Steve Bannon Says There’s No MAGA Civil War Because Elon Musk Isn’t “Tough Enough” To Fight

Steve Bannon has been one of the loudest voices in the ongoing MAGA civil war, but he insisted this week that there isn’t actually a civil war happening with Trump’s allies and supporters because the other side (Elon Musk) isn’t “tough enough” to actually fight back. As evidence, Bannon pointed to the fact that Musk has already backed down on his vow to “go to war” on the issue of the H-1B visas by now saying that maybe they should be reformed. Musk is a lot of things, but a fighter isn’t one of them, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The MAGA Civil War may still be continuing, but Steve Bannon has already declared victory because as Bannon claimed this week, he already got Elon Musk to back down on the issue of the H one B visas. I'm sure at this point everybody is familiar with the fight that is taking place on the right. So I don't need to rehash everything that's going on. Just understand that there's a faction of the MAGA base that's angry that Donald Trump still wants to bring in foreign workers on the H one B Visa program, which Elon Musk also endorsed. He actually endorsed it before Trump. Um, but then there's the other faction that wants the foreign guest workers, just not the other immigrants. So basically, MAGA is tearing itself apart over how racist they want to be. And Bannon and people like Laura Luer want to go full on no non-white people coming into this country, essentially.

And Elon Musk is like, no, we can have a few as long as they work for me. But this led to a conversation this week between Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon, where Bannon and Loomer, uh, both attacked Elon Musk with Loomer saying, uh, these tech people are welfare queens because their companies are receiving government subsidies and they want to take over our defense industry. I believe that they want this idea of tech feudalism to create so much conflict with the nationalist MAGA base so that it kind of sparks a civil war, which is what it's being called now, right? A Maga civil War. And then Bannon chimed in with his criticism of Musk saying quote, this is not a civil war, because they're not tough enough. They're just not. They folded. I mean, it was embarrassing. Now, the problem here is that Bannon is right.

Musk did fold. He is not tough. Elon Musk is many, many things, but a fighter folks, he is not. So what happened was Elon Musk this past weekend, vowed to quote, go to war on the H one B issue, and then of course, told all the other MAGA people that were against him to go f yourself in the face. So Elon Musk was talking tough on Twitter, and then of course, the next day he immediately came out and said, maybe we should just, you know, revise the H one B program and make it more expensive to bring in foreign guest workers again so that only the super rich can bring in these essentially indentured servants, which Loomer and Bannon also called him out for that. A and i, I never thought I'd be citing with Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer, but their criticisms of Musk are accurate. Their stances on the H one B Visa

Program, however, are not, they don't want anybody coming into this country. And that, of course, is an economic disaster for America. Not to mention a massive humanitarian crisis. They're wrong on the issue of immigration, but they're right about their criticisms of Elon Musk. He is not a tough guy. He likes to pretend he's tough on his own social media platform. But the second he gets called out, he does exactly what Donald Trump does. He winds, he cries, he punished. People like Loomer, suspended her for 12 hours from Twitter this past weekend, took away a lot of blue check marks from a lot of right wing influencers. He's a baby, he's not a fighter, he is a toddler as Bannon, by the way, also called him. So again, it's a weird situation to be in because I'm not siding with them on their horrible, you know, borderline racist policies. But their attacks on Elon Musk are absolutely spot on.