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Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Elon Musk on Tuesday tore into the massive tax-and-spending-cut bill backed by President Donald Trump, calling it a "disgusting abomination" that will explode federal budget deficits. "I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," Musk wrote in a post on his social media site X. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination," added the Tesla and SpaceX CEO. "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."

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The abject failure of DOGE as a cost-cutting exercise is starting to make Elon Musk look like a tool for other people's agendas, @glichfield.bsky.social writes.

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-- Foreign Policy (@foreignpolicy.com) May 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene just admitted that she did NOT read the entire Big Beautiful Bill before voting for it and now she regrets her vote.

Here's an idea. If you are voting on something without understanding it, please resign immediately.

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#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-03 03:28 PM | Reply

Musk finally realizes that he was used to 'cut' the Budget from under the poor and middle-class, and now the Republican Congress is using this Bill to add trillions to the Debt while deconstructing healthcare in America(including an attack on Obamacare)?

I thought he was s'posed to be a smart guy?

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 03:36 PM | Reply

And MTG knew what she was voting for.... she just figures that her Base will forgive Stupid quicker than they will forgive losing their healthcare.

They relate quite well to Stupid.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 03:38 PM | Reply

Is Musk too rich to fall out of a window?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-03 03:51 PM | Reply

#4: Is Musk too rich to fall out of a window?

Or how about his private plane? Maybe the Ukrainians can do us a favor somehow: media.gettyimages.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-03 04:00 PM | Reply

Cry me a river

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 04:17 PM | Reply

Translation of Leon's statement, via Grok reads as follows: My ox has been gored. This bill will cause my business interests to suffer, so I'll lose money. If this continues, I'll be forced to throw my financial support to the Democrats...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-04 08:13 AM | Reply

Musk reminds me of James Comey around here, you just never know when hes in or out of fashion.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-04 08:36 AM | Reply

But bankrupting the government is exactly what Citizens United was designed to do, put the employees of rich people into office, to take from the poor to give to the rich, and when finally the country is bankrupted, then the Republican Party can finally destroy what FDR left...a social safety net that saved the lives of millions.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-06-04 08:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Musk is a "disgusting abomination" so he would recognize another one immediately.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-04 08:49 AM | Reply

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-03 03:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes, MTG just removed any doubt that she's a complete raetard.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-04 08:50 AM | Reply

MTG reminds me of James Comey around here, you just never know when she's in or out of fashion.

#12 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-04 10:19 AM | Reply

Yes, MTG just removed any doubt that she's a complete raetard.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

She perfectly represents you and MAGA.

"I voted for a bill I didn't read."
"I didn't know there was a hurricane season."
"Other countries pay the tariffs."
"Medicaid cuts are fine because we are going to die someday."

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-04 10:20 AM | Reply

Musk and Trump are sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes DOGE, then comes regret
Then comes Musk making babies with Stephen Miller's wife and naming it something unpronounceable

#14 | Posted by cbob at 2025-06-04 10:22 AM | Reply

Musk supported the members of the House who passed this bill with millions in campaign contributions and is the ultimate finance reform!"poster boy" for the need for real campaign finance reform! Now the bill will go to the Senate where other benificiaries of his financial support for Republicans helped get them elected and does present a question of loyalty for Republicans; To the cult leader or the guy with the deepest pockets? Wouldn't it be great to watch the coming midterm elections as they play out as a battle between money/Musk and crazy/Trump? Hoping the split will spell disaster for the GQP!

#15 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-04 12:14 PM | Reply


The Lincoln Project
@lincolnproject.us
Elon just spent 6 months taking food out of starving kids' mouths, and even he can't stomach this MAGA Murder Bill.

bsky.app

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-04 01:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I did not think it would ever happen, but I have to agree with Musk about this bill.

#17 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-06-04 01:45 PM | Reply

#16: "Hey, Felon, special delivery package for you!"

https://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/660810/groin-kick.jpg

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-04 01:45 PM | Reply

If he is trying to win back liberal and democratic customers he is on the right track. But it's gonna take a lot more than a tweet.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-04 02:12 PM | Reply

Elon just spent 6 months taking food out of starving kids' mouths, and even he can't stomach this MAGA Murder Bill.

Elon is just pissed that he didn't get a bigger piece of the pie in the budget bill.

That's all.

#20 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-04 02:50 PM | Reply

The GOP has gone so scumbag even a giant scumbag piece of s^%* like Musk calls them out ...

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 02:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Now known as the "We are all gonna die!" bill.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-04 06:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#22 ... Now known as the "We are all gonna die!" bill. ...

Yeah, that may be the more polite version.

Another view ...

OpEd: One big shameful bill
www.ncronline.org

... There is nothing beautiful about President Donald Trump's and the Republican House's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The House of Representatives has passed one of the most immoral pieces of legislation in recent memory. Giving this sweeping legislation a sophomoric title does not disguise its ugly nature. The vote took place after midnight on May 22, as most Americans slept, with a tally of 215 to 214, along party lines.

In reverse Robin Hood style, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act proposes nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest among us while cutting $1 trillion in vital support for the most vulnerable, including poor families with children and the elderly. ...

That brings us to the oxymoronic One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It is another fast-rolling disaster, only worse. Trump and House Republicans have passed a legislative package that seeks to permanently embed the most regressive features of the inequitable 2017 tax cut bill into the tax code while introducing a lucrative new payday for the wealthiest Americans.

To partially offset the cost of the tax cuts, the bill requires significant reductions that will inflict pain and suffering on the most vulnerable people in the country. Cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, would shift hundreds of billions in health care expenses to states and families, impose strict new work requirements on able-bodied adults (including some parents) , and create bureaucratic hurdles that will push the most vulnerable individuals off the rolls. ...

It is all disgraceful and shameful. ...

The promise of American democracy is not merely the freedom to accumulate wealth. It is the promise of mutual obligation, of building a society in which our fortunes rise or fall together.

If we allow this One Big Shameful Bill to become law, we condemn ourselves to a future where opportunity is bartered away and our social contract is ripped to shreds.

Jesus weeps over this cruelty. So do we. We must reject this heartless bargain and instead pursue policies that honor the dignity of every citizen and the collective well-being of our nation. ...

[emphasis mine]



#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-05 01:47 AM | Reply

Now Trump and Musk are at war with each other:

Tesla stock tanks 14% as Musk-Trump spat mounts, putting EV maker below $1 trillion market cap

Shares of Tesla fell 14% on Thursday as President Donald Trump threatened to pull government contracts for CEO Elon Musk's companies.

...

www.cnbc.com

#24 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-05 04:41 PM | Reply

Steve Bannon just called for Elon Musk's deportation. Trump is throwing shots at Musk ...

Heading to the store for popcorn!

#25 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-05 04:44 PM | Reply

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