Let me make myself crystal clear on this topic: every single time in the last century and a half that some asshole has tried to create a third political party (e.g. Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose, Ross Perot’s Reform) the net result has been an electoral victory for the Democrats.
So Elon, buddy, unless you want to see ALL your good works on DOGE and such overturned, quit this bullshit about forming a new “America” party. You’re acting like a spoiled child who fucks up everyone’s Christmas because you got a green bicycle with 3-speed gears instead of a red one with a 10 speed. Yeah, the BBB wasn’t everything we wished for. But it sure as hell was better than anything else on offer.
Because make no mistake: if Musk’s little exercise ends with the fucking Democrats taking control of the White House and/or Congress (which is what history tells us will happen), they will reverse everything that Trump has managed to get done: closing the border, ending the USAID boondoggle and hamstringing the loathsome Dept of Education, to mention just three of the domestic wrongs righted.
What this steaming bunch of Communists will inflict on the world with their pathetic attempts at foreign policy of appeasement of shitholes like Iran and China cannot be imagined.
Here’s what I hope, if Musk gets this silliness operational: that Trump ends all repeat all subsidies for the “alternate energy” industries like wind power and electric car manufacturers — because in the latter case, all that will happen will be that expensive electric cars like Tesla will have to face sky-high retail prices (in a market that is already in a tailspin as ordinary people turn away from the Duracell models), resulting in Tesla pretty much becoming an expensive toy for rich people.
And Tesla isn’t Ferrari, in case nobody’s noticed it before.
Oh, and one last thing. There’s no need for a third political party in the U.S. because we already have one: it’s called “MAGA” and it’s not a party but a movement.
One would have thought that a smart guy like Elon Musk would have figured this out.: politics is the art of the possible, not the display of spite when the possible wasn’t perfection.
If Musk had always let the perfect be the enemy of the good, his rocket program would have ended after the first failed launch. Why he now wants to embrace that policy ideal makes me wonder if he is as bright as everyone seems to think he is.
And finally, there’s this:
Quit co-opting our patriotic symbol to further your own little ego trip.