So....Trump and Musk are having a pretty open split. "The girls are fighting" is how its being framed, and in a sense, it's glorious. Musk is pissy over the spending bill, in part because he's an ancap who actually cares about the deficit and didnt like how bloated the "big beautiful bill" is, and in part because he may be losing some of his funding in it. Trump fired back, then Elon said Trump is in the Epstein files, and now Bannon is encouraging Trump to investigate Musk's immigration status, and yeah, this is a major schism.
A lot of the MAGA base are acting like kids when their parents go through a divorce, saying they love both and stop fighting, but it's clearly "over."
Some people are trying to pick sides even on the left, and I'm just gonna say, don't. No matter who wins, we lose.
Trump is an authoritarian. He's dangerous, he wants to suppress anyone who criticizes him, and he's fronting some serious dystopian crap. However, Musk, if he had his way, would basically turn us into like techno feudalism. He's a dark enlightenment type, and say Trump went down over legal troubles stemming from this or was 25th amendmented by his cabinet or something. Well...Vance is ALSO a dark enlightenment guy and then these guys could push such an ideology with more credibility. In a lot of ways trump weakens the right. In other ways, perhaps without trump the right would have zero charisma. On the substance, musk is probably correct on this issue as the BBB is just designed to give handouts to the rich while screwing the poor, and trump's tariffs are a threat to the economy, BUT...just because a terrible person makes a great point doesnt mean he's not terrible.
You know that scene from halo 2 when master chief is on high charity and cortana tells him to "sit this one out" while the two factions of the covenant are killing each other? This is that kind of situation. Let them fight. Dont take sides. Let them implode their own movement. There's pros and cons to either side winning and i dont think either is necessarily better.
If I HAD to choose though, I'd choose trump simply because i think trump's loud incompetence actually does more damage to them over time. Trump himself is a weak leader. If vance took over, all of the same crap would be happening, it would just be done in more subtle ways. Give my own interest is in the right's failure, I'll side with whomever is weaker. And that is trump in a sense.
Still, I dont formally endorse either of them. I'm just enjoying from the sidelines.
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