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

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42. That's a good question that I do not know the answer to...

But the whole basis for my belief is that there is too much money and too much power involved on all sides for them to be acting like this without having some kind of plan to do so.

Musk is in trouble, Trump is teetering, Congress will approve the bill, and there will be devastating fallout from the public.

I think they are somehow trying to mitigate the damage of all of this by blaming each other, but not blaming each other so badly that they literally get destroyed financially and reputationally. It seems like a good cop/bad cop scenario to me. With both the good cop and the bad cop having the same goal, but with both of them using different tactics.

I'm mainly thinking about Musk. He's fucked right now. Why I started thinking about this...my spouse saw a bumper sticker on a Tesla yesterday that said something like "I bought this before Musk went crazy". I think he is in real trouble, and he knows it.

Maybe Musk and Trump have some kind of reciprocal agreement to help Musk get out of this dilemma. Musk is at real risk of losing everything.

I don't know...I'm just a guy with an opinion trying to make sense of all of this nonsense, just like the rest of us. I guess we'll all find out soon enough what the deal really is.

I think for me, it just boils down to this. Musk needs to save his reputation, and his money...or else he is just an average Joe.