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Breaking: Elon discovers.... (Original Post) Dem4life1970 Feb 15 OP
Slightly related news: Aggie fans & media react to Texas A&M' baseball's home win over Elon GreenWave Feb 15 #1
:-) n/t AverageJoe Feb 15 #20
If an unelected foreign-born Nazi can buy his way into the presidency and dismantle our government with impunity, sop Feb 15 #2
Exactly! Diamond_Dog Feb 15 #5
Article III sends its regards. Efilroft Sul Feb 15 #3
As does Chief Justice John Marshall.... lastlib Feb 15 #37
They're just catching on that the President is an employee of the people. Hugin Feb 15 #4
And, wait until he claudette Feb 15 #27
Here's hoping, claudette. Hugin Feb 15 #32
Absolutely 😊 claudette Feb 15 #33
IF pResident Muskrat and his Crime Minister let us have an election...... lastlib Feb 15 #39
Do you think he'll ever figure it out? MadameButterfly Feb 15 #41
Nah, I doubt he'll figure it out. Hugin Feb 15 #42
I'm all for being upbeat. We just have to presume that our success does not MadameButterfly Feb 15 #44
The term "public servant" is totally foreign to this bunch of grifters. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 16 #50
How did he pass the test for US Citizenship? surfered Feb 15 #6
He didn't! n/t ReRe Feb 15 #8
What do you mean? ShazzieB Feb 16 #45
That's not what the rest of heard. n/t ReRe Feb 16 #54
He paid cash....... n/t lastlib Feb 15 #40
THANK YOU, Alex Cole - brilliant way to put it bluboid Feb 15 #7
confusion Be Leave On Feb 15 #9
Why doesn't Musk move to Moscow? He'd love it there... FakeNoose Feb 15 #10
Too much competition for the money Attilatheblond Feb 15 #17
There are some out there that believe Putin is actually the richest man in the world, not Elon. nt allegorical oracle Feb 15 #26
It's why Koch's Americans for Prosperity and other ultra right-wing groups . . . peggysue2 Feb 15 #11
Bingo! Bluethroughu Feb 15 #21
The way I always say it: louis-t Feb 15 #22
They only know Ojerly Feb 15 #34
The Kochs were reared in an extremist family. Jane Mayer's book, Dark Money, points allegorical oracle Feb 15 #31
See Sarah Cooper's history of wealth Easterncedar Feb 16 #51
They only stop the President when he is fucking breaking the law! nt Quixote1818 Feb 15 #12
Or at least TRY to. Haven't had much luck there ever since this POS came on the scene 9 years ago. Karasu Feb 15 #24
He thinks we live is a monarchy. C Moon Feb 15 #13
We do not want nor need you, one f elon is enough Humane human Feb 15 #14
What an absolutely ignorant johnnyfins Feb 15 #15
kills me that anyone thinks Musk is a genius Skittles Feb 15 #29
I bet he doesn't feel that way about Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk COL Mustard Feb 15 #16
I don't like Musk's life expectancy in Russia. He's such an independent spirit! There's only one of them at a time in planetc Feb 15 #18
Maybe I should throw out the... mwooldri Feb 15 #19
I remember that from the '90s. Jerry Falwell was interviewed louis-t Feb 15 #25
That line came from the John Birch Society, back in the '50s or 50's DBoon Feb 15 #28
it's pretty rare that judges stop executive branch actions Takket Feb 15 #23
Co-op disease damifino10 Feb 15 #30
Elon not happy! Aussie105 Feb 15 #35
The Judges are like Checks and Balances when You ELOON Are Doing ILLEGAL Actions! electric_blue68 Feb 15 #36
Who is "We," Elon? stollen Feb 15 #38
Obviously, Musk Needs to Take U. S. Government101 Daleuhlmann Feb 15 #43
"If the president is subjected to checks and balances, then we do not live in a democracy!" DSandra Feb 16 #46
But he has a solution Ozimandeus Feb 16 #47
Following Baron2024 Feb 16 #48
It's called the rule of fucking law, Elon. Straw Man Feb 16 #49
More Democratic than having an unpoular President and his unelected twit hatchetman. marble falls Feb 16 #52
He hasn't noticed how every GOP case Old Crank Feb 16 #53

GreenWave

(10,754 posts)
1. Slightly related news: Aggie fans & media react to Texas A&M' baseball's home win over Elon
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:19 PM
Feb 15

In your face Elon with your fancy all-American pitcher!

sop

(13,245 posts)
2. If an unelected foreign-born Nazi can buy his way into the presidency and dismantle our government with impunity,
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:22 PM
Feb 15

we do not live in a democracy.

lastlib

(25,554 posts)
37. As does Chief Justice John Marshall....
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 09:41 PM
Feb 15
"It is emphatically the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is."

--Marbury v. Madison, 1803.

Hugin

(35,907 posts)
4. They're just catching on that the President is an employee of the people.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:29 PM
Feb 15

ALL of the people. No matter the shade of their skin, gender, or beliefs.

Just wait until that bloated pulsating geniusing brain of his figures out that all of the stuff he’s been moving fast through and breaking is our stuff for which we’ve paid in tax dollars and blood (and he hasn’t).

claudette

(5,229 posts)
27. And, wait until he
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:49 PM
Feb 15

sees how many magats have been thrown out from their jobs! 2026 is going to be a good year to gain back the House and Senate!

lastlib

(25,554 posts)
39. IF pResident Muskrat and his Crime Minister let us have an election......
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 09:43 PM
Feb 15

(Watch this space,)

MadameButterfly

(2,698 posts)
41. Do you think he'll ever figure it out?
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 10:45 PM
Feb 15

Won't he rail at the unfairness of it all?
Then, will he succeed--or not--in calling out the military to enforce his point of view?

