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Five Musk v Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora: Calvin Coolidge and JD Vance, Math and Tolerances, Troll Level Infinite on Epstein, O’Neill LBJ Richelieu Elwood P Dowd and Jesus, John Nolte For the Win

Posted: June 6, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, politics, under the fedora
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100 years ago we had one of the wisest Presidents ever in office. That man was Calvin Coolidge. He was known for an age of prosperity but also known for giving good advice such as this line:

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”

Coolidge once held the office of Vice President, JD Vance the current Vice President apparently has taken his advice to heart and put out a hilarious tweet in the face of the whole world screaming for him to say something about Trump vs Musk which said:

Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about?

Now THAT’S funny.

It’s worth pointing out that Elon Musk is right that the “Big Beautiful Bill” does not cut as much as it should and spends more than it should, that is simple math and Elon is very good at math.

But as an engineer he should also be good at the math involving tolerances, that is, how far you can push something before you reach the danger point.

As I’ve already pointed out, this is the best bill that could be gotten out of the house with the majority you have, the math is very direct, you needed one more than a majority in the House and 50 votes in the senate on a reconciliation bill.

Without bigger majorities you can’t do better than this. It’s not just a matter of straight math it’s a matter of tolerances and Musk should know this.

There was a lot of talk coming out of the MSM over yesterday but the thing that I found absolutely Hilarious was this tweet from the official Democrat party twitter/x account:

In case the tweet doesn’t show the Democrats tweeted:

Kill the bill and release the Epstein Files!

Yes you read that right, the DEMOCRATS are now suddenly calling for the release of the Epstein files. I replied thus:

I’m sorry but getting @TheDemocrats to call for the release of the #EpsteinFiles is troll level ULTIMATE! I think the feud is a real thing but if it’s not this is 12 dimensional chess not 4

This is why you should never tweet while angry or on a emotional high.

If I’m Trump I tell Pam Bondi: I know you’re going through them but dump them all by the end of next week they asked for it.

I say the end of next week because this is going to be the only story for the next few days so if you have news you want hidden now’s the time to drop it.

I often refer to Tip O’Neill’s excellent autobiography “Man of the House” because it has so many lesions on how politics works. Yesterday’s kerfuffle remined me of one such story.

LBJ was meeting with Tip and called for some polling figures and an aide was slow in getting them and Johnson chewed him out with a profanity laced tirade. When Tip spoke to the aide saying that president or no I wouldn’t take that kind of grief from anyone the aide answered: That’s just his way five minutes from now he’ll forget all about it.

If there is one consistent thing about Donald Trump it’s the ability to work with people that he doesn’t agree with or even doesn’t get along with because he is completely goal orientated. You will see him make peace and a deal with anybody as long as it advances his goals. He’ll let Elon rant and jab him gently as he has so far but one there is a common goal he won’t be shy about making up with him, particularly when he knows he holds all the cards right now.

There are folks like Steve Bannon, who never liked or trusted Musk who want Trump to go all Houthis in Yemen on him.

Trump won’t rise to that bait. He’ll simply let good economic numbers for the country (and bad stock numbers for Tesla) speak for themselves. He’ll let folks like the teamsters who voted for him remind him that he may have kicked in money but the voters were showing up at rallies for Trump long before he turned up and that with one customer base already upset with him it’s not a good idea to upset a second until Elon reaches the Cardinal Richelieu moment from the 1948 version of the Three Musketeers:

When that moment comes (and there are signs it already has) Trump will take this scene from The Chosen to heart:

Let’s pray for them both and hope Elon this scene from the classic picture Harvey to heart.

I recommend pleasant over smart too or to quote Tip O’Neill again: “I always knew how to count.”

Finally there is one point on this thing that I completely missed that John Nolte didn’t:

Nolte said, “We don’t know what’s really going on, but I do know that Trump is sticking his finger in the eye of his biggest donor and that never happens. How many times did Barack Obama piss off George Soros? Zero.”

