How MAGA gave away the presidency to a South African immigrant

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From time to time, I refer to leaders who lack the courage to speak up against blatant evil or wrongful policy conduct as "political geldings," with the nominal form of the second word referring to a castrated male animal's scrotum.

I don't wish to be crude this Thursday morning, but from my perspective, Donald Trump may boast about how he is the "best" this or "greatest" that, but it is abundantly clear to me that his "balls" have been divided into two and are held by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, abroad, and Elon Musk right here in the United States.

Musk lording over yesterday's first Cabinet member while Trump and his cabinet heads sat idly by…

While I will focus on Trump being a compromised comrade to Putin's Kremlin in a future blog, today's blog will touch briefly upon the optics of Trump's first 30 days, in general, and yesterday's first Cabinet meeting, specifically.

Now we all know that Musk, the South African immigrant whose status as world's richest man was sealed in no small measure from government contracts for Space X, Tesla, and other business interests, sank about $250 million of his own dollars into getting Trump elected last November. What we didn't know at the time—but can see clearly now—is that Musk ostensibly bought himself a seat as the first de facto "Co-President" of the United States!

In the late Ancient Roman Republic, the system of having "duo consuls" or two executive heads of government eventually gave way to Julius Caesar's solitary dictatorship and, after two decades of civil war, an imperial form of monarchy that lasted until Rome's final decline and fall as the world's sole superpower.

Someday down the line, when most of us living in this present age will have long returned to dust, historians may trace the decline and fall of the American Republic to Donald Trump's decision to save himself from prison by running for a second term in office, and to enhance his chances of winning the presidency—all the while enriching himself—by attaching himself to Musk.

The cost? By so doing, Trump gets to be the nominal "commander-in-chief" with all of the photo op privileges thereunto appertaining, but the real power is being wielded by Musk, an immigrant who is forbidden by the Constitution from running for President, and their Heritage Foundation underlings, like Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who have provided the blueprint for reshaping America along their less diverse, equal, or inclusive designs.

Two weeks ago, I, like many of you, was baffled by the scene of Trump sitting atypically quiet at his Oval Office desk while Musk held court with the press, and Musk's toddler son ran hither and yon like a kid with absolutely zero home training.

Well, as bizarre as it was to watch the above scenes, yesterday's scenes were far worse, as the duly elected Vice President, J.D. Vance, and each of the duly confirmed Cabinet heads sat at silent rapt attention beside Trump while Musk dominated the better part of their first meeting!

True to his wickedly comedic form, Trump took to social media prior to yesterday's meeting to announce that all of his Cabinet secretaries had NO problems with Musk's presence, this after a week of Musk first firing off an email to federal employees demanding that they email five things that they accomplished the previous week, only to find several cabinets pushing back and telling employees that they didn't have to comply with Elon's edict.

And if there were any doubts about as who is calling the shots, Trump, in one of his few remarks, surveyed the room and all but insisted in front of the press that none of his secretaries would buck against Musk, his primary financial benefactor and domestic puppet master, by asking: "Is anybody unhappy?” When not a single cabinet head stated unreadiness or unhappiness, Trump concluded “I think everyone’s not only happy, they’re thrilled.”

Truly, political geldings, one and all!

While Musk's presence poses a number of constitutional questions that surely will be litigated in the months ahead, I keep coming back to a quote from James Madison, the Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the United States, who wrote in his Federalist Papers #10 essay that "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. "

In light of Madison's quote, the reason that every branch of federal and state government maintain disclosure rules is to ensure that those who "serve" are not doing so at their own interests. It doesn't take a historian or political scientist to see that Musk already is gutting many of the agencies that regulate industries that oversee his direct business interests while at the same time, decimating a federal workforce that is cancelling contracts and upending livelihoods while not even saving one percent of the federal budget according to MAGA management figures!

Which leads me to conclude that a day of reckoning is sure to come in the courts, if not in the streets (or both), should enough of the same MAGA folks who willingly (and foolishly) voted for Trump because of his culture war attacks on minorites FINALLY wake up and realize that they and their families are getting screwed over from a financial and health care standpoint, like Jacob Manser below:

Stay tuned...