Is the Musk/Trump bromance over?

[Anonymous]

Musk was always the useful idiot here, he was being set up to fall from the beginning by people like Miller and Vought who are running the administration while Trump craps his pants and extracts tributes. Those shadow dwellers are who we need to go after next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Musk really did want to fix government corruption but did not realize that the government does not run like a business, so he was inept and unprepared.

He doesn't have the skills to fix it since he's not a fixer. He's a money guy. He throws his money around to get his way or buy his next business/hobby. He's not an innovator or creator. He's only ever supplied the money for others to be able to create big ideas that he carries under his belt.

The way to fix the government is through elections, not mass firings and department/program cancellations.

Musk also looks like he is whacked out on various drugs. I've seen the videos of him swaying and rolling his neck and head toward the ceiling while his eyes roll around. That is not normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We are never, ever, ever, .... getting back together."

(Apologies to Tay here -- she doesn't deserve that association.)

"Don't get sad. Get even." -- TS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It feels like the beginning of the end. Trump has lost a lot of steam over the past few weeks, and now he’s starting to look like a lame duck.

Very little has stopped Trump. The white nationalists have a lot of money and know they control him easily. I remain skeptical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or another distraction while they F up something worse.

They are not smart or clever enough to intentionally create distractions. What you see is what you get. They act on impulse and have zero self-regulation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is, Trump is as terrified of the monster he created as the GOP is of their monster.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-elon-musk_n_68400e0de4b0cc376200e569?d_id=9948827&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=threads&utm_campaign=us_main

Trump can't keep his senile mouth shut. He'll attack Musk at some point, and Musk will lash back.

This is what I have been patiently waiting for. It’s gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Or another distraction while they F up something worse.

They are not smart or clever enough to intentionally create distractions. What you see is what you get. They act on impulse and have zero self-regulation.

I mostly agree with this. But they somehow figured out how to sneak all that crap into the BBB without their comrades in the House noticing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Musk really did want to fix government corruption but did not realize that the government does not run like a business, so he was inept and unprepared.

He doesn't have the skills to fix it since he's not a fixer. He's a money guy. He throws his money around to get his way or buy his next business/hobby. He's not an innovator or creator. He's only ever supplied the money for others to be able to create big ideas that he carries under his belt.

The way to fix the government is through elections, not mass firings and department/program cancellations.

Musk also looks like he is whacked out on various drugs. I've seen the videos of him swaying and rolling his neck and head toward the ceiling while his eyes roll around. That is not normal.

Yes this.

[Anonymous]

Musk was going off on X last night. It was entertaining. A democratic political vlogger asked if Musk is prepared to use his money to help fresh blood get elected in 2026, regardless of party, Musk responded that nothing was off the table.

Ha! I think Musk got played and this whole situation just proves how unintelligent he really is. He bought Trump's grift hook, line, and sinker. He sunk his name. He sunk his brands. He cooked his reputation. And for what? Nothing got passed. Nothing got fixed. No money was saved. The deficient grew.

Anyway, I'm all for the in-fighting. Let the children fight while the adults work on flipping the numbers in 2026.

[Anonymous]

Trump played Musk masterfully, as he has played so many other people. He set things up such that if Musk succeeded at DOGE, Trump would automatically share the credit as the one who tasked Musk. If Musk failed, Musk would be the fall guy for DOGE and anything else Trump wanted to blame him for and, Musk's loss of credibility would mean anything he later said would be dismissed as a disgruntled ex-crony's ranting.

Trump has a talent for selecting egomaniacs to set up as Patsies. It tells me that he must have way more self-awareness and self-control than he lets on. It's not very often that egomaniacs are able to restrain themselves effectively enough to tolerate and play the long con with other egomaniacs.

[Anonymous]

Musk seems to be going really hard in trying to rehabilitate his image, but he has a long long way to go before anyone likes him again. Probably what’s going to happen is that he’ll find himself hated by both sides. Maybe we can nationalize his companies for the good of mankind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump played Musk masterfully, as he has played so many other people. He set things up such that if Musk succeeded at DOGE, Trump would automatically share the credit as the one who tasked Musk. If Musk failed, Musk would be the fall guy for DOGE and anything else Trump wanted to blame him for and, Musk's loss of credibility would mean anything he later said would be dismissed as a disgruntled ex-crony's ranting.

Trump has a talent for selecting egomaniacs to set up as Patsies. It tells me that he must have way more self-awareness and self-control than he lets on. It's not very often that egomaniacs are able to restrain themselves effectively enough to tolerate and play the long con with other egomaniacs.

You are giving Trump way too much credit. He was flattered by the attention he got from Musk and allowed himself to be manipulated. That’s it.

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Anonymous wrote:Musk got what he came for. He’s off to break the next shiny object.

It's true. He just wanted to end the investigations against him and secure more government contracts. Grift all around the Republican party.

BS.

He'd have done much better with the democrat party. Look how long they funded Tesla after bowing to the Gods of green energy. Over a decade.

You aren't rewriting history.

Swami says the DNC will attack the next head of DOGE just as savagely. It's in their DNA.

Mmm, Democrats like Donald Trump in 2016-2020?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump played Musk masterfully, as he has played so many other people. He set things up such that if Musk succeeded at DOGE, Trump would automatically share the credit as the one who tasked Musk. If Musk failed, Musk would be the fall guy for DOGE and anything else Trump wanted to blame him for and, Musk's loss of credibility would mean anything he later said would be dismissed as a disgruntled ex-crony's ranting.

Trump has a talent for selecting egomaniacs to set up as Patsies. It tells me that he must have way more self-awareness and self-control than he lets on. It's not very often that egomaniacs are able to restrain themselves effectively enough to tolerate and play the long con with other egomaniacs.

This is the strategy of an 8 year old. Take credit for everything good, and deny everything bad


The patsies are you and your ilk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Musk was going off on X last night. It was entertaining. A democratic political vlogger asked if Musk is prepared to use his money to help fresh blood get elected in 2026, regardless of party, Musk responded that nothing was off the table.

Ha! I think Musk got played and this whole situation just proves how unintelligent he really is. He bought Trump's grift hook, line, and sinker. He sunk his name. He sunk his brands. He cooked his reputation. And for what? Nothing got passed. Nothing got fixed. No money was saved. The deficient grew.

Anyway, I'm all for the in-fighting. Let the children fight while the adults work on flipping the numbers in 2026.

Musk got a bunch of government contracts and a pro-billionaire Congress, and he stole all the government's data on citizens to sell to Russia. He got what he wanted.