The Big Beautiful Disaster

While Trump and Musk hurl insults, democracy dies in the background; this is your wake-up call to stop watching the circus and start fighting for your country.

Guest article by Michael Cohen

Let me tell you something: watching Elon Musk and Donald Trump go at each other is like watching two bloated hyenas fight over a carcass they both dragged into the dust. It’s grotesque, pathetic, and above all, dangerous. You’ve got Trump, the orange autocrat, flailing on Truth Social like a man with too many cheeseburgers and not enough attention. And Elon? A once-lauded innovator now reduced to a dopamine junkie chasing MAGA clout on a platform he ruined just to feel powerful.

And the American people? We’re the saps watching it like it’s must-see TV while the house burns down around us.

This feud isn’t about ideas. It’s not about policy. It’s a battle of malignant narcissism, a grudge match between two egos too big to share the same spotlight. But here’s the real kicker: this public pissing contest is a smokescreen. A distraction. And it’s working. While the media devours every insult and meme like it’s the Zapruder film, the real crimes against democracy are happening in broad daylight—and barely anyone’s paying attention.

Take the migrants. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have gone missing. We’re talking about human beings—some fleeing violence, some seeking asylum, others simply trying to survive. Families torn apart by a deportation policy so cruel it would make the architects of ICE under Trump blush. We’ve got people being dumped in war zones, children vanishing from shelters, and not a whisper of outrage on cable news. Why? Because Musk tweeted an Epstein meme and Trump called him a “broken puppet.”

And let’s not forget the foreign students—kids who believed in the American dream, who came here legally, studied hard, paid tuition, contributed to our economy. Now they’re being rounded up, detained, and expelled. No hearings. No dignity. Just cold, bureaucratic erasure. We’re not just deporting individuals; we’re exporting our own credibility. And for what? To feed a nationalist fantasy that even the GOP can’t explain without tying itself in knots.

Meanwhile, Trump’s latest legislative monstrosity—the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”—is a disaster so staggering, even his own allies are sprinting away from it like it’s radioactive. A grotesque buffet of tax giveaways, deregulation, and culture war red meat wrapped in the flag and stamped with “Made in America,” while being written by lobbyists in Qatar and Beijing. It’s a joke. Except the punchline is our future.

Rand Paul calls it a ticking debt bomb. Josh Hawley says it screws working families. And Marjorie Taylor Greene—yes, that Marjorie—called it “a fraud dressed as patriotism.” When the Queen of Conspiracies is suddenly the adult in the room, you know we’re in deep shit.

But instead of examining the implications of all this legislative vandalism, the press is breathlessly tracking Trump and Musk like it’s the Super Bowl of sociopaths. Who tweeted what. Who unfollowed whom. Who’s threatening subpoenas and who’s promising revenge. It’s all noise—weaponized noise—designed to drown out the slow-motion destruction of our democratic institutions.

This isn’t a feud. It’s theater. A stage play in which the two leads hate each other, while the curtain hides the real show: courts stacked with extremists, civil rights gutted by judicial fiat, statehouses passing bills that criminalize dissent, ban books, and rewrite history. It’s Orwell with better marketing.

Our democracy isn’t being stolen in the dead of night; it’s being stripped for parts in front of a cheering crowd at a Bravo Housewives Reunion.

And here’s the worst part: we’re complicit if we keep watching. Every second we waste on Musk’s latest grievance or Trump’s endless persecution complex is a second we’re not fighting for justice, truth, or the survival of our republic.

I know Trump. I know how he thinks. He doesn’t fear Elon Musk. He doesn’t fear the law. He fears irrelevance. He fears being outshined. That’s why this feud is happening. It’s not political; it’s primal. And Elon? He doesn’t care about democracy. He cares about dominance. Twitter. AI. Space. It’s all just a means to feed the ego. These aren’t public servants. They’re gladiators in a colosseum they built to distract you while they rob you blind.

So no, we can’t afford to sit back and treat this Musk vs. Trump slap-fight like it’s WrestleMania. Because while they play heel and face, the American experiment is being dismantled brick by brick.

And if we don’t wake the hell up, we won’t just lose the thread—we’ll lose the whole damn plot.

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