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RE: Elon Musk
February 3, 2025 at 7:53 pm
(February 3, 2025 at 9:47 am)Alan V Wrote: The question is whether Congress will object to his encroaching on their powers. They should, if this is in fact illegal. Otherwise they are giving the green flag to autocracy.
Indeed, they have spoken. Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 12:22 am
(February 3, 2025 at 7:53 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: (February 3, 2025 at 9:47 am)Alan V Wrote: The question is whether Congress will object to his encroaching on their powers. They should, if this is in fact illegal. Otherwise they are giving the green flag to autocracy.
Indeed, they have spoken. Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
Thanks for that.
Raskin used the words of GHWB in 1990 in reference to Saddam Hussein's annexation of Kuwait: "This will not stand."
I hope he has the same resolution Bush had.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 am
How many tank divisions does he command?
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 12:47 am
(February 4, 2025 at 12:26 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: How many tank divisions does he command?
General Orlev in "Octopussy"?
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 12:48 am
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Stalin to or at Churchill, allegedly.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 12:52 am
(February 4, 2025 at 12:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Stalin to or at Churchill, allegedly.
Oh. I didn't know about that.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 am
Trump doesn't care what is legal, and he has a SCOTUS to back him up on that. All the hand-wringing is nugatory.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 2:43 am
The rules only apply to dems, and the rules will constantly change. It's another coup attempt.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 3:10 am
(February 4, 2025 at 2:43 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The rules only apply to dems, and the rules will constantly change. It's another coup attempt.
... without the Ashleys. The windows they're climbing through are mental and not physical.
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RE: Elon Musk
February 4, 2025 at 3:41 am
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It's only a matter of time. You don't condition an army you don't intend to use. Donald will inevitably tell them to be at some wild place...and maga will hope that counter protesters show up to stop whatever illegal thing they're doing, and when that skirmish breaks out they'll float marshal law.
Same play, forever, until it works or we bury it.
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