It’s a Republic of Shitposters, If We Can Keep It

Lost in the general turmoil of the moment is news that, over the weekend, the President of the United States posted a Spongebob Squarepants meme. CNN reported it as part of its coverage of the email Elon Musk had sent out to all federal employees demanding to know what they were up to. We live in a very stupid time and are governed by meme-fried brains. Resistance is taking many forms and some are meeting shitpost with shitpost. In a comic mirror of the way Musk ran Twitter, the richest man in the world demanded that all employees of the federal government provide a list of five things they accomplished the previous week. This email went out on a Saturday and followed a post from Musk warning about the email on X, the website he owns. Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22 ... Read full article.