I'm on X a lot because it's a great source for videogame and AI news. The Cow is super popular on Mario Kart World BTW. Elon Musk is posting a lot, and President Trump is responding.
It hit me this morning that this is what an actual adult argument looks like. We are so accustomed to Kayfabe, it's weird to not see it. We are accustomed to people locking each other up, sending out assassin's and rioting that two men with a disagreement is bizarre. They are countering each other, and chatting it up, but I'm also noticing that they're starting to get deals and more conversation about what to do. I get the feeling that Trump doesn't like the big bill, but it's all Republicans he supports. He's willing to cut it down if the argument is good enough.
Musk, is making demands and saying he's willing to scrap stuff, but he's also proposing making a new party. That's what hits me. There is a bit of tism sperging, but I actually agree. What if Musk started a new party that took over for the left. It's moved the conversation window away from the insanity, and we can have actual disagreements. Our country likes the Kayfabe, but is always expecting a Civil War at any minute. Getting away from that would be really nice.
I don't think that it's some big secret, but I bet that Trump and Musk would agree to be political opponents like this. It gets them more of what they want, and less of the insanity they've had to deal with. People have destroyed Musk's cars and threatened his employees. Trump has a scar on his face from a sniper bullet and a mug shot. They both had to prove the left was insane.
My wife and I don't always agree on things. Sometimes, we have to say hard things at each other. It freaks out my son because he grew up in broken homes that were always destroying themselves. I've had to give him a hard talk last night because he's going to be big like me, and there's a lot of rules he needs to learn now before someone flips out and assaults him for being angry.
So, what if it's the same here? We're not accustomed to adults arguing so we're expecting the big terrible stuff. The adults will find a way to actually get stuff done, and many won't understand how it works.
Being kayfabe is how Trump and Musk made themselves relevant. I got to believe that even the MAGA-corest know Trump blows hard but rarely does as promised.
Kayfabe is the perfect word for politics, it's all pretend.
This is not Kayfabe. A rational Elon would never be part of an orchestrated effort to make himself look like this much of a pissant. He's a teenage girl throwing a hissy fit because he didn't get his way, deliberately saying the things he thinks will upset Daddy Trump the most. That's what this is. That's all this is.
Its also completely in character with Musk, as he does this constantly. He got called out over his immigration stance? Week long hissy fit. Someone said he wasn't actually #1 POE Gamer in the world? Forces his baby momma to release a statement saying he is.
This is how he has always been, and him being temporarily working for us in one capacity doesn't change who he was.
We also have a definitive answer now as if this was about doing something to set peoples ideas and set up a new party, it fell flat on its face as a bare single-digit percentage of people are siding with Musk over Trump (Trump being over 70%). Honestly, I am absolutely of the opinion that he has a drug problem (as it has been repeatedly talked about even before he was in politics), he crashed out while on that ketamine rage energy, and then had post-crashout clarity and realized "Oh shit, I fucked up" which is why he is trying to talk it back and make olive branches to Trump (who is thoroughly unamused from the sounds of it).
Whatever his plan was, he shot it in the foot with pure manic nonsense that made it impossible for anyone to support him even if they wanted to.
There is an acronym for it: TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out.
Reportedly, it absolutely infuriates him, but I no longer care. Perp walks and massive deportations, or TACO, that's the choice Trump has right now.