Musk's just fucking carpet bombing Twitter. It's gonna be counter-productive for me to do a blow-by- blow.

[Miles Archer]

He's really just calling Trump's bluff on the threat to terminate his grants and contracts. I don't believe he's taunted him with "TACO" yet, even thought the Epstein tweets are multiplying rapidly.

If Trump DOES TAKE ACTION against Musk and hurts him financially, Musk WILL retaliate. It's just a matter of how effectively.

[Maeve]

1. Not enough popcorn for the whole world!!!!

[Demovictory9]

13. ..

[Ray Bruns]

50. here you go

[COL Mustard]

67. All the salt in that box

Just made my blood pressure go up looking at it!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

73. Nahhh... I always serve up the VATS of popcorn for DU when shit like this hits the fan!

[Maeve]

105. Should have known I could rely on you!

[BumRushDaShow]

106. Hee hee

[dchill]

53. Jump needs to put a tariff on popcorn!

We'll all be incredibly rich!

[brakester]

84. No,

We the people pay the tariffs.

For many years the Repudiates have been trying to get rid of the income tax and shift to the sales tax, which is more of a burden to poor people since we pay a larger percentage of our available income to sales tax.

Finally, they found out we were wise to that trick, so tariffs are replacing that CON.

FRUMPIES DREAM was to replace the income tax with the tariffs to achieve the same outcome as the sales tax scheme. Hopefully, people are wise to that. Sales tax=tariffs=sales tax.

[dchill]

112. I KNOW that. I was being facetious.

[mobeau69]

128. Tariffs are another regressive tax.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Ding dong ping pong

No sense in keeping score... just enjoy the chaotic self-implosion.

[Pachamama]

3. Popcorn time

Elon needs to continue to get high and spill more info on X!!

He also should list 5 things no one knows he did to help Trump win!

[Miles Archer]

4. Musk does not handle criticism / threats well at all. He's even more easily triggered than Trump

And what Trump wants more than anything else is a reaction, which he's getting, so every time Musk responds, Trump will throw something back at him. Ka-BOOM.

[SheltieLover]

6. Poster child for being a snowflake

No offense intended to Nature's beautiful creations.

[FarPoint]

28. Works for me....

I'll feel more confident when this fight drama escalates and is all over all media.... otherwise...it's still just biting me at the moment.

[Attilatheblond]

58. Can help but wonder just what those two bozos are trying to distract us from

But then, I often give people more credit for intelligence than a lot of them deserve.

[niyad]

86. That was my first thought as well. But I was sternly informed that anybody who

wonders about distractions is an idiot, because nothing could POSSIBLY be going on behind the scenes, that we know everything. Sadly, I was not given the gift of omniscience.

[stollen]

72. Musk got sucker punched

and not by a 3 y.o. It would have happened in one of Trump's meetings.

Musk is out for his own revenge. If anything else happens to Musk, he will have already prepared to make his Epstein evidence public to every media outlet asap. Trump has to know that.

[TommyT139]

98. My guess is substance abuse

.. and a stumble.

[orangecrush]

123. Bannon says it was Bessent who punched him

[EarlG]

5. If Trump ruins Tesla and SpaceX, doesn't that leave Musk with basically nothing?

Surely most of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and SpaceX shares. If those companies tank, he loses a massive chunk of his fortune. He'll still have his propaganda platform, but without his vast fortune he will be far less powerful.

On the other hand, that propaganda platform does have massive reach. How hard will it be for Musk to convince Republicans to ditch Trump and replace him with Vance?

I genuinely don't know who's going to win this battle of the narcissists!

[MayReasonRule]

9. Musk Just Called For Impeaching Trump And Replacing Him With Vance... So There's That... : -)

[vapor2]

59. YES please

[brakester]

75. OH NO!!!!

Then we have to get rid of Vance and THEN Mike Johnson!!!!!!!

But at least there would be movement. I think jimmy david bowman would be an easy mark.

mikey johnson I don't know about. We NEED to take the House in '26!!!!

[Renew Deal]

77. Trump really protected himself by choosing a flunkie like Vance.

Vance is Trump without the humor.. Vance is mean and dumb. He’s a different type of conman from Trump. For Trump, it’s all about him. For Vance, it’s about the latest scheme.

[misanthrope]

87. Until he supplies evidence

It is all smoke and mirrors

[uponit7771]

117. Just what the tech bros wanted

[Ping Tung]

122. To be replaced with a Couch Connoisseur?

[BeerBarrelPolka]

11. I would think

It rides on what level of provable dirt Musk has on Trump et al, and if he has the guts to release it. It's quite possible that Musk can make the whole house of cards implode by targeting a whole host of interlocking people in this mess. This has to go quite deep I would imagine.

