Elon drops nightmare news on Trump, Republicans - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: it's Elon versus the Republicans in a pissing contest and for Elon pissing is apparently where he excels this is just
another day. Villains, every story has them: Potter has Voldemort, Batman has the Joker, the Pope has JD Vance--can't win them all, and now Republicans have Elon.

(Video clip with George Stephanopoulos): Days after leaving his official role in the administration he {Elon} blasted Trump's massive spending bill calling it an abomination as it faces Republican headwinds in the Senate.

BTC: How sad. Republicans just discovered they've got a rat problem and it's a rat they brought into the House and honestly
Speaker Mike Johnson is as shocked as anyone.

(Video clip with Mike Johnson): Let me, let me just address the, the Elon controversy and and tell you that um I, I, I consider Elon a friend he's obviously brilliant. Um, I just gave, told you we credit him with all the big changes with DOGE and everything else um...it's, it's curious to me what happened this week and I just, I mean...full disclosure: Elon and I had a great conversation about a half hour long talk on uh Monday. Elon and I left on a great note, we were texting one another, you know happy text uh you know Monday and then, uh, and then yesterday you know 24 hours later, um, he does a 180 and he comes out and opposed the bill.

BTC: You know, you think you know a guy. I mean the Republicans were nice enough to let an erratic ketamine soaked, chronically procreating, space-obsessed billionaire foot the bill for their campaigns, only to find out that this whole time this
unhinged megalomaniac was only after his own self-interest. The nerve, but I'm sure this is just a small hiccup little
communication between friends that can be cleared up with one quick phone call.

Mike Johnson: Well, I tell you I called Elon last night and he didn't answer, but but uh uh I hope to talk to him today. I'd love to
talk to him this week and hope he calls him back today.

BTC: Damn, Mike Johnson is getting left on red. If Johnson was ghosted any harder he'd start to look like Elon, but still that's got to hurt i mean Musk is a powerful guy and being on

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his bad side could have massive
ramifications for the Republican agenda
right am I concerned about the effect of
this on the midterms i'm not let me tell
you why because when the big beautiful
bill is done and signed into law every
single American is going to do better
this bill is geared for middle and
working-class Americans and they are
going to feel the effects of it and
they're going to feel it before the
midterm election so I have no concern
whatsoever i'm absolutely convinced that
we're going to win the midterms and grow
the House majority yep no concern at all
you think I'm scared about going
toe-to-toe with a chainsaw wielding
billionaire who has the power to shift
control of Congress through one click of
his Venmo
app yeah and let's be clear here Elon is
not mincing words after tweeting
yesterday that he couldn't take it
anymore and that this bill was an
abomination he came back swinging today
with a new tweet call your senator call
your congressman bankrupting America is
not okay kill the bill my god this is
like UFC but with two guys who should
never take their shirts off in public
but watching Republicans get their asses
handed to them by Elon is some
phenomenal entertainment mostly because
they trained him mike Johnson Trump and
the rest of the GOP have been working
their asses off to give the illusion
that they care deeply about average
Americans and fiscal responsibility over
and over again they've tried to brand a
bill that would kick almost 14 million
people off health care while giving tax
cuts to the rich as big and beautiful
when they know it is anything but they
don't give a about anyone but
themselves and now they're frustrated
that someone came along who's beating
them at their own game the guy who
promised $2 trillion in cuts but
eventually only found 19 billion does
not care about cutting waste fraud and
abuse he is simply out for himself elon
doesn't hate this bill because it's bad
for America's wallet he hates this bill
because it's bad for his sources tell
ABC News Musk was also frustrated about
a portion of the bill that would no
longer benefit Tesla customers cutting
the electric vehicle tax credit wait
anti-EV provisions in a Republican
budget not this Republican party what
next you're going to tell me that Diddy
was using baby oil for nefarious reasons
i mean come on guys what did the guy who
owns an EV company think would happen
when he threw his lot in with a
political party that thinks driving an
EV is just a stones throw from hosting
your own drag story time for kids and
Republicans will do anything to protect
kids well most Republicans like this is
a political party that not too long ago
had a guy show up on the floor of the
Senate with a snowball as evidence that
climate change doesn't exist of course
they're not going to be your allies in
climate change or electric vehicles but
the reality is that Elon makes billions
from EVs so why on Earth or Mars would
he support a bill that hurts his bottom
line and in some ways you got to give
credit to the guy for being so studious
i mean at least he read the bill
congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green now
even though the congresswoman voted for
the bill in the House she now says in
full transparency that she wasn't aware
of a section that would strip states of
their ability to regulate artificial
intelligence for the next decade i'm
being very transparent and honest about
it with everyone but I find it so
problematic that I'm willing to come
forward and admit that those are two
pages that I didn't read now in Margie
Tilligreen's defense it's not like
reading bills that she'll be voting on
is her entire job she also has to kill
and skin polar bears so she has outfits
for the State of the Union but of course
Green didn't read the bill she doesn't
care about the specifics because she
only cares about what all Republicans
care about the tax cut what you are
seeing is damage control because some
donor probably got pissed off but this
wasn't some fluke oversight it is the
natural conclusion of a process by which
a bunch of wealthy Republicans see a fat
tax cut on the horizon and sign their
names on the dotted line no questions
asked and so with a party like this is
it really any surprise that the effort
to pass this bill is falling apart at
the seams donald Trump is a narcissistic
kleptocrat whose entire playbook is
pretending to provide for the working
class while actually enriching himself
he branded his trade policy as a
revolutionary day of liberation that
Americans should be reing in but it
brought about nothing but uncertainty
higher prices and layoffs and while
everyone else suffers Trump hosts a
secret memecoin dinner party that adds
billions to his bank account trump
paints himself as a man who understands
that sacrifice is a team effort maybe
the children will have two dolls instead
of $30 you know and maybe the two dolls
will cost a couple of bucks more than
they would normally but while he asks
for doll austerity he has no problem
doing this i I love the gold on the
ceiling thank you it's pretty nice yeah
um that's been there a long time that
was plaster nobody ever really saw it
they didn't know the eagle was up there
and we highlighted it's a essentially
it's a landmark a great landmark and
that's 24 karat gold and everybody loved
it and now they all see it when they
come in ah so little girls should make
do with fewer dolls but don't you dare
touch Donald's ceiling gold republicans
think Elon is pivoting they're just
pissed because the student has become
the master and not to mention they're
pissed that he's doing it now why wasn't
he talking about this before the bill
right and that's what frustrates me hey
if you're going to be in this fight be
in this fight when we need you elon
wasn't talking about this before the
bill because you that's why
Republicans groomed Elon into thinking
that he's entitled to everything so it's
only when Mus discovered that
Republicans hate protecting EVs so much
they decided to include anti-EV
provisions without consulting him that
he decided this bill was garbage but the
only reason he felt so emboldened to
dictate what happens in Washington DC
was because they themselves were all
collectively too chicken to speak
out as he was running roughshot over the
government to begin with the GOP is
trying to shove a bill through Congress
that harms tens of millions of people
but makes the rich richer and now
they're pissed because someone beat them
at their own game like Frankenstein Elon
is the monster you created i mean for
God's sake they wear the same coat elon
funneling millions into elections seemed
like a great idea for Republicans until
they realized Musk could turn his
monster hands on them now they're taking
out their torches and pitchforks trying
to save their own asses but it's
becoming abundantly clear that being on
the opposing side of a self-serving
billionaire kind of sucks so Republicans
don't be mad you know what they say
imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.