President Elon Musk

In Doctor Who, you know someone is possessed by the deadly Vashta Narata if that person gets a second shadow. 

Donald Trump has a 2nd shadow but it's not the Vashta Narata. 

It's worse.

It's Elon Musk.  

Well, who can blame the guy for hanging around? Elon spent a quarter of a billion dollars to get Li'l Donnie re-elected and damn it, he wants to be sure he gets a return on that investment.  

Which has seen Elon Musk getting out ahead of Donald Trump on a variety of policy issues.

For example, the US government was facing one of those ubiquitous moments where the government was going to run out of money unless Congress passes a budget.  Just ahead of the Friday December 20th deadline, Congress had hammered out a bipartisan deal that would keep the government running.

Then Elon Musk tweeted that the bill was a bad idea and Republicans should not take that deal.   

After that, Donald Trump awoke from his KFC/McDonald's induced stupor to make a demand that Republicans should do a a different deal or just let the government shut down. 

Donald Trump is NOT President yet and Elon Musk is just a persistent stooge who will not get the fuck out of Mar O Lago. 

But Republicans are so immediately hardwired to do whatever their beloved der Führer says, they began running around like heads with their chickens cut off, confused as to what to do.

Even if there is some confusion on which man is der Führer: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.   

Both men were cajoling and threatening members of Congress to torpedo the bipartisan budget deal. An allegedly more Trump/Musk friendly budget was cobbled together but it couldn't get full Republican support and the Democrats were sure as hell not going to vote for it. 

Congress did finally pass a budget bill mere hours before the government faced a shut down.

A resounding defeat for Donald Trump. Or Elon Musk?  

I'm sorry, which one of these guys is going to be President again?

Oh shit! We've got 4 more years of this!

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