House Republicans brush aside Musk's primary threats

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Source: The Hill

12/22/24 6:00 AM ET


House Republicans are largely brushing aside Elon Musk’s threats to unseat members who supported the initial government funding measure he helped torpedo earlier this week. After the tech billionaire called for the backers of that bipartisan bill to be voted out in two years, some GOP members dismissed Musk’s tirade as simply part of the “game” of Washington politics.

But even those who seem unfazed by threats suggest some colleagues could have good reason to worry given Musk’s immense wealth, ties to President-elect Trump and growing influence in Congress.

“I’ve been primaried four times, and I‘m more of a rebellious guy. If you threaten me, I dig my heels in and I don’t respond well to threats,” one GOP lawmaker said of Musk’s primary threats. “All those social influencers out there were against me in the last primary, with a million followers and I didn’t back down an edge,” the lawmaker added, granted anonymity to speak candidly.

The lawmaker was one of the House Republicans to defend the original funding bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out Tuesday night to avert a shutdown.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5051617-house-republicans-elon-musk-primary-threat/

[Oneear]

1. GOP is not wanting to Drink from the lead cup of Elen Musk drinks from

And so it goes: the show is about to start, and the saying goes, you can walk a horse to water, but they have to drink

[underpants]

3. The (s)Hill 🙄. I see their stories on Twitter.

At best they are bothsider-ing it if not sane washing.

I’m sure a lot of this was because they are so entrenched in their district it’s going to take almost a miracle for them to lose a primary.

The point here really is how Trump clearly is cowing to Musk. For anyone else I’d probably be embarrassed. It seems almost naive that he doesn’t realize that Musk is slumming it and basically squatting in Mar a lago (which he could buy with pocket change) even crashing a dinner at the main table. Trump loved hobnobbing with celebrities and now he’s stuck with possibly THE biggest celebrity in the world because no one else wants to have anything to do with him other than transactionally.

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4. Who knows where the muskrat will be in 2 years !

Personally I hope he crashes and burns in the cesspool of Washington politics.