https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1931017230483099801




Beyond the Trump-Musk fallout?

At first impression, it makes no sense that Musk would start firing away at the (admittedly imperfect) budget bill, or escalate to DefCon 1, by tweeting nonsense about impeachment, the Epstein files, or disengaging his space efforts from the U.S. agenda to stay preeminent in space.

After all, he and Trump have roughly the same enemies—the Left that is now delighted at their quarrel—and the same general aims: to repeal the progressive cultural project, to restore meritocracy, to strive to ensure the U.S. is globally preeminent economically and militarily, to unfetter the economy, and to limit government intrusion.

It is an irony of our checks and balances that an elected president, with majorities in both branches of Congress, still does not govern without compromise with hundreds of representative and senators.

Trump’s task is now further complicated because for the first time in U.S. history he is also the daily target of a systemic attack by legions of cherry-picked, lower-court, liberal federal district judges, who find their five-minutes of liberal fame, by issuing fiats not for their regional jurisdictions, but for all 340 million Americans everywhere.

Musk, on the other hand, as the richest man in the world and CEO of his companies, can rule by directives, in a way a president, the most powerful man in the world, simply cannot. What the White House may have wanted in the bill, and what they could reasonably achieve were not synonymous.

Moreover, Musk knows that his nemesis is the left, not MAGA, much less Trump.

Trump was sincerely awed by Musk’s rocketry and his rescue of the astronauts. He befriended Musk because he admired his competence, similar candor, and even his eccentricities—and saw what his talents were doing and could do for the country.

Musk in turn was moved by Trump’s defiance after nearly having his head blown off, and likewise was appalled what the Left had done to the border, in the blue-city downtowns, in Kabul, and anywhere subject to their anti-Midas touch.

Musk knows that the leftwing California coastal commission tried to curtail his rocket launches, out of spite.

Democrats tried to ruin him for his valuable work with DOGE.

If the Democrats win the House, they will go after both Musk and Trump with endless subpoenas and nihilist Mueller-like investigations. (Musk should be right now strategizing with Republican House members how to ward off a Democratic takeover).

Tesla started bleeding because of a systematic leftwing effort to terrorize Tesla drivers, dealerships, and charging stations, and a Democratic-media-backed PR campaign to demonize the brand—all because Musk had aligned himself with Trump.

So, Musk, knows that Trump treated him fairly and gave him more latitude than any private presidential advisor since the friendship between Harry Hopkins (who moved into the White House) and FDR.

What will likely follow?

Hopefully a social media truce—followed by intermediaries restoring the friendship but spelling out the limitations and constraints on each that will result in a new less volatile, less intense, but more sustainable and mutually beneficial relationship.

Trump is now engaged in high-stakes diplomacy with some of the toughest, slyest, and meanest leaders in the world with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and the Iranian lunatic theocrats. He cannot afford to reach out to Musk and thereby appear to his enemies that he backs down.

But if Musk reaches out and wishes to look ahead and not nurse wounds, Trump can certainly be magnanimous and to his credit state that he holds no grudges for what was said in the heat of passion, as he too looks forward to where and when he can help and be helped by Musk in the many areas where their aims are similar.

The sane tech crowd, and most of the MAGA base want an end to this aberrant Trump-Musk eruption. Over half the country concurs.

Do not be fooled that the suicidal impulses of Democrats have neutered them.

Instead, we are witnessing an unprecedented, unhinged Democrat effort to use lawfare, big Democrat donors, street theater, congressional disruptions, potty-mouth videos, the administrative state, the legacy media, and discredited pollsters to stop the Trump agenda. It will only intensify as the midterms near.

Unity not, not discord, is needed now—and quickly.

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US Marshals ARREST Rabid Leftist Who Spat on Ed Martin

She is about to go into pre-trial detention for violating the terms of her bond and release conditions!!!

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Trump Announces US-China Trade Talks in London Next Monday

‘The meeting should go very well,’ the president said on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump said senior administration officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts in London for trade talks on June 9.

