Is Mommy and Daddy Fighting?

As if he didn't know it was all bullshit.

He knew, he was in on it and now trying to distance himself when it becomes unpopular.

Project 2025? What's that? I've never heard of that and I don't know anything about it!

On the one hand yeah that entirely possible. On the other hand, Trump clearly suffers from dementia, and he just may not know what the fuck is going on at any given moment and tries to go with it, failing constantly and his staff is failingly trying to cover it all up every time.
- He has somewhat been backed into a corner.
  
  Does he:
  
  admit that Elon bullshitted him, tricked him, the master negotiator and businessman?
  
  admit that he has no idea what is going on?
  
  I think Elon's drop in popularity and recent hate has become too much to keep him around.
  
  He was a useful tool at the time, I don't think the whole DOGE thing was actually there to do good, just to ride Elon's popularity to a win and then shape the government the way they wanted to take advantage and then toss him aside when they achieved their goals.
  
  But also, yes, I believe that Dementia Don's mind is checking out fast.
  
  He's like racist old grandpa who has lost his mind and on autopilot now, mumbling about shit nobody has an idea about... except he is steering the car off the road with all the passengers screaming.
  
  Should have taken his license away years ago.
- No. That's giving him far too much credit and giving him a pass for the evil. This isnt the confusion of an old man, it's evil by design. Nobody gets a pass, especially not him.
It was expected that after a good wrecking of services, Musk would be the designated scape goat. Soon the talks about privatization begin.
I mean, I'm sure that theres fat, red tape and inefficiencies in every government department and program that could be cut without issue... DOGE was just probably the absolute worst way to go about it.

So many of the things that Trump does are "I'm going to do something that on the surface is a great idea, in a completely ass backwards way that makes it worse than doing nothing"
- And on the other hand there are a bunch of inefficiencies because a department is underfunded and understaffed.
  
  But mostly cutting means people depending on the services get less. That's a lot of fun with tornado warnings and air traffic control.

Musk now has internet-connected backdoored computers installed on multiple government networks that were previously airgapped.

He isn't going to just give up access peacefully.

Just do it around 10am. He should be deep in a K hole by that time.
You mean Palantir and China.
- If we're going by that logic, then all of Fourteen Eyes, yeah.
  
  But this is about one specific billionaire who is known to be extremely mentally unstable and on copious amounts of drugs who was just publicly denounced by his dear leader.

Doesn't he look tired

They both do, but the photo chosen for Trump is really something.
He looks like freshly embalmed mummy ready to be wrapped.
- Maybe he's promoting 28 Years Later

That Trump photo is spectacular.

Every single photo I've seen of Trump has been incredibly unphotogenic. It was to be some concerted effort by the photographers.
- Or, perhaps, he's just really fucking ugly.
It catches his whining perfectly
Lookin so much like an old leather sofa that Vance is probably gonna start trying to chat him up soon.
- I legitimately don't know the backstory of the vance fucking sofas thing, and I really want to keep it that way, because every time I read somebody ripping on him for whatever it is that he did, I laugh my ass off.
We never quite got a good look at the monster in the trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, but seeing this afterward has me feeling pretty satisfied
It feels like an AI image, but why bother when he already has so many real terrible pictures? So it must be real?

I miss the pre-ai internet.
Like a punch drunk albino raccoon

Musk, on the other hand, looks like somebody grabbed his face from his skull and pulled it JUUUUSSST A LITTLE down and to the left

As much as I'd love to see Musk be on the next rocket, functional or not, to Mars, I also expect Trump to take 0 responsibility for any negative outcome and all credit for any positive downfall regardless of his actual involvement no matter how remote.

Like he said that the good parts of the economy are because of him and the bad parts are because of Biden.

"There are no silver bullets."

That's the easy most accessible piece of Wisdom in Business there is.

