Boo-Hoo: Musk and Trump Are Having Another Break-up
Grab your popcorn, this one is good!
You can’t keep a good (or in this case, no-so good) megalomaniac down for long. It was only a matter of time before Musk and Trump, who are similar in so many ways, started another epic battle!
Musk Started It
Once it again, it was Musk who initiated this one, and once again it is over Trump’s so-called big, beautiful bill, which Musk thinks ain’t so beautiful.
This go-round started on Saturday, when Musk called the bill “utterly insane and destructive” in a post on X, adding “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!”
Not as good as “disgusting abomination,” but it was only the opening salvo.
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
Musk hates the bill for a whole other reason than those of us who give a rats a*s about our fellow human beings. He feels the bill doesn’t cut enough, instead adding to the national debt and undercutting the work of what remains of DOGE.
Here’s one of the reasons I don’t like it. From Bloomberg News:
The Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end…
The uneven distribution of the bill’s costs and benefits comes from a mix of tax and spending provisions. While the poorest taxpayers bear the brunt of cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, those at the top end of the income charts would get the biggest benefit of the tax cuts, including income rate cuts and an expanded state and local tax deduction.
Anyway, if Musk can intimidate Republicans into not rubber stamping it, I’m all for it.
Trump Intimidates Republicans
Trump has been bringing down his wrath on Republicans who refuse to go along with his bill. Unfortunately, most of them are spineless cowards, so this strategy has been remarkably effective.