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00:00So Elon Musk wants to start with a new third-party campaign.

00:05The reason for this, apparently, is that he's unhappy that the Trump administration and

00:10the one big, beautiful bill didn't drastically reduce the deficit or the national debt.

00:15Well, he's right that they didn't, but I don't think a new third party is going to do any

00:19good.

00:19Historically, third parties in the United States have basically been disastrous.

00:25You could call the Republican Party a successful third party.

00:27But first, it was in 1858 that it first appeared.

00:31And second, the Whigs had pretty much already collapsed by then.

00:35The Republicans have not collapsed now, and the Democrats, despite all their problems,

00:38have not collapsed yet either.

00:40So it's really not the same.

00:41Other efforts have all been pretty sad.

00:43Teddy Roosevelt ran under the Bull Moose Party banner when he lost the Republican nomination

00:48and wound up handing the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, who is a strong candidate for the worst

00:53president of the, well, of all time, and a pretty blocked candidate for the worst president of

00:59the 20th century.

01:00We had Ross Perot, who ran as a third-party candidate in 1992, and Ralph Nader ran in 2000,

01:06and some people claim he's the reason why Al Gore lost, so that's probably not true.

01:12It's just not a great record.

01:14The way the election is designed because of the Electoral College, such that there can really

01:19only be two primary parties going at any one time, so it's not likely to work.

01:24I think he's also missing some important points.

01:27Elon's a technologist, and so you ought to know that sometimes to get where you want to

01:31go, you've got to build the tools first.

01:33And sometimes you have to build the tools to build the tools to get to where you want

01:36to go.

01:36In this case, we're doing sort of the same thing.

01:39The one big beautiful bill did not lower the deficit and debt dramatically.

01:45But what it did do was help take apart the coalitions that led to the debt and the deficit

01:50and make it easier to cut things in the future.

01:54It drastically weakened organized labor.

01:56It drastically weakened higher education.

01:58It drastically weakened a lot of nonprofits and NGOs and other basically government-funded

02:03leftist activists.

02:05And that's a big deal.

02:06And it also facilitates deportations and reducing the illegal population in the United States,

02:13which gets rid of a lot of Democratic House seats that exist solely because of illegal

02:18populations in blue states, all of which helps to cement a Republican majority that can actually

02:23do things.

02:24Also, Elon did a great service by coming into politics, but that's not his greatest strength.

02:30Elon coming into politics is sort of like Elvis going into movies.

02:33I mean, he did kind of act.

02:34He did some movies.

02:35They were okay.

02:35Elon has some competencies in politics that are unusual for a tech guy, but that's not his

02:40real strength.

02:40His real strength is he builds rockets and other machines that do things that nobody else

02:44has been able to do.

02:45His overriding goal, which I've shared for decades, is getting humanity to become a solar

02:50system-wide species instead of a planet-bound species.

02:54And that's really where his talents are.

02:56If we'd had a Kamala Harris administration, they may have shut him down.

02:59They may have thrown him in jail.

03:00But that's been averted now, and he's free to go back to what he does best.

03:04And frankly, that's what I just think he should do.

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