Things seemed bleak enough when our collective assumption was that Donald Trump, having won the election, would be our president. But, proving that things can always get worse, it's increasingly clear that the real president will actually be South African tech billionaire and ketamine enthusiast Elon Musk. Calling Musk the "shadow president" may be underselling the severity of the situation. Musk and his unofficial "Department of Government Efficiency" are undergoing a hostile takeover of the Treasury Department. Musk seems to believe he can ignore the legal authority of Congress to control federal spending, and instead control all decisions on how to spend taxpayer money. If successful, this effort would functionally make Musk a dictator using the elected official, Trump, as his figurehead.
But while Musk ignores the Constitution's clear-cut law giving the power of the purse to Congress, he does have another group of people he thinks should have discretion over how the U.S. government spends its money: The ugly assortment of incels, white nationalists and other such far-right scum he's assembled as a cheerleading squad on X (formerly Twitter). While congressional Republicans lamely hand their spending power over to this unelected conspiracy theorist billionaire, Musk is crowdsourcing ideas of what he should unilaterally cut from the absolute worst people on the internet.
