Originally published at: Republicans Turn Eating Their Own Into A Spectator Sport
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Welcome To Trump II MAGA Republicans led by Elon Musk and under pressure from Donald Trump are now poised to ruin Christmas with a government shutdown and New Year’s with an internecine fight over whether…
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He gets away with it again.
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Deport Musk.
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*** TPM’s Josh Marshall: “Trump has sewn himself into a sack with Elon Musk, a few billion dollars, a cat and a snake, and had the sack tossed into the Tiber. That’s the story here. And it will go on for a while.”**
I feel sorry for the cat.
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Dems need to start pursuing recalls of every House MAGAt where it might be possible to actually get it done.
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Josh Marshall’s prediction last night of an inevitable falling out between Trump and Musk was an interesting, plausible scenario. There’s likely to be a few stray GOP casualties between now and inauguration and shortly thereafter. Then, a likely short honeymoon until things begin to not pan out. That’s when the falling out would occur. It would be an interesting coalescence of competing sides for a Night of the Long Knives: Musk, Thiel and their puppet JD versus Trump and his cult base of 50 million voters. Who knows which prevails.
The other plausible scenario, for which there is ample evidence, is that Trump is wholly owned by Putin, and Musk is now Putin’s assigned handler of Trump. In that scenario Trump will not stray from obedience to the overseer of his true master, Putin. Hence, no falling out, just Trump following the subservience script, the first few pages of which we have now seen in his bringing Congress to heel to Musk’s demands.
Don’t know which scenario is worse, but we have to figure out how to destroy all the major actors in whichever role they have been actually cast.
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Elon Musk, aka The WORM (WOrld’s Richest Man) is a menace to Democracy.
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The circus of a government shutdown is a lot like the Brexit vote.
“We will leave the EU and everything will be the same.” Not true.
“We will shutdown the government and no one will be bothered.” Mainly true.
Remember during one shutdown the National Parks closed? The screams and howls forced them to reopen, least people be inconvenienced
The GOP shuts down the government as performance art. Suppose Joe, with no more fucks to give, does shut it down…
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Dem House members must resist the urge to do anything to help Johnson or the GOP from shooting itself in the head. And they should continue doing nothing in the next session. Instead, they should prepare to pick up the pieces after 2 more years of GOP non-governance.
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Trump has sewn himself into a sack with Elon Musk, a few billion dollars, a cat and a snake, and had the sack tossed into the Tiber. —JoshM, Editor’s Blog
Josh is alluding to poena cullei (penalty of the sack), the Roman punishment for parricide.
An artist’s rendition of the sack’s contents:
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I believe it’s actually a weasel, not a cat, that the Romans used.
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride – it’s already a bumpy ride. Mango Mussolini is unhinged and drunk on power and attention. His administration will be a bunch of drunkards in the same sense.
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Kinda like an obvious self own before he even gets into office. More long knives for the people.
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How big is that cat?
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The incompetence is truly stunning.
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If the shutdown includes the executive branch (as in the felon’s 2018 shutdown, in which he served hamberders to football players because no White House chef), then NASA gets shut down as well. MuskRat might not like that.
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Let’s predict: The SC rules that Tik-Tok must be sold to an American-owned entity, and they make it clear that anyone other than Twxtter is somehow unconstitutional.
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If the Tiber River Josh is referring to is the former river, now sewer line beneath Constitution Avenue, I’m all for it.
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