MAQA Civil War

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Musk said politicians which includes both Republicans and Dems ...

All politicians who betrayed the American people by votin= for trump's BBB. Did any Dems vote for trump's BBB?

[Caribbean Hen]

Musk said politicians which includes both Republicans and Dems ...

All politicians who betrayed the American people by votin= for trump's BBB. Did any Dems vote for trump's BBB?

You mean the same Dems who have never proposed any spending cuts and want to keep poisoning kids with chips and soda breakfast….

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All politicians who betrayed the American people by votin= for trump's BBB. Did any Dems vote for trump's BBB?

You mean the same Dems who have never proposed any spending cuts and want to keep poisoning kids with chips and soda breakfast….

Ooooh, Republicans are stepping in it people are noticing, let's change the subject and blame the Democrats to try and distract people from the reality that Republicans are self-serving schmucks who don't really care about the deficit, the debt or average joes.

Wrong thread.

If you want to criticize Democrats do it in the appropriate thread.

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Tesla stock plunges 14% as 'disappointed' Trump threatens subsidies, contracts for Musk's businesses

Thursday's spat gained speed when Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he was "disappointed" in Musk, while Musk argued on X — the social media platform that he owns — Trump wouldn't have won the White House without his support.

"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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[kalm]

I would love to hear from our MAGA friends who they got!

[kalm]

All politicians who betrayed the American people by votin= for trump's BBB. Did any Dems vote for trump's BBB?

You mean the same Dems who have never proposed any spending cuts and want to keep poisoning kids with chips and soda breakfast….

You seriously need to find better sources of information. Unless you forgot to point the figure at R’s too.

[Caribbean Hen]

You mean the same Dems who have never proposed any spending cuts and want to keep poisoning kids with chips and soda breakfast….

You seriously need to find better sources of information. Unless you forgot to point the figure at R’s too.

So show me a source that shows a Democrat that’s happy with snap cards being cut

[kalm]

You seriously need to find better sources of information. Unless you forgot to point the figure at R’s too.

So show me a source that shows a Democrat that’s happy with snap cards being cut

Probably very few. Show me a low income/working class/red state Trump voter who’s happy about it.

Show me an R who’s proposing defense cuts or tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.

I’m for smart, non-catastrophic spending cuts AND tax increases to knock down the debt. Are you?

Remember, deficit spending has increased under every R administration and decreased under ever D going back to the 80’s.

Both sides (including Congress) share the blame for the debt and fall of the working class and future generations.

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So show me a source that shows a Democrat that’s happy with snap cards being cut

Probably very few. Show me a low income/working class/red state Trump voter who’s happy about it.

Show me an R who’s proposing defense cuts or tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.

I’m for smart, non-catastrophic spending cuts AND tax increases to knock down the debt. Are you?

Remember, deficit spending has increased under every R administration and decreased under ever D going back to the 80’s.

Both sides (including Congress) share the blame for the debt and fall of the working class and future generations.

I know what President Ike would suggest...

And IIRC, MAGA thinks the middle class was pretty okay in those days.

[kalm]

Probably very few. Show me a low income/working class/red state Trump voter who’s happy about it.

Show me an R who’s proposing defense cuts or tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.

I’m for smart, non-catastrophic spending cuts AND tax increases to knock down the debt. Are you?

Remember, deficit spending has increased under every R administration and decreased under ever D going back to the 80’s.

Both sides (including Congress) share the blame for the debt and fall of the working class and future generations.

I know what President Ike would suggest...

And IIRC, MAGA thinks the middle class was pretty okay in those days.

Yup.

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Skip the 5D and turn the chess all the way up to 11!

(There’s a cynical side of me seeing this as mendable of which MAGA would still take genius level credit for)

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[BDKJMU]

People keep posting all these Elon tweets of ‘Not Found’

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People keep posting all these Elon tweets of ‘Not Found’

Is is my fault the pussy is deleting them? Fortunately when you put something on the Internet it lives on even after you delete it ...

[BDKJMU]

People keep posting all these Elon tweets of ‘Not Found’

Is is my fault the pussy is deleting them? Fortunately when you put something on the Internet it lives on even after you delete it ...

Elon was just extremely frustrated at:
-not being able to do with govt what he can do with his companies.
-The BBB bill. I agree with his take, but doing like he wanted would mean ZERO chance of passing Congress which would mean a huge tax increase, spending increases, still debt increase, and ginormous recesssion. We’re fucked in the long run either way. Smoke em if you got em!
-His guy/recommendation not getting appointed to run NASA. I don’t know details on that.
-Probably felt not being appreciated enough for what he had done/sacrificed for 4+ months.

