The Future is Unfortunately Here

For years now Trump has held a unique place in the hearts of Republicans in that while they’ve always been fine circling the wagons for their own, Trump was the only one who could pull this off:

1. Do/say something incredibly offensive that would normally destroy anyone else's career
2. Republicans generate MASSIVE outrage at the idea that Trump did anything wrong, defiantly defending him at the top of their outraged lungs
3. Trump doesn’t apologize or even try to explain himself away
4. Not only that, but he’d have no problem doubling down/making things worse
5. If the spirit moved him he’d insult some of the Republicans breathlessly defending him
6. Republicans would continue to defend him even as he’d hurl insults at them/refuse to apologize

Rinse/lather/repeat.

Again, Trump’s not the only one of their own Republicans would defend but he was always the only one who could openly mock them for defending him and making it clear to anyone listening that he didn’t give a shit.

Until our new BFF in chief, Elon Musk.

This week’s whole “wait, did he really throw out a Hitler salute? Twice?” thing was met with regular GOP outrage at the idea he could be accused of such a thing, but it’s the first time they’ve done it while the person they’re defending is openly shitting on them without being named “Donald Trump”. Instead of simply saying “hey you know what I was caught up in the moment, of course I wasn’t saluting Hitler” (forget about dreaming for a real apology of course), he’s been doing with “funny” Twitter/jokes about the incident:

As the backlash against Elon Musk continues after the Tesla CEO made a straight-arm, Nazi-like gesture during his speech Monday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the billionaire posted a series of Nazi-related puns on X Thursday to his more than 210 million followers.

Musk made reference to Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and leading members of the Nazi Party, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler.

“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down!” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns. “Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,” Musk added.

....while leaving all the Republicans idiots holding the bag to keep defending him, which of course they’re doing, which is remarkable in that it's the first non-Trump person I’ve seen getting away with this. 

Which brings us to a corresponding point. America was born partly because we hated being ruled by a king and since then we've spent 250 years demanding the #1 thing that makes America America is our boundless thirst for capitalism at the expense of almost everything else. And since Trump came around, a lot of people have decided you know what they DO want a king. Trump has come close, but not quite. 

Meanwhile, Elon Musk is the richest man on Earth, which makes him the crown jewel in the eyes of the America we’ve built. So now you tell me that you’d bet a nickel against in 2026, the 250th birthday of America, we crown our first king to rule over each & every one of us to reward ourselves with the dizzying buzz of being attached to the sickest outcome of our billionaire fetish in Elon Musk. We'll sing the praises of our king, consider ourselves lucky to he chosen by God to be ruled by the richest man in our known Universe, and then stand around wondering where all of our money went. Great.

 

UPDATE JUST A FEW HOURS: if you've been wondering how spot-on my analysis with how Elon Musk can treat Republican like Trump is well then here you fucking go.