th<\/sup> 2025<\/i><\/p>\nPolitical feuds are common throughout American history. The most famous is the one that resulted in an actual blood duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, with fatal results for Hamilton. There\u2019s plenty that resulted in violence and bloodshed: Matthew Lyon vs. Roger Griswold, for instance, started when Griswold spit tobacco juice in Lyon\u2019s eyes. Then there was John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, which blew up when Jackson blamed his wife\u2019s death on a smear campaign by Adams. Riots ensued. There are instances of Congressionals pulling guns on one another in Congress, although no actual shots were fired. Preston Brooks nearly caned Charles Sumner to death in 1856, exacerbating pre-Civil War tensions. One fellow named \u201cBowie Knife\u201d Potter managed to avoid some duels by demanding Honor be settled by hand-to-hand combat with…you guessed it, Bowie knives. That was a bit too personal for politicians accustomed to politely shooting at one another from 20 feet.<\/p>\n
While often fueled by genuine personal hatred, some of the quarrels could get downright poetic. John Randolph, who engaged in several blood duels, once said of Henry Clay that he was \u201clike a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.\u201d FDR, frustrated by GOP obstructionists who opposed Lend-Lease while simultaneously calling him a warmonger, derided the three main characters in a speech in which he intoned repeatedly, \u201cMartin, Barton…and FISH.\u201d After the first such intonation, with finger jabbing, the audience joined in gleefully. It was politically devastating for the three congressmen in question.<\/p>\n
Social media has brought a lot of political squabbling, previously largely out of sight in the cloakrooms, out in public and often at about fifth-grade level. While it\u2019s only fair to note that the large majority of tweets put out by representatives are at worst civil, some would be more at home in a school playground. Marjorie Taylor-Greene had been in the habit of closing a confrontational tweet by calling the recipient a psycho until someone noted she didn\u2019t have to sign her tweets.<\/p>\n
So the present meltdown between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has plenty of historical precedent. But in this instance, both men have a mixture of self-grandiosity, contempt for everyone else, and a drug-fueled lack of inhibitions. And both own their own social media platforms, so the only constraint on which they write is…themselves. If their falling out was widely predicted, the nastiness of it, as well, was quite foreseeable, although both men have people around them who might at least try to stop them from going to Defcon Five immediately.<\/p>\n
The results have been more like a really nasty breakup in high school, where he\u2019s running around calling her an ugly slut and stupid, and she\u2019s telling her friends she ought to sleep with the football squad just to show him she at least can \u2018make the team.\u2019 No winners in those sorts of situations.<\/p>\n
Given the unearned and undeserved power both men wield, and the absolute lack of constraints either have, the results are like a couple of kindergartners who are having a tantrum while holding flamethrowers. It\u2019s both amusing and horrifying to watch.<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, yes, blood feuds are illegal, and I have no problem with that. Besides, I doubt either man could load a gun without blowing their own feet off. Hell, I doubt either could pour piss out of a boot if you wrote the instructions on the sole.<\/p>\n
Both are capable of doing immense damage to one another and to the country as a whole. Both have used their wealth for the purpose of perverting power and influence to their own ends, and at the expense of the county. About the only thing more destructive and dangerous to the United States then the escalation of this fight would be a resolution of the fight wherein they rejoin and continue to rape the United States.<\/p>\n
The GOP, superficially at least, are aligning with Trump. The ever-servile Mike Johnson said, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, do not doubt and do not second-guess and don\u2019t ever challenge the president of the United States, Donald Trump. He is the leader of the party. He\u2019s the most consequential political figure of this generation and probably the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, not knowing when to quit, he also said, \u201cI don\u2019t argue with [Musk] about how to build rockets and I wish he wouldn\u2019t argue with me about how to craft legislation and pass it.\u201d Perhaps they should: both have a recent history of gaudy and expensive contraptions that roar off the pad and explode in a \u2018rapid unscheduled disassembly.\u201d The Big Beautiful Bill is about as flightworthy as Musk\u2019s last few launches.<\/p>\n
Frankly, I hope they do destroy one another. Yes, it will cause immense damage to the country, but not nearly as much as what they\u2019ve already done. Trump is destroying democracy and American freedom and wants to be a dictator. Musk wants cyber control of all citizens and to turn the entire country into a debtor-slave economy. Neither will make America great, and will ruin the lives of tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n
So a pox on both of them.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, sit back and watch the show. This is better than Diddy Combs and R. Kelly duking it out with running chainsaws in a closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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