[BComplex]

96. I agree. And Elon can tell how trump wanted him to rig the voting machines so that he could "win", like trump told us

they did. Elon needs to go states witness against a stolen election. That would be perfect!

[BeerBarrelPolka]

102. That would be a beautiful thing!

[Miles Archer]

16. Trump's "REVENGE CREDO" from MOST of his ghost-written books...

...is to "hit them back 10 times harder" in order to teach them a lesson. So, right now, Elon's calling Trump a pedophile and sending multiple "Trump was Jeffie's Best Bud" tweets out to his echo chamber of 220 million followers.

I don't know how feasible it would be for Trump to just shut Musk down, but I'd think yes...between plummeting sales and Trump pulling the rug out from under him, he'd be toast.

[SheltieLover]

26. with kraznov being uneducable, this will really get interesting

[Miles Archer]

29. Musk CLEARLY studied Trump in order to know precisely how to manipulate him...

...so he also will know how to push Trump over the edge into full-blown rage and insanity.

There are only two reasons why this would not happen.

1). Musk knows how far he can push him and decides not to land that one last "body blow," OR...

2). Trump's goons stage an intervention, take his phone away, and have someone watch him 24/7.

I see the success rate of option 2 being somewhere around "0."

[SheltieLover]

32. Or fleaon falls out a window...

[Miles Archer]

34. True. It all depends on how much of this is a mutually staged ruse, or...

...whether Trump gets to the point of feeling he's being damaged, and decides to stop it, abruptly.

Realize the Epstein accusations are nothing new, and Trump doesn't care, just as he raped E Jean Carroll, and doesn't care about that.

Musk would have to have the actual "Epstein Files" in his possession, and he'd have to release them, unredacted, or Musk's entire line of attack will become a nothingburger, period.

We've been doing this dance for a decade, all the way back to the Access Hollywood tape. For reasons unknown, he gets a free pass in that area of his life, even if some of the events involved pre-teen girls. And Bondi is NOT sitting on that report because there's nothing in it.

[SheltieLover]

35. Agreed!

[Attilatheblond]

64. Or has his citizenship revoked due to Trump SUDDENLY finding out he violated his original US VISA & skipped school

Maybe some ICE (or pardoned J-6 cos players) will snatch the drug toting fool and send him to.... I dunno, one of those penguin only islands off Antarctica?

[EdmondDantes_]

93. What did those poor penguins ever do to you to deserve that?

[Jilly_in_VA]

79. Not sure that

he has the "10 times harder" any more.

[Miles Archer]

99. Probably not, but he'll think of the easiest way to inflict maximum damage...

...and if he DOES have the ability to shut down Musk's government money, that would do the trick.

[misanthrope]

108. Do Trump's statements of today strike you as "10 times harder"?

Not to me.

[slightlv]

51. Maybe we could be lucky enough that musk gets so mad

he goes back to SA before he's all out of his company's money!

[Bev54]

56. Or Trump will deport him to El Salvador

[brakester]

88. He'll never be broke

until his emerald mine plays out.

But I would LOVE to see him lose all of his govt contracts!!!

[JI7]

91. I can't see Musk having that much influence over Republicans

maybe he might over the non maga types.

But they have already been blaming Musk for Trump's failures. Trump's cult following isn't going anywhere.

[ProfessorGAC]

119. Not Quite

Tesla shares are only around 25% of Melon's total. (13% of $840 billion or about $109 billion.)
Of course, his net worth includes $44 billion for Twitter, when it was worth about 20% of that. So, there's one inflation point.
SpaceX is a different matter. It's market cap is over $400 billion & he owns 42%. So, $168 billion.
So, we're at $322 billion, out of around $420 billion.
If those tank there is still potentially $100 billion left over. Not exactly GoFundMe time.
Of course, I can't attest to how fragile the other $100 billion is.
If Tesla & SX tank, it could take other investments with it.

[Blue Owl]

7. We all knew this day would come

[paleotn]

33. Absolutely!

As inevitable as death and taxes.

[MayReasonRule]

8. Musk Calls For Trump's Impeachment

Wow: Musk calls for Trump to be impeached

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-06-05T20:18:02.033Z

[misanthrope]

114. Impeach based on what?

Does he cite a violation, a specific statute and incident? Or is it just a general, "Why they oughtta–"?

