The Era of Musk

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Tank vs Tesla

98 year old veteran crushing a Tesla with a Sherman tank.

https://youtu.be/lw4ZjhOukwU?si=oKwLwzCEY6xPZUFh

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Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading effort to slash federal government
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-...140618373.html

Off to attempt to rescue his flailing businesses, after failing miserably as head of DOGE. Leaves complaining about Donny's Big Ugly Bill, which won't make Donny happy. You're going to have to up the ketamine dosage, Elon!

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Agreed this is more about Tesla and Pres Don the first understands why Elon is making such comments.

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Andy Borowitz
21 hours ago
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The only good thing about being Elon Musk’s kid is the opportunity to punch him in the eye

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After spending reportedly over $275M to get Trump elected, now the two are parting ways with Elon slinging some serious mud at DJT. And here are some reasons and as with both Trump and Musk, its always about the money. From Axios, "Musk's post on X calling Trump's "big, beautiful bill" a "disgusting abomination" of pork spending".

1. The legislation cuts the electric vehicle tax credit that helps car makers like Musk's Tesla. As of late April, his company had spent at least $240,000 lobbying on behalf of the credit and other company matters. Behind the scenes, sources say, Musk also advocated for the measure in the legislation, but to no avail.
2. Musk was working at the White House as what's called a "special government employee," and he had discussed trying to stay in that role beyond the 130-day time limit set by statute for the unpaid advisory position. But ultimately, White House officials said he couldn't keep serving in that capacity.
3. Musk also wanted the Federal Aviation Administration to use his Starlink satellite system for national air traffic control, the sources said. But the administration balked at it because of the appearance of a conflict of interest and for technological reasons. "You can't have air traffic control just run off satellites," the second source said.
4. The final straw for Musk appeared to come Saturday night, when Trump abruptly announced he was withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk ally, to be NASA administrator.

Awaiting anxiously for Trump's well response on Truth Sludge.

personally though I am glad to see Musk attack this bill for the permanent damage this bill will cause to the US credit and economy.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elo...e-relationship

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Ex-DOGE staffer: 'I have no idea' who was in charge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxbawVXfQs

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Musk got what he wanted. Basically 86-ing any agency that was looking into his dealings with his cash cow (AKA govmt. contracts).

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Musk still has the upper hand in my opinion. The elected GOP members need Musk's money to fund their re-elections while they also need to stay in the good graces of Trump and this will become a balancing for these bootlickers. How well can they manage when dealing with two ego driven hot heads and it will come down to Trump's power or Elon's money. Musk may still want to fund campaigns like he has in the past whereas all Trump does is rage on Truth.

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Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates
The open acrimony between the two men comes after the billionaire denounced President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill as an “abomination.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...rump-elon-musk

Donny the mob boss won't tolerate disloyalty. It would be completely and totally illegal for Donny to do this, of course, but he doesn't give a damn about the law.

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Tesla stock plunges as Musk's feud with Trump over GOP tax bill spooks investorshttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla...192303860.html