Will the Shut Hit the Fan?
As I’m writing this, the US is within hours of a government shutdown. Speaker Johnson has said, “We will not have a government shutdown,” but he hasn’t detailed the specifics of a plan. (Maybe he has a concept of a plan?) Whether we hit the deadline or not, the chaos of the process is a glimpse of the shitshow we can expect over the next four years. And this time, there’s not just one social media addict threatening and agitating everyone involved. There are two. Trump and Musk. Here’s the latest from CNN.
+ Charles Sykes in The Atlantic (Gift Article): The GOP Is Treating Musk Like He’s in Charge. “Musk, of course, is not actually the president-elect. He received approximately zero percent of the votes in last month’s election. But for a few hours this week, Musk didn’t just act as if he, and not Donald Trump, will soon hold the reins of government power; the GOP also responded as if he will.”
+ Meanwhile, in the middle of the night, Musk Expressed Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election. Musk “endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as ‘confirmed extremist’ by German domestic intelligence.”