I don't think Elon brings up Epstein if they're just messing around.
But are both of their egos up to remembering it's fake? Musk might, he used that to back down in 2019, but can Trump ever back down?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022
This is gonna get messy.
Feels like the obvious outcome from the start. I still wonder why Musk drunk from the poisoned chalice of the doge.
Probably the chance to download a bunch of government data.
Which is run by an 80 years old narcissist and wannabe dictator.
But alas, he's rich and white so it's extremely unlikely.
Like you, I'm not so sure the money won't. But at the same time, I think about half Musk's money is an absurd overpricing of Tesla shares, and most of the rest is SpaceX, only minimal resaleable stuff in xAI and x.com, even less in TBC and Neuralink — if there was suddenly no FAA approval for flights, no help selling Starlink to everyone (worldwide), SpaceX just dies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
Not that I wish him this but I just can't keep myself thinking about it considering that Musk tried to deport other immigrants pretty hard. I know people from Ivy league universities in USA getting their student visa canceled for parking tickets, speeding or laud partying.
Steve Bannon is calling for an investigation into Musk's immigration irregularities. Would be fun to watch but probably too much to hope for.
My best guess is that this is an allusion to Rasputin, but: a) I'm probably wrong and b) I don't understand the chef part.
Prigozhin was known as Putin's Chef. He ran a mercenary army until he turned on Putin, at which put he died in a plane crash.
Remember: if he so wants, Musk can get access to all the private messages that MAGA people DM'ed each other on X (well into the past).
A lot of vanity bonfires can happen.
This social media spat is happening immediately after "Welcomefest," a bizarre Republican-light centrist conference, and positions Elon Musk to capture the centrist Democratic apparatus. This follows a pattern of fecklessness and capitulation from the party's power centers, including major Democratic figures advocating for realignment with MAGA on core issues.
There's another pattern too: we have seen a concerted effort from the MAGA movement to capture societal institutions and forcibly reform them into alignment with their radical agenda to replace the US Constitution. Aligning the DNC into a technocratic fascist organization that supports their monarchic visions of domination will be an incredible humiliation (though far from the last). And quite simple.
I'm going to assume conspiracy from the guys arrogant enough to get caught boasting that the opposition is too credulous to accept an open conspiracy.
It’s a Razor, not a law, so it isn’t going to be 100% accuracy or predictive. But to suggest that the Razor can be used in conjunction with a long, complex explanation is a contradiction.
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ceejayoz•1d ago
Yeah, that's not happening.
pityJuke•1d ago
Ditto for his current opposition! [1]
[0]: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/11/21/elon-musks-tra...
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-t...
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georgemcbay•1d ago
That aside, and speaking as someone who is very left leaning, a lot of the party is in fact cringe RN for lots of other reasons.