Okay I am once again a Johnny-come-lately. This time it is to the awareness that the bromance of Elon Musk and tRump had been labeled Elump by the popular press. I became cognizant of the moniker scrolling through YouTube when a video of Bill Maher’s popped up addressing the subject. I am not as big a Bill Maher fan as I used to be as he has become so self-righteous as to be almost unwatchable, but this video grabbed my attention.
A real bromance?
First, it was a bromance? I do not believe that either of them have any real friends. A real friend being someone you might call if your car broke down on the side of the rode and you needed a ride home. Would either of them do so without asking for gas money? Or perhaps you can identify friends ala the popular test, “the two beers and watch my dogs” type of person. Both of them only see other people as something – yes, something in place of somebody – to be used and exploited for their own personal gain or purposes. A romance… nah. Their toxic masculinity would have them cutting their eyeballs out if they ever had romantic thoughts about another male.
The Tweet
Maher had a lot to say on the subject, but towards the end he brought up that Musk had tweeted that tRump was in the Jeffrey Epstein files and that is the reason that they have never been released. Okay, what do you do with that? Of course, the real questions are whether it is true or not, and, if we will ever find out. I suspect there are a lot of well known and powerful individuals in those files.
How to interpret
There are three ways to approach the meaning behind this tweet. The most likely being it was the tweet of a scorned lover attempting to tarnish the reputation of their ex. I see this as the most probable as neither one of them have any guardrails on their mouths or thoughts. Both of them having a long history of retaliatory practices against folks they feel have crossed them which appear to be multitudinous. I know that the standards of libel are less rigorous regarding entertainment, satire, politicians, etc., but this seems to me that if it is not true then it would be open to litigation. But that would involve opening the files, at least to a judge, and the rest of us could learn by inference.
Second possibility, and the least probable, is that Musk just recently found out about tRump being in the Epstein files during his catastrophic sojourn into our government, and he is trying to blow the whistle on this man and his past history. Isn’t all history past? Sorry for the aside. Musk is not out to help anyone but himself, so this one goes on the trash pile.
Musk knew along?
The third possibility is that he knew and did not care, perhaps he even thought it was cool that El puta pendejo naranja was such good buddies with Epstein, or maybe he was trying to hang it over tRump’s head, little knowing tRump has no shame. This is the troubling one. He knew, and then went ahead and spent gawd knows how many millions of dollars to get this man elected. What does that say about Elon Musk? As far as I am concerned that puts him in the same bucket as those convicted/arrested sexual predators. It has been argued that without Musk’s money towards the end of the campaign, tRump would never have won. Such a favor the man did for us… not.
I personally believe that no one should be allowed to have as much money as Musk, Bezos, and other multi-billionaires, but that is a discussion for another post.
And so it should not go.
Combo of 1 and 3. He knew all along, and the bromance breakup caused him to spill the beans on what was supposed to have been an inside secret. I guess the only redeeming thing here is that if Musk’s calling it out it most likely means Musk is not on it.