Donald Trump, the President In Name Only-PINO

Trump Establishes Musk as President

Today was the strangest day in American political history. It began last night when Donald Trump congratulated Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for reaching a deal on a bi-partisan bill to fund the government until March. That was late last night, but overnight a jilted Elon Musk began rage tweeting or x-ing whatever it is called now threatening Congressional Republicans if they did not reject the deal, a terrified Republicans rushed to abandon Johnson as Trump belatedly joined the fray.

But that was not the end. Johnson got back to work and cobbled together another bipartisan bill that Trump approved of, only to see it voted down in flames with 38 Republicans voting against it.

It was the first time in the nearly 250 year history of our nation that two men, neither in office forced the House of Representatives to scuttle a must past spending bill, or any bill for that matter. However, the megalomaniac richest man in the world seems to have more balls than the faux billionaire President Elect, who first ceded the throne to Musk, and saw many House Republicans obey Musk rather than him or his love child, MAGA Mike Johnson. It is funny how spineless people don’t garner enough respect it pass needed legislation, but we haven’t seen the worst.

Evidently the new President In Name Only or PINO, or as my dear friend Elvis, who hails from the Black Belt of the Deep South, has suggested the acronym PENIS, President Exercising Negligent Imbecilic Shitfuckery, is quite pissed the people are calling Leon “President Musk”.

In the midst of this Trumpian shit show I do not presume to actually know what happens next. I can make some guesses, but I cannot say with any certainty, but I don’t think that Trump likes being upstaged. Musk could be well on his way to crossing a line from which he cannot retreat. When he does, which he might have already done, he might suffer an unfortunate accident that removes him from the picture, maybe consume some bad food or drink at Mar a Lago. If Trump doesn’t deal with his Musk problem he will be the President In Name Only, and Elon Musk will be the unelected President of the United States with either Donald Trump or J.D. Vance as his obedient puppet.

No matter what happens it will get much worse before it ever gets better. Either Trump will remove Musk from the picture, or Musk will be in charge. Their highly inflated egos will not suffer any competition.

What happens today, 20 December 2024 will very well determine which dictator will be in charge.

As I observe events on I am reminded of Barbara Tuchman’s description of Sir Edward Gray on the eve of the First World War, “Watching with his failing eyes, the lamps being lit in St. James Park, Grey was heard to remark that “the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them again in our lifetime.”

Despite this, those of us opposed to the hateful concept of a dictatorship and who are determined to fight for the Constitution, republicans, and democracy which we have achieved over nearly 250 years must never give up, and resist, but smartly. We must be like the French Resistance in the Second World War. We must appear to be obedient during the day, but never allow a night to pass without doing what we can to drive these bastards from power.

We must take inspiration from Charles De Gaulle immediately after leaving France to continue the resistance of the Free French against the Nazis and the French collaborators who were complicit in the fall of France in June 1940.

“Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.”

We must keep that flame of resistance alive in the United Staes today, our our cause is lost.

Until next time, be safe and watch your six.