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Swalwell: Musk ‘going to own’ Republicans if they don’t stand up to him now
The Hill ^ | 12/20/2024 | Joanne Haner

Posted on 12/20/2024 7:42:08 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) spoke out against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s involvement in governmental affairs, saying the tech billionaire is “horning his way” into decisions.

“I was with a few Republicans yesterday as Musk was rage-tweeting and giving his orders, and they were completely apoplectic,” Swalwell said on MSNBC on Thursday night. “And I told one of them, I said, ‘If you let him do this, if he does this and you don’t stand up to him now, he is going to own you for the next Congress.'”

“‘Every bill that is on the floor, you’re going to wait around on cots to see what Elon Musk says you are allowed to do.’ And that is no way to represent the people who sent you,” he continued.

Musk, whom Trump tapped to be the co-leader of his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), made several social media posts Wednesday criticizing the spending measure deal unveiled by House Republicans this week. He called the more than 1,500-page measure a big “piece of pork” while calling on GOP lawmakers to oppose it.

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KEYWORDS: musk; republicans; stand; swalwell; wearethepresident
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Mind your business Mr. Fang Fang
1 posted on 12/20/2024 7:42:08 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is he still banging the Chinese spy?


2 posted on 12/20/2024 7:43:49 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Better to be owned by Musk than by the deep state.


3 posted on 12/20/2024 7:43:57 AM PST by nwrep
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We aren’t going to “stand up” TO him.

We are going to stand up WITH him.


4 posted on 12/20/2024 7:44:30 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When are the Democrats going to stand up to George Soros?


5 posted on 12/20/2024 7:44:45 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Swallwell, PWNED by the Chinese communists, giving advice? Really?


6 posted on 12/20/2024 7:45:40 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kind of like Soros, the Clintoons and O’Bama owning the RAT party, right Swalwell?


7 posted on 12/20/2024 7:46:34 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (With a Congress that half of which is made up of foreigners and refugees, why do we need a U.N.?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

someone is losing their grip


8 posted on 12/20/2024 7:46:52 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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Better than being owned by the Democrats, which is what they usually do.


9 posted on 12/20/2024 7:47:00 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Amazing how none of the RAT clymers have had any issue with Nazi collaborator George Soros owning all those DAs around the country plus who know knows how many of them. Okay yes, not Swalwell because the Chicoms own his gonads.


10 posted on 12/20/2024 7:47:27 AM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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The Alt Left hysteria about Musk is pure hysteric demagoguery by people desperate to hold onto power. It is without a shred of a hint of a notion of a clue of a fact.

President's going back to at least Woodrow Wilson have always had special advisors.

It is intellectually imbecilic what they are vomiting forth about Musk.

11 posted on 12/20/2024 7:47:30 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

lol

They all say the same thing like minah birds

THE BLOB


12 posted on 12/20/2024 7:47:37 AM PST by wardaddy ( .If the GOPe didn't go wobbly slightest incoming flak we'd always win in)
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his prob is there’s audio/video


13 posted on 12/20/2024 7:48:02 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats giving advice to Republicans.


14 posted on 12/20/2024 7:48:12 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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What terrifies them is that he’s making the text of bills available to the public, so that people can see what they’re up to.


15 posted on 12/20/2024 7:48:37 AM PST by jdege
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To: ChicagoConservative27

as opposed to the

Chinese Communist Party ?

ill take musk.


16 posted on 12/20/2024 7:48:49 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Err-ick swallowell? What a whiney little POS.


17 posted on 12/20/2024 7:49:08 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Swallowell sounds skeert.


18 posted on 12/20/2024 7:49:08 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ROTFLOL!

just like Pelosi owns the whole lot of Democrats in Congress and for the same reason, right Stalwell?

Nancy keeps ya’ll all in line because SHE controls all of the major Democrat donors and can have campaign funds withheld from any Democrat with a snap of her fingers ...

THAT’S why the Democrats always APPEAR to be 100% “loyal” to their masters, namely they’re terrified of losing their campaign funding if they step out of line ...

well, NOW the Republicans have their own enforcer, namely Elon Musk, because he can fund any number of PACs for a few billion each and primary any Congressional Republican who thwarts Donald Trump! ... IOW, there’s a new GOP Sheriff in town, and his name is Elon!


19 posted on 12/20/2024 7:49:40 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Musk, even if not born in the U.S., is a better American than you, Swalwell. Americans would trust him more with policies and our lives than you, since you have no problem sleeping with the enemy.


20 posted on 12/20/2024 7:49:43 AM PST by adorno ( )
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