Since dumping Xitter earlier this year, I don’t hear much about parody users there anymore unless their posts show up on platforms other than Elon’s. I used to howl at “sitsnexttokimdavis,” who used to troll former county clerk Kim Davis, who famously refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

But this parody user had me going for a few minutes until I decided to find out who the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks was behind the “@realdogenews” handle.

It wasn’t Elon, that’s for sure.

The personna or “voice” of the “X” poster behind Department of Government Efficiency Parody (yes, “parody” is in the title) sounds like a scheming middle schooler, or you could say and not be wrong, exactly what Elon Musk must be thinking.

The post that caught my attention was this one:

I shall explain.

At a meeting this weekend in DC, McConnell was heard to remark, “There will be no recess appointments,” in reference to Trumpelstiltskin’s requirement that his outrageous cabinet appointments be given a pass in what is termed “recess appointments,” a process of nonconfirmation confirmations.

The remark was immediately xeeted by a staffer on The New Yorker magazine, only to be quickly taken down. Too late. MAGAs saw the tweet and went ballistic with comments that may be summarized by this remark from the chair of the GOP Youth Advisory Council: “Nobody gives a damn about what Mitch McConnell has to say anymore.”

But @realdogenews captured their reactions perfectly by channeling what any given 13-year-old bully would say.

No one said that the demise of the American democracy couldn’t be fun.