I've certainly been wrong before, but I think this apparent feud between Musk and Trump is a huge pile of bullshit.

[EarlG]

11. Whyyyyyyy

This is making them both look like fucking idiots.

Trump allowed a drug addict with ties to Russia and China FULL ACCESS to all of the US's most sensitive private data -- Social Security databases, Medicare databases, immigration databases, nuclear secrets, you name it.

Now Trump is walking around and saying -- with a shrug -- that the person he gave this access to "went crazy" and "lost his mind." It's a massive national security crisis.

Meanwhile the person who "went crazy" and "lost his mind" is hammering Trump and the Republican Party on his enormous social media platform, where he has 200 million followers. He's telling them that the big bill that the Republicans are pushing is a pile of bullshit, and that there will be a recession in six months because of Trump's tariffs. He's accusing Trump of being a pedophile. He's talking about starting a third party.

If they eventually kiss and make up, it will only be because they finally realize the huge amount of damage they're doing to each other. But it doesn't mean that this split isn't real.

I can't buy the idea that "NOTHING with this administration is as it appears." It's almost doing them a favor to suggest that their enormous unfitness, incompetence, and government-by-Dunning-Kruger-Syndrome is actually a clever ploy to distract everyone from something else.

This isn't four-dimensional chess. It's a bumfight between the two biggest assholes on the planet.