Do you think it could be damaging? What’s that? I mean, you guys love this stuff, you guys love to make a distraction. I mean, we’re focused on our job, and that’s not gonna change. You’d love it if it was gonna come across our job. The rescissions are the rescissions, right? Like, I mean, we gotta go pass the rescissions. The big, beautiful bills, the big, beautiful bills. We gotta go deliver. That’s the bottom line. This all started by Musk wanting more deficit reduction and more cuts. Yeah, I agree. We should have more deficit reduction.

Did he cross the line? Well, you know, he’s not right about how he’s handling it. What’s that? But was he the one that crossed the line because he’s been opposed consistently? Yeah, I assure you, he crossed the line on what he said about the sitting President of the United States today, okay? Um, the bottom line is, we have a job to do. Elon was doing a great job in terms of the rescissions, in terms of the doge cuts they identified. And look, and I don’t disagree with him about our need to go find more spending cuts.

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It’s not an either or. This big beautiful bill is just the beginning, and Elon crossed the line. His comments about the president, about the most powerful man on the planet, crossed the line. Here’s Representative Troy Nels. For this country over the last several months, but you’ve lost your damn mind. You’ve lost your mind. Enough is enough. Stop this. I don’t think it’s healthy to think that Donald Trump, there’s 77, 80 million people that would disagree. So I think I think Elon Musk is very gifted and talented. He’s very successful. I think he has a lot to offer our great country as it relates to space, whether it’s Mars or go back to the moon.

Oh, I thought he was going to finish off, but to just say that you get the point. I think you have to interpret Steve Bannon’s rather incendiary comments of light that SpaceX should be nationalized in effect seized by the federal government. And Elon should be deported. Did you see this? This is how I think you need to interpret ultimately Bannon’s comments there. Bannon is openly calling for an investigation into Musk’s immigration status. He’s accusing him of being here illegally, of basically working with the CCP, and that he should be immediately deported. Now, what a week this has been.

Again, for me, the key to that is this escalation ladder. That to me is the that’s the frame by which I’m interpreting what’s going on here. The key to that is Bannon is revealing to Elon just how short Elon’s escalation ladder really is. When you are dealing with political confrontation, when you begin a process of going up an escalation ladder, the loser inevitably is the one who reaches the limits of their escalation potential before their opponent does. And even if you’re the richest man in the world, if you’re in an escalation battle with the most powerful man in the world, by definition, he’s got a taller ladder.

Remember Trump’s whole thing with with with Kim Jong Un? I got my buttons bigger than yours, right? I got to remember that. I have I have an interview later on. That’s just perfect because I think that that’s this is Kim Jong Un part two. My buttons bigger than yours. My escalation ladder goes way higher than yours. You are going to lose this, Elon. Do not go here. Do not go there. Again, this is also for me what kind of brings me back to Kabuki theory. How could Elon not know this? He has to have at least some sense that there’s no way he could possibly out escalate over escalate the man who has the power to seize his property and even potentially deport him.

I mean, you would think, right? But the sheer scale of the DEF CON 5 escalation on Musk’s part suggests to me that there was a genuine emotive impulsiveness on his part that was not scripted, that went way beyond any script. And it’s just it’s now beginning to bite him big time. When all said and done, when all said and done, I think Musk genuinely set out to kill the bill. I think he believed that he had enough influence on X, all the ones who gave me all those nice little salutations on my post that they that they could amass the X Army to sink this bill and that they could start afresh.

He believed that no one, by the way, on the Hill believes that no, even even the Bill’s largest attractor, I guess for the exception of Tom Massey, but Tom Massey can’t get three votes. He cannot assemble a coalition. So it’s irrelevant. But I mean, seriously, no one, even the Bill’s strongest detractors believe the bill needs to be amended. It needs to be refined. They’re not talking about killing the bill. No one’s talking about killing the bill. No one is taking the the coalitions to pass it seriously. So when he realized that his influence was not going to kill the bill for whatever reason, ultimately, of why he wanted to kill it, whatever it was, when he realized that I think he just flipped out.

I do. I think he just flipped out. I think when he realized it didn’t work out, he he seemed to just go completely ballistic and to bring back the war, the gargantuas, he started breaking all the buildings around him. You probably saw this. I mean, Tesla stock cratered yesterday. The cratered all the gains that Tesla made over the last few months were literally wiped out in a matter of hours after Elon escalated the feud to ridiculously hysterical heights. And again, to make matters even worse, according to this report by the Hill, no one cares. No one cares about Elon.

No one’s listening to him. Again, this is coming from the Hill quote out of nearly a dozen Republican capital offices that spoke with the Hill ranging from rank and file members to leadership. Almost none. Almost none had gotten any calls from GOP supporting constituents opposing the bill by the afternoon after the Musk post. Or callers making references to the billionaire. One office reported one caller, one one office reported one caller who said kill the bill. As I said, again, on Capitol Hill, even the loudest critics of the bill have no appetite to throw out the measure and start afresh.

