Here We Go Again

     Alright, Elmo, now's a good time to bring out the Epstein files, if you've got them, at least the ones that Pam Bondi now claims don't exist after saying a few months ago were on her desk.

     Yes, they're at it again, like two snakes in a serpentarium. Just a couple days after Musk claimed to have founded a third party (with no evidence, obviously), Trump responded with a lengthy diatribe on Truth Social:

     "I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States - The System seems not designed for them." 

     Number one, the guy who once claimed the Continental Army took control of the airports shows his complete ignorance of American history. The 19th century was the heyday of third parties. In fact, a quick Wikipedia search shows a long list of third parties in American history, going back to the 18th century.

      And, number two, the reason why there aren't any viable third parties these days, as Trump says, is because of a political system that's as astoundingly corrupt as Trump himself. It's a system that is viciously insistent on a two party system of political hegemony, even to the point of keeping third party candidates off debate stages by continually moving the goal posts back.

     So, when you look at it that way, there may be something to what Musk is saying when he talks about "the uniparty" (Michael Collins, the independent journalist, called it "the money party"). 

     Now Elmo is whining on Twitter about being "used" by Trump. Look at this picture and tell me who was really being used by whom?

     The tea leaves are already saying that no Democrat in their right mind would want to join Musk's little pretend America Party. True, Musk is one of the very few people in the country who could single-handedly fund such an endeavor out of his pocket but if it isn't recognized by the entities that are given the power to recognize or not recognize parties, I don't give it a snowball's chance in Hell of succeeding.

     But I can see a lot of idiot Republicans jumping on board his flaming bandwagon, which would only poach votes from Republican candidates at least in the short term and that can only be a good thing, right?