Summary

Musk is trying to backtrack on his previous demands to shut down the government.

Elon Musk initially supported a government shutdown, criticizing Republicans who backed a continuing resolution and calling for no new bills until Donald Trump retakes office.

His posts on X encouraged GOP hardliners and contributed to chaos in Congress.

After a bipartisan spending bill failed to pass, Musk blamed Democrats, ignoring that 38 Republicans also voted against it.

Facing backlash for his earlier remarks, Musk is now deflecting responsibility as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggles to avoid a shutdown.

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      Though I don’t like Musk, I think deporting all illegals would be damaging to our society and economy.

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    Republicans: Have a majority in the House

    House spending bill: Fails to pass

    How could Democrats do this??

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    Guarantee he hasn’t realized shit. In his mind, it was the best idea in the world when he had it, and now it’s the best idea in the world to walk it back. He’s so brilliant, he was right twice about the same thing.

    Whoever wrote this headline hasn’t met a true narcissist.

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      Not only that but he tweeted something around 100 times that day. Someone got their “special medicine” and went on a bender confident they knew everything. And now they’ve come down and they’re confident they still do but can’t admit they were off their gourd for a day. Like a typical narcissist yes.

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        If that’s true and he’s not a full-blown sociopath with resistance to the impact of his actions, we just have to wait is for him to need to dose up so high he never leaves his k-hole and we can get back to never talking about him ever again.

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          You basically have to deliberately try to OD on ketamine, and even then you’re unlikely to be successful if you’re snorting it, easier if you’re injecting it. It was created to be a safer alternative to morphine

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          It’s pretty hard to OD on K, if not impossible in most cases. So not likely. I share your desire to stop hearing about this asshole though.

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      He’s 2 steps ahead and we’re just tripping over each other while wallowing through his feces trying to compete up

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    This is already starting out so well and they haven’t even taken office. Have they started construction on the ceiling cutouts Elon will need to marionette the orange genius around with?

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    Trump is going to realize very quickly that musk is a massive liability and, worse than that is his mind, wants to run the show himself.

    The fallout between the two of them will be fun to watch. I predict musk will find out very quickly that “his” people on Twitter are actually Trump people.

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    I don’t believe in heaven, but people like this make me hope hell is real.

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        In the grand history of the universe, they are already nothing. They just aren’t smart enough to realize that.

        They cling to the idea that they are gaining immortality via a legacy. Their legacy will mean nothing in a few turns l tend if thousands of years - probably much sooner. They will be forgotten, just like the rest of us. Time is the great equalizer. It’s just a shame their shitty, greedy actions cause so much stress and misery to others in the mean time.

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    Next time I hear that government should be run like a business…

    The response is easy…

    “That’s exactly what Musk thought”