handing supreme power over to Trump.

This already happened in Rome. It's simply history repeating itself.

#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-05 03:19 PM

JFC you cultists are such suckers:

Karoline Leavitt Explains That Elon Musk Will Self-Police Himself on Conflicts of Interest at DOGE: 'Elon Will Excuse Himself'
www.mediaite.com

#29 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-02-05 03:22 PM

"Trust me bro!" -AIG in 2007

"Trust me bro!" -Bush administration claiming WMD existed in Iraq

"Trust me bro!" - James Clapper denying the NSA was collecting data on Americans

#30 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-02-05 03:27 PM

Musk has already got his hands on everything.

Complaining that the fox raided the henhouse isn't going to change the fact that the hens are dead.

Democracy takes decades to set up, but only an instant to knock down.

We're living in that instant.

Take it all in, this is what historians will talk about when discussing the fall of the American Empire.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-05 05:31 PM

Don't they know that Musk is an African American?

#32 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-02-05 07:04 PM

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