[Wednesdays]

116. That's how Repukes roll.

They find a target, make up some accusations against the target, then go looking for "evidence" to support the accusations.

[malaise]

10. Don't rule out Muskrat showing up dead

and the tools shouting overdose

[BeerBarrelPolka]

14. They'd blame the Clintons

[Disaffected]

12. Isn't Musk considered to be in the country illegally?

Seems like a hammer Rump could wield over him.

[Miles Archer]

21. He was, at one point

He came here on a student visa and dropped the class when he arrived. Claimed he had an "arrangement." I think he just got away with it. I don't think the government makes "arrangements" with immigrants who default on their student agreements.

[Disaffected]

55. Sounds like it might be a way of getting rid of him however,

OTOH, we might be better off with him here and chewing away at Rump.

Whatever the outcome, this Trump presidency (& person) is a shit-show for the ages.

[spanone]

15. Holy Shite!

[malaise]

18. Perfect

😂😂😂

[spanone]

22. 👍🏼

[Melon]

17. Musk is right

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=Ed-0S1KW28f-T2V7fFLv2Q

I’m on board with Elon here. Trump is growing our debt which is sinking our country. So Trump lashes out on Musk…but Musk does not care!

[Cirsium]

81. Not a business

Government is not a business. "Our debt is sinking our country" is a right wing talking point. The right wingers are the ones sinking our country.

[Melon]

124. The interest on debt is higher than defense. It's not a right wing point.

They are growing our debt. It’s common sense. And fundamentals of business apply. Creating a debt spiral of ever increasing debt payments has to end somewhere, and it’s not good, for any party. I will support any democrat over all else that pays down our debt. My children’s future is what’s important to me.

[Cirsium]

125. Your children's future

The debt being a threat to your children’s future is exactly the right wing talking point, and it has been for a long time. The "fundamentals of business" do not apply. It ends when the wealthy are taxed. The Republicans say it ends when the government stops providing services. Pick one.

[Melon]

126. 13% of the budget goes to interest

It’s not sustainable in my opinion either. You can’t just tax your way out of overspending. What’s the next lever? I believe that the budget needs to be balanced. You have to balance the spending with the income, which means some spending needs to be cut until the debt level is lowered. With lowered interest payments, more money can go towards services. I’m not republican. My circle is not either and have the same beliefs. Clinton had a balanced budget.

[Cirsium]

129. Tax the wealthy

Problem solved.

Here you are saying spending needs to be cut.

Clinton sold out to the Republicans.

[Demovictory9]

19. Musk implies that Trump has less years until dirt nap

“Oh and some food for thought as they ponder this question: Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years…”

[niyad]

42. pretty sure, based just on your obvious physical issues alone, neither

one of you has much time left. And also, depends on whether your usefulness to putler continues.

[Nittersing]

20. Are we sure this isn't some big distraction game?

Remember... watch what they do, not what they say.

[Miles Archer]

23. That IS a STRONG possibility

As a kid, I got into TV wrestling for a while. This was in the pre-Cable, pre-Internet age, 3 main channels (ABC, NBC, CBS)...and the "UHF" channels like local broadcasters. THAT'S where you'd find the goofy / sleazy / oddball stuff, like wrestling with legends like "Professor Toro Tanaka." After I found out that a lot of it was theater, I lost interest. And because Trump is a fan of that kind of thing, sure...stranger things have happened than the two of them saying "LET'S STAGE A FEUD AS A DISTRACTION."

[misanthrope]

101. More than a fan, Trump was a participant

He was all up in the pro-wrestling world. Look at his Secretary of Education.

[Prairie_Seagull]

24. This is something we should all keep in mind. IMO

Rather in this case or not.

Further, I would not want to be a white South Afrikaner awaiting immigration into this country just now.

[questionseverything]

36. Exactly

Musk started his rant saying how *rump would of never won w/o him

Saying repubs wouldnt have the house 🏡 and very specifically their would only be 51 Repub senators

[misanthrope]

104. But he didn't say particularly how

Musk's broad statement is fashioned to mean different things to different people. If you're prone to conspiracies, then it means he manipulated tabulations. If you're not, it can mean he is referencing his $200 million spent and his strategic advice on shaping messaging.

As far as being smoke to a fire, not really.

