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'Elon Musk has killed the bill': Tech billionaire flexes newfound political muscle (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Say goodbye to lower drug prices among other things.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Democracy is another one

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 4 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 4 months ago

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

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 49 points 4 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 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 4 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 4 months ago

Tell the Black Hand I'm stealing this.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 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 4 months ago

But St. Luigi lives within us all...

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

!RemindMe

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 43 points 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Or his kid

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He has offspring that still talk to him?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Ah. Still too young to know better.

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

Holy shit. Is this how we get batman?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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 4 months ago

As they said above

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 23 points 4 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 4 months ago

Lmao this timeline is so deeply fucking stupid

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 17 points 4 months ago

I am literally disgusted by this. I feel revulsion.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 17 points 4 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 4 months ago

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

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 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 8 points 4 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 4 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 4 months ago

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

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

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