{"id":2455770,"date":"2025-07-04T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-is-a-better-patriot-than-99-of-dems-but-hes-still-dead-wrong-about-one-key-issue\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:55:31","slug":"elon-musk-is-a-better-patriot-than-99-of-dems-but-hes-still-dead-wrong-about-one-key-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-is-a-better-patriot-than-99-of-dems-but-hes-still-dead-wrong-about-one-key-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Is a Better Patriot Than 99% of Dems, But He&#8217;s Still Dead Wrong About One Key Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-is-a-better-patriot-than-99-of-dems-but-hes-still-dead-wrong-about-one-key-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2455770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the ongoing tensions between Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump regarding the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill,&#8221; which is seen as excessively increasing the national debt. Musk criticizes government overspending and suggests that the U.S. operates as a &#8220;one-party country.&#8221; He advocates for the creation of a new political party that genuinely represents the people&#8217;s interests. Though, this idea has drawn criticism from various political commentators who argue that establishing a third party could ultimately harm Republican candidates and facilitate a Democratic majority in Congress. Prominent figures,including Scott Presler and independent journalist Breanna Morello,express support for Musks&#8217; concerns about government spending but caution against the potential negative ramifications of diverting votes from the existing two-party system. The consensus among some critics is that while addressing government inefficiencies is vital, the solution does not lie in fragmenting the current political landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, thanks to the &ldquo;Big Beautiful Bill,&rdquo; it seems that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are at it, again.<\/p>\n<p>Both men, it&rsquo;s worth noting, have points. Yes, as Musk noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >multiple social media posts<\/a>, the government spends too much money and needs to reign in its profligate habits.&nbsp;Yes, as President Trump noted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/back-trump-musk-feud-reignites-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-begin-fast-track-process-to-pass-covid-relief-without-gop\/\" title=\"Democrats begin fast-track process to pass COVID relief without GOP\">budget reconciliation process<\/a><\/a> is not the place to do this.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-says-going-take-look-deporting-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> sees it, and it&rsquo;s a hill he&rsquo;s willing to die upon: &ldquo;It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-back-on-trump-musk-feud-reignites-over-big-beautiful-bill\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Back On: Trump-... Feud Reignites Over \u2018...\u2019\">-party country &#038;mdash<\/a>; the PORKY PIG PARTY!!&rdquo; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>But the problematic addendum was this: &ldquo;Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-bewails-porky-pig-party-vows-trump-tax-bill-backers-will-lose-in-2026-if-last-thing-i-do-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... bewails \u2018...,\u2019 vows Trump tax ... backers will lose in 2026 if \u2018last thing I do\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">-party country &#038;ndash<\/a>; the PORKY PIG PARTY!!<\/p>\n<p>Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1939762942851027127?\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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on amendments to the reconciliation bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930685402631053403?\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">VOX POPULI<br \/> VOX DEI<\/p>\n<p>80% voted for a new party <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JkeOlG7Kl4\">https:\/\/t.co\/JkeOlG7Kl4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1939900498892792236?\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They just pretend to be two parties.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s just one uniparty in reality. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NEcLJNPXxm\">https:\/\/t.co\/NEcLJNPXxm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1939820926331494694?\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One feels for Musk, who is a great patriot in the country he&rsquo;s adopted. That being said, he&rsquo;s still dead wrong on a few issues &mdash; the biggest being the idea that a third party is going to help anything, especially if it takes votes away from a Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/coming-seat-man-helped-trump-win-warns-democrat-targeting-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Presler<\/a>, who helped turn Pennsylvania for Donald Trump during the 2024 election cycle, noted that he supported Musk and his contributions, but &ldquo;I also believe that creating a third party would ultimately lead to a democrat supermajority in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This result &mdash; I would argue &mdash; would be completely counterproductive to the desire for a balanced budget,&rdquo; Presler noted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With a narrow majority in the House &amp; 53 seats in the Senate, we are limited to what kind of Big Beautiful Bill we can pass.