Of course, Trump hasn't actually learned that lesson, because his whole style is to ride the wave and hope for the best, not to actually think about things, before or after, which is why he's so easy to manipulate by others and why you get things like him chickening out so often that there is now the TACO trade.

Multiple people who have worked for him describe him as "fucking stupid".

I hope all those who voted for him and are getting fucked over by this stupidity are satisfied. Enjoy your misery you clowns!

Sucks for everyone else who saw the obvious idiocy though.

Cohen said Mango Mussolini will go after Leon's cash. I would not be surprised and hopefully they attack each other.

their egos are so massive they will out each other for election fraud. That is after all what they had on each other all along.

Honeymoon is over.

He looks so orange, like he played with orange clay and accidentally covered his entire face in it

He had a meeting with the Saudis the other week. He looks bad normally, but standing next to them in their white clothes, the photographer couldn't fuck with the white balance as much, and he looked absurd, like a fucking Oompa Loompa.

The fact that it stops miles from his hair and eyes as well, like they apply this shit with a stencil and a spray can.
- I really hope this is some epic prank from his makeup person that's been going on for years

Took him only 4 month and 10 days to realize it

It served its purpose, it cut aid to those who needed it and gave money to those who didn't. I think maybe they thought that cutting the social safety nets would have saved more money, but that's all they're going to be upset about.

Grifters grifting grifters.

I posted beneath the wrong comment, but Lemmy isn't forgiving enough to let me remove it outright. So since I hate grifters too, I'll just say RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!

Musk got the data he wanted. Everything else was deflect, deflect, deflect.

He got the data he wanted and he crushed various regulatory bodies that impact his businesses.

It was never about reducing wasteful spending. It was always about knee-capping regulations.

Haha, elon is pretending not to be a nazi, because he is a ketamine addict and tramp is pretending not to have anything to do with elon, because everyone hates him.

Since when does Conald care about using taxpayer money?

People noticed and somebody needs to take the fall. That's all.

He's going to blame it all on Elon

Bingo! Right out of his own "The Art of Unaccountability" playbook.

Is he asking about his government or DOGE? We need to make the clear distinction

He's just setting Elon up as a fall guy for thr masses

Lmao

I wonder sometimes what it's like exactly, being in the Cheeto guy's head because the idea that he and Elon would have a falling out eventually just seemed so utterly predictable to me, some guy, that it's sort of hard wrap my head around how he could fail to see this coming. People will say o shouldn't be surprised, it's not complicated, he's just dumb but like, this isn't like a policy thing, it's not that I'm surprised he didn't expect his ideas to fail it's just this personal relationship was so clearly not to last because of what both these guys are like and I'd have thought this should be obvious to Trump himself from prior experiences with people. It was never going to work where the new friend and political ally views himself as at least an equal, Trump's obviously going to hate that.

Trump, Elon and all the other narcissistic sycophants aren't friends, they're barely even friendly!

Rather they're all simply leeches who are using each other to get what they want. They have no friendship or loyalty for each other, which is hilarious when you remember that Trump brought all these people on for their "loyalty".

Trump is stupid enough to confuse a complete lack of morals and willingness to do whatever you order with loyalty.

The moment any of them blink the others attack and Trump is barely keeping these fucks under control, to the point where they're literally punching each other, in the white house!
Yeah, I can't figure it out either. Except that Trump is a user - a people user - and he saw Musk as someone he could use.

There are two things about this falling out that surprise me: First, it took a LOT longer than I expected, and second, it's nowhere near as contentious as I expected.

Brian Tyler Cohen doesn't always respond to tweets. But when he does, he responds to tweets by Brian Tyler Cohen.

Yeah, his youtube channel is mostly "DESTROYS", "BRUTAL", "ERUPTS", "FREAKS OUT" headline hype. Not healthy to consume, even when you want tramp gone.

Covering up all the money they are siphoning to Elon's businesses. This was never about improvement. It's about securing contracts. We all saw this coming. Elon was supposed leave after he had the contracts secured.