In the #Resistance world, Musk and Trump have fused into one dark bolus of evil, a grinning fleshy blob that throbs with malevolence: Muskentrump. Or perhaps Trumpenmusk; depends on whom you hate more. The online posts that ruminate about assassination and other consummations divinely to be wished mostly seem to concentrate their hate-porn fantasies on Musk. In their minds, where there are only two cultural references — Nazi Germany and Star Wars — he is the guy who should’ve been the New Hope, what with all the electric cars and tech disruptor stuff, but was lured to the Dark Side. Or, since he enlisted a phalanx of nerds to do his bidding, the Dork Side.
Trumpenmusk, or Muskentrump, may have made a mistake, though. Perhaps USAID was not the place to start. It might have been better if they had begun by focusing on fraud and abuse — fraudenabusen, as the Germans might say — at the Pentagon. The Democrats, like a dead snake to which electric current had been applied, might have instantly objected, simply because the interrogating element was Trumpenmusk, and then we would be treated to the sight of people whose party had railed against military spending for decades defending overseas medical units spending $16 for a single generic aspirin.
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