As has been written many times, it was always going to end in a fight. There was no chance that these two would just grow tired of each other and continue a loveless marriage while finding ever-greater adventures. No, they were destined to damage each other, but confession corner here, I didn’t see it getting this hot this quickly. Donald Trump and Elon Musk now hate each other, and even though there is enough money and power to eventually end up in bed together again, it will cost both a fortune to make things right for love.
Meanwhile, social media has gone supernova. About the only safe spot in which to enjoy all this is on Bluesky (Please follow me if you haven’t), where people are having a field day, one worth perusing.
Very soon, Musk’s shareholders will once again slam their heads against the wall as they wonder how Elon could’ve more efficiently alienated potential customers. Meanwhile, he is getting some of his own medicine here:
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T20:15:11.088Z
Yes, Elon is going to be on the receiving end with respect to the cancellation of government income, and he never worked as hard for it as the thousands of civil servants who did nothing less than their job under various presidents. They were outright fired and didn’t have billions on which to fall back. But Musk is going to learn what it’s like to simply “piss off” the wrong government employee. Justice.
Below, we do need to know the details as to why Musk “Knows” that Trump would’ve lost. What was Starlink doing that day – other than handling many of the returns on the net?
We need details on this.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T17:06:32.282Z
Makes you wonder, no? And how many people is Musk going to demand be lined up for impeachment? It is too bad that Musk was never given an “official” government title because he is the one who would likely face real trouble in impeachment proceedings. For all we know, both of them know enough to make the other afraid (See above?)
Still jarring to see it in [email protected]
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T20:43:10.318Z
Right. Except no. Impeachment is not on the table and won’t be until the House and Senate pull themselves out of Trump’s gravity well. Perhaps after 2026, Trump will be the only president impeached three times.
This tweet aged like milk in the sun
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T22:53:44.951Z
Yes, it feels like so long ago – just in February. And you know it is bad when The Onion has the perfect headline:
Please Like Me
AOC is ready to step into the power gap on the left with the perfect jab – “the girls are fighting aren’t they?” So beautiful!
AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they
These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.
— The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) 2025-06-05T22:23:38.392Z
When you make enemies across borders, it eats up your credibility on an international scale:
The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.
— Alexander C. Kaufman (@alexckaufman.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T21:43:48.518Z
I guess we can just assume any Republican who hasn’t already come out and forcefully and publicly backed Trump and condemned Elon is a disloyal treasonous RINO playing both sides.Like JD Vance.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T23:55:27.475Z
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumail.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T19:24:38.009Z
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T23:53:56.546Z
Below, one can be certain that this is a big fcking deal inside the White House. It is closer to the middle than it is to the end:
I wonder what the meeting is about?
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T23:42:00.990Z
☝️🤣-Hahaha!!! This one wins the Internet for today.
— Wendell L. Thornhill (@icreativeartist.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T21:30:30.911Z
🤣🤣
— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T23:41:11.581Z
Okay, we are out on the above. I didn’t see the Epstein thing coming. Anyone who did make such a prediction shares the internet win for the day. Redeem your voucher at the net gift shop on the way out.
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I don’t have anywhere near the skills to create but hopefully someone who does follows PZ and can do it. Or knows someone who will do it for them. I say forget Alien & Predator.
Instead let’s have a remake of Dueling Banjos from Deliverance. Start out with a little of the actual scene, then a blur that clears to Trump’s and Musk’s heads as the musicians. And the banjos are baboon assholes. Instead of music it would be dueling farts (like the ripping wet ones from Blazing Saddles) and it could be made grossly nasty by having projectile diarrhea coming from the ‘dueling assholes’
They actually did that on “Family Guy” with Peter Griffin (the titular character, voiced by Seth MacFarlane) having a farting contest with Michael Moore (voiced here by Mike Henry, the original voice of Cleveland Brown). As you can see in the clip, they were far more, um, respectful in terms of what the audience got to see of the contest.
I agree with AOC. But the alien is also a predator.