Target?
Don't you mean, "beneficiary?"
No. I mean "target." Who is the mysterious scammer trying to scam?
Two multi-billionaires colluding to get one elected as one gets majorly damaged in the process. Then the other one exits and suddenly they're trading barbs in the press, knowing that people will lop it up.
lol
Musk didn't set out to trash his reputation. He's just too arrogant and dumb to realize that his political activities would ruin Tesla.
I'd add that Musk is basically accusing Trump of being a pedophile, and Trump is threatening to cut billions of SpaceX contracts. This is not just "trading barbs."
Musk gets to repair his reputation and retain his role in his companies without getting run out of town by his board of directors.
Musk controls the board and the company. He's not going anywhere. Nor is throwing a national multi-day temper tantrum, basically demanding more cuts to federal services, going to repair his reputation.
The question we all really should be asking is, "Who actually gets HARMED by all of this back and forth?"
lol... Musk and Trump. Obviously.
Sadly, this also harms the nation as a whole, as its leadership looks like a clown show.
Because to me, they each stand to benefit from having a very public divorce.
Or....
Musk is almost certainly now on the verge of losing billions in contracts, tens if not hundreds of billions in stock valuation, and getting extensively investigated by the DoJ, SEC, INS.... He's not going to benefit.
Dear Leader made an enemy of the wealthiest man in the world, who has an enormous megaphone, no filter, and is attacking Trump like a rabid weasel. He's a conspiracy theorist who knows what buttons to push. He could potentially kill the big tax bill, and fund primary challengers to pro-Trump Republicans. Trump is not going to benefit.
Let's get real: The whole "Trump is playing 11-dimensional chess!" is utter nonsense. Both of them are creatures of pure impulse, who routinely step on their own plans with their lack of impulse control. This is not some brilliant plan to make them both look like geniuses, it's a pair of toddlers fighting in the sandbox.
I have to wonder if they agreed to this kind of thing in advance as they play regular people like pawns, as the billionaire class seems to love to do.
I have to wonder if you've ever heard of Ockham's Razor.
You also might want to read up on hubris.
And, given that I'm not a regular in the conspiracy forum, I can affirm that I'm not typically a conspiracy theorist in the slightest, but something just feels manipulative about all of this too me. The conflict is too open, too much at once, too direct, and almost too scripted, like both parties had their "lines" ready to go.
I made no mention of any past posts. But it seems pretty clear to me that on some level, you just don't want to accept that the two most influential people right now in the MAGA movement are immature thin-skinned narcissists, with zero impulse control, that now hate each other, because they both want power and attention, and see the other one as in their way and/or having more than they do.
