My quick 2 cents on Donnie & Elon:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Nonsense. Best explanation is the obvious one. Musk thinks BBB is stupid & he's right. tRump is vindictive.

There is no Kabuki. There is no baby.

It is not a play to increase Muck's stock TSLA by making progressives suddenly like Muck and rush to buy Teslas. Not going to happen and TSLA is down big because of the spat and that is on the heels of a downtrend due to concerns about sales.

It is not a play to distract. tRump has lots of levers for distraction, including a sheaf of Executive Orders being held in abeyance till needed for distractions.

The Big Billionaire Bill is stupid: It is stimulative when not needed and at immense fiscal and social cost. It takes from the poor and middle class whose spending runs the economy and gives to billionaires who have a habit of parking a lot of any windfalls and not investing all of it in production.

tRump was wounded by the Epstein link, which may pan out or remain hidden, but the claim deepens belief that the smoke indicated a fire. He is vindictive and will not forget.