So, really, it’s non-story the likes of which we haven’t seen in a long time
Beware slow media cycles where news outlets are bored so they start ascribing rabid emotions and crap like that to basically same-old. And yes, batpoop crazy is just same-old for Trumpland.
Really nothing to see vis-a-vis Trump/MAGA/Musk. Trump continues to despise Musk privately but knows he owes him. Musk continues to find running the country a source of personal amusement.
Move along…
Things are going exactly according to plan. Which is to say there is no friggin’ plan. Don’t y’all get it already, media people? Everything is chaos, all the time.
You hate immigrants? Wait. You love immigrants if they’ve graduated college in the US (which BTW, Musk didn’t)? It’s all “flavor of the day”. Just like when we were finding bleach as a cure for COVID or praising China for so effectively containing the disease that it would barely have an impact on the US.
Yes, it’s racist and stupid. Is it particularly racist and stupid when put up against the rest of the current context? Nope.
This is the way it’s going to be. There’s no “feud”. There’s no “falling out.” There’s just flat out crazy. It is all as has ever been.
The way the BBC, which is normally pretty good puts it: “Cracks appear in Maga world“, is totally wrong.
Because cracks are the foundation of MAGA world. There’s no cohesion there. Never has been. Project 2025, maybe. But on paper only.
As soon as someone gets in Trump’s ear with a random idea, don’t expect him to solidly follow through there either. That’s why it “works”: it’s totally a moving target. Everything. Always.
Otherwise you can’t claim success for everything that goes well even if you had nothing to do with it, and you can’t blame all your losses on others, you’d have to own some of them.
Musk is done once Trump personally despises him enough for overshadowing, or more likely he (Musk) stops finding it amusing messing with the US government, which he bought so at this point he might as well use aggresively. Just like one occasionally uses a public toilet “aggressively”.
I see Musk’s disinterest in governing happening around when he’s made sure he’s secured public funding for his colonization of Mars. (Possibly at the expense of Social Security, yeah. But stop pretending that’s already happened!) Seriously, I’m not kidding. Only then he’ll stop being interested in social engineering and in particular dealing with politicians.
It’s a few raindrops. It’s not yet a damn storm. That comes in about 20 days. For now, enjoy the few remaining days of relative sanity we’ve got and don’t worry about this crap.