Elon Musk Thread
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Except that chart shows that the last time the GOP controlled Congress, back in the 90's, they were able to cut spending significantly and cause the debt levels to drop down. They had 55 votes in the Senate, and were able to secure 4 Democrat votes to pass a major reform bill. Bill Clinton decided not to fight because he was a moderate who compromised with Republicans for his entire political life.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_elections
Any chart that shows Presidents overlapped with the Federal Debt is a retarded chart that shows nothing. The purse is in Congress and the Senate's threshold is at 60 votes for the past 120 years.
As soon as the GOP lost the Senate in 2000, and GOP Senators dropped to 50, then debt levels begun to skyrocket again. This is because Democrats are cancer, and they will never vote to cut spending or reduce taxes. Democrats only tax and spend.
Elon is playing on the ignorance of the public, such as yourself, either because he himself ignorant, or he knows better and just wants to backstab the GOP since they are cutting his EV programs.
Except I in the long run I don’t think it’s possible to cut electric vehicles. Many blue states, including the big ones will stop selling new gas powered vehicles by 2035.
Some have said so but I'd put a high probability on them reneging on that target.
Unbelievable that some people on this forum are against ending the uniparty system when we finally have a realistic chance! Just as they are against real freedom of speech, which Elon saved when he bought twitter. Sorry, but I have to consider these people the enemy from now on!
No third party can succeed in American politics unless it draws voters from both parties equally. Since Elon only appeals to fiscal conservatives, there's no way his party could ever succeed. At most he will siphon some Republican votes and cause Dems to win, who will then be 10x as worse.
He has proven his worth by saving free speech, I have disagreements, but he can be trusted!
Disagree, younger voters are different. We don't need the old systems anymore, things move faster, and the legacy media is dying with the boomers. Dems are Rep are no different whatsoever, they'e exactly the same. And the same is true for European politics, there is zero difference between the "far-right" and "far-left" at the peaks of power. It's mere delusion! And it's delusion on purpose, to give people the notion that they have a say in things. It's just that dynamic that we have to end. This could be hopeful! Elon is excessively optimistic at times, but he's is trustworthy, no doubt about that!
I could be wrong here, but no sooner had Musk saved freedom of speech after securing twitter than posters started getting banned for antisemitism?
Nah, it's pretty open, Nick Fuentes etc. is still there. They only remove the most "extreme" content, which is just what he said they would do prior. It's a travesty that we don't have an X profile btw!
It's strange, because I think some anti-semitic content has been banned, but on the other hand I constantly see posts and comments that slam Israel and slam jews in general, with nothing held back. It shows up on any topic that has any kind of JQ angle, which is a very wide spectrum.
Twice recently I got limited visibility flagged on Twitter for using bad words you can say on this site without profanity warnings. They have fascist schoolmarms overseeing the site. I honestly took offense at them referring to my posts as hateful conduct. It makes me less likely to use Twitter.
I have had comments flagged for using the word tranny or trannies. They definitely have some censoring going on. However, in the case of the tranny issue, Twitter is also full of accounts who hammer on the issue, such as J.K. Rowling and Hazel Appleyard, and many others.
It's the same with the JQ. At least some things get censored, and yet there is a tremendous amount of overt and plain spoken noticing there.
Are we looking at the same graph bro? Nowhere in the graph did the debt actually go down. Merely the pace of increase flattened under Clinton according to the graph at least. Also Bill Clinton did some major can kicking. A lot of the government debt that matured from long term bonds he just issued short term debt to replace it which was temporarily cheaper but cost future governments a lot more when interest rates later rose and also when the debt again had to be issued as long term debt.
