Scott Ott calls it a buddy film that suddenly got ugly. Is the sudden split between Donald Trump and Elon Musk a catastrophe or a catfight? A blatant disaster or a brilliant ploy?
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Free Speech Warrior
June 10, 2025
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I guess that you have to be a billionaire for people to listen when you speak about the fiscal crisis we are heading toward. I’ll mention a few names that have been crying in the wilderness for some time and apparently were ignored because they haven’y enough money.
Ron Paul
Rand Paul (sometimes)
Thomas Massie
Justin Amash
Paul Ryan, who tried to get something done and was crucified for it.
Both are right and know value of time is money. Bizman Musk is used to operating in real-time … w/a machette to deep cut 90% (meat & fat) then rehire lean 10%. Politician Trump has to operate w/scalple (cut gangrene, save healthy host) to insure long-term stability. Big Beautiful Bill is likely (as Musk points out) chocked full of entitlements. Definately pissed off Musk, who wanted to take his machette to it. Want to bet Musk would NOT have cut space or EV earmarks?! Musk mini-budget would have failed – over & over – resulting again in no passed budget.… Read more »
I think we have two very large egos who have run into a stickler disagreement. I just hope they stop. Unless Steve and Scott are right. But I’m kinda with Bill on this one.
I think both men are right. Musk is right that the budget is ridiculous and fails to address the elephants in the room. He was also right to expect more. Trump is right that, no matter how well he does growing the economy to bring in more money to the government, cutting entitlements will doom him and his party. Americans are about today, not tomorrow, and vote for their self-interest short-term, the future of their children be damned. That would leave the Dems in charge. Their plan is to make the dollar worthless, thereby making a 40 trillion dollar debt… Read more »
I think the major problem with this situation, whether Musk knows and understands or doesn’t care I don’t know, and whether you know or inartfully described it, but this isn’t a budget bill. That’s the restriction. There are only so many things the bill can cover and what Musk wants and I think the GOP members opposing it want, it cannot do. What I think Musk needs to do is not primary GOP members that vote for this but instead focus on the districts the GOP has won in the past or that Trump won last year and get more… Read more »
I can’t even imagine there being a “blue dog democrat” left. In Georgia we had the best one, Sam Nunn. He would be totally out of his element with this group of clowns.
Alrighty then, here’s my take: I believe the Big, Beautiful Bill was intentionally created to be way over the top. We’ve seen more than once that Trump will demand far too much in order to have negotiating room to bring everyone involved to what he actually wants. This is classic Trump. It has been a tactic since at least Obama’s reign of terror to create distractions in order to get what he wanted passed (usually behind closed doors and either over night or over a holiday). I figure the “Spat” is exactly that. It’s very amusing to me that Democrats… Read more »
You do realize that (1) the CBO is leftwing; (2) the CBO estimates are based on the 2017 tax cuts expiring this year. That, of course, means that a lot of money does not go into the economy to grow it and increase tax revenue a la Reagan tax cuts. Speaker Johnson made the statement that if he could he would cut $7 trillion from the budget, but he stated that could not be done considering everyone that has to approve it to get it passed. Remember, Musk promised to provide cuts of $2 trillion from the current budget. You… Read more »