[questionseverything]

118. lol

So if I am prone to conspiracy theories and a billionaire says, the president wouldn’t of won w/o me and we wouldn’t have the house and

We would only have 51 senate seats not the 54 we have now

That is weirdly specific and since I know there are 4 states that have an odd vote proportion from pres race to senate race

So yes I believe him

But all we have to do is hand count those ballots and we would know

I find it hysterical that people would rather lose our democracy to *rump instead of hand counting the ballots because they need proof of bad actions before they can look for proof of bad actions

[BComplex]

130. BINGO!!! We have a winner!

[paleotn]

41. Trump's being publicly humiliated

He’d never willingly allow that. He’s not that intelligent.

[niyad]

43. Excellent point.

[Autumn]

52. No need for a distraction. He and the Repukes are not hiding anything they are doing.

I think this shit is real. Sit back and enjoy the show.

[brakester]

97. This plays to our advantage.

Those two in a cat fight are totally distracted from their evil aims.
Time to turn up the heat!!

[Skittles]

61. I don't think EPSTEIN would be mentioned if it was a planned distraction

no INDEED

[stollen]

66. The Musk/Drug story may have broken the dam

Since we know WH meetings involve physical contact, is that how Musk got a black eye?

[Quakerfriend]

85. Since Ukraine obliterated Putin's planes, I believe

that F45 is no longer of use to Putin.
Putin put F45 in office so that he would give up Ukraine- F45 is failing him on this.
So, I believe that Pootie is working with Musk to get F45 out & JD in ASAP.

[misanthrope]

95. That is my default answer actually

This rift allows the GOP to rally around their party leader and embrace the Big Beastly Bill in support against “that drug-addled Musk” who they saw as a drag on the administration's public opinion numbers anyway.

For Musk, it allows him to say he is separated from Trump and politics in hopes that it renews Tesla’s value.

Musk said nothing today that lands Trump in hot water. Trump’s statements on Musk aren’t nearly as vociferous as those he usually unleashes on his targets.

[CanonRay]

25. Two 7th graders duking it out on the playground after school

[stollen]

49. Which is how the world sees us

The sane world wants Musk to win.

[J-9]

65. I don't want either to win

Nazi vs Pedo

Both are losers

[stollen]

78. They're both sacks of shit, clearly

But if Musk has a big enough crowbar to knock Trump out of the WH, I'm in favor. It would be a matter of whether there are yet enough House repubs willing to impeach, and then we'll see how McConnell votes a second time around. Repubs refusing to impeach will get "clocked" in the next election.

[brakester]

103. I'd say

two 4-year olds.

[angrycaveman]

27. Does Musk know the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

At the end of day, Putin did conquered Russia's Oligarchy.

[SunSeeker]

57. Exactly. There's a reason Tesla stock drop $152 Billion in value today.

Elon will flame out, but hopefully not before he does a lot of damage to Trump politically.

[stollen]

82. Musk will take prisoners

He's likely got his Trump/Epstein evidence booby-trapped for the media no matter what.

[4th]

30. Poor little rich Elon thought ...

... he was going to be the power behind the throne.

Nope.

[Miles Archer]

37. I'm guessing he dug the hell out of that whole "SHADOW PRESIDENT" thing.

I don't know how many "news aggregate" sites like Raw Story, Daily Beast, etc that you follow, but all of them have had an increase in the "Don't believe the stories about Musk leaving" headlines.

I didn't believe he "left" anything. I believed he took a lower profile in the media because whether he liked it or not, he realized he couldn't get away with the "In the headlines 7 days a week" thing that Trump did. People don't like him. He sort of admitted it AND made excuses for it all at the same time.

But yeah...being THAT CLOSE to the presidency, being able to manipulate him and influence him...that's a filled crack pipe for a power addict like Musk.

[Justice matters.]

94. He didn't know "everything trump touches dies" before knowing it now.

And all the stupid magats will know it soon (as well as the rest of us who knew it long before 2016).

[Eliot Rosewater]

31. Couple of spoiled assholes who use money, not their own abilities

To further their corrupt agendas.

Musk isn’t a complete moron like the piece of shit but he also isn’t some genius.

I hate you if you voted for that piece of shit😡😡😡

[OldBaldy1701E]

46. What effing abilities?

Running their demented mouths?

They can certainly do that!

[Eliot Rosewater]

131. Stand corrected, they have NONE

[Torchlight]

39. Musk came out with his big guns in the opening round.

Either he has follow-through on this, and sees the releases of sensitive information, or he's going to be limned with 'nothing but bluff & bluster' forever more. He's got to know this.

On the other hand, playing this hand this early is not a rational play imo. This is the option you keep in your pocket and never even glance at it until there's no other p[lay left.