Hugin

(35,907 posts)
42. Nah, I doubt he'll figure it out.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 10:53 PM
Feb 15

He will continue to rale and fuss through his megaphone to be dutifully stenographed by the M$M awed by his self proclaimed richness.

I am only trying to be uplifting in these dire moments.

He’s sure to try calling out the military with mixed results.

MadameButterfly

(2,698 posts)
44. I'm all for being upbeat. We just have to presume that our success does not
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 11:25 PM
Feb 15

require Trump understanding anything that is true and fair

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,674 posts)
50. The term "public servant" is totally foreign to this bunch of grifters.
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 07:31 AM
Feb 16

Musk is the current king of all grifters, far exceeding the grifting skills of Drumph.

What happened to Tesla semi-truck, the Space Port and Hyperloop, Elon?

Be Leave On

(118 posts)
9. confusion
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:26 PM
Feb 15

Confusion is common in our media landscape.
Some people get so confused they even think that nitwit is a genius.
Weird.

FakeNoose

(36,954 posts)
10. Why doesn't Musk move to Moscow? He'd love it there...
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:37 PM
Feb 15

... and I'll bet they would welcome him with open arms.


Attilatheblond

(5,500 posts)
17. Too much competition for the money
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:35 PM
Feb 15

Putin has the reins of power still, and owns the means to the monies.

peggysue2

(11,708 posts)
11. It's why Koch's Americans for Prosperity and other ultra right-wing groups . . .
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 02:39 PM
Feb 15

Have pushed for a Constitutional Convention over decades. They've never supported the US Constitution as written. Their fondest dream has been a radical rewrite favoring less democracy while instituting more grift and deregulation.

Favoring billionaires and corporations, of course.

Because enough is never enough!

The war against America has been brewing for a very long time.

Bluethroughu

(7,046 posts)
21. Bingo!
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 04:09 PM
Feb 15

We got a winner!

This is what they are trying to create, by wrecking the country right now. So they can rewrite our Constitution because the rightwing has more state houses than Democrats.

louis-t

(24,079 posts)
22. The way I always say it:
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:36 PM
Feb 15

Republicans LOVE the Constitution, except the parts that they hate and want to change.

allegorical oracle

(4,382 posts)
31. The Kochs were reared in an extremist family. Jane Mayer's book, Dark Money, points
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:58 PM
Feb 15

out that their father, Fred Chase Koch, made his fortune by doing business with both Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s. Fred developed a method of extracting gasoline from crude oil. In 1958, he became one of the original eleven founders of the John Birch Society, which is a rabidly anti-Communist organization that gained a reputation for spreading conspiracy theories.

Karasu

(777 posts)
24. Or at least TRY to. Haven't had much luck there ever since this POS came on the scene 9 years ago.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:40 PM
Feb 15

Humane human

(11 posts)
14. We do not want nor need you, one f elon is enough
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:00 PM
Feb 15

Please leave. Full STOP! You have been judged by the American People. The verdict is not positive.

COL Mustard

(7,282 posts)
16. I bet he doesn't feel that way about Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:10 PM
Feb 15

In Texas. He's the loon who agrees with Trump on everything about abortion.

planetc

(8,466 posts)
18. I don't like Musk's life expectancy in Russia. He's such an independent spirit! There's only one of them at a time in
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:41 PM
Feb 15

Russia.

mwooldri

(10,597 posts)
19. Maybe I should throw out the...
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:48 PM
Feb 15

"we're not in a Democracy we're in a Republic" line that MAGA supporters are prone to throw out once in a while..

louis-t

(24,079 posts)
25. I remember that from the '90s. Jerry Falwell was interviewed
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:43 PM
Feb 15

and the first words out of his mouth, having nothing to do with the question he was asked, were "First of all, this isn't a democracy, it's a republic." Idiot. When someone (a relative) repeated it I said "that's a dumb argument and not accurate. Democracy is the style of government and republic is the entity." But it's something they could get the rubes to repeat easily.

Takket

(22,922 posts)
23. it's pretty rare that judges stop executive branch actions
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:38 PM
Feb 15

since the executive branch usually makes sure they are doing things legal so they aren't bogged down with court orders later.

but since everything drumpf and FElon is doing is illegal, yeah, going to be a lot of judge rulings.

Aussie105

(6,899 posts)
35. Elon not happy!
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 08:40 PM
Feb 15

Has his own rule book, and thinks it is more important than the Constitution.

The Constitution says 'For the People . . . ', Elon's rulebook says 'Against the people . . . '

It's a problem, but it is YOU that is the problem.

DSandra

(1,563 posts)
46. "If the president is subjected to checks and balances, then we do not live in a democracy!"
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 02:09 AM
Feb 16

"The president should be able to do whatever he wants!"

There, fixed it for Eloon.

Straw Man

(6,851 posts)
49. It's called the rule of fucking law, Elon.
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 04:05 AM
Feb 16

I guess you haven't heard of it -- or thought it didn't apply to you and your ilk.

Old Crank

(5,411 posts)
53. He hasn't noticed how every GOP case
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 12:19 PM
Feb 16

gets run through the wackjob court in Texas
It is also where the CBS trial is being held.

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