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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,459 posts) Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:42 PM 12 hrs ago

Wall Street Journal flames Trump and Musk over 'budget fiasco' and what it threatens for future

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has eviscerated Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this week’s “budget fiasco” and warned it spells “bad omens” for 2025.

The president-elect and tech billionaire ally Musk threw Congress into chaos when they toppled Speaker Mike Johnson’s bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown.

A second Trump-backed version, which included a suspension of the debt limit, failed spectacularly on Thursday, giving Musk his first taste of political failure.

In a scathing op-ed the Journal, whose parent company Dow Jones is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said that Trump “on the advice of Elon Musk blew up the end-of-session budget bill without a plan for getting another one passed.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-journal-flames-trump-043947729.html

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Wall Street Journal flames Trump and Musk over 'budget fiasco' and what it threatens for future (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago OP

Paying attention now, you fucking lickspittles? hatrack 12 hrs ago #1

It is not just Russia or China we have to worry about. sheshe2 12 hrs ago #2

The PutinGOP works for China and Russia. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #3

You are absolutely correct, Irish. sheshe2 11 hrs ago #4

Isn't the WSJ happy? This is what they wanted, right? Blue_Tires 11 hrs ago #5

hatrack

(61,190 posts)

1. Paying attention now, you fucking lickspittles?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:44 PM

12 hrs ago

sheshe2

(88,140 posts)

2. It is not just Russia or China we have to worry about.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:49 PM

12 hrs ago

It is the enemy within.

Irish_Dem

(59,651 posts)

3. The PutinGOP works for China and Russia.

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:04 PM

12 hrs ago

The GOP has aligned with the world autocrats and billionaires.
They are done with democracy. It serves no purpose for them.

Their goals are permanent power and access to all global wealth and resources.
And white male minority rule.

sheshe2

(88,140 posts)

4. You are absolutely correct, Irish.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:14 PM

11 hrs ago

Blue_Tires

(56,725 posts)

5. Isn't the WSJ happy? This is what they wanted, right?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:49 PM

11 hrs ago

And nothing else matters as long as they get their tax cuts, more deregulation, industry watchdogs eliminated and employee rights gutted, am I right?

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