Elon's Party
Why Rolling up Your Sleeves sounds so hard- but it's possible.
🚨 The Billionaire Breakup
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are fighting again.
Musk, in a tech-bro tantrum, just announced his new third party: The America Party. Why? Because the Big Beautiful Bill passe and he didn’t get his way. Because Trump didn’t stop it. Because Elon believes the country needs a new savior—and, conveniently, it should be him.
🎭 It’s All Theater—But the Consequences Are Real
This should be a moment of levity. Two billionaires throwing public tantrums because their authoritarian bromance hit a snag. But the stakes are real. And what’s underneath the public spats and flashy graphics is a dangerous misdirection.
While they bicker over who loves America more, here’s what’s actually happening:
🛰️ The Big Beautiful Bill:
Gutted weather services
🏥 Slashed Medicaid
🌲 Deregulated environmental protections
🧱 ICE built a swamp prison in 8 days—branded it Alligator Alcatraz—and now they’re selling merch
🧒 Job Corps is being shut down in January 2025
📜 Project 2025 continues to push mass deportations and ideological purity tests
🔧 Trump Didn’t Create a Third Party—He Hijacked One
Let’s be clear: Trump didn’t build a third party. He hijacked the Republican Party. He didn’t win by dividing votes—he won by reshaping existing infrastructure.
The smart play for real change for the Left and even Independant’s? Do the same.
Build a movement within. Force the system to shift. Pressure it until it breaks or bends.
A third party in America doesn’t win. It siphons votes and dies quietly. Look at Jill Stein and the Green Party honestly. But an insurgent faction? That’s how MAGA took over the GOP.
🆚 Third-Party Fantasy vs. Party Takeover Reality
📘 So What Should We Be Building? Project 2028
If Project 2025 is a blueprint for authoritarian rollback, then Project 2028 should be our counterpunch. We build it out and we stick to the plan the same way that the MAGA crowd has. The difference? We are pushing for social change!
But there's another obstacle we have to name first: generational gridlock.
We are currently being governed by an aging political class that refuses to let go of the reins. Too many leaders have stayed in power past their usefulness, clinging to influence instead of cultivating the next generation.
Project 2028 proposes a solution:
🔁 Mentorship Transition
Experienced leaders must transition out of elected office and into mentorship-only roles—capped at five years. Let them pass down knowledge, not legislation. This ensures continuity without calcification. It will come with pay, but not as much as they made as a full representative.
⏳ Term Limits for All Elected Offices
Public service should be a rotation of responsibility, not a lifetime entitlement. Term limits ensure fresh voices enter the arena and institutional power doesn't fossilize.
⚖️ Age Caps for Supreme Court Justices
Lifetime appointments with no cognitive checks serve no one but the entrenched elite. We propose a mandatory retirement age, backed by regular medical evaluations to protect judicial integrity as well as a annual sifting of their finances to ensure there is no undo influence.
👵🏽 Minimum Senior Representation Thresholds
We’re not sidelining elders—we’re securing a minimum percentage of senior representation across key federal committees. Issues like elder care, Social Security, and hospice infrastructure deserve advocates with lived experience.
And then, the rest of the platform:
🌱 Clean water, regenerative agriculture, and a glyphosate-free future
🏥 Universal healthcare through national service or civilian corps models
📚 Free college for all who serve—military or civil
🧑🏫 Public education that teaches critical thinking, not obedience
🧰 Trade school pathways and write-offs for community gardens, co-ops, and vertical farms
🌎 Climate justice that locks down public lands from industrial exploitation
🏘️ Community-first development and veterans' housing guarantees
It’s not about starting from scratch—it’s about rolling up our sleeves and taking back the institutions that were meant to serve us. Not billionaires. Not influencers.
Us.
🎯 What Musk’s Really Selling
We already know Musk isn’t a champion of democracy. He’s one of the largest proponents of reviving the company town model—except now it’s dressed up as “Freedom Town,” “Snailbrook,” or “Starbase.”
