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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I view this as mildly positive. It means that more picks are in trouble, and the Senate is not just gonna roll over and recess them into their jobs without hearings. Senators who got elected this time, in particular, have 6-year terms that will outlast Trump’s term. Who knows what state MAGA and Musk will be in by then?

    (There will be plenty of horrible picks that get through, of course, but the worst of the worst might get blocked by Republicans, just like Gaetz.)

    This also really does show the power dynamic here. Musk is Trump’s sugar daddy. Trump’s entire career was built on spending Daddy’s money, why should his political career be any different? Musk owns Trump now, and I think this proves that.