The first month of the Second Kingdom of Donald J. Trump has been even worse and crazier than I expected.
There has been so much in the way of bizarre shit and “distractions” that it is becoming hard to keep up. If you tell others about something Trump or Elon has done or said, the reply sometimes is “Are you sure that really happened? Where did you hear that?”
In fact, I feel this deeply:
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
I myself have talked to a few people who are not really paying attention in this first month of the Trump 2.0 administration and they reacted to what I was saying as if I was on crazy conspiracy pills. But that “drug-addled oligarch” part of the Bluesky post above. Well, dear reader, you be the judge:
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
The person who is arguably the most powerful man in America right now, who was unelected and no one really expected would hold this much power, was quite apparently on drugs at the right-wing’s version of the Super Bowl.
wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!
Elon and Donny’s antics must be maddening for the self-proclaimed Serious Centrists of the Discourse, whose entire brand revolves around portraying progressives as the true unreasonable silly ones in American politics. It’s hard to keep up that narrative when the current face of the right is parading around at CPAC dressed like a midlife crisis fever dream and higher than Joe Walsh during the Hotel California tour.
Plus the whole waving around a chainsaw thing. Thomas Chatterton Williams must shake with rage having to work so hard doing mental gymnastics to make this about the left.
While Elon is doing lots of drugs and waving around chainsaws, and ohbytheway calling an astronaut a slur for pointing out he’s a lying liar, he is also ignoring one of his baby mamas, the singer Grimes. During an apparent health crisis for their child. What a truly loathsome pile of rancid sewage:
As we saw recently, Elon likes to use his spawn as props and humiliate his employees. But I guess he doesn’t care about actually taking care of them in a moment of need.
I know some might view this all as “distraction” but I am not so sure. This is an unhinged, drug-addled, deeply cruel man who just a short time ago would be run out of public service for this. But not today.
Today, he has a tremendous amount of power, and I believe Americans are starting to notice who is pulling the levers in DC, ones that have a great impact on their lives. And increasingly, they are not happy.
The last word goes to Neko Case.
Kinda hard to sustain a country when the President has advanced dementia and narcissism, the Owner/Oligarch is strung out on ketamine and narcissism, and the SecDef suffers from dry drunk (much worse than drunk) and narcissism…and media normalizes all of it!! May you live in interesting times!! 😱