Musk threatens lawmakers who support stopgap funding bill

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30. If I were a Republican congress critter ...

I would be asking myself some hard questions right now.

Trump/Musk are already starting with the threats of supporting my opposition in the next election if I don’t do what they say. Is there any chance I will be able to make it through the next two years (and the two after that) without doing something that pisses them off? What is the likelihood that I will do or say something in the next two years that they will dislike if not at the time, then in retrospect when they need a scapegoat after shit goes wrong?

If they are already treating me as a potential enemy rather than a loyal party member there is almost no chance that they will support me when I need it.

So maybe I should gather other likeminded legislators and spend the next two years defanging them so that they won’t have the power to bring me down in the next election.

It’s either that or try to be the perfect lapdog and lickspittle and pray that they don’t decide to oppose me just because of my name, face, the way I slurp soup, or something completely out of my control. How do I like those chances?

Simple self-preservation – the only thing that really matters to me.