It has now been one full month since The Troika took over the U.S. government. One might argue that we’re being sloppy here, using the phrase “the government” in this way; technically, Trump and Musk, and their mascaraed sidekick Vance, only have control over the Executive Branch. Then it declared that whoever is put in place by that power, to run the Executive branch on its behalf—no matter how ignorant, insane, or felonious he or she might be—is beyond the reach of the law. It would be tragic if its oldest were extinguished because some invertebrate creature took offense at its own truthful portrayal. The titular head of the Troika ran on its “principles,” if the threats contained therein can be so described.