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'Elon Musk has killed the bill': Tech billionaire flexes newfound political muscle (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social
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The tech billionaire posted about the funding bill more than 100 times Wednesday, helping lead a charge that appears to have increased the likelihood of a shutdown.

Bill: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Say goodbye to lower drug prices among other things.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Democracy is another one

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but just wait, Xmocracy will be amazing guys, way better, no censorship

Also pls buy doge

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Verified^TM^ voters in good standing with accounts paid in full get double votes.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I misread the headline as "Elon Musk Killed" and I was so happy for a moment.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is definitely a CEO that needs a visit from St. Luigi.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

~~Sweet Mother, sweet Mother~~ St Luigi, St Luigi
Send your child unto me
For the sins of the unworthy
Must be baptized in blood and fear

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Tell the Black Hand I'm stealing this.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bruh the guy is going to jail. You need to call someone else.

Mario? Wario? Waluigi?

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

But St. Luigi lives within us all...

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

!RemindMe

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is insane. You know he's just losing his mind over this new found power.

It’d be a real shame if he got Luigied.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's no way, he's too scared to risk walking around in public without security

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Or his kid

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He has offspring that still talk to him?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Ah. Still too young to know better.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Is this how we get batman?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I’ll be honest, I don’t know enough DC lore. Were Batman’s parents power hungry fascists who were handed money from their parents South African emerald mine when they were young?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

As they said above

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Congratulations to President Musk and First Lady Trump for coming together during these trying times for LGBBQ couples to ruin as many lives as possible.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

Lmao this timeline is so deeply fucking stupid

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I am really proud of Musk’s presidential behavior on this. He’s really showing great leadership!

(Tell your friends, it will piss off Trump if Elon gets more praise than him. Get this, we get the rich to eat each other!)

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It'll piss of First Lady Trump? Oh no, how awful.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago

I am literally disgusted by this. I feel revulsion.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad Donald Trump and the Republicans can't be Bought! That would be REAL SWAMPLIKE BEHAVIOUR if they could!

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Of course, they can't be bought, they're the blatant billionaire party, so of course, they won't fight for what they don't lack...

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

So you create a crisis so you can 'save the people' and pay yourself on the back

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Umm, the title of this post and the title of the article and not the same:

Elon Musk leads charge to kill spending bill meant to avert government shutdown

What is this about "has killed"?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was the original title under which the article was published. They later changed it.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when websites do that. They should be required to state that an article was edited after posting and then provided a link to the original.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

maybe musk can make that a law. I don't see how it could go wrong.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Jeeze president musk is ruining things and he isn't even in office yet