Saturday, December 21, 2024

Today's News: "President Musk" memes, Poilievre sell-out, Trump bald, Mangione fade


America fucked around and they're already finding out what they really elected:

They thought they were voting for cheaper bacon and they got new conflicts with the EU, Mexico, Canada and Panama.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Paul Krugman / Krugman Wonks Out
The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo
The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply
...antics like the potential shutdown will do much more damage to the Musk/Trump administration than they realize. (There’s also this other guy — JV Dance or something? — but he clearly doesn’t matter.)
First, since the election financial markets have clearly been betting that Trump will do very little of what he promised during the campaign — that we won’t really have a trade war, just some minor trade skirmishes, that we’ll have symbolic deportations rather than a mass roundup of immigrants, and so on. Markets have, in effect, discounted the disastrous consequences that would follow if Trump honored his own promises.
But a government shutdown in response to completely false claims about what’s in an innocuous short-term funding measure suggests that the peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply. Trump may really believe that foreigners will pay tariffs, that U.S. trade deficits subsidize the rest of the world, that there’s a reserve army of American workers available to fill the gaps deportation would create. I don’t want to put too much weight on the latest market fluctuations, but it is starting to look as if investors are questioning their own complacency
Second, many, probably most people who voted for Trump believed that he really is the character he played on The Apprentice — a highly competent manager. ...Trump’s edge depended entirely on support from voters who don’t pay much attention to politics
How will these voters react if, as seems all too likely, the second Trump administration is instead marked by rolling chaos?
Anyway, it’s pretty remarkable. Inauguration Day is still a month away, yet the chaos monkeys have already taken over.
The narrowly averted shutdown chaos produced another result, too -- it was clear to Americans that Elon Musk thought he is now in charge of the government, not Trump. The "President Musk" memes were priceless: Just for shits and giggles, here's a twitter roundup of insults:

Americans: This looks like a disaster. Twitter Employees: This looks familiar.

— Dave Pell (@davepell.bsky.social) December 19, 2024 at 8:58 PM

Weekend’s off to a good start.

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— Lakota Man 🪶 (@lakotaman.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM
On the Canadian side of the border, it sure sounds like Poilievre and the rest of our Cons would sell out Canada to Musk and Trump in a New York Minute:

Between Musk and Trump suckering poor Americans into supporting Oligarchy, and Poilievre trying to sell Canadians on anti-establishment from the comfort of his publicly-funded ivory tower, 2025 is shaping up to be a banner year for cognitive dissonance.

— John Muller (@mrjohnmuller.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 2:07 PM
On a side note, has anybody noticed that Trump's hair is getting thinner these days while his body is not, and his makeup is looking weird too? Jeff Tiedrich reports on this today - check it out here. And here is a recent photo showing Trump looking just ....very very old: MAGA isn't going to like that very much.
And on another side note, America appears to be making the CEO shooter Luigi Mangione into some kind of hero - I guess if they can do it for Rittenhouse and Zimmerman then they can do it for Mangione too. The other day Mangione made a court appearance and here's what I saw people posting about:

The Mangione jury selection is going to be wild.

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— Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) December 20, 2024 at 8:48 PM
No sympathy for the CEOs these days:
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