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View submission: Elon Musk can’t balance the budget
On one hand, for any other politician this is absolutely true. For Trump I'm not so sure. He's basically immune to consequences to an almost supernatural degree. Nothing he does, no matter how outrageous and harmful to the public, moves his numbers in the slightest. Or worse, makes them go up. If there was ever a politician who could eliminate Social Security and Medicare and get away with it that is Trump.
Comment by pantstoaknifefight2 at 26/11/2024 at 18:11 UTC
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I wish he'd just shoot someone on Fifth Ave instead of destroying the social safety net so many Americans depend on. My vote is he guns down Elon and Elon's assets get redistributed to the American taxpayers who've essentially funded Musk's aggressive greed
Comment by squngy at 26/11/2024 at 10:01 UTC
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He still needs the other republicans to go along with it and unlike Trump, their asses are not immune.
Comment by KwisatzHaderach94 at 26/11/2024 at 16:35 UTC
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you've got mike lee of utah who keeps getting voted back to the senate despite being known for admitting that he wants to get rid of social security so there is an electorate out there who happen to agree with this republican stance.
Comment by crosszilla at 26/11/2024 at 21:22 UTC*
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I still think this is one of those moves that would be so deeply unpopular as to be political suicide. You'd be facing 80/20 margins in the above 65 crowd and all the 50 year olds who have paid into it for 30 years realizing they won't see a cent will shed towards democrats. I think a lot of people either don't know or don't believe it's really on the table and if it was actually taken away with no replacement it'd be a problem.
It'd be a disaster for the economy when people on fixed budgets have to sell their homes they can no longer afford and property values (and therefore taxes) plummet across the country because the supply becomes inundated with the homes of the elderly. These people will need somewhere to live. They won't forget who took their home from them. City budgets would collapse, the resulting issues will easily be pinned on Trump and the GOP.
Trump is still accountable to the GOP, who can impeach him, and the GOP is still accountable to their electorate since they *DO* have to face reelection.
Comment by FTTrainer at 26/11/2024 at 22:25 UTC
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🤡
Comment by e00s at 27/11/2024 at 15:37 UTC
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It’s partly because the things he does are all in a certain vein. If Trump came out as trans and married a man, I would bet his immunity disappears.