The thing about bullies is that they don’t have real friends.
They have lieutenants, followers and victims – sometimes all three are rolled into one.
Most of us learn this about the third grade, when parents and hard knocks teach us how to figure out the people you can trust and who will have lunch.
Elon Musk, aged 54, with $400 billion in funding at the bank, just learned that his hatred with our overlord president was in threat, which would deport locals in South Africa.
Speaking about Musk losing the administration’s support for electric vehicles, Trump warned this week that Musk “could lose more.”
“We may have to put Dilundion on Elon,” Trump said. “Dorgi is a monster…it may have to go back and eat Elon. Isn’t that scary? ”
Yes I know. Schadenfreude is real. It’s hard to sit down without some “Tell YA” satisfaction when we watch Musk almost single-handedly remove international aid from hurricane tracking to hungry children.
But since Musk is the richest man in the world, he now knows that he has the ability to buy votes and Trump seizes power in every opportunity, it is too much to ignore the pitiful interpersonal dynamics of these two Tantrumming Titans.
You ask, what does this have to do with you and me? Well, there is one potential consequence that is worrying: the use of transgender on political enemies.
If you know nothing about Trump-Musk’s collapse, let me review it.
Once upon a time, nine months ago, Musk and Trump were so nervous that literally Mark (Musk) jumped for joy. In an unexpected appearance at Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk jumped into the air, raised his weapon, exposed his abdomen, simply being treated as a follower, even though one man put $290 million into election funds. At that time, Musk was not worried that it was not his own dazzling existence that caused his invitation.
By January, Musk had transitioned to Lieutenant, forming Doge, and equipped with Cringey Swag, like a lonely adolescent dream dreaming of a secret club in his tree house. Only this club has the ability to demolish the federal government and cause some degree of social destruction that will not be fully understood in generations. Serious villain energy.
But then he was too full of himself and was the lieutenant’s first crime. Somewhere along the line, Trump noticed (or maybe someone whispered in the president’s ear), Musk was as powerful as him–and maybe more.
Tips for the radiation, the White House’s big “See Ya” (a match with another Trump Lieutenant) and Musk’s sadness realize that, like everyone else in Bully’s Orbit, he’s used like Kleenex and never stands out from the trash.
So Musk went on his social media platform and began slamming Trump and the Big Beautiful Act, which passed in the Senate on Tuesday, soared for our national debt while the poor and middle class suffered.
“If this crazy spending bill passes, the U.S. party will be formed the next day. Our country needs to replace Democrats with public places so that people actually have voices.” Musk threatened to come up with a new party in a way he eliminated morality.
Musk even promised more elections to support Trump people who voted for the bill.
“If this is the last thing I do on Earth, they will lose their primary school next year,” Musk wrote, probably before he left Mars.
It is those direct and reasonable threats to Trump’s power that have led the president to turn his eyes to Musk to Sauron, who might think he might consider expelling such an assault from the rebellion. It might seem interesting if The Washington Post reported that Musk, who might violate immigration rules, started from our borders, but it would set a shocking precedent of being punished for losing citizenship when standing on this president.
Because the threat of expelling political enemies did not start with Musk and certainly would not end with him.
For several days, Trump people suggested that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, born in Uganda and became a U.S. citizen in 2018, should also be deported because of crimes supporting policies ranging from progressive to socialists to socialists to communism (very sure, those who label them as communism don’t know communism).
On Tuesday, Trump weighed Mandani.
“A lot of people say he’s illegal here,” Trump said. “We have to look at everything.” ”
Transgender of immigration fraud – basically something that lies or misrepresents in your official application – is nothing new. Obama did it, just like Trump did in his first term, with a long history before that.
But it is shocking to tease out documents seeking excuses to call fraudulent political enemies.
“This cultural arming of legal weapons and weapons in pursuit of the enemy is against our basic principles,” Ben Radd told me, a law professor and political expert at UCLA.
“It’s a very abuse of executive power, but [Trump] Escape it until you face legal challenges. ” said Rad.
Although Musk and Mandani have the right to fight Trump in court, other naturalized citizens may not be if it is involved.
There are about 25 million such citizens in the United States – people who immigrated in the “right” way, whatever that means, skipped basketball, their commitment to loyalty to the country, now Americans. Or they thought.
In fact, under Trump, they are mostly Americans, as long as they don’t make him angry. The threat of citizenship deprivation against the government is enough to keep many silent when many immigrants feel personal obligations and motivation to protect their family and friends.
Targeting the threat to musk can be opportunistic anger of bullies, and it even looks interesting.
But it is a kind of intimidation, designed to show that no one is too strong to be punished by this bully, and therefore, no one is safe.
