The Crashout Heard 'Round the Web The modern term is crashout. The old-school term is clusterf**k. Either way, what just erupted between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is a textbook example of what happens when empire and ego collide at full throttle. What began as a low-rumble Twitter (now X) tiff about electric vehicle tax credits and Trump's Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) quickly turned nuclear. Trump’s camp threatened to strip Tesla of every last tax perk and terminate NASA’s contracts with SpaceX. Hollow threats? Mostly. But the message was clear: get in line or get torched. Then Musk, never one to shy from fire, flung an atomic accusation—alleging that Trump was sitting on Epstein files because he was in them.…
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