From “The Assholocaust”: Sure, I’m encouraged that for a change, both of these serial-disinformation peddlers are telling the truth, if only about each other. And despite how character-deficient Elon is — and trust me, Democrats, he is, so don’t be too tempted to crawl into bed with him just because he is temporarily the enemy of your enemy — Elon is at least advertising to MAGAbots that their emperor has no clothes. Something the rest of us have been telling them for oh…….about a decade plus. But sometimes, you can only hear the bad news from one of your own.

The Trump/Elon spat, however, has me feeling the same way I felt during the Iran-Iraq War. Which is one of the reasons I was reticent about America throwing over Saddam Hussein, even if Saddam was an utter monster who deserved throwing over. The strategic-rivalry theory being that sometimes, when two evil powers collide, they have less energy to inflict their evil on the rest of us, since they are too busy trying to destroy each other. Maybe, just maybe, if Trump and Elon keep it up, a few more hundred thousand federal workers won’t be fired, and we won’t see everything from medical research to food-aid-to-the-starving to our own weather prediction further decimated.