Musk must end his jackassery in the foothills
American Thinker,
by
Noel S. Williams
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/1/2025 10:52:42 AM
I appreciate even more now what Trump meant when he said that Elon is wearing thin. After a brief truce, the pluto-crat who wants to go to Mars is at it again. He is threatening to primary members of Congress who vote for the BBB.
He’s also teasing a new America Party as an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty. Some may consider that a good idea — in theory. In practice, under the influence of mercurial Musk, it could create more problems than it solves, for, while Trump is a stable genius, Musk is an unstable one.
Unlike the forgiving, magnanimous, and sagacious Trump (who’ll meet with
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/1/2025 11:05:18 AM (No. 1971652)
Great article.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 7/1/2025 11:11:21 AM (No. 1971655)
The funny thing here is that for decades fiscal responsibility has been pounded by the “conservatives.” The 80s were rife with calls for control of deficit spending, the bankrupting of our nation, and so on. Lip service to get reelected. Reagan got his tax cuts passed, revenues went up, and what did the Uniparty do? Spend it all, establish “base-line budgeting,” aka, spending increases that never end. We were told we have to take deficit spending seriously or it will destroy the country. Ross Perot tipped the 1992 election by taking it seriously. The democrats laughed, the Uniparty Republicans went along because that’s what they do to “get theirs.”
So, here we are more than forty years later and a deficit that was in the hundreds of billions has ballooned to $37,000,000,000,000 with no end in sight. Why? Because, now they tell us as long as we grow the economy, we can continue to spend, spend, spend!!! All we have to do is monetize the debt and let the party continue. Now, Elon Musk has taken the threat of the deficit seriously along with Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, and MAGA fanatics call them lunatics. They tell them, as we have been told for forty plus years, “Just pass this and we’ll fix it in the next Fedzilla Spending Bill.”
More lies. More bread and circuses. No one is serious about it. You know that Medicare and Social Security are set to bankrupt the nation in just a few short years. Will we just monetize that as well? Dance on! We don’t have enough people paying into the two Ponzi schemes to support it, but the Federal Reserve will fix it with QE - Infinity.
We elect cowards. We have become a nation of cowards, addicted to free stuff and rights without responsibility. The party WILL END. And our children will hate us for it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jasonB 7/1/2025 11:14:19 AM (No. 1971658)
I don't agree with the 3rd party route. However, Musk stuck his neck and empire out for Trump and DOGE. And now to watch Trump and the deficit spenders in Congress just disregard everything that was exposed well, can you blame the guy for being miffed.
And once again, Trump will try to primary anyone that wants fiscal responsibility. Never the RINOs (remember you used to call anyone that just kept spending, a RINO, until Trump told you the opposite is true) who run on every conservative idea they can spout then vote the EXACT OPPOSITE every chance they get.
Perhaps if he used his enormous bully-pulpit for CUTTING SPENDING, the big spenders would fall in line.
The guy who wrote the article can't even get right the basic fact that Musk is ON RECORD not wanting EV subsidies.
But hey, we got illegals still on Medicaid so, let's pass this BBB and pat ourselves on the back and proclaim "mISsIon AKcomlIShed".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 7/1/2025 11:19:57 AM (No. 1971666)
No #2. We don't elect cowards. We elect criminals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GOPinTN 7/1/2025 11:51:09 AM (No. 1971682)
1925 federal budget under silent Cal was 2.9 billion with a 717 million surplus
1975 federal budget 270 billion with a 54 billion deficit
2025 estimate is 5.051 trillion with an 1.183 trillion deficit - just for this year.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lucky5 7/1/2025 11:53:07 AM (No. 1971684)
Musk was always going to be a wild card.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
govlawyer 7/1/2025 11:55:22 AM (No. 1971686)
Musk doesn't realize that if he's upset because he lost his subsidies, MAGA won't give a damn...
If you have to bribe me to buy your product with a huge tax credit and can't give them away without one.....you already know what's going to happen when the tax goodies are repealed.
You may be a super genius but you might not be one possessing common sense.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franco 7/1/2025 12:22:34 PM (No. 1971700)
Not worried about Musk. Let him create his party. He'll do no better than H. Ross Perot, who threw the 1992 election to Bill Clinton and a Democrat Party that wasn't clinically insane (unlike today). In practice, Musk's party will draw away the remaining sane Democrats, leaving them with a smaller plurality than the Republicans. Clinton never won a popular vote majority (43% in '92 and 48% in '96), and yet he won the EV in landslides. A similar outcome will now occur in favor of Republicans. The formation of Musk's party will assure a Republican succeeds President Trump.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2025 1:05:50 PM (No. 1971713)
Musk doesn't understand politics. Not at all.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/1/2025 1:45:26 PM (No. 1971729)
Musk is a genius at technology. Building a political movement is a whole different animal. By late 2026 there will be other issues at the forefront and the economy will probably be doing quite well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jen103143 7/1/2025 2:57:12 PM (No. 1971742)
I just watched a video that might help you understand why the ‘libertarians’ in congress cause the big upsets. Musk is a libertarian, and the Doug in Exile youtube claims the libertarians are also atheists. This video is an eye opener!
https://youtu.be/wNE1aVSVT-8?si=I1SuGJNScK8QO9Rt
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/1/2025 3:25:49 PM (No. 1971752)
Musk strikes me as having a brilliant mind and a good heart, but he's somewhat autistic, with a certain naivete and social skills just a little off.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/1/2025 4:38:31 PM (No. 1971770)
Musk would do better investing his money in defeating Mulkowski, Collins, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, Massie, the NY SALT crowd, and other RINO's. People should not have to pay for their new car --- and subsidize their neighbor's EV purchase.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 7/1/2025 6:27:53 PM (No. 1971829)
Anyone in any party who worries about the spending should be commended. About 90% of the people in both parties are only worried about their own skins and being re-elected. Is it even doing any good for DOGE to keep working and finding waste, fraud, and abuse?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/1/2025 11:23:49 PM (No. 1971891)
Elon thinks like a CEO that IS GOD in his companies. Our government is built on compromise, not Dictators whims.
GROW UP ELON!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 7/2/2025 6:01:56 AM (No. 1971921)
I think what bothers me the most is that for the longest time Elon Musk voted for Democrats. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate what he did for DOGE but was he doing it for himself? For him to make some of the statements he is making, I would have to ask him if he contributed to the problem all of these years by voting Democrat?
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