Who will be the first to go?

[TheVat]

 

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There could be wall ketchup over Musk at some point, and it's enjoyable to dream of a Trump deportation dragnet which includes Musk.  In the America I used to imagine I lived in, Musk's offer to rape Taylor Swift might have been sufficient to motivate Congress to look into him being an undesirable worth purging.  

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[exchemist]

39 minutes ago, swansont said:

Naturalized, after illegally residing here, and which conceivably could have been revoked if he falsified immigration documents. But I doubt that will happen now unless he really angers Trump.

Heh heh.

[swansont]

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

 

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There could be wall ketchup over Musk at some point, and it's enjoyable to dream of a Trump deportation dragnet which includes Musk.  In the America I used to imagine I lived in, Musk's offer to rape Taylor Swift might have been sufficient to motivate Congress to look into him being an undesirable worth purging.  

You’d think the violation of his security clearance protocols would raise eyebrows. You have to report all contact with foreign nationals, and he neglected to do that. 

[CharonY]

 

1 hour ago, swansont said:

You’d think the violation of his security clearance protocols would raise eyebrows. You have to report all contact with foreign nationals, and he neglected to do that. 

I know that this thread is US-focused, but Musk is likely already interfering with other elections around the world. Not sure whether there are any regulations against that, though.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-gives-nod-german-far-right-party-election-looms-2024-12-20/

 

[swansont]

2 hours ago, CharonY said:

 

I know that this thread is US-focused, but Musk is likely already interfering with other elections around the world. Not sure whether there are any regulations against that, though.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-gives-nod-german-far-right-party-election-looms-2024-12-20/

 

Other countries are less enthralled and entangled with the US’s unholy conglomeration of billionaires and its embracing oligarchy and authoritarian rule, and might do something about it. (South Korea’s impeachment proceedings, for example

[CharonY]

23 minutes ago, swansont said:

Other countries are less enthralled and entangled with the US’s unholy conglomeration of billionaires and its embracing oligarchy and authoritarian rule, and might do something about it. (South Korea’s impeachment proceedings, for example

To some degree that might be true, especially with regard to billionaires, but there is a trend towards authoritarian parties which are financed by billionaires, but who portray themselves as for the working class. The Austrian far right (FPÖ has repeatedly won elections and, as many right-wing parties and they are (allegedly) supported by Russia. In fact an undercover report showed how the leader of the party was open to bribes from a fake Russian oligarch. That government collapsed but the same party won the recent elections again....

I think you are right that overt billionaire support is less attractive, but they can throw a lot of money around without people noticing.

[swansont]

CR passed the house with the modifications Musk wanted, but without the debt ceiling increase Trump wanted. Happy happy fun fun!

[toucana]

20 hours ago, swansont said:

CR passed the house with the modifications Musk wanted, but without the debt ceiling increase Trump wanted. Happy happy fun fun!

Congress did at least partially reinstate the $190m of stopgap funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First paediatric cancer research program which was cut completely in the Musk/ Trump perversion of the original bipartisan CR

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219839534

Apparently even the most die-hard moral imbeciles in the Republican caucus belatedly realised that cutting a major research program into childhood cancers, and cancelling the federal spending debt limits in order to fund trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts for Trump-friendly billionaires didn’t provide the best optics for the GOP going forward into the new year.

https://commonfund.nih.gov/KidsFirst

[swansont]

14 minutes ago, toucana said:

Congress did at least partially reinstate the $190m of stopgap funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First paediatric cancer research program which was cut completely in the Musk/ Trump perversion of the original bipartisan CR

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219839534

Apparently even the most die-hard moral imbeciles in the Republican caucus belatedly realised that cutting a major research program into childhood cancers, and cancelling the federal spending debt limits in order to fund trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts for Trump-friendly billionaires didn’t provide the best optics for the GOP going forward into the new year.

https://commonfund.nih.gov/KidsFirst

“The house has already passed this bill, but it was held up by Rand Paul in the Senate for months.”