Seriously can you think of any pol, even one who doesn’t have to face the voters again, who is willing to stand up to his biggest donor to advance what he thinks is right? Does nobody see the amount of street cred this gives Donald Trump in terms of fighting for his principles? Who else has ever done this?

It’s like the story of the Mafia approaching Rocky Marciano to try to get him to throw his title fight against Don Cockell to clean up on the odds. Rocky rebuked them saying he was ashamed that they were Italian. The dons were disappointed but were impressed that he stood up to them.

In the end when Musk realizes this he will get that his best chance to meet his goal of reaching Mars is with Trump at his side vs sword to sword.

Yesterday the left was partying like Satan until 3 pm on Good Friday, let me remind them it quickly went down hill for him from that point.

Elon Musk Obviously Wasn’t Paying Attention to the Epstein Story in May of 2016, but I WAS or He Wouldn’t Have Tweeted What He Did About Trump

Posted: June 5, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, politics, Uncategorized
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One of the problems with being a person who is used to getting his way is that occasionally you don’t and when you’re not used to it you can make statements you will regret in the future. This is one of them:

Now I could say a lot about this the most logical thing being that if Trump had been actually involved with Epstein (or if he had been for that matter) there is zero chance that the Biden White House or the Biden FBI would not have leaked it long ago, certainly they would have done so during election 2024 as Musk should be smart enough to know but right now he’s angry and so he is speaking out of his hat without knowing.

However unlike Elon Musk who was too busy worrying about cars and rockets in 2016 to be paying attention to the Epstein story I WAS paying attention to it and thus saw the critical clip from Morning Joe from May 16th of 2016. I’m keying to the critical part

I wrote the following about this at the time.

 take a look at the video

and two things become immediately clear.

Everybody at the Table knows who Jeffery Epstein is, and what the story is

Nobody at the table wanted to talk about it

and more:

Mind you Trump hasn’t even bothered to say a word about Epstein yet and the table does its best to spin this in a different direction, but the very fact that Trump is who is forced MSNBC to deal with the story even if most of dealing with it was talking about Trump’s willingness to go there.

Take a look at the set of dejected faces on that video, remember those faces are being broadcast on MSNBC to liberal viewers who would never do a web search of the words “Jeffery Epstein + Bill Clinton”

Donald Trump did that and if you’re a conservative it’s a joy to behold.

The real funny thing and the giveaway wasn’t the video alone, it was the steps that were taken to hide it making copyright claims and burying it:

So,  You’ll have absolutely no problem sharing this clip with people far and wide and giving them a hint about the relationship between Jeffery Epstein and Bill Clinton and how the media views it…provided you are someone like me who

already saw the clip

remembered what show it was on

knew what day it was broadcast

And knew what time segment to look for 

As for everyone else NBC says to you: Beware of the Leopard!

Again this doesn’t get done if Trump was involved.

Now I’ll give Elon a pass for not knowing this as he wasn’t paying attention back then but an engineer should know better than to open his mouth before knowing what he is saying is true.

I strongly suggest resolving this rift if it can be but it not so be it.

Update: Forgot to mention that it was the TRUMP administration that arrested and jailed Epstein after being protected by dems forever.

Musk Gets the Arrows Johnson Turns The Flank

Posted: February 13, 2025 by datechguy in politics
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 Radio Presenter: Twelve men were accidentally hanged at Whitby Assizes this afternoon whilst considering their verdict. This is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in Britain since Tuesday.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus Episode 35 The Nude Man 1972

Every day that passes Elon Musk seems to uncover a new big of outrageousness that surpasses the outrageousness of the previous one. It’s reached the point where:

All of this stuff is great and Kari Lake gets it

The text: Isn’t the easiest answer to why Jeffries is struggling to mount an Anti-Trump resistance is that the President, Elon, & DOGE have shut off the money tap for the astroturfed protest operations, &, it’s hard to fuel genuine opposition to an agenda that’s popular with the people?

but as I pointed out a bit ago:

All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.

