Piece of work - Elon Musk

[Dragan]

Edited Friday at 03:27 PM by Dragan

[Dragan]

Let’s talk about the real reasons behind the implosion of the Elon Musk and Donald Trump bromance.

Sure, Trump wants you to believe Musk was having a tantrum over EV tax credits getting axed from his “One Big Beautiful Bill.” But Musk has known about that for a while. Trump signed an executive order to remove EV charging stations across the country months ago. Plus, as Tesla’s reputation and shares took a nose dive, Musk continued to embed himself deeper in to the Trump administration.

Sure, he supposedly was able to get rid of a lot of road blocks for Tesla while running DOGE - but that was just a bonus - not the end goal. I believe he had his eyes on some much bigger prizes.

And the only reason to believe Musk’s rants about fiscal responsibility and deficit spending were sincere is if you believe the narrative that he truly got involved because he “wants to save the country.” If you really believe that’s what the dispute was about, you probably also think WWE wrestling matches are real.

What actually happened is much simpler - and much more predictable if you’ve been paying attention to how power actually works.

It’s not hard to see that months of frustration have been building up as Musk found himself increasingly sidelined from the real levers of power. This wasn’t about policy disagreements or philosophical differences about government spending. This was simply about control, access, and ego.

The final straw came when Trump withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to head NASA - Musk’s handpicked candidate who had already been approved by committee and was awaiting a full Senate vote. But that rejection was just the latest in a series of personnel defeats that had been eating away at Musk’s influence.

He’d already been blocked from his preferred picks for the IRS and CIA. Marco Rubio wouldn’t let him into the State Department, and he got blocked from meetings at the Pentagon. For someone who spent north of $280 million helping Trump get elected, being treated like a junior advisor instead of a shadow president had to have been becoming increasingly intolerable.

The NASA snub was particularly galling because space policy is literally Musk’s final frontier. SpaceX has $22 billion in government contracts at stake, and the company has essentially become NASA’s lifeline for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station. If Musk can’t control personnel decisions in the one area that affects him the most, what’s the point of having influence at all?

The writing was on the wall weeks before they started publicly feuding about spending bills.

The thing is - the government has become so dependent on Musk’s companies that cutting ties would be practically impossible. SpaceX is the only American way to get astronauts to the space station, and there are literally people up there right now who need Musk’s rockets to get home. When Musk threatened to decommission Dragon spacecraft, he was essentially holding NASA hostage - though he walked it back hours later after someone presumably explained the optics of stranding astronauts in space.

The broader lesson here is that when you give billionaires this much influence over government functions, personal disputes become national security issues. This isn’t just about hurt feelings and bruised egos - it’s about the fundamental question of whether critical infrastructure should be controlled by people whose main qualification is having money.

Musk deleted his posts about Trump this morning, and they’ll probably kiss and make up eventually because they need each other. Trump needs Musk’s money and tech influence for 2026, and Musk needs those government contracts to keep his Mars fantasies funded. But this public meltdown has exposed just how fragile these power arrangements really are when they’re built on personal relationships instead of institutional frameworks.

This whole mess is what happens when you hand over critical government functions to private companies run by mercurial billionaires. We’ve essentially privatized our way into a hostage situation where one man’s hurt feelings can threaten to strand astronauts in space.

Think about how insane that is. The United States government - the same entity that put humans on the moon and built the interstate highway system - has made itself so dependent on Musk that his personal beef with the president becomes a national security crisis. We don’t have backup plans because we decided that competition and efficiency were more important than redundancy and reliability.

This is the logical endpoint of decades of privatization rhetoric. Instead of maintaining government capabilities, we outsourced them to the lowest bidder - or in this case, the flashiest entrepreneur with the best PowerPoint presentation about Mars colonies. Now we’re discovering that private companies can hold essential services hostage whenever their CEO has a bad day.

The problem isn’t just that Musk controls too much infrastructure - it’s that we’ve structured these relationships to make government dependent on corporate goodwill. When your space program, satellite communications, and electric vehicle transition all depend on one guy’s mood swings, you’ve basically turned governance into a reality TV show.

The next time some politician tells you that private industry can do everything better than government, remember this moment. Remember when America’s space program nearly got shut down because a spoiled, billionaire narcissist didn’t get his way.

[Rex]

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