Republicans do stuff so ridiculous that you can’t easily tell.

What’s actually happening:

• Truth Social stock value dropped sharply because its not a platform with any real monetization potential
• a fusion company with no working product wanted to sell stock to the public so its founders could make off with a bunch of money
• so they merged to create hype for the truth social stock and to let the fusion company list shared without having to undergo the usual scrutiny

What hasn’t happened

• the silly name the Onion came up with

What might happen:

• large transfers of money from the federal government to the combined firm