Summary

Democrats Stansbury and Raskin introduced the “Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act,” which targets Elon Musk’s dismantling of federal services through the DOGE cost-cutting scheme.

It seeks personal liability for Musk, amid lawsuits and concerns over sensitive data access.

The proposal aims to protect taxpayers and critical federal operations against unauthorized actions.

  • @cogman
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    381 day ago

    Doesn’t matter. The most important thing for dems to do right now is signal they don’t like this. Their goal is getting the house in 2026 so they can run hearings for the second half of the Trump presidency.

    • @Johnmannesca
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      181 day ago

      An even better goal is to grab a few senate seats too so they can go for a possible impeachment.

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        they would literally have to win every single seat up in 2026 to have that shot.

        considering the states with senate races in 2026, there’s a ‘nearest-to-zero as you can possibly get’ chance of that happening.

        Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

        just reclaiming a simple majority will be extremely difficult.

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          And even if they could, is impeachment going to somehow stop Trump this time, when it didn’t last time and he’s more powerful now? Sure, try whatever you can, but it still feels like the Democrats have not realized they’re up against a massively popular Nazi movement that is already in government and conducting purges.

          • @[email protected]
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            Thats why you need both the senate and the house. Impeachment means nothing if you dont have both chambers because you need the other to actually enforce the impeachment

            • @Mirshe
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              21 day ago

              The other issue would be getting ANYONE to actually remove him from office. I don’t trust Congress to do it, I don’t trust the judiciary to order it, and I sure don’t trust any federal law enforcement agency to do it now.

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            It is not massively popular. Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that. These mouth-breathing troglodytes are in the very slim minority as far as the whole population goes. A lot of the people voting for him actually did not know what they were voting for - I was just talking to one of my friends overseas and they had no idea about quite literally ANY of the things Trump and Musk are doing. I told them about the Department of Education, USAID, the Treasury access, and the concentration camps, and then they interrupted to offer to let me stay with them and seek asylum from the government here.

            Many people in the US were in the same boat. The Fediverse gives the people on it a lot of information most people don’t ever see, and the more people learn about what’s actually going on the more people will start to oppose it.