In South Texas, SpaceX employees overwhelmingly voted (~98%) to incorporate Starbase—a town built around the launch site—handing sweeping authority over public beaches and roads to company-aligned officials (The Guardian, The Daily Beast).
In Bastrop County, Musk is building Snailbrook, an enclave tied to SpaceX and Boring Company facilities, complete with below‑market housing and strict residency rules (Smart Cities Dive).
Residents may lose access to public services or property rights if the company deems it necessary (Yahoo News).
These aren’t communities—they’re controlled ecosystems. They are Company Towns.
And we already ran company towns out of America… their dying vestiges should act as a snake on the fence… it should tell other snakes that we don’t want them around.
Musk’s vision of America is elite libertarianism: no taxes, no regulation, no accountability.
This isn’t a rescue mission via Elon, it’s a means to his ends. And he’s throwing a pity party that Trump didn’t let him have his way.
💡 Organize Yourselves!
Change doesn’t come from billionaires. It doesn’t come from tech moguls throwing tantrums.
It comes from us.
From movements. From organizing. From calling out the grift and getting our hands dirty.
What we need are people willing to be the faces of that movement. We need people that aren’t scared to stand up and say— I’ll run for this spot that’s open, just to ensure that it doesn’t go uncontested. And we need to try to reach out to the younger generations. The democratic party needs to fix its shit and to push out towards rural America and show that it is the party of the working people. The party of the People that are hungrily crying for social reform…That is what needs to be done.
I am all for stopping the mass application of glyphosate given the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a possible carcinogen. However the US Government is permitting & promoting diquat as the replacement.
=====
Diquat is thought to be a neurotoxin, carcinogen and linked to Parkinson’s disease. An October analysis of EPA data by the Friends of the Earth … found it is … 200 times more toxic than glyphosate in terms of chronic exposure.
“From a human health perspective, this stuff is quite a bit nastier than glyphosate so we’re seeing a regrettable substitution, and the ineffective regulatory structure is allowing it,” said Nathan Donley, Science Director with the Center For Biological Diversity.
The new review focuses … on the multiple ways in which diquat damages organs and gut bacteria, including by reducing the level of proteins that are key pieces of the gut lining allow[ing] toxins and pathogens to move from the stomach into the bloodstream, and trigger inflammation.
Meanwhile, diquat can [also] inhibit the production of beneficial bacteria that maintain the gut lining inhibit[ing] the absorption of nutrients and energy metabolism.
The research … scrutinizes how the substance harms the kidneys, lungs and liver. Diquat “causes irreversible structural and functional damage to the kidneys” because it can destroy kidney cells’ membranes and interfere with cell signals.
The effects on the liver are similar, and the ingredient causes the production of proteins that inflame the organ.
It seems to attack the lungs by triggering inflammation that damages the organ. The inflammation caused by diquat may cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, a scenario in which organ systems begin to fail.
Despite the risks amid a rise in diquat’s use, the EPA is not reviewing the chemical, and even non-profits that push for tighter pesticide regulations have largely focused their attention elsewhere.
Donley said that was … because US pesticide regulations are so weak that advocates are tied up with battles over ingredients like glyphosate, paraquat and chlorpyrifos – substances that are banned elsewhere but still widely used [in the US.]
“Other countries have banned diquat, but in the US we’re still fighting the fights that Europe won 20 years ago and that really says a lot about the sad and sorry state of pesticides in the US.”
Advocates have accused the EPA of being captured by industry.
Donley said US pesticide laws were so weak that it was difficult for the agency to ban ingredients, even if the will exists [eg.], the agency banned chlorpyrifos in 2022, but a court overturned the decision after [the] industry sued.
The EPA’s pesticides office seems to have a philosophy that states … toxic pesticides are a “necessary evil.”
“When you approach an issue from that lens there’s only so much you will do,” [Donley] said.
=====
Excerpts taken from.
Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria. The Guardian. T Perkins. 6-Jul-25.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/06/weedkiller-diquat-organ-damage-study?CMP=share_btn_url