[ianch99]

Originally Posted by nomadking

And the threat of shutdown hasn't occurred before now?
List of actual US shutdowns, although some for a short period of time.

So missing the point ...

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Just to frame how mad the new power behind Trumps throne is:

Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right

Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday in the latest of a series of endorsements of European far-right parties.

Musk has recently supported European populist-right politicians in increasingly clear terms, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Earlier this week, Farage boasted that Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect that the tech tycoon would financially back his Reform UK party.

You know, the AfD, those nice folk who think that the Nazi's weren't all that bad.