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I support Elon Musk &amp; all of his contributions to our country.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I also believe that creating a third party would ultimately lead to a democrat supermajority in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This result &mdash; I would argue &mdash; would be completely counterproductive to the desire for a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottPresler\/status\/1940067252037984726?\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Independent journalist Breanna Morello also noted that she agreed with Musk on spending issues, but she doesn&rsquo;t believe &ldquo;you burn down the country because you didn&rsquo;t get your way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Creating another party and splitting the Republican vote will do just that,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s other ways to fix these issues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I agree with Elon Musk when it comes to government spending, but I don&rsquo;t think you burn down the country because you didn&rsquo;t get your way.<\/p>\n<p>Creating another party and splitting the Republican vote will do just that.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s other ways to fix these issues.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreannaMorello\/status\/1939819426137661793?\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For the left, third-party votes &mdash; almost always cast for president &mdash; fall under the aegis of luxury beliefs. Only twice has a candidate who wanted to spend <em>more<\/em> than the Democrats did actually potentially affect the outcome of the election, and in both cases &mdash; 2000 and 2016 &mdash; it was widely assumed that the Democratic candidate had it in the bag. In the years to come, anyone who bragged about their votes for Ralph Nader or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Stein<\/a> was roundly criticized for &ldquo;giving us&rdquo; George W. Bush or Donald Trump, even if it didn&rsquo;t necessarily work out that way statistically.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, conservatives have too frequently dreamed of a third party that will come and rescue us from Beltway swamp-creatures. Ross Perot&rsquo;s Reform Party is patient zero for what happens with these sorts of aspirations. His 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns hobbled the Republican challenger both times &mdash; arguably delivering a fatal blow to George H.W. Bush&rsquo;s chance in 1992 &mdash; and the party itself had little sustained success outside of securing one term in the governor&rsquo;s mansion for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omar-endorsement-bombs-sanders-loses-minnesota\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse &ldquo;The Body\/The Brain\/The Whack-Job Tinfoil-Hat Nutter&rdquo; Ventura<\/a> in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Is that what&rsquo;s going to solve this problem? Let&rsquo;s assume for a second that a third-party founded by Musk is able to get ballot access in every state and takes, oh, 10 percent of the vote in each election, for the sake of making things round.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s a relatively small amount for what would doubtlessly be a more ambitious effort than Perot&rsquo;s Reform Party, while still not winning any seats. It would, however, hand up to seven Senate seats &mdash; Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas &mdash; to the Democrats if all went the same way it did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2020<\/a>. The other party would also be within striking distance in Alaska and Kansas, and arguably close in Kentucky, where longtime Sen. Mitch McConnell is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>This is because all of the votes it would take away &mdash; literally almost every last one &mdash; would come from Republicans. It would turn a 53-47 advantage for the Republicans to a 54-46 advantage for the Democrats. The House would look even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, Elon sure showed&nbsp;<em>them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t to question Musk&rsquo;s patriotism or the legitimacy of his concern. Government bloat bites. So does the reconciliation process. However, neither of these things will be changed by threats of a third party or doom-posting about the debt. 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Musk expressed his frustration on social media, stating that the bill&#8217;s excessive spending-raising the debt ceiling by an unprecedented five trillion dollars-indicates we live in a one-party system he humorously dubbed the &#8220;Porky Pig Party.&#8221; He called for a new political party that genuinely represents people&#8217;s interests. <\/p>\n<p>During discussions surrounding amendments to this reconciliation bill, Musk continued to advocate for a new political party representing the majority of Americans. However, some critics argue against creating a third party, suggesting it could inadvertently lead to a Democratic supermajority in Congress and hinder efforts toward achieving a balanced budget. They believe there are alternative ways to address these issues without fragmenting votes among Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>While many share concerns about government spending with Musk, they caution against drastic measures like forming another party which could dilute Republican support and ultimately worsen the situation rather than improve it. 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