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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Senate Republicans Shrug As Unelected Musk Seizes Their Power

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Senate Republicans Shrug As Unelected Musk Seizes Their Power

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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To Democrats, Elon Musk’s reported breaching of the U.S. Agency for International...
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      Which will work fine until they are no longer needed. Once they’ve given all their power to the fascists, they’ll suddenly find themselves very much redundant.

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        They’ll continue to be empty suits with the illusion of power and actual wealth…

        They’re not gonna consider that a bad result. They don’t want to govern let alone know how…

        Don’t act like all we need to do is sit back and wait and karma will do the hard work for us.

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          Exactly this Russia still has elections and an “opposition”. You can still be in control without necessarily being in the presidential position just as Putin was while Prime Minister after running out of terms.

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      In France the answer would have been: because otherwise there would be widespread demonstrations, strikes and eventually riots.

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          Make America Guillotine Assholefuckingnazis.

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      Democrats are doing the same.

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        bOtH sIdEs!

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          He’s not wrong though. Both of my democratic senators are just confirming his appointments and behaving as if it’s business as usual. Its pretty maddening

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            It isn’t every single Democratic senator (or even most of them), however. Which still isn’t okay of course, but it’s no surprise that that the shittier candidates are pandering.

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            I hope you’re figuring out how to visit their local offices and talk to staff about how horrified you are by their behavior. A ton of people are doing this all over the country.

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              I don’t feel like getting arrested

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    republicans want an oligarchy

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      they’ll get cast aside soon enough… the new emperor doesn’t need a congress… or a legislative branch of government.

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        I think they’ll be kept around for the appearance of democracy. I recently learned that even North Korea maintains opposition parties, which of course have no power.

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      Republicans are the oligarchy

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    Shrugged? They lubed up and bent over…

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    "I don’t think he’s cutting into congressional power,” Sen. Mike Crapo

    RIP Satire

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      His name checks out.

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    Nazis. All of them.

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    This is the party w/ daddy issues. These are the people that were praising that “Daddy’s home and he has his belt off”.

    So it doesn’t matter who they are cucking for, as long as they have the right affiliations and hate the same set of people.

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      Like with any dictatorship they’ll always change the plot.

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    Trump is doing a tariff dance in the press to manipulate the market, while Fuhrer Musk is taking control of the actual power in government, the purse strings.

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      Ahh first time I’ve seen him called Fuhrer musk. Gonna have to adopt that

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    They have always wanted to break the government. They are okay with what’s happening, they knew it was going to happen, and they wanted to continue.

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    They’re forced to follow Trump lockstep

    Musk is backed by Trump

    Musk does whatever he wants as long as he doesn’t piss off Trump

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      Musk is backed by Trump

      I hear you, but I think you have the power dynamic backwards on this section

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        It’s the only dynamic that matters to Republicans

        Republicans step out of line with Trump, Trump uses his MAGA mob to force them in line or they’re out

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    Kind of like what happened after the initial violence in the fall of the roman republic. It started with sword point power grabs, but as time went on, they stopped ever trying to get any power back into the senate, and eventually bled out so much power that we don’t even know when the last meeting was. They just became so irrelevant.

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