Cast Donald Trump, for all his
"I Alone Can Fix It" bluster,
as what radio host Dean Obeidallah has come to call a PINO
—a President In Name Only,
a puppet in the hands of a strange-looking foreign hostile takeover artist who comes off as a Bond Villain.

This will have two salubrious effects
—it will drive the president-elect up his ketchup covered wall
— and it will put Musk center stage as the face of modern American "conservatism".

The best outcome will be a feud between Trump and Musk
with slim Republican congressional majorities caught in the middle, which seems to be the situation at the moment anyway.

Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries gets it.
He took to the floor to reject the panicked White House debt-ceiling cancellation "counter offer"
-- and gave the proper reasons why:

👉 House Republicans have abandoned that bipartisan
agreement that we entered into in good faith.

A bill that House Republicans negotiated,
gave us your word that we were going to move forward together on behalf of the American people.

It was a Republican-drafted bill that was posted by House Republicans.

And then one or two puppet masters weigh in and the extreme MAGA Republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well-off,
the well-connected millionaires and billionaires,
-- not working-class people all across America.

The bill that is before us today is just part of an effort to shut down the government unless we,
as representatives of the American people,
bend to the will of just a handful of millionaires and billionaires
because the provisions in this bill,
particularly as it relates to suspending the debt ceiling for two years,
are designed to bring about a massive tax cut unpaid for wealthy donors and for wealthy corporations
-- for millionaires and billionaires who, clearly, some in this Congress are working for.

And this bill is validation for it."

Hear that?
"Puppet masters." That's going to leave a mark
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DATE: December 21, 2024 at 10:01PM
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