In a June 6 post on his Truth Social platform, the president said that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be joined by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

“The meeting should go very well,” Trump wrote.

The president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently had a “very good talk” by telephone, Trump said on social media. He said Xi agreed to lift restrictions on rare earth exports in line with a deal struck by both countries in May.
This is a developing story and will be updated.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...734408&lctg=26773771

There's Been an Update About That Reported Phone Call Between Trump, Musk Following Feud

The phone call that was reportedly scheduled between President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Friday does not look like it will take place following remarks the president made to ABC News this morning.

On Thursday evening, POLITICO reported that White House aides set up the call "to broker a peace," but when the president was asked about it by ABC News early Friday morning, Trump’s response was telling.

“You mean the man who has lost his mind?" he replied, noting he is "not particularly" interested in speaking with Musk right now.

"He said Musk wants to talk to him, but he's not ready to talk to Musk.

Trump then talked for a couple of minutes about other things -- referring to inflation (down), foreign investment (up) and his plans for a visit to China (huge).

People close to Trump have described him as more sad than angry at Musk. One adviser who was with Trump on Thursday night said he seemed "bummed" about the breakup. And that's the way he sounded on Friday morning.

Trump is considering either giving away or selling the red Tesla he purchased to support Musk, a senior administration official told ABC News' Rachel Scott Friday morning. The Tesla was parked just on West Executive Avenue on Thursday. Trump made a show of checking out Tesla models at the White House in March as Musk's company took a hit as he arrived in Washington. (ABC News)"

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia returning to U.S. for criminal charges:

https://justthenews.com/politi..._campaign=newsletter

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen whom the Trump administration mistakenly deported, is returning to the United States to face criminal charges for his alleged role in trafficking illegal aliens, ABC News reported, citing sources.

Abrego Garcia faces two counts related to his alleged participant in a years-long effort to traffic illegal immigrants from Texas, including members of MS-13. He was deported months ago to El Salvador and held in its notorious mega-prison, despite being subject to a withholding order.

The administration has adamantly insisted it lacked the power to return him to the U.S. and his removal became a rallying cry for Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who personally traveled to the prison to meet with Abrego Garcia, despite his illegal status.

Very disappointing that voters are paying to bring the El Salvadoran citizen back to the US. Voters will then get to pay for a lengthy trial and incarceration. When the 'process' is complete, voters get to pay to deport this happy warrior again. That's one illegal that's literally a walking billboard of gang tattoos. Saving the country from the embedded left is going to be expensive and time consuming.

It may look that way, but this video is NOT about the fallout between the President and Elon Musk, it’s about Harvard, China, illegals, rogue district court judges, a variety of subjects as only VDH can analyze them.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Quiet Economic Boom of Trump 2.0
EXCELLENT

Peacemakers emerged - such as former State Department official Mike Benz, who defended Musk and called for the two to patch things up...

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...ake-case-against-bbb

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Federal Appeals Court Allows President Trump to Ban AP From Oval Office

Ha! Suck it AP.

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Supreme Court Sides With DOGE in Social Security, Records Cases

Three justices dissented from the court’s two new rulings.

The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) two big wins late on June 6 in its effort to reduce the size of the federal government.

The nation’s highest court issued the two unsigned rulings at the same time.

One order removed a block on DOGE staffers accessing sensitive data at the Social Security Administration.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the case known as Social Security Administration v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

The other new order, in U.S. DOGE Service v. CREW, formally blocked lower court orders requiring DOGE to respond to freedom of information requests in a pending lawsuit.

That order came after Chief Justice John Roberts on May 23 issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking the lower court orders.

Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented, but did not explain their reasoning.

President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14158 on Jan. 20, renaming the United States Digital Service as the United States DOGE Service and creating an advisory body that recommends cost-cutting measures for federal agencies.

