Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
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Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#2This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#3This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
You grossly underestimate the pettiness and pedantry of those involved
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#4This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
I'm inclined to Hanlon's Razor.
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#5This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
What are you alluding to here?
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#6This reads like pretty classic infighting between a dictator and one of his more powerful cronies.
I am surprised at how fast it happened, though. Usually this comes towards the end of a dictatorship. Maybe our dear leader is just as incompetent at being a dictator as he is everything else.
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#7This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
That's giving these people far too much credit.
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#8This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
You grossly underestimate the pettiness and pedantry of those involved
Lol, I guess this is what happens when two assholes surround themselves with sycophantic yes-men for far too long.
Nobody taught them how to play nice. I've met eight year olds with more civility and maturity than those two...
Oh well. Reminds me of that Alien vs Predator movie: Whoever wins, we lose.
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#9This feud is just a pantomime for the crowd in my opinion. There's a bigger play here.
When described from 10,000 feet, I could almost believe this. If Musk were smart he might be doing something like this on the route to rehabilitating his image with customers.
But the particulars on the ground show that Musk is not smart, just vindictive, power-hungry, petulant, and childish. He literally posted that he would decommission Dragon because of Trump's threat, which was stupid in intent and stupid in potential negotiating effect on Trump (Trump does not know what Dragon is and does not care):
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/05/musk-trump-spacex-dragon...
Re: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
#10I always ask myself, "what is being done by the left hand, while we are distracted by the right hand?"
Could this dust-up have anything to do with some other bill being passed or a policy implemented? I can think of the big reconciliation (BBB) bill, and Palantir getting access to more information on American citizens, as 2 things that the public could be distracted from by the Musk-Trump issue.