Elon Musk set out to kill USAID from the get go.

[speak easy]

He succeeded. I will never say anything positive about the 'America Party.' If it wounds the GOP, I'll talk about that. They are both every bit as bad as each other - Hellhounds.

[blm]

1. Putin wanted an end to USAID. Trump and Musk made it happen.

[speak easy]

3. "Putin wanted an end to USAID."

So did Xi .

[applegrove]

4. America Party is a Trojan horse to keep Democrats from

winning districts from Republicans in 2026.

[speak easy]

5. (few) Dems will vote for a South African transphobic Nazi.

[applegrove]

6. But the difference between who votes for Musk's

party and votes that leave Trump and go to Democrats could give Republicans, in districts the America Party does run in, the win. So far it is only planning on running in swing districts. Trump has a base of 37%. Another 30% don't bother to vote. That leaves 33% left to be split by Musk and Democrats. Keep in mind in multiparty Canadian parliamentary elections (based on the winning number of electoral ridings) the person who gets over 35% of the vote usually win. It is a scam Musk/Trump are pulling.

[Bayard]

8. Do you think their big fight was all fake?

[applegrove]

9. Don't know. But they likely are taking advantage of Democratic unpopularity.

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Trump would be someone who would make hay out of a real fight. He would see some advantage in keeping people thinking it was going. The real test is if Space X and Starlink loose their government contracts. And other things like that.

[misanthrope]

15. Does one of them have a background in

Professional wrestling or reality TV?

[Initech]

7. Musk is a traitor as far as I am concerned.

I hope his new party is a colossal failure and that Satan has a special circle of hell reserved for him.

[ShazzieB]

10. If Musk never did one single other evil thing, destroying USAID would be enough to condemn him forever afaic.

We know that's far from the only evil thing he's done, but imo it may be the most evil. It doesn't get much more heinous than taking food out of the mouths of starving children and denying lifesaving medication to HIV patients.

I get all HULK SMASH just thinking about it,

[applegrove]

12. He's killing millions.

[applegrove]

13. Rachel Bitecofer - The Cycle

Target Audience: The Last 15% of the GOP’s Old Guard

The Republican coalition today is roughly 80% MAGA populism and 20% traditional fiscal conservatism. The Trump takeover was so complete that the Tea Party, which once pretended to care about debt, has been fully subsumed into MAGA’s cult-of-personality grievance politics.

But that last 15%-20% is still out there. They’re people like Thomas Massie, who actually voted against the “Big Ugly Bill” – the Trump-backed tax cut and deficit-exploding spending spree. They’re the ideologues who believe deficits matter, even if their party doesn’t anymore. They’re old school libertarians, Ron Paul acolytes, and Koch-bred Club for Growth types.

In other words, a tiny sliver of the current GOP coalition.

https://thecycle.substack.com/p/breaking-elon-musk-announces-a-new?triedRedirect=true

Applegrove: would not some percentage of these 15% vote Democratic if not for Musk?

[rubbersole]

14. USAID was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Probably pretty popular with the home folks.