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This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.



You grossly underestimate the pettiness and pedantry of those involved


Lol, I guess this is what happens when two assholes surround themselves with sycophantic yes-men for far too long.

Nobody taught them how to play nice. I've met eight year olds with more civility and maturity than those two...

Oh well. Reminds me of that Alien vs Predator movie: Whoever wins, we lose.


When described from 10,000 feet, I could almost believe this. If Musk were smart he might be doing something like this on the route to rehabilitating his image with customers.

But the particulars on the ground show that Musk is not smart, just vindictive, power-hungry, petulant, and childish. He literally posted that he would decommission Dragon because of Trump's threat, which was stupid in intent and stupid in potential negotiating effect on Trump (Trump does not know what Dragon is and does not care):

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/05/musk-trump-spacex-dragon...


Both use deception and disruption to get to their goals. Now they both are at the receiving end. This will not end well for either.


That's giving these people far too much credit.


Are you sure? You know that Trump constantly talks about his TV ratings? I forget who it was, but I remember there being a story last year or the year before, of someone who was publicly criticizing Trump met with him and was expecting to be absolutely whipped and scolded, instead behind the scenes Trump thanked them for making good television. The financial impact on Musk’s companies do make this seem real, but somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if this drama was fake. It did occur to me, and I can tell I’m not the only one... the top Google autocomplete for me for “is the trump” is “is the trump musk feud real”.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/president-trump...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/television-tr...


What are you alluding to here?


I'm inclined to Hanlon's Razor.


I absolutely would be too, if there wasn’t a long demonstrated history on the part of both of these people to use public drama as smoke to distract from other things they’re doing.


the variation I prefer is: never attribute to wisdom that which is adequately explained by stupidity


If it was a charade Epstein would not have been mentioned.




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