Well he also went against the majority of his customer base in all of his support of Trump in the first place. He aeems likely to alienate pretty much everyone before long.

His companies were cooked even before the Trump stuff. I mean this didn't help but he was always banking on government handouts for SpaceX, Tesla, and whatever his shitty AI grift is now.

Linda McMahon testimony to congress is embarrassing. She failed simple math when it came to budget numbers, isn't familiar with Ruby Bridges or the Tulsa massacre, and said she wanted Harvard and other schools to eliminate DEI while at the same time saying they want more viewpoint diversity on staff, which would be DEI.


Florida weatherman are also telling their viewers that hurricane projections are going to be inaccurate this season and moving forward due to federal cuts. Far less balloons are going up, staffing levels are down as much as 40%, and they're not sure data collection flights for active hurricanes is going to be possible.

I guess people got tired of 4 years of competent government.

When was this mythical 4 years?

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Yeah, gonna stick with that decision.

"Competent" being a relative term, of course.

A 22 year old grocery stocker is heading US terror defense.

Love it.

Won't make it 100% right for how he screwed up the execution of Doge but it'll go a long way if he is able to stop the $2.5T addition to our debt and rally GOP senators and make the budget deficit neutral. Good thing I don't own any Tesla stock though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trum...l-nasa-ev.html

If Musk and other billionaires and their companies paid the same marginal tax rate (or even half) paid by, like, 80% of Americans, we likely wouldn't even have a budget deficit.

That sentence isn't as scary as the guy's picture.

Trump and Musk ending badly is not a surprise to anybody. The only surprise to me is it took this long.

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Even more goodness.

I'm not sure who holds the better hand, I'm going to assume Trump who can hurt Musk's businesses a lot, but then does Musk care about $100B here or there? This will be fascinating as it plays out real-time.


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... and even more! Can't wait for the vote counts

Musk just played the Epstein card.

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From the other thread about rich & famous that broke immigration laws, I think Musk just might have moved ahead of Harry.

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Originally Posted by Edward64 (Post 3459797) I'm good with both Melania and Musk. But dealing in the "real" world and the limitations of that, Harry get my vote.

... and Tesla down -16% right now.

In 24 hours this went from a pillow fight to exactly what everyone was anticipating.

:popcorn:

And this, kids, is what happens when people have too much money, and no concept of what hard work looks like.

In the divorce, do we get to keep all the white South Africans?

:popcorn: :D

the girls are fighting pic.twitter.com/NISuxpteJR

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 5, 2025

I figured they would part ways but I really didn't think it would go this bad considering how much they need each other.

Tesla stock down 15%. It's a good thing SpaceX isn't publically traded because that company might go kaput.

So can people own Teslas without them being firebombed again?

I figure it can/will go so much worse. This is like 1% as bad as I figured it would go.

I've been told the government will give every immigrant a Tesla if they agree to self deport.

Probably inevitable; JD was their guy the whole time anyway.

Hopefully this ends with Elon being deported.

MAGA is calling for it now.

DOLA

This might be the best day of Steve Bannon's life.

I was sure it would be ugly. Big Egos. I had a feeling they eventually would a hit conflict and clash spectacularly.

In US Teslas firebomb themselves.

This thing blew up faster than a Cybertruck.

It certainly got as ugly as one!

Who will Kamala campaign with in 2028?

Does this mean Trump is NOT buying a Tesla?!?

I don't see how Trump needs Elon.

Besides money, he controls one of the largest social media sites in the world and can influence what people can and can't see.

I remember when the reason women couldn't be CEOs or President was because they were too emotional.

It's insane these loser clowns are thought of as the models of masculinity.

It's all so pathetic.

Trump nationalizes SpaceX and Twitter by EO in 3...2...1...

Honestly he doesn’t need him anymore, but it’s hard to say how much Elon influenced the election in his favor. He not only turned the dude bro internet crowd from blue to Trump he also, as you said, had a pretty big influence on what people saw. At this point though Trump is either done being elected or ending elections so Elon isn’t nearly as necessary and he probably felt that before he decided to do all this.

I REALLY want to know more about that black eye now. Like at the exact moment this entire shitshow fell apart in epic fashion, Elon's kid just happened to pop him in the face?

I hate all this but the way they phrase it all is kind of funny to meHaving a 22 year old in charge of anything nationally is bad, but are we shaming him for landscaping at 17 or working part time in a grocery store during college?

Had to drop by and read the comments. Pretty much as expected.

Your debt payments are now more expensive than your defense budget. Every year the country is spending more than it makes, and that trend is accelerating. Judging by the thread educated people in the U.S. are not aware how serious this problem is or where it leads?

I'm glad you think we're educated but what are you talking about dude? Are you not part of this country with it's debt payments and defense budget, or did you retire at 49 off bitcoin in a different country?

Interesting "out" that CBO handed Trump on the (currently) $2.4T budget deficit over 10 years ... and the $2.5T tariff revenue.

I hope it's not good enough to sway the Senate Republicans against the bill; but probably changes the dynamics and provides an easy out for some.

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The tariff assumptions below. I can see the 10% baseline tariff surviving but think everything else is in play for the next 3.5 years. And depending on who wins in 2028, fair chance that many of them will go away or be significantly reduced.



Also quoted in article if only 10% was kept. Different group, different assumptions etc.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is enough people, GOP politicians (they're up this cycle) willing to fight to reduce the bleeding (e.g. budget deficit) and overall debt at this time. Defense, Social Security, Medicare are the big ones and cutting those will get politicians fired. But I sure hope I'm wrong.

Unlikely it will succeed but love to see Musk fund a viable third party and build momentum on this.

We've been running deficits for decades. Why stop now?

It’s hard to care about the deficit when neither political party does. You don’t float tax cuts for the rich and take the high ground on the deficit just because you took away government insurance from some poor people. If you want to take a bite out of the deficit you have to tax rich people and businesses but that going to happen anytime soon.

bitcoin bro is over in the UK