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Elon Musk Flexes His Political Strength as Government Shutdown Looms
- ____H____ 2y agohttps://archive.is/2kSkF https://archive.is/2kSkF
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- Kon-Peki 2y agoI think a shutdown is the intended DOGE outcome. Nobody gets paid, but all the essential workers still have to work. As a shutdown drags on, they will stop showing up for work and can be fired for cause. It could either accomplish their goal or backfire spectacularly. I doubt there is much room for middle ground.
- techfeathers 2y agoI was kinda wondering, if your goal is to knee-cap the government, why even re-open? Can it just be in perpetual shutdown?
- xenospn 2y agoNASA contracts are a huge part of SpaceX’s business. I don’t think a complete shutdown is what they want.
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- quantified 2y agoIf you are a businessman trying to curry favor with countries like China, snarling the US could be very valuable.
- firebaze 2y agoWould you elaborate how you arrive at this viewpoint? From my point of view I seem to be missing some crucial information.
- tocs3 2y agoI think it may be we are all missing some crucial information.
- quantified 2y agoI'd like to elaborate that makes sense you what information you lack. In general, competition between adversaries always exists, and in the same way that you might compensate a spy, you'd compensate a saboteur. In specific, China has a market and raw materials that are of great interest to some businessmen, Russia has materials and geopolitical connections.
- insane_dreamer 2y agounfortunately for holiday travelers, the TSA will be one of those agencies that keeps working :/ on a more serious note, this would be terrible for Americans at all levels (including, but not only, the Federal employees themselves), but sounds very much like a page out of Musk's book
- insane_dreamer 2y agoWe are now officially in "billionaire controls government" territory now. So much for democracy.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoShutdown appears almost certain now that the last-minute reprieve bill was torpedoed. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/19/us/trump-spending-government-shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/19/us/trump-spending-go...