{"id":15261,"date":"2024-12-19T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2024-12-19T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:52:19","slug":"trump-gets-trumped-in-our-musky-end-of-year-roundtable-bradcast-12192024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15261","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gets Trumped in Our Musky End-of-Year Roundtable: ‘BradCast’ 12\/19\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, on our last new BradCast<\/i><\/a> of 2024: It’s beginning to look a lot like failure, everywhere you look in D.C. It’s already getting pathetic before either the new majorities are sworn in to Congress or the new Administration officially takes over the White House. But we’re all here for the GOP fiascos today! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]\n

FIRST UP…<\/i><\/b> A state appeals court panel in Georgia<\/b> ruled<\/a> 2 to 1 on Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis<\/b> must be disqualified from the racketeering indictment she filed against Donald Trump and 18-conspirators for their failed attempt to steal the state from Joe Biden<\/b> in 2020. The case itself, however, may continue. The court cited an “appearance of impropriety” related to Willis’ romantic relationship with a former Special Prosecutor assigned to the same case. She quickly filed an appeal to the ruling today, but it could be the end<\/a> to this criminal case against the convicted felon who will be sworn in as President, even though today’s ruling could still be overturned by the state Supreme Court or Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council could reassign the case to another prosecution team.<\/p>\n

THEN…<\/b><\/i> If you’re looking for an idea of what next year may be like in Congress, when Republicans<\/b> in the U.S. House will have an even slimmer majority than they do now, and when Donald Trump<\/b> will be “running the ship” in the White House, look no farther than the clusterf__k<\/a> that has unfolded over the past 24 hours in the House. A bipartisan, bicameral deal to avoid a Government shutdown on Friday, just before Christmas, was effectively nixed by… Elon Musk<\/b>, the unelected South African who appears to have purchased not just the Presidency, but the entirety of the U.S. Government with his $277 million investment on Trump’s behalf in the 2024 Presidential election. <\/p>\n

After a few of Musk’s tweets against it<\/a> yesterday — despite clearly never even having read a single page of the three-month Continuing Resolution meant largely to keep the government operating until a full budget deal could be reached in March — the bill was pronounced dead. Then Trump jumped in, late in the game, to say that he too — just like Elon! — was against the bill! Even though he could have rung in to kill it or change it any time long before yesterday. Musk, the richest man in the world, and perhaps the most clueless (at least when it comes to how government and legislation works) now seems to be running the GOP ship in D.C., despite having no clue how to run a D.C. ship.<\/p>\n

Trump then began demanding<\/a> an end to the very idea of a Debt Ceiling despite the Debt Ceiling having nothing to do with this week’s must-pass legislation. (His newfound objection to it is apparently<\/a> because he doesn’t want to have the raise the Debt Ceiling on his watch, so he’ll be free when he does to blow up the national debt with new, enormous tax cuts for his wealthy pals…like Elon!) This afternoon a new<\/i> bill was cobbled together that Trump claimed to support. But, minutes after we got off air, that measure failed<\/a>, as Democrats were no longer interested in helping Speaker Mike Johnson<\/b> — or Trump or President Musk — out of their own mess.<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s not all that’s happening at years-end. And we’ve got two of our good friends and fan faves here to try and make sense (or not) of much of it. We’re joined once again today by fellow old-school bloggers, HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> blog, and DRIFTGLASS<\/b>, author of his own eponymously-named blog<\/a> and co-host of the weekly Professional Left Podcast<\/i><\/a>, for an end-of-year roundtable, of sorts.<\/p>\n

As usual, they’ve both got keen insight on the idiocy unfurling in D.C. today and much more, including such topics as…<\/p>\n