Summary

Progressive Democrats accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk of orchestrating a “constitutional crisis” after Musk moved to shut down USAID and gained access to a federal payment system.

Lawmakers, blocked from entering USAID’s headquarters, condemned Trump for granting Musk unchecked power over government functions.

Senator Elizabeth Warren warned that Musk’s involvement could trigger financial instability, while Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it a “plutocratic coup.”

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Quick someone change the Wikipedia of plutocratic to sound really cool and then they both will say they did their research and look like complete morons.

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I know someone in a federal government department. They are actually getting pestered to resign now. Emails several times a day trying to get them to take the buyout scam.

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Apparently there’s 20k idiots who have accepted it. So it works, I guess

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That’s not idiots. That’s people that don’t make much money, hate their job, and saw an opportunity to leave with some change in their pocket while dumpster fire is just smouldering and not a full blown blaze yet.

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I agree. And for someone that doesn’t make much money and who was planning to leave the country anyway for their own safety, 20k is enough to pay for a plane ticket and survive for a few weeks/months.

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It doesn’t work that well, since that’s less than 1% of federal employees.

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1%, so far

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22 points

Blame is a weird way to say “point out”

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Honestly. I read it and then thought how can they accuse when everything clearly points to the take over.

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Was trying to think of a way to say this exact thing! Astute!

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what the hell is wrong with this comment section. The problem here is not the democrats. Fixing he democrats is not going to improve republican shenanigans. Shouting for the minority democrats to do something is like shouting for the green party to do something. The problem is in this idea to blame the good for not being perfect and ignoring that people are fine letting in the bad. My prediction is every one of the the super leftists looking for things to get bad enough for “the revolution” to happen will be seig heiling like their is no tomorrow when the boots hit the neck.

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This “Democrats are the reason we have nazis now” thing is giving “Daddy drinks because you cry.” The apathy it generates only helps the worst side keep winning.

Because it’s nuts. People scolding the remaining leftists online and debating which sort of voting system they’d appreciate the democrats advocating for next time, meanwhile their Treasury Department now answers to completely unqualified culty broccoli-headed 20 year olds, there’s birth quotas for roads funding and nazis are snatching kids from classrooms, the Pres talking about putting immigrants in Guantanamo.

The only way Both Sides nonsense is productive is if the goal is to keep people arguing online. O shi

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The democrats are refusing to employ any of the government-breaking strategies the republicans just proved, over years as a minority party, can bring the government to crawl. Worse than that, they are enabling everything the republicans are doing. They aren’t even putting up a fight. They’d rather be “civil” and “the adults in the room” than actually stop fascism. They are controlled opposition.

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I get the first picture but the second? We know democrats do not vote lockstep and we have pretty traitorous members like fettermen are among them. I see 37 voting correctly. This is one thing about when they are in power. People expect them to vote in lockstep like the republicans but that has never been the case.

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I get the first picture but the second? We know democrats do not vote lockstep

They expect democratic voters to.

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So, you’re essentially saying this is normal for democrats? It’s normal for them to go to bat for republicans? How is that a defense?

It never ceases to amaze me how hard people go in making excuses for democrats.

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progressive democrats are oxymorons

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