r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • Mar 06 '25

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Suddenly Doesn’t Want Credit for Disastrous DOGE Cuts - Musk is warning Republicans to stop blaming DOGE for the cuts.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192415/elon-musk-warns-republicans-doge-job-cuts
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u/fross370 Mar 06 '25

if we get to see Musk declare bankruptcy in my lifetime, I am splurging on a 150$ bottle of scotch

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u/kshitagarbha Mar 06 '25

Seagram's is going to be $150 by the end of the summer

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u/HuhWatWHoWhy Mar 07 '25

Jack Daniels will be paying people to take theirs away

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u/-LazyEye- Mar 07 '25

Underrated comment.

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u/NoModsNoMaster Mar 07 '25

So Cutty Sark by the time tariffs fuck scotch prices to death?

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u/Dismal_Suspect_2021 24d ago

Me too and alcohol makes me shit myself

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u/pdxlxxix Mar 06 '25

I’ll drink to that.

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u/liquid-handsoap Europe Mar 06 '25

Fuck it, i’ll even drink if i can poop tomorrow

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u/HolyShitIAmOnFire Kentucky Mar 07 '25

If you start by drinking coffee, I believe you can succeed.

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u/jimmy9800 Mar 06 '25

Bankrupcy didn't stop Trump. I'm hoping for deportation.

The schadenfreude would be nice though.

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 Mar 07 '25

Fingers crossed for a Twitter war between Trump and Elon. 🤞 🤞 🤞

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u/Deafasabat 29d ago

I'm hoping for execution for treason.

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u/InkBlotSam Mar 06 '25

If we get to see Musk declare bankruptcy in my lifetime, I am willing to drink your whole bottle of scotch with you ... or without you, your choice..

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach Mar 07 '25

Awfully musknanimous of you! 🍻

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u/NoGrocery3582 Mar 06 '25

I'm stopping by.

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u/shugo2000 Tennessee Mar 06 '25

By the time that happens, a bottle of scotch that currently costs $30 will probably cost $150.

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u/CJBill Great Britain Mar 07 '25

If the UK gets tariffed then yes

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u/LitOak Mar 06 '25

He's been giving off that Rudy Giuliani vibe for a while.

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u/Pretend_Accountant41 Canada Mar 06 '25

Also Trump dying! Of natural causes or fortunately unfortunate events 

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u/PickleNotaBigDill Mar 06 '25

Just don't do it with bourbon.

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u/Sinistrahd Mar 07 '25

I was going to recommend the glenfiddich 21 I was gifted once but it seems to be mostly in private hands and getting scalped now. It was delicious for the year and a half I babied it...

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u/FootballFan0912 Mar 06 '25

If that happens ill buy two, one for you and one for me, and yes you can dig this up so long as im alive. 

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u/EfficiencyOk1393 Mar 07 '25

I will get a $150 bag of weed

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach Mar 07 '25

I'll bring the Chip & Dale plastic sippy cups. 

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u/Coaler200 Mar 07 '25

Shit I own a Tesla (3yrs old) and I'm dropping $500 on a bottle of scotch if I get to see him declare bankruptcy.

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u/Demivole Mar 07 '25

Very unlikely.

SpaceX is pretty much untouchable right now. Elon has a complete monopoly.

The USA doesn't really have any viable alternatives for space travel. Blue origin and virgin galactic are jokes, Boeing is a shit show, NASAs in house programs have been defunded. SpaceX is pretty much it. So without the US government seizing SpaceX assets for national security, Elon is going to be fine financially. Or fine relative to what a normal person could possibly need anyways.

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u/ExtraPockets Mar 07 '25

No one's going to space much in the next 100 years as the climate catastrophe slowly unfolds with the famine, unprecedented mass migration and resource wars which come with it. Any smart billionaire could see that.

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u/polopolo05 California Mar 06 '25

Why not good canadian whiskey?

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u/SkinNoises Mar 06 '25

Because Canadian whiskey sucks just as much as American whiskey sucks. Scotch blows them all out of the water.

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u/polopolo05 California Mar 06 '25

Canadian whiskey

There are plenty of them that arent crap. just stay away from like crown.

I do like AUCHENTOSHAN 12 and 18 year old. I havent tried the 21 year old as its a bit pricey and hard to get.

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u/SkinNoises Mar 07 '25

It still sucks compared to scotch

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u/polopolo05 California Mar 07 '25

depends on what you drink I anit drinking crown royal.

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u/fross370 Mar 06 '25

It does not exist.

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u/polopolo05 California Mar 06 '25

I suggest you try...

Gibson’s Finest, Venerable, 18 yr for a blended.

single malt try Glen Saanich Single Malt

Alberta Cast Strenght Rye if you like like a rye... I do not.

Personally I like japanese whiskeys and I do like scotch too. I just wish to support our friends to the north... and while the current admin isnt friends to them. The american people sure are.

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u/count023 Australia Mar 07 '25

Problem is when billionaires declare bankruptcy they stay billionaires, so there's nothing to celebrate

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u/BeowulfsGhost Mar 06 '25

I don’t drink much these days, but that would be worthy of a toast!

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u/PickleNotaBigDill Mar 06 '25

We can still do cheers with freshmade lemonade!

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u/EvilSashimi Mar 06 '25

Can we split it? The bill and the scotch.

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u/Jothay Mar 07 '25

Trump has bankrupted multiple times, hasn't stopped him.

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u/OfficeSalamander Mar 07 '25

Ardbeg Corryvrecken

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u/PioneerTurtle Mar 07 '25

Same, Canadian scotch

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u/Head_Line772 Mar 07 '25

I'll break a decade of sobriety for that.

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u/Suture__self Mar 07 '25

With inflation that’s gonna be an airplane bottle of American honey for that much by then

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u/rowsella Mar 07 '25

I am willing to jump off the wagon for some champs to celebrate that.

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u/smuckola 29d ago

I wonder how any of them could fail without taking us all down with them. I'm no expert but I've heard a lot about being too big to fail.

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u/Dilectus3010 29d ago

Octomore has very nice bottles in that range!

If you like heavy smoke and peat that is.

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u/throwawayDan11 27d ago

I'll buy a 2nd bottle and we can drink em together 

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u/DBSociety 25d ago

Bankruptcy?

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u/Rihmeek2 25d ago

You won’t be alone.

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u/Mediocre-Iron-7991 24d ago

Why

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u/fross370 24d ago

When bad things happens to bad people it makes me happy, and i loke to celebrate happy moments

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u/Mediocre-Iron-7991 23d ago

Happy moments are subjective