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re: Elon now floating creating a Third Party for "the Middle"

Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:36 pm to
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:36 pm to
quote:

Start to primary vulnerable RINOs


Define RINO and give some examples
This post was edited on 6/5/25 at 1:38 pm
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33142 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:45 pm to
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Elon now floating creating a Third Party for "the Middle"



It will end up stealing votes from Democrats and get more republicans elected. Like Ross Perot in reverse.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
55774 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:46 pm to
do it
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87240 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:46 pm to
quote:

Define RINO and give some examples


Trump could snap his fingers and get Graham out in SC. Could have in 2020. Still could next year (he won't).

Posted by roadGator
DeBoar’s dome
Member since Feb 2009
157539 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

Define RINO and give some examples


Trump
Posted by FLTech
he/won
Member since Sep 2017
28093 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:49 pm to
Trump ran in 2016 as a third party candidate disguised as a Republican.

MAGA is basically the middle
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:49 pm to
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
40973 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:49 pm to
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You can run a poll that asks if we should cut government and we all say yes.

Then you start cutting government and half the country has a toxic empathy meltdown about it.

There is no political solution to our problem.



Ding ding ding.

Posted by MemphisGuy
Germantown, TN
Member since Nov 2023
14562 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

He could, and billionaires have tried it.

All it did was get Democrats elected


This is true. The LAST time a really rich guy tried to run third party we were blessed with Bill Clinton. But I guess this time, it'll be different because... Elon. And who knows... maybe it actually will. But I very much doubt it. Trump and Elon are better when working together... both of them need to listen to each other and find a happy place in the middle to meet. If that makes sense.
Posted by roadGator
DeBoar’s dome
Member since Feb 2009
157539 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:56 pm to
Ooof
Posted by 50_Tiger
Arlington TX
Member since Jan 2016
43444 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:57 pm to
Ross Perot didnt have a social media app that reaches billions of people.
Posted by Bunkie7672
Member since Mar 2020
1306 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:57 pm to
We can call it “Stealers Wheel”. Folks!
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
3333 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:01 pm to
That's exactly what this place needs, if he can pull it off with someone viable.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
27178 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:03 pm to
This is where I parked my car!
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
13260 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:10 pm to
Does Elon think the middle supported the DOGE cuts? They supported some of them but there is a sizeable portion of the middle that thinks they were much to draconian and Elon/DOGE went a bit overboard. I was surprised some of the lifelong conservatives I know who liked that Elon was working with DOGE but they expressed displeasure with the mass layoff of thousands and thousands of government workers in such a short period of time, saying it was heartless etc.

I wasn't one of them. I support the cuts and I still think it was possible to cut a lot of the waste and fraud over the next four years. I wasn't expecting everything to be accomplished in four months. But that's just me... The point is, I don't think Elon's "cut everything, including tens of thousands of government jobs" immediately (while wielding his chainsaw prop) is something that the middle overwhelmingly supports.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
13260 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:14 pm to
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In practice they have shown to be everything that we were told RINOs were. Big spenders who like big government in military expansion.



JFC

But you're GOPe RINOs in the Senate and House are opposed to those things? Or maybe they are the ones for those things and Trump had to compromise with them to some extent to get things passed. Unless you think McConnell and Thune (Turtle 2.0) are super into cutting spending, including big cuts to the military.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
13260 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:22 pm to
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MAGA seems to be anyone who just blindly follows and accepts whatever Trump says




TDS is evident in stupid fricks who say stupid shite like that.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
13260 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:23 pm to
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Maybe call it the "Uni Party"



Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
13260 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:26 pm to
Who gives a shite what that retarded nerd Cramer thinks? Dude is a joke.
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
23608 posts
Posted on 6/5/25 at 3:29 pm to
Elon doesn't care about "the middle "..... smh
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