Richest man in the world. One of the greatest entrepreneurs in US history. An autistic genius who has an incredible ability to focus but also some impulse control issues (be it 14 kids with 7 baby mommas or posting stuff on X).

Trump surprisingly came out more restrained in their 2 day spat. They’re already halfway to kissing and making up.

As far as the Epstein files, the left has been throwing the kitchen sink at Trump for 9+ years with real and fake shit. The donks would have had control of those files 2021-2024. After 4 criminal indictments and 2 Civil cases that all failed to stop Trump, you think the donks would have held back the Epstein Files if there was any ‘there’ there vis a vis Trump?

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Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP’s libertarians

Miller has explicitly wondered if libertarian-leaning Republicans such as Massie were fighting the bill in order to oppose the deportation program. Massie, calling from the road on his way back to D.C. on Monday, told me that is not the case.

“He and I have the same immigration, deportation, wall policy, with the exception of E-verify. That’s the only libertarian objection I have,” Massie said. “He’s appealing to a trope that all libertarians are open borders, and he knows that’s not true about me. He and I have spent hours talking, Stephen Miller and I, on these drives to and from D.C. … He’s trying to spread some doubt about the messenger, and not my message.”

But times are different now.

“He can’t be as honest and candid as he was with me when he didn’t have Donald Trump as his boss,” Massie said. “He’s got his job is to sell this bill, and he’s trying to put lipstick on a pig, and Rand Paul and I are pointing out it’s a pig.”

Paul again became a Miller target after he told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” that the funding Trump administration is seeking for the border wall is “excessive,” and he would probably do “half as much” as what he wants for hiring more agents. The border, Paul argued, is “largely controlled right now,” warning against hiring “an army of Border Patrol agents that we have on the hook for payments and pensions

Miller seethed. “While ICE officers are battling violent mobs in Los Angeles, Rand Paul is trying to cut funding for deportations and border security,” he posted on the social platform X.

A spokesperson for Paul sent me a statement firing back at Miller and the campaign against the libertarian senator.

“Clearly, they are afraid the big, not yet beautiful, bill won’t pass. That’s why he’s being attacked by a pack of rabid paid influencers and the guy that wants to suspend the ancient writ of habeas corpus,” the Paul spokesperson said — making a reference to Miller saying the administration was “actively looking” at suspending the constitutionally-protected mechanism that migrants have used to challenge their detention by declaring an invasion.

“They’ve given up arguing on the issue of our time, the debt, and have now descended to lies, innuendo and nonsense,” the Paul spokesperson said.
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Massie sensed the lack of electoral pressure is adding to the willingness to cast the libertarians aside.

“The thing here is that he doesn’t have to run again,” Massie said. “This is one of these signature things. If he has to burn part of the coalition to get it done, they’re probably willing to do it.”

Alex Nowrasteh, vice president of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute – the biggest libertarian think tank in Washington — said Miller’s attacks on libertarians are, in one sense, no surprise. But he warned about the political implications that Miller’s war has for the right.

“They are not typically long-term thinkers in terms of political coalition,” Nowrasteh said of Trump folks such as Miller, adding that “this disagreement between Miller and Massie and Paul just shows how sundered that coalition was.”

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The war on libertarians continues ...

Rand Paul attacks ‘immaturity’ of White House after rescinded picnic invitation, says he’s lost a ‘lot of respect’ for Trump

Paul, a libertarian-minded deficit hawk who has been raising deep concerns over President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy bill, said his family – including his nearly six-month-old grandson — had been planning on attending Thursday’s bipartisan picnic on the White House lawn. But Paul said their invitation was abruptly rescinded with no real explanation, even as the move came after Trump and his aides have been bashing Paul over his position on the president’s bill for days.

“The level of immaturity is beyond words,” Paul said of the White House, adding that he’s lost “a lot of respect” for Trump.

“It’s just incredibly petty,” Paul told CNN outside the Capitol on Wednesday evening. “I’m arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse. And they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic. I don’t know. I just think it really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for Donald Trump.”

[BDKJMU]

I would love to hear from our MAGA friends who they got!

[kalm]

I would love to hear from our MAGA friends who they got!

Probably a wise move right now.

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