{"id":29779,"date":"2025-01-06T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/they-say-musk-has-turned-the-gop-into-the-new-punk-rock-but-i-say-never-mind-the-bollocks\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:07:57","slug":"they-say-musk-has-turned-the-gop-into-the-new-punk-rock-but-i-say-never-mind-the-bollocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/they-say-musk-has-turned-the-gop-into-the-new-punk-rock-but-i-say-never-mind-the-bollocks\/","title":{"rendered":"They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say \u2018never mind the bollocks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s an escape from the omnipresence of Elon Musk it\u2019s this: throw your phone in the sea, sing and dance, and stay out all night<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon, enough! In the past two weeks, the world\u2019s richest man has teased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/features\/panorama\/perils-trump-musk-economy-982856\">economic Armageddon<\/a> in the US, spruiked for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/1\/3\/who-is-tommy-robinson-and-why-is-elon-musk-throwing-his-weight-behind-him\">violent far-right extremist<\/a> and meddled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/05\/dont-feed-the-troll-german-chancellor-responds-to-elon-musk-comments\">domestic political affairs<\/a> of at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-02\/elon-musk-calls-for-fresh-uk-elections-in-latest-starmer-attack\">least two<\/a> sovereign nations.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more. A lover\u2019s quarrel with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-01-06\/musk-backflips-on-support-for-farage\/104786950\">Nigel Farage<\/a>? Something \u201cgamechanging\u201d to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2025\/01\/05\/x-money-leak-reveals-elon-musks-game-changing-plan-as-bitcoin-nears-100000-price\/\">crypto<\/a>? It takes a fine talent to make omnidirectional megalomania boring, but our boy has done it. His purchase of Twitter has transformed the site from a hubbub of views to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2024\/10\/rumors-x-twitter-musk\/680219\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">rightwing toilet<\/a> of whatever his brain is farting that day.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/07\/they-say-musk-has-turned-the-gop-into-the-new-punk-rock-but-i-say-never-mind-the-bollocks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s an escape from the omnipresence of Elon Musk it\u2019s this: throw your phone in the sea, sing and dance, and stay out all night Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Elon, enough! In the past two weeks, the world\u2019s richest man has teased economic Armageddon in the US, spruiked for a violent &#8230; <a title=\"They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say \u2018never mind the bollocks\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/they-say-musk-has-turned-the-gop-into-the-new-punk-rock-but-i-say-never-mind-the-bollocks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say \u2018never mind the bollocks\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}