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Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.

Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.

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Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting in front of the president and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Here's hoping they anger enough classical Republicans to foment some sort of unrest within the party. It's disheartening to see so many yes-men with no spines

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Almost all of the "classical" Republicans have already resigned. The best case scenario for the GOP at this point would be enough infighting due to purity tests that everyone who's left rips each other apart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The best case scenario would be for an asteroid to split apart over Washington DC and impact the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Those are cool old buildings, I'd prefer not to see them destroyed...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, they are going to cancel all the scientific grant programs and put PhD's to work as air traffic controllers:

"The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

China:

Hey, new MIT grad!! Can I talk with you for a second?