Maybe a prank to spin up the libtards.

They are playing ya'll!
You are competing with 3d chess players.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They are playing ya'll!
You are competing with 3d chess players.

No. This is not that. This is a temper tantrum. Elon is undeniably very smart, but he is also extremely immature. This is all so undignified, and the tired old Epstein accusation is indicative of a juvenile mind. Pathetic.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They are playing ya'll!
You are competing with 3d chess players.

Who are playing us? Please, explain in details the rationale for “playing”. A couple of short nebulous sentences are meaningless.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

No. This is not that. This is a temper tantrum. Elon is undeniably very smart, but he is also extremely immature. This is all so undignified, and the tired old Epstein accusation is indicative of a juvenile mind. Pathetic.

Reminds me of the juvenile behavior of Musk when he had a dust up with the diver that eventually helped save the trapped Thai soccer team, calling him a "pedo guy."

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Originally posted by DrDan:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

No. This is not that. This is a temper tantrum. Elon is undeniably very smart, but he is also extremely immature. This is all so undignified, and the tired old Epstein accusation is indicative of a juvenile mind. Pathetic.

Reminds me of the juvenile behavior of Musk when he had a dust up with the diver that eventually helped save the trapped Thai soccer team, calling him a "pedo guy."

Beat me to it. That's also what I believe started turning the public perception of him as well.

Meh. For me, I’m not taking sides. I don’t have to. I’ll let Godzilla and Rodan duke it out but I’m hoping neither gets fatally wounded in the meantime and they get to fighting the common enemy soon again even if in their separate corners.

Too much ketamine causes similar behavior in addition to ruining your bladder.

Basically, what we have here is a married couple, Honey, I need you to cut back on our household expenses, so the one partner does so. The other one then goes out and buys a bass boat and truck saying think how much money we will save on the fish we catch.

The Lover's Quarrel
Erick-Woods Erickson
Jun 6






Yesterday, the world witnessed perhaps the gayest thing to ever happen in Pride Month in the history of Pride. Don’t take my word for it. Take the MAGA spin patrol for a whirl.


Why do the MAGA bros always sound like Ellen DeGeneres in April of 1997?

https://www.history.com/this-d...ack&utm_medium=email



Let’s be honest — this was always going to happen.

The world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man are together the immovable object meeting the unstoppable force. It’s Billy Bob Thorton and Angelia Jolie breaking up.

I have a friend who is a deep-in-the-weeds conspiracist who is convinced this is WWE staging to help Elon Musk rehabilitate himself with the left as he departs the White House. I’m not sure we’d have gotten the Jeffrey Epstein list (there is not one) tweet if that was the case.

“You threaten my business interests and I’ll accuse you of being on a secret list of pedophiles!”

“Great idea! And I’ll get Steve Bannon to suggest your immediate deportation and the nationalization of Space X.”

Here’s the reality — guests and fish start to smell after 3 days.

Elon Musk had overstayed his welcome, often acted like a co-president, ran roughshod over White House staff, and began alienating people who were weary of a co-presidency between Trump and Musk.

Musk has a drug habit and is on the spectrum and his lifestyle is incompatible with Washington. A genius at building stuff, Musk found the Byzantine world of Washington too much. He tried to smash through it and grew frustrated that he could not.

Trump does not like sharing the spotlight. This is supposed to be the second season of the Trump show. He did not sign up for his co-star attempting to outshine him on his eponymous show. I Love Lucy was Lucille Ball’s show. Desi was always meant to be filler whether he knew it or not.

Musk lacked self-awareness. Trump gave Musk a lot of rope and Musk, not Trump, decided to strangle both of them with it. Many a cabinet secretary was ready for Musk to leave and some were very, very happy yesterday afternoon texting the funniest memes on Twitter to friends.


Elon Musk is a very smart man. Many smart men are outsmarted by Washington. Elon Musk is a charismatic man. Many charismatic men stand too close to the sun.

We’ll see where this goes.

But for all the rallying around the Trump flag, as people make this a one-sided “blame Elon” game, there is a serious reality.

The world’s most powerful man has three years on the world stage left.

The world’s richest man currently controls the most powerful conversation starter in the world and has thirty to forty years left. Do Republicans really want to alienate him? Ask Grok.

Oh, and Trump just alienated Leonard Leo, who has over a billion dollars to spend advancing the right.

In both the case of Elon Musk and Leonard Leo, I suspect a few too many grifters have whispered in the ears of those around the President to help poison the well for their own advantage, not for the rest of us or even the President.

I assume, because of their mutual interests, Musk and Trump will ultimately kiss and make up and everyone will insist it was all staged. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some peace offering of some kind today, probably a meme on Twitter from Musk. Neither man wants to give the left a win, and both men share a list of common enemies.

Lastly, we should not let this overshadow something more important.

Eighty-one years ago today, 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of France to liberate a continent and defeat Nazism. By sunset, 4,400 of those soldiers would be dead on the beach.

We get to watch the spectacle because the young men of America, in a different era, rose to face evil and won.


https://ewerickson.substack.co...rue&utm_medium=email

"We cannot build bananas in America,"

[Morgan Freeman] That's Goddamn right. [Morgan Freeman]

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1930707482776588592





BTW, even though we can't build bananas here, we can grow them.

https://x.com/grok/status/1930857079729959337

Regardless of the reasons/emotions involved in the spat, Tesla is up, MSNBC was talking about bringing Elon back into the Dem fold (delusional), the left is championing SpaceX, and demanding the release of the Epstein files.

^^^^^^
I never watch a posted video unless there’s some clue about its contents. No clue about this one.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
^^^^^^
I never watch a posted video unless there’s some clue about its contents. No clue about this one.

I took the minute and three seconds to watch it. I'll take longer than that summarizing it. It's like a condensed version of the last few pages of the thread with some humor sprinkled in. What little of the title displays for me, it turns out, was a clue about it's contents.

I found it worth watching, FWIW.

With all this brouhaha with Trump and Musk, could it be that Musk is on the verge of a breakdown due to the stress of DOGE, running his companies, constant sniping from leftist news media, etc.? Even if he claims that he doesn’t pay attention to the negative stuff, it’s still got to have an effect.

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With all this brouhaha with Trump and Musk, could it be that Musk is on the verge of a breakdown due to the stress of DOGE, running his companies, constant sniping from leftist news media, etc.? Even if he claims that he doesn’t pay attention to the negative stuff, it’s still got to have an effect.

It's certainly plausible. I know I probably wouldn't be able to handle the constant barrage.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
With all this brouhaha with Trump and Musk, could it be that Musk is on the verge of a breakdown due to the stress of DOGE, running his companies, constant sniping from leftist news media, etc.?
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I doubt it.

I surely wish that Musk and President Trump had applied themselves to resolve their differences before the situation escalated. They were such an effective team.

I’m sure the libs are laughing their heads off about the dispute.

As tight as Elon is wound, he might be on the verge constantly. Not that I have a clue what goes on in a mind that frisky.