Musk realized Tesla couldn't do the rebate scams if the bill passed
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Bigger than that, I think Musk finally realized that Trump only holds up his end of deals as long as it's advantageous for him. The rest of us have known that for as long as we've known Trump, but hey, being a totally legit super genius has its downsides, right? Anyways, Trump promised him a buffet of corruption, then got cold feet when he saw musks appetite. Even more than that, they're two self-appointed kings of their own worlds, both with the emotional intelligence/maturity of a very traumatized teenager. With their levels of obvious insecurity, their arrangement was never going to work. I'm just glad their break up is as juicy as I thought it would be. :)
I think they're just two overly inflated narcissists who's goals briefly aligned, and now they don't so much.
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Well said. They are just for themselves and now they are no longer align
Pretty much everything we've expected has come to pass so far, only much faster than any of us could've foreseen. I would've expected them to "get along" for a year or so before calling it quits, but evidently they didn't even last that long.
Still hella amusing though.
Can you ELI5?
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Publicly, Elon said Trump’s bill was full of pork and would increase spending and debt by a lot.
Voters on the right were already waking up to how shitty Trump’s bill was, and Musk just used his megaphone to let even more of Trump’s base know that it sucked.
Privately, Musk is probably pissed that Trump’s bill didn’t help his companies. These are two greedy assholes. It all comes down to money and ego at the end of the day.
That's a really good explanation thanks! Can you ELI5 why the bill sucked?
The bill give massive tax cuts to the extremely rich, and it attempts to pay for part of that by:
- kicking many low income and disabled people off of federally funded health insurance
- closes poor rural hospitals that depend on Medicaid money
- cutting subsidies for manufacturing jobs that make emerging green tech, like EVs
- food and child care assistance will disappear for many poor families.
- and there is a bunch of weird little sneaky things hidden in it that people hope don’t get noticed because the bill is 200+ pages
When you do the math, the rich will get a lot of money, the very poor will have lose money, the and middle class will break even but many will be put on unemployment.
And it costs an extra $4,000,000,000,000, which is fucking bonkers.
This sounds ludicrously bad. What are the perceived benefits? How is it being sold to peopl? It sounds abysmal
A lot of people still buy into trickle down economics despite consistently not working for the several decades we have tried it and reflexively support tax cuts for the wealthy. A lot of those same people also think that kicking people off of what they consider to be "welfare" will somehow magically result in those people quickly becoming employed, thinking that the reason they aren't employed is because they aren't facing serious enough consequences for unemployment.
A lot of people still buy into trickle down economics despite consistently not working for the several decades we have tried it
It has literally never worked, even over a century ago when it was called "horse and sparrow economics," and it never will.
I guess the big argument is that giving a bunch of money to the wealthy will stimulate the economy. Although, that’s an argument that many nations, including the US, have 50 years of data on, and there isn’t much to support that argument. Trickle down economics hasn’t been shown to work.
I also, if you’re in the camp that doesn’t believe in climate change and or thinks poor people are poor because of character flaws, then you probably like this thing. Or if you’re a wealthy person who donated a lot of money to republican politicians, you probably like this thing, because it’s a return on investment.
It’s not particularly great. Many people on the right only voted for it because they’re afraid Trump will primary them, and end their political careers, if they oppose.
Although, that’s an argument that many nations, including the US, have 50 years of data on, and there ~~isn’t much~~ is nothing to support that argument. Trickle down economics ~~hasn’t been shown to work~~ has been conclusively shown to not work.
FTFY
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Normal people hate it because it's gutting things like Medicare, and GOP ghouls hate it because it doesn't cut enough and will add to the deficit by a lot
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I think Musk is stupider than people realize. He's a true believer in his grandpa's technocracy movement (plus eugenics), and so he thought "if I was in control for just a few weeks everyone would realize they should just let me run the world"
Then, he got practically unlimited power, and everyone got mad at him. He seemed genuinely surprised that people weren't praising him for his sacrifices (such as selflessly condemning hundreds of thousands of people to death)
Then he showed he was useless at buying elections, and the right dropped him
He followed Trump around for a while quietly, probably spending most of it in a k-hole. Then Trump officially broke up with him, even if he glazed Elon on the way out
Then the narcissism kicked back in. Maybe his "friends" rubbed it in, maybe his dad called him a disappointment who fumbled the chance of a lifetime, maybe the threat of legal ramifications made him bitch out - but whatever happened, Elon woke up one day and decided "it wasn't my fault, Trump and Co fucked me"
I think Elon is actually concerned about the bill to some degree, because it does stretch our debt and spending to levels that could potentially pop the global economy. I think he does feel disrespected that his work at Doge is being rolled back and everyone is distancing themselves from him. I think he is upset that he spent all this money to buy the presidency, and got a bad ROI
But ultimately, Elon is a fucking idiot with a huge ego. He didn't understand what game he was playing, and so when he lost he started blaming others
And it's beautiful. Possibly the greatest crash out in history
He thought he was playing the game against Trump who is in fact a moron. But then he found out there are smart powerful evil people actually pulling the strings who have more power than he could imagine. He got fucking set up and rolled over by people as cunning as he perceived himself to be. Self reflection is not something his brain is capable of so he's just lashing out lol. He's a bozo and his companies are going to 0.