If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.

Well apparently Johnson got the message:

We have a $36 trillion dollar federal debt. We have got to get ahold of these things. You’re going to see it reflected in the reconciliation package that comes forward, you’re going to see it reflected in the appropriations as we go forward, and you’re going to see it in these efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
And we think the final number on that is going to be substantial and a game changer in Washington.

The clear threat was in Johnson’s final sentence. A game-changer in Washington. DOGE isn’t the weapon, it’s just the canary in the limestone mine. Now that Congress knows where the waste is —like USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Department of Education, DEI spending, the Treasury, Social Security, and the rest— legislators are working up a budget bill to nuke the Deep State from orbit.

It’s wonky, but this is very important. The fact Johnson announced a budget bill is critical. Bills related to reconciling the budget can be passed using a process called ‘budget reconciliation,’ which avoids the Senate filibuster and can be approved with a simple majority. In other words, it’s the Deep State’s worst nightmare: first, DOGE identified the bureaucratic bloat, and so now Republicans in Congress have a viable legislative path to cut the guts out of the bloated, mutant Swamp whale.

The folks at Coffee and COVID (via Insty) and that’s the bottom line.

If Johnson can keep the GOP in line (and I assume there are more than a few in on the graft) and get the bill out it’s game over for the left. Musk might get the headlines but Johnson can win the day and all the court cases against Trump will instantly become meaningless.

The irony? All of this is made possible because the can was kicked down the road on a government shutdown.

What USAID is Doing as Explained by Tip O’Neill and James Michael Curley

Posted: February 9, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Uncomfortable Truths
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Interviewer: Did he really [Robin Hood] steal from the rich and give to the poor?

2000 Year Old Man: No, he didn’t

Interviewer: He didn’t?

2000 Year old man: He stole from everyone and kept everything.

Interviewer: Well How did legend spring up that he was…

2000 Year Old Man: He had a fellow Marty, Marty the press agent, ran in all the papers he wrote in scrolls. ‘He took from the rich and gave to the poor’ who knew? He’d give you such a knock in a head when he robbed you you wouldn’t remember a thing.

Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks The 2000 Year old Man animated special 1975

One of the things I have argued for years is that nothing really changes because the things that drive humans haven’t changed, the only difference between a courtier of 1000 years ago and a deep state person of today is tactics and what the reward can bring.

A great example of this is USAID. The left is screaming that they are cutting live saving programs when what in fact is happening is the discovery of the giant Chicago style grift that’s been going on for decades but I suspect was accelerated greatly by the elevation of a corrupt Chicago pol to the highest office in the land.

The best way to understand how this grift works is compare what’s happening to something similar and I can’t think of anything that serves this purpose than one of Tip O’Neill’s stories concerning his relationship the legendary Boston mayor, Massachusetts Governor and US Congressman James Michael Curley.

O’Neill had been a protégé of Curley and knew him well. Ironically it was his decision to not expose Curley’s theft of a delegate election against his own group in 1948 that cemented his place within the Democrat party which aided his advancement. He tells many stories about Curley in his autobiography Man of the House (1987). This was the final one:

It happened in 1954 while I was in Congress. I came home for a few days to come home to campaign for reelection, and I ran into Curley on Beacon Street. He was, as people said in those days “on his uppers,” which meant that he didn’t even have enough money to fix the heels on his shoes.

Curley was a notorious thief but was also known for being a soft touch and giving money away particularly to the poor, so once he no longer had influence to sell things began to go hard for him. Tip continues:

Still he gave me a warm greeting. “How are you Tip? You’re going to win easy.”

“I hope so Governor, but I’m not taking any chances.”

“That’s smart of you, Tip and I’d like to give you a hand. Do I have your permission to raise a few dollars for your campaign?”

I assured him that would be fine.

