Am I the only one who thinks this satanic panic style mass hysteria?

Soooooooooo after the election I was pretty relieved with the "Trumps getting really annoyed with Elon Musk" stories... But then they just got written again and again and it was like a collective "we want this to happen so therefore it is" and since i have been following a lot of /other/ topics and not the love between trump and musk.

Then I saw a... Politician?? Refer to trump as "vice president trump", and was like okay whatever, annoying gunna annoy. Then i saw that somehow a budget bill has seemingly been shot down solely because Musk (and that other "DOGE" guy??) demanded it to be so.

And now its like ive turned around and im looking at a damn house fire. What the heck is going on?? I know we only get like, one episode a day, and todays episode was a good one from Mia about post-coup south korea (a little sparse on details but i appreciated keeping it in our minds because as she said, its 51 million people who have no clue who is running the govt) but im really /really/ hoping this gets hopped onto.

It almost reminds me when i was getting really nervous about russia and ukraine and Robert was saying "I have so many friends over there, I just. I dont want it to happen, I just cant think Putin would pull the trigger" and I was relieved and then shocking (to us all obviously) russia invaded and im like... Did this just happen again? Pretty much social media was pretty banging on about dont worry about Musk he is annoying trump he is "first buddy" haha its fine and now Musk is saying "until jan 20 the govt should not pass a single thing. Not one single item." And it unironically looks like republicans are going to go for that, for one, im sure its beneficial to them, obv, but also, are they looking over their shoulder at the /actual/ billionare being Musk knowing he could primary them with infinite money and also censure them on social media?

Like. I thought the conclusion was going to be 'scaramuchi'(spelling, sorry), not just... Scary