There are a few on Twitter who went full bore for one or the other, especially for Trump. There are others who mentioned it, but, blame Mike Johnson for the terrible spending bill. Sure, there are some really good things in there, but, mostly, it spends too much. But, for most
MAGA Faithful Shrug Off the Trump-Musk Dust-Up
People had a lot of worries at Butterworth’s on Thursday night. In the hours after the near-apocalyptic online showdown between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, a palpable angst permeated the fashionable MAGA bistro on Capitol Hill. As the Velvet Underground crooned “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” over the sound system, patrons let loose with their anxieties: Was the gas station erectile dysfunction drug “Rhino Dick” safe? Would the guy from The Heritage Foundation ever stop stealing their beef tallow-soaked french fries?
These were the pressing concerns for this far-right crowd. But Elon Musk’s online attacks on Donald Trump? Those were mere trifles at the Trumpist haunt where lamb tartare, not cheeseburgers, is on the menu.
In the hours after the Musk-Trump feud blew up online, with the tech billionaire bashing the Republican spending bill, suggesting Trump should be impeached and tying him to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, those criticisms barely registered. As the denizens of Butterworth saw things, the kerfuffle was simply the temper tantrum of a disgruntled administration official who’d run afoul of a popular president. And Trump’s counter attacks dismissing the world’s richest man as “going CRAZY”? Now that was gospel.
Good grief, Politico couldn’t even get out of DC for the piece? Get out into the real world? Not that the people at Butterworth’s aren’t wrong.
Raheem Kassam, the longtime ally of Nigel Farage, who is a part owner of the restaurant, waved off Musk’s Twitter spree as the rantings of a mega donor disappointed that he could not bend the Republican Party to his will. “The Tea Party sold out to Koch,” said Kassam. “MAGA will not sell out to ketamine,” in a reference to first, the billionaire Koch brothers and second, Musk’s admitted use of the anesthetic.
Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for Breitbart and longtime conservative media powerhouse, opined biblically, “Pride cometh, before the fall. Elon Musk got too big for his britches. This was destined to happen. It’s better now than later. President Trump is going to win, as he always does.”
Most are just taking a blase’ approach to this whole kerfuffle. There aren’t that many blogs in my feedreader mentioning this, and the few who do are not emotional about it. It’s more as “well, this happened, oh, well.” Heck, some are wondering if the mention of Epstein was intended to get Democrats to want the list released, even though it would show lots of Democrats on it.
Not everyone there was willing to go quite that far. Mandelson, the evening’s honoree, had witnessed titanic personality clashes across the pond, notably, the decades-long drama between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He dismissed the Trump-Musk drama as “a small earthquake.” He added as a careful diplomatic caveat, “I don’t really follow it because I’m not on social media. So I have no idea what they’re saying to each other.”
I won’t say it’s a nothingburger, but, it’s minor.
Both Trump and Elon need to chill. Ceasefire. Politics is not perfect.
When Biden was POTUS Mr Teach hates deficits
Now ?
5 trillion not a problem. Old people love deficits
Let those despised kids pay it off
The devotion to Mr trump has made ‘conservatives’ stupid.
It’s what they learned to do in Journalism school: Make something up every week and turn it in on time. It doesn’t need to be true or even interesting. Just fill columns.
There’s a history of tech geniuses going off the deep end. Edison electrocuting an elephant during the current wars, Tesla himself trying to marry a pigeon, Armstrong jumping to his death after being hosed by RCA.