Given that Tip O’Neill was an up and coming man in congress the idea that Curley was part of his fundraising crew would give the old man some clout in the area. Tip picks up the story…

The following Monday, he came to see me. “I raised five hundred dollars for you,” [a little over $5800 in 2024 dollars DTG] he said as he handed me an envelope. I thanks him and put it in my pocket. But when I counted the money I found that the envelope contained only $450. [$5250 in today’s dollars DTG]

The very same thing happened the following day, and the next, Curley didn’t show up on Thursday, but on Friday he cam in and said. “Here’s a thousand bucks for you.” By then I wasn’t surprised to she that his 10 percent commission had already been removed. I didn’t really mind because he obviously needed the money, Besides, I didn’t want to quarrel with my best fund-raiser.

So at that point we’re talking $2500 or in today’s dollars just under $30K with Curley presumably taking $3k for himself. Tip continues:

“By the way Governor.” I said to him the following week, “I’d like the names of these people so I can send them a thank-you note.”

“Oh you’re getting too smart. They’ve already been thanked.” And that was the last time I saw Jim Curley.

Now you might be thinking at this point: “Hey DaTechGuy. What’s the big deal. O’Neill got what he wanted, about $4500 bucks or $52 grand in today’s money and Curley got $5800 out of the deal? That’s doesn’t seem very significant, it certainly wasn’t to Tip who was happy to get that $4500 bucks.” And if the story ended here you might have a point but the story didn’t end here as Tip explains:

Several months later I was back home one weekend when a fellow came into my office to ask for help in straightening out a problem with one of the government agencies.

I’d never seen the man before so I asked if he lived in my district. “No.” he said. “I live in John McCormack’s district.” [House majority leader who would become speaker after Sam Rayburns death DTG]

“Then why don’t you go and see Mr. McCormack?” I asked.

“Well that’s a fine way to treat a friend.” he said, “after all I’ve done for you!”

“Excuse me,” I said “but what are you talking about?”

“Are you kidding? I gave you a big contribution during your last campaign.”

We had a list of every contributor, so I excused myself and asked my secretary to look up the fellow’s name. But there was no sign of him in our records. “You know,” I told him when I got back to my desk. “I don’t run my office on a quid pro quo basis. I do favors for people because they need my help, not because they contributed to my campaign. But the funny thing is I don’t even have your name in my book. Would you refresh my memory?“

“Sure.” he said “In your last election I paid for your television ads on the final two nights of the campaign.”

“You must be mistaken, ” I said. “You never paid for my television ads. I’ve never heard of you.”

“What do you mean?” he said. “Jim Curley came ot me and said he was raising money to put Tip O’Neill on television. And I’m the one who paid for your TV time the night you went on. Didn’t he give you my name?”

So THAT was it! I told him the story of how Curley had asked me for permission to raise money and how he had skimmed a little off the top. We both had a good laugh over that.

“Now I understand why you’ve never heard of me.” he said, “But I remember how much money I gave to Curley to pay for those ads, and let me tell you something. Jim Curley made out just fine. I’m afraid you were the one who was working for ten percent.”

In short Curley didn’t hit up this guy for $5000 and then give Tip O’Neill $4500. He hit up this guy for $50,000 ($583,000) in today’s money and kept $45,500. ($535,000) for himself. In other words 91% of that money was skimmed and only 9% actually went to Tip for his campaign

That’s pretty much what Elon Musk and his team is finding out. The Democrats and their press allies are screaming to the press and claiming with a straight face that useful items are at risk without acknowledging that they’re not worried about the 9% that might actually do good, they’re trying to protect the 91 cents out of every dollar that they are using as a slush fund. And believe me unlike Curley they aren’t given a portion of that 91% to the poor unless you count the portion given as tips given to waiters after an expensive meal or valets after parking the cars your tax dollars are paying for.

Closing thought. I highly recommend O’Neill’s autobiography if you have any interest in what of the leading figures of the Democrat party during they years when they actually gave a damn about regular people thought.

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