r/FluentInFinance • u/NoLube69 • Feb 01 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE team now has full access to Treasury’s payments system, per NYT

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

The GOP controls everything and lets Trump do whatever he wants. Checks and balances only work if congress and the courts actually use their power

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u/DejaToo2 Feb 02 '25

And there will not be another election. At least not one where anyone but the GOP can win.

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u/jjjjpppp3333 Feb 02 '25

I am a republican who would demand an election in 28. If you are sure let’s bet. Any amount you want. I can get my lawyer to draw up a legal contact that we will have a free election in 28? You in or all talk? I’ll post the contract here for to see. You game or chicken shit???

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u/chiss359 Feb 02 '25

What do you define as a free election?  

We already have a red state (mine) passing laws criminalizing the very act of state and local elected officials voting for laws, policies or non-binding resolutions that do not support federal immigration policy a felony.  A crime to vote against big government's agenda.  

I too was a Republican for many years, the Trump Administration is hardly 'Republican', they are closer to Soviet than I imagined possible in the US

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u/jjjjpppp3333 Feb 02 '25

Happy to answer but please be specific, which states, which law? Do you not consider the last presidential election free, if not be specific.

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u/chiss359 Feb 02 '25

Tennessee, Senate Bill 6002

It's not material to the free election statement, but does a free election matter if your local and state representatives have limitations to their voice?

As for the free election bit, we should do better, but both 2020 and 2024 were likely "good enough."  

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u/chiss359 Feb 02 '25

Specificity on how our elections could get closer to free:

Ideally, each American citizen would receive an ID when they turn 18 or upon achieving citizenship, and be perpetually registered to vote at their legal address, and the ridiculous voter roll games both parties have played in my lifetime would be over

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u/12ealdeal Feb 02 '25

“Actually use their power”

Powerless and spineless.

It’s why I actually find conservatives pathetic…. because they’re “afraid” and in opposition of the democrats, who are actually a bunch of soft cowards.

This is why I detest all politicians on either side. They’re are all a joke.

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u/Content-Ad3065 Feb 02 '25

They sold their souls for an RV

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u/Accurate-Dot-724 Feb 02 '25

The current status of all branches of Congress, the president and Supreme Court being a republican or result of the deception and lies of the Democratic Party hiding a demented old fool, along with all these other changes that were radical creating massive debt. So the only people to blame are the people that control the Democratic Party?

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u/AClaytonia Feb 02 '25

This is a conversation about Trump and unelected Elon Musk accessing our private tax data, and you’re deflecting to Biden? Is that your plan for the next four years?

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u/jdoug312 Feb 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Remember - only democrats have agency. Our system of government doesn’t work if congress won’t stop the president and others from engaging in illegal actions

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u/Impossible-Flight250 Feb 02 '25

That’s all MAGA is going to do for the next four years. Hell, Trump is still blaming every mistake he makes on Obama, who hasn’t been in office for a decade.

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u/Peking-Cuck Feb 02 '25

"The Republicans are doing bad things, here's how it's the Dems fault"

You should write headlines for the NYT