No one wants to kill this bill. No one other than Elon and his ex-followers who couldn’t even be bothered to contact their congressman. And that’s the key. And that’s what I really don’t understand here when it comes to Elon. What’s this escalation ultimately for? Again, think about it. Think about how short his ladder is. He can’t go to the Democrats. Precisely because his whole objection is over Washington spending too much money. And you don’t get bigger spenders than the Democrats. The last four years proved that Biden added a trillion dollars to the debt every quarter.

Elon’s radically opposed to wokeness and DEI and the Democrats had doubled down on the very trans issues that his son fell victim to. So then that’s why he ended up, I guess, suggesting starting a third party. But again, all that would do would be potentially split the Republicans and empower the Democrats. And Mike Cernovich stated the obvious. What happens to the national debt if Democrats win in 2028 and reopen the borders? By the way, speaking of what he said, 2028, speaking of 2026, while this war, the gargantuan is happening, take a look at this. This is awesome.

This is the latest from the Cook Political Report. Huge shout out to California T nerd at early vote data. I love his Twitter feed. 211 of the current Republican seats for 2026 are considered more or less safe. 211 of the Republican seats for the upcoming midterms are considered safe. That means Republicans only need seven seats to keep the House. Let that hit you. Seven seats. That’s it. That is absolutely unbelievable. This is frankly unprecedented. The Republicans are poised to keep the House in the midterms and perhaps even make games. You just don’t. That is only something you see once every hundred years or so.

Clinton was able to pull it off in 98 and a few years later, Bush Jr. was able to pull it off in 2002. But it’s very, very rare. So that’s an important aside that should not be that that should be, I should say, the primary focus, not this not this war, the gargantuan. Again, it just underscores how popular Trump in the America first agenda are. Now, I think the good news in all of this is that Musk is signaling that he’s prepared to make peace with President Trump. It does appear to be coming to an end.

We’ll see. Trump did say this morning he did tweet out or true social out. You know, he did make a Nazi salute. You do know that really what we all know it was. I mean, it’s like, gosh, it just never, never ends. But Musk does appear to be coming to the realization that this whole episode was the literal definition of blowing things out of proportion. I mean, again, when the smoke clears, you just have to ask the question, dude, were you really willing to try to destroy Trump and the whole MAGA movement? Over a freaking reconciliation bill? Seriously? So as things cool down and they will at some point, it even happened in that movie, the War of Gargantuas, they do.

Well, they kill each other. Let’s hope it doesn’t fall to that. But as things do calm down, Musk will find out that his escalation ladder only goes so high. But as things cool down, these two should patch things up. If Trump has proven anything, he can repair relationships. I mean, look at Marco Rubio, right? Once dubbed him little Marco, right? Now he and Trump have forged one of the strongest political alliances on the world stage or Ted Cruz, for that matter. Lion Ted even insulted. I mean, Trump insulted Ted Cruz’s wife’s looks, for heaven’s sake.

Well, he’s now one of Trump’s staunchest allies and Trump is has his back. Like J.D. Vance was once a never Trumper who wrote for National Review. If Trump has proven anything, he can indeed repair relationships. He has no problem reconciling. And that’s a good thing. Let’s hope Elon exemplifies the same. In the meantime, like I talked about in yesterday’s video and to close the loop here with the opening video that you saw with Newt Gingrich at the beginning, I fully expect this bill to pass David Marcus of Fox. He just published a very good piece that reveals the undeniable political realities that face congressional Republicans and the big beautiful bill.

And these political realities are exactly why no one, again, outside of like, you know, an extreme massy, but no one is talking about killing this bill. The political realities involve a carrot and a stick and a very severe stick. And that sticks simply put. So where the Republicans to fail to pass this bill, they would be sticking the American people with a four trillion dollar tax hike at the end of the year. The largest tax increase in American history. There’s no way around that. If this bill does not pass, we will see the single greatest tax increase in our nation’s history.

No one is going to politically survive that at the same time. The carrot, as we saw earlier with the Daily Signal report, is that the Republican base, by and large, likes the bill. And most particularly, Trump’s base really, really, really likes the bill. So bottom line with this carrot and stick before Congress. Bottom line, while MAGA loves Elon, nothing comes close to the base’s loyalty to Donald Trump. And no matter how large a check Elon writes for a primary challenger, Trump’s endorsement of an incumbent voting for this bill is priceless. But of course, it works the other way.

Whoever votes against this bill, like Tom Massey and Rand Paul have been finding out Trump will be merciless. And if you’re a Republican congressman whose seat is not as safe as Massey’s and Paul’s voting against this bill will be political suicide, both in terms of Trump’s wrath against and the voters wrath after they see their tax bill next April. So I expect the big beautiful bill to pass in at least some form. It will be a major victory for Trump and the Republicans. July the 4th may be a little too optimistic. It’s probably going to be more closer to August.

The CBO is forecasting August is when the next debt ceiling vote has to come up. So that’s most likely when we’ll see this bill pass. But the political realities are that it will have to pass. And I do expect in the end that whatever rift that has opened up between Trump and Elon will ultimately be healed. And we can all get back to working together to make America great again. Hey there, Turley Talk. You know what? I’d love to hear from you. That’s why I’m launching the Dr. Steve hotline where you can call in, leave a question and maybe even hear your own voice featured on an upcoming episode of the show.

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