Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson angered both his Republican caucus and Donald Trump by negotiating a bipartisan budget deal with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.
Trump, feeling “blindsided” and “furious,” reportedly encouraged Elon Musk to attack House leadership on X, leading to over 100 posts that derailed the deal temporarily.
While the budget ultimately passed with Democratic support, far-right Republicans were left fuming.
The incident highlights tensions within GOP leadership and Trump’s use of Musk to wield influence over congressional negotiations.
Trump isn’t president yet. But still it’s a good sign that he can’t just use bully tactics to get what he wants.
He has no negotiation skills. No real political capital. And he’s despised by most of the leaders who support him only transactionally. His only trick will be lies and threats and Elon’s propaganda site. So maybe he won’t be able to do as much damage as we feared.
But what do I know. I thought he’d be in jail by now.
But what do I know. I thought he’d be in jail by now.
That’s what you get for having faith in what is an obviously broken system. I’m in my forties and it’s been broken since before I was born. Honestly, I get sick of people circlejerking the “founding fathers” because their constitution sucks shit. It was a broken system from the get-go, built to represent just rich land-owning white men. Literally this country was founded on “I’m rich and I hate being taxed, that’s for the poors.” Did anyone with a brain ever expect it to turn out any other way?
I was in court recently and a lady was crying her eyes out, saying calling the cops was a mistake, because her partner was having a mental breakdown, and now her partner has charges, is in jail, and she is about to be evicted from her home because her partner was paying the bills.
The prosecuting attorney leaps to the microphone to make a statement “I want to make clear that calling the cops is never a mistake.” He literally is flat out ignoring what actually happened and ignoring this woman’s feelings and just saying to her face “if you called them, no matter how bad it went, it wasn’t a mistake.” That’s the reality, is a lot of the people in this fucked up broken fucking system are perfectly fine with how it works and think it’s great that it all works this way. They are fine with ruining people’s lives as long as those people are powerless to fight it.
Laws are only for the poors. What fucking fantasy world have you been living in?
aww they’re writing stories now to try to refute the “President Musk” narrative. Too bad the facts on the ground don’t match the “Trump told Musk to attack” malarkey. It’s absolutely clear that Musk is in charge and Trump just followed along with “yeah what he said!”
It’s Shakespearian. The protagonist now has everything they said they wanted, and will proceed to ruin everything for everyone.
Whiner in chief. What a fucking joke of a person he is.
The part where trump ordered musk is entirely new; and sounds fabricated. The first version of this story sounded like Musk was flexing his muscle and showing his ability to control the house.
And, please, let’s remember that Trump isn’t the president. He’s rattling his sabre now, before even wearing the crown. America is so fucked.
