Welcome Chaos Games
With so much chaos this morning in Washington, D.C., I don’t know where to focus.
Government shutdown looms, blares CNN unless that’s changed since I last hit Refresh.
Kate Riga at TPM wonders just where “on the spectrum of incompetence to malice” the incoming Trump II administration will land.
It appears Donald Trump has ceded the presidency to, in NewsHoundEllen’s view, a “likely illegal immigrant.“
David Rothkopf wonders how a great nation functions with three presidents at once. The official president is “currently MIA. Our president-elect has been acting since the first week of November like he has already taken office, meanwhile, but has also effectively appointed a shadow president in Elon Musk, who appears to be the one of the three with the most clout right now.”
The rule of law is going on holiday except for punishing them what’s done Trump wrong:
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.”
But as President-elect Donald Trump — once a defendant in Chutkan’s very court — prepares to retake the White House and pardon many Jan. 6 perpetrators, Chutkan now says, “I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days.”
“You like me. You really like me”
El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago is too busy enjoying his popularity with men richer than himself that he hasn’t noticed Elon Musk embezzling his presidential power. “Everybody wants to be my friend,” Trump gushed on Monday after tech CEOs like Jeff Bezos planned pilgrimages to see him.
“To settle who he loves more, Elon and Bezos are going to put Trump down in the middle of the room and see who he goes to first: ‘All right, here boy!’” — JIMMY FALLON
For once, Democrats seem to have settled on a message they’ll all sing in harmony. They’re repeating “President Musk” and calling Trump Musk’s “chief of staff” in an effort to drive a wedge between the two. The beauty of it is, even if Trump sees that that’s exactly what they’re doing, it won’t make any difference in it getting under his thin skin.
Thank you sharing this Sanctuary of Sanity with us each day.
Happy Hollandaise!