Yeah I really hope he goes after Vought and the truly evil people next. It'd be glorious to watch them all fight and get ripped apart so they can't harm anyone else.
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Trump wasn't giving him the policies/legislation he was asking for that would put his businesses at an advantage. Additionally Elon was unhappy with the tarrifs. Lastly, they both have large and delicate egos.
I'm putting 50/50 odds that it's an intentional, theatrical distraction from other more important things that are going on, or it's just the inevitable outcome of two malignant narcissist sociopaths being in the same room together too often. If they quickly kiss and make up I'll lean more towards the former than the latter.
I've found criminals and high up business people are never friends, just friends when it suits them. They'll have HUGE fallouts then be ok with each other when they need each other. Just IME
Also maybe just a stock market pump. It seems like the shit always hits the fan on Fridays when the US stock markets are the last to still be open due to time zones and it has time to stick because everyone styas closed during the weekend. So everybody gets to see the news about it hitting the fan 💩
Nah, musk has said some stuff that you don't come back from. There is no way Trump says "eh, he accused me of being a pedophile but it's all good".
That's exactly my point. If they do in a few days "come back from" that and are all buddy buddy again, then I think that indicates it was just a staged performance for show and distraction and none of it was real fighting. Suggests it was all just an act. (IF they do come back from it. Which remains to be seen)
Muskrat has already backed down from a few things he said in the "heat" of the argument, like that he was going to disassemble the Dragon capsules. So I wouldn't jump to your conclusion that they can't possibly "come back from" this, my point is just that if they do, it was probably all just an act to begin with because I agree if it's real, stuff was said that neither one of these vindictive sociopaths is likely to forget.
Fun fact: This isn't the first time they've worked together and broke up. IIRC, Trump choose Musk for some advisory role during his first term (I don't remember what, specifically). Musk resigned because Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord.
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While I am sure there are real, specific reasons that can be pointed to as "the reason," the real answer is that you can't put two narcissists in a room together and tell them they're on the same team. This always was the only possible outcome.
- Elon being an annoying jackass around everyone he meets has drawn most people, Trump included, to hate having him around.
- Several of Trump's policies that are unrelated to Elon, negatively effect him and/or Starlink and Tesla
- Trump isn't a traditional white-power nazi. He's just a racist, old American with zero wunderlust for any Reich, and isn't going as far as Elon hoped or would himself.
- Miscalculating this, Elon is now stuck in a horrible situation of being wrong about his orange would-be Hitler, and the moat he's dug himself between him, his companies and leftists who otherwise would consume his products.
- Doge didn't find or accomplish anything but dismantle parts of our government that then either had to be band-aided back together by the closest Democrats or Republicans for better and worse.
Aside from "winning" the election, they've both done nothing but step on eachother's feet and disappoint one another. The levee broke.
The same thing that got them together. Money.
Don't doubt that but do you know what exactly?
I doubt it is one thing but there is a bill on the floor about removing tax credits for EVs which would hit Tesla quite bad.
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Other than them both being dickheads
Why do you think they need more than that?
Fair point
40% of Tesla income comes from offsets paid by ICE companies.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-profit-could-shrink-under-trump-policies-jpmorgan-2025-1
Trump is killing that.
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It's also possible that this is just political theater designed to distract people
I feel like you don't call the President of the United States a kid fucker to millions of people unless you're serious. It's possible but it seems pretty unlikely
That's what I thought originally but then I got high and thought about it more and it seemed pretty likely they could go that far. And things getting stranger than they already are seems likely to me.
EDIT: Also, Musk called that scuba diver guy a kid fucker. Nothing came of that except ridicule
You're traumatized and overthinking it. They are not that smart. A good thing is happening. Enjoy it.
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There is no fall out. They both are still getting exactly what they want. It is a ploy.
Because autocracy cannot sustain conflict of ideas. It was just a matter of time as every political scientist said 6 months ago.
Neither one wanted to be top when nobody was watching.
Trump thinks Miller Light tastes great, Musk thinks it's less filling.
I find Bell Of The Ranch usually summarizes these sorts of political situations adequately.
Disclaimer: She's not a news source. But, you know, neither are we here, so..
TL;DW: She doesn't really talk about what they fell out over, instead she latches on to what she thinks is the main issue people are overlooking: (she claims) Musk is basically telling the GOP that Trump has only 3 years left, he's old news, but he "will be around for 40 more years".
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