So I don't get it. None of 'em have the emotional discipline to play this as a con, and Mr. trump's tantrums have tells, and today's tantrums are tellin' us he's mad as a hatter.

[usonian]

40. They are both on drugs of varous kinds, and obviously lack sufficent sleep.

I would hire neither of them to be my latex salesman.

[stollen]

47. Trump may TACO.

He's got to figure Musk has the goods. I hope it includes the pee tape as well. Maybe Putin shared over a shot of vodka one night.

[NH Ethylene]

71. None of that matters anymore.

Trump's in office and has the power. His people won't turn on him for any of these exposes.

[stollen]

74. My aunt would

if she saw Trump, prostitutes and yellow rain on a bed not to mention Trump having sex with girls.

[NH Ethylene]

80. Has she seen the pics of him with his pubescent daughter on his lap?

Heard about how he could grab them by the pussy anytime he wants? Made a habit of barging into the pageant dressing rooms so he could get a good look at some naked girls?

She and others accepted all that and much more; I'm betting the Epstein revelations and others would just cause them to clasp their blinders on a little tighter.

[misanthrope]

111. I wouldn't even call that "big gun" a firearm

Maybe a spitball.

[Karasu]

44. Steve Bannon is now trying to get them to "immediately" deport Musk. LOL

Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:36 PM - Edit history (2)

https://thehill.com/homenews/5335724-trump-bannon-immigration-musk/

[SunSeeker]

60. Seriously? Got a link?

[Karasu]

92. Here you go:

https://thehill.com/homenews/5335724-trump-bannon-immigration-musk/

[erronis]

45. The last thing we need is a post full of xitter links. Good riddance.

[SomedayKindaLove]

48. In their divorce Musk seems to be shooting for complete custody

Of bat shit crazy, although I’m sure they will have joint custody.

[OverBurn]

54. Here's for a full blown war between the two psychos. Maybe they'll pause from destroying the world for awhile.

[speak easy]

62. Musk controls Twitter's algorithms.

Trump can't win a social media war.

[live love laugh]

63. Sheesh. I only bought one bag of skinny pop from Costco yesterday..

[ananda]

68. It all depends on his control of the DOGE accounts.

He can really hurt Trump and the Republicans if the DOGE
guys control the agencies and accounts.

If not, I'd expect it to be more full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

[brakester]

109. Maybe the pathetic simulacrum of a man

will throw eloonie's pimple posse out of our government!!!!

I can't sleep at night until I know they are history.

[OldBaldy1701E]

69. Yawn...

Wake me when one of them actually does damage to the other.

[GiqueCee]

70. I saw an excellent comparison...

... this whole thing is like two tarantulas in a bowl. Let's hope they kill each other.

[Crunchy Frog]

76. Okay, I've just unblocked Elon. Hope it's good.

I'm actually, literally, eating popcorn right now.

[highplainsdem]

89. I posted about the tweet war as it was happening, posting the tweets in GD, with the exception

of one where Musk said Trump's tariffs will cause a recession later this year. Really hasn't been anything very interesting from him since this one, at 4:11 Eastern time...and as far as I know, Trump has not responded to Musk wanting him impeached and replaced by Vance. And the last time I checked, Vance wasn't saying anything.

Link to tweet

[Justice Brandeis]

83. Musk is and always will be an asshole

Stalin was against Hitler, but the Soviet dictator was still an asshole.

Still, only Musk has the ability to go toe-to-toe with Trump on social media.

[Sneederbunk]

90. Truth Social will be on fire tonight.

Little hands with little fingers on overdrive.

[BidenRocks]

100. Elon needs to hire people

who will laugh at and mock chump.
Call him a doofus when he does his jerk off dance.
Call out his lies! YOU LIE! Repeatedly!
Talk back and gish gallop him!
Fact check everything he says.
Disrespect the person. He already disrespected the office.
Endow Harvard to get a historically accurate bio on chumps life for posterity.
Invite chump to watch a Super Heavy launch from the engine end.

[intrepidity]

107. I'm just learning all this now

Is there a post that has today's chronology and posts so I can catch up please?

[intrepidity]

110. Please DO post all of Musk's tweets here!

He has a nasty habit of deleting them!

They must be preserved.

[Emile]

115. Predatory Capitalists fighting each other. Sounds

like the making of a blockbuster.

[republianmushroom]

120. Could be a very interesting summer.

[Skittles]

121. .....

[yourout]

127. This would make a really good celebrity deathmatch

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