The incredulity many Americans greeted Trump's reelection was a product of knowing who the Republicans and Trump really are, instead of who the play on the teevee. The price of eggs is more important than a women's autonomy over her own body...as long as no one knows that this is at stake. So, Republicans surfed on the fact that most Americans rightly believe that Trump has probably paid for multiple abortions in his life, so he's not really a zealot.
This works, only if you ignore the rest of the GOP.
Meanwhile, the GOP's complete disinterest in governing for the good of the broadest swath of the American people is already on display as these fucking morons have torpedoed their own Continuing Resolution, because Musk something something.
The markets are responding to the fact that Trump is actually still talking about doing the things that he's totally going to do. A government shutdown isn't going to ease their fears.
Fran Lebowitz once said, "You don't know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't." In a certain light, Elon Musk is just as stupid - except for the few things that he does sort of know a little about. We have to remember that Musk was a rich nerd who became a venture capitalist and then bought up good companies and gave them goods ideas (batteries!) and the engineers solved the problems for him. Whatever smarts he does have, they do not really apply to the public sphere. He's a profoundly weird dude, likely on the spectrum and he does not know shit about shit when it comes to public policy.
So, he blows up a good deal that would allow the government to stay open for the holidays because he's a "disrupter" which is Silicon Valley for "huge suppurating asshole." That he appears at the moment to be the actual president is a fascinating new development in "Populism."
It's going to be a chaotic and unpleasant four years. And Republicans will actually take the blame.
Duh.
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