What America needs is a moderate political option that hands all political power to a drug-addled foreign plutocrat
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We haven’t had a thread about Elon Musk’s new political party yet, so here we go:
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out against Elon Musk after he formed a new political party, calling the move “ridiculous,” and saying the tech billionaire had gone “completely off the rails.”
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Sunday stateside. “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of complete and total disruption and chaos.”
Musk said in a post on X Saturday that he had set up the “American Party” to compete against the Republican and Democratic parties. The billionaire had teased for weeks the idea of a new political party, taking on Trump over the tax and spending plans that he said would bankrupt the economy.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk wrote, “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Disagreement over the spending bill had led to a dramatic falling out between Trump and Musk, souring the bromance which saw Musk spend millions of dollars sponsoring Trump’s re-election bid and the president appoint Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, tasked with identifying areas to cut federal spending.
“I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party. We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it’s always been a two-party system, and I think starting a third party just adds to confusion,” Trump said Sunday, Reuters reported, a day after Musk’s announcement.
Trump also took aim at Musk’s push for an “Electric Vehicle Mandate” in the Sunday post, saying it would have “forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time.”
BTW a classic bit of the conspiratorial mindset has been illustrated by lots of LGM comments over the past few weeks, claiming that the purported rupture between Trump and Musk was just all elaborate kayfabe, to distract the wretched refuse of our teeming shores from the unpopularity of the budget bill, the bombing of Iran (remember that?), DOGE cuts, ICE raids etc.
This theory required assuming that these two wildly narcissistic totally undisciplined nut jobs were engaged in a complex piece of clever coordinated political theater, as opposed to actually being at each other’s throats, which was about as unpredictable a development as a turf war between Mexican drug cartels.
It should be unnecessary to point out that Musk is almost the last person in the world anyone would pick to actually start a third major American political party — an almost impossible task for a brilliant, highly disciplined person with an attention span longer than a fruit fly, so not Elon Musk in other words.
I find it incomprehensible that Donald Trump has the apparent ability to hypnotize so many powerful people into thinking that he’s the mark rather than themselves, but that incomprehension must nevertheless admit to the reality of the phenomenon. I guess that’s why they call it charisma, or the blues, or something.