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I don't believe the Trump vs Musk crap. It is all Kabuki theater (Original Post) Botany Jun 2025 OP
Yeah I get your perspective bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #1
Both of them are drug using manipulative con men. Botany Jun 2025 #7
Substance Abuser is prerequisite for a job in the DumpCo admin. Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #18
Who's terrified - and terrified of what? Self Esteem Jun 2025 #16
Well bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #19
I'm skeptical anyone in this WH is terrified of anything. Self Esteem Jun 2025 #20
Musk doesn't think the BBB is cruel enough Johnny2X2X Jun 2025 #2
Maybe, maybe not newdeal2 Jun 2025 #3
I agree................. Lovie777 Jun 2025 #4
i believe its real.. samnsara Jun 2025 #5
my reason creon Jun 2025 #6
I get it. no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 #8
You don't believe 2 assholes can have a falling out? dem4decades Jun 2025 #9
Musk lasted about as long as Steve Bannon Johonny Jun 2025 #13
How many Scaramucci's? dem4decades Jun 2025 #21
If Miller orchestrated the plan get the red out Jun 2025 #10
But might that be why Miller's wife is working for Mush now - for 'coaching?' Cloudhopper Jun 2025 #14
What Musk is mad about is that they canceled EV tax credits along with Medicare and Medicaid not being canceled. Jacson6 Jun 2025 #11
Possible.... Mountainguy Jun 2025 #12
Anytime these clowns make a lot of noise C_U_L8R Jun 2025 #15
Musk only started getting upset when he found out haele Jun 2025 #17
I am enjoying this theater LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #22

Botany

(76,760 posts)
7. Both of them are drug using manipulative con men.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:34 AM
Jun 2025

And Stephen Miller, Bannon, and the toxic spew of Fox have reasons to hide what is
really going on with made up crap.

Johnny2X2X

(23,872 posts)
2. Musk doesn't think the BBB is cruel enough
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:30 AM
Jun 2025

He's not criticizing it for being too cruel, he's upset it doesn't kill enough children and poor people.

newdeal2

(5,074 posts)
3. Maybe, maybe not
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:31 AM
Jun 2025

Trump is no 4D chess player. He is transactional and has burned bridges with many people in his life. It could be real.

Johonny

(25,789 posts)
13. Musk lasted about as long as Steve Bannon
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:11 AM
Jun 2025

In the first term.

If anything, we are all amazed the White House is holding together so well given it is a complete shitshow.

get the red out

(14,001 posts)
10. If Miller orchestrated the plan
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:54 AM
Jun 2025

And had a director coaching both guys, maybe. But the characters here just aren't fully conscious enough to control themselves.

Jacson6

(1,845 posts)
11. What Musk is mad about is that they canceled EV tax credits along with Medicare and Medicaid not being canceled.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:59 AM
Jun 2025

The oligarch's don't give a darn about the lil' people.

haele

(15,221 posts)
17. Musk only started getting upset when he found out
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:40 AM
Jun 2025

Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:08 AM - Edit history (1)

The bill would affect the subsidy for his "car company". Which has been pretty much what has been propping the company up and making it profitable since there were subsidies.
On edit - much like some of the other billionaires who are suddenly complaining about tariffs and other cuts in that supposed budget.
The media keeps pushing tax cuts as the primary goal of GOP governance. What the rich really want is deconstruction of an administrative government and cutting of regulations so they can basically do whatever they want so long as they could just wave a little money around if there was an issue. Like most gangsters.
It's not just the tax cuts. It's the deregulation and cutting of worker's and customer's rights.

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