The executive order directed the entity to “implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Just from my non-lawyer understanding, it seems to me that SCOTUS is giving out signals as to how they might rule on the ultimate question of Trump’s Executive Order about birthright citizenship.

Cases dealing with how he has directed actions involving the administration of his Administration is the full purview of the President, and not subject to judicial scrutiny. Most of these other Dem-initiated court cases challenging those orders have been settled, albeit narrowly, in Trump’s favor.

Maybe we’ll know by the end of June, at the conclusion of the present session, how that birthright order actually says that only lawfully admitted aliens who have taken actions to become American citizens (thus making themselves “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”) and who have kids after such initiation of those citizenship actions, makes those children citizens as born in the USA under the 14th Amendment. Yeah, I know, run-on sentence.

Hopefully I haven’t jinxed this by mentioning what we hope to be the outcome that is wanted.

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Supreme Court Sides With DOGE in Social Security, Records Cases

Three justices dissented from the court’s two new rulings.
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Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the case known as Social Security Administration v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
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What? Roberts isn’t an asshole lib after all?

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Very disappointing that voters are paying to bring the El Salvadoran citizen back to the US. Voters will then get to pay for a lengthy trial and incarceration. When the 'process' is complete, voters get to pay to deport this happy warrior again. That's one illegal that's literally a walking billboard of gang tattoos. Saving the country from the embedded left is going to be expensive and time consuming.

I think it’s great. The leftists wanted him brought back. They wanted due process. He’s back, he’ll get his criminal due process, and then he’s going to go to prison after he is found guilty. They are going to be sorry they made a spectacle of this asshole. Child traffickers don’t fare well in prison either. He’s going to wish he stayed in El Salvador.

All the accusations against Abrego Garcia, and all of the supporting evidence, will become a matter of public record with his trial.

The leftists know this and some of the leading Dems are already distancing themselves from this sack of shit.

But, it's no surprise at the outrage I see today on Twitter I SAID TWITTER, because people are not thinking it through.

I hate to say it, but I think "CC" is correct. Musk has demonstrated a lack of mental stability and should be deemed a security risk, never again to be allowed in President Trump's presence.

A couple of people said that these posts aren't real, but it seems- from commentary by people on Twitter- that they are authentic.

I think now about that shiner Musk showed up with in the Oval Office, claiming that his young son is responsible. I think about how Musk has fathered many children from as many women, and how he is estranged from much of his family. There is sometimes a not too fine line between genius and madness.



This is from today

https://x.com/ChatByCC/status/1931180033206296750

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Very disappointing that voters are paying to bring the El Salvadoran citizen back to the US. Voters will then get to pay for a lengthy trial and incarceration. When the 'process' is complete, voters get to pay to deport this happy warrior again. That's one illegal that's literally a walking billboard of gang tattoos. Saving the country from the embedded left is going to be expensive and time consuming.

I think it’s great. The leftists wanted him brought back. They wanted due process. He’s back, he’ll get his criminal due process, and then he’s going to go to prison after he is found guilty. They are going to be sorry they made a spectacle of this asshole. Child traffickers don’t fare well in prison either. He’s going to wish he stayed in El Salvador.

I hope that's exactly what happens. It would be an irrefutable political win.

Elon's rants have earned him a new nickname.. The Man Who Has Lost His Mind

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Very disappointing that voters are paying to bring the El Salvadoran citizen back to the US. Voters will then get to pay for a lengthy trial and incarceration. When the 'process' is complete, voters get to pay to deport this happy warrior again. That's one illegal that's literally a walking billboard of gang tattoos. Saving the country from the embedded left is going to be expensive and time consuming.

I think it’s great. The leftists wanted him brought back. They wanted due process. He’s back, he’ll get his criminal due process, and then he’s going to go to prison after he is found guilty. They are going to be sorry they made a spectacle of this asshole. Child traffickers don’t fare well in prison either. He’s going to wish he stayed in El Salvador.

And once he completes his no parole federal sentence, he gets deported to South Sudan.