{"id":8901,"date":"2025-02-06T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:37:06","slug":"arrest-elon-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/arrest-elon-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Elon #resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/trump-musk-support-poll\">Democrats call for investigation into potential security breaches by Elon Musk | Trump administration | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\">The number of Republicans who want Musk and Doge to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence in the Trump administration has fallen significantly, to 26%, according to the\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net\/documents\/econtoplines_c1AfT3R.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Economist\/YouGov poll<\/a>\u00a0conducted this week,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5129353-gop-support-for-musk-influence-with-trump-falls-dramatically-poll\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">reported by the Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\">The same poll taken in the days immediately after Trump\u2019s November election win revealed that enthusiasm among Republicans for Musk\u2019s role stood at 47%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\">The disquiet also appears to have spread to a number of Republican senators, who have\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/05\/musk-republicans-government\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">begun voicing alarm<\/a>\u00a0at Musk\u2019s tightening grip. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\">In the House on Wednesday, the Wisconsin Democratic congressman Mark Pocan\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5128492-house-dem-proposes-bill-named-after-musk-ending-federal-contracts-for-special-government-employees\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">filed legislation<\/a>\u00a0called the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act, AKA the Elon Musk Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; color: #121212;\">\u201cElon Musk is ripping us off and like millions of Americans across the country, I\u2019m pissed. I\u2019m taking action [to prevent] grifters like him from getting richer while pillaging our tax dollars for himself,\u201d Pocan\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repmarkpocan\/status\/1887172426787946895\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats call for investigation into potential security breaches by Elon Musk | Trump administration | The Guardian The number of Republicans who want Musk and Doge to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence in the Trump administration has fallen significantly, to 26%, according to the\u00a0Economist\/YouGov poll\u00a0conducted this week,\u00a0reported by the Hill. The same poll taken in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/arrest-elon-resist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arrest Elon #resist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-resist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}