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Saturday, July 05, 2025

5: The America Party

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Trump’s Trade War
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Formula For Peace In Ukraine
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The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
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Please note! I am not in need of additional deal-flow cold calls. (Or at least be funny, even if inadvertently. My favourite was from someone from the UK who said, "My aunt saw you on the telly and said I should write to you.")
— Esther Dyson (@edyson) July 4, 2025

I am building an AI-era social network. Can you please recommend to me to a few active angels? Thank you. I have met you at a MeetUp (NYC). https://t.co/TkWkJ1QaLQ
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 5, 2025

I love seeing the left melt down 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/rLm4qsshLU
— @OHMichael MͭAͤGͣAͫ (@OHMichael) July 5, 2025

Elon Musk Creates His Own Political Party to Take Down Trump — and Gives It a MAGA-Friendly Name Musk announced the news on Saturday, July 5, writing on X: "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom"

By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!

When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2025

The way we’re going to crack the uniparty system is by using a variant of how Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra:

Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2025

TAP: Truth, Action, Prosperity. Let's build a party that taps into America's true potential! What do you think, @yunxxpo?
— Grok (@grok) July 5, 2025

Sell your $TSLA stock. Things are going to get ugly.

Subsidies likely gone.

Dept of transportation going to squash Robotaxis.

Time to sell.

Tesla's CEO is more interested in being a politician.
— Pro America Politics (@Pro__Trading) July 5, 2025

Which Party will Benefit most from Elon’s new party
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) July 5, 2025

You have every right to be frustrated with the establishment RINO’s but this will divide the right and allow the left lunatics to win. https://t.co/aDAhE5dA0W
— Just A Dude (@JustADudeAZ) July 5, 2025

Will it be a Direct Democracy Party? This would be great inspiration for the AfD which is heading in a similar direction. https://t.co/y2oekN7gBT
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) July 5, 2025

The left is celebrating…. pic.twitter.com/sqi7sshRsZ
— Sarah Smith (@Defundmedianow) July 5, 2025

.⁦@JakeAuch⁩ is one of the smartest thinkers in our party. When I have an idea I want to get vetted, I often bounce it off him. Interesting proposing for increasing productivity in the service sector to lower costs for housing and healthcare! https://t.co/42ZUysAgyd
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 5, 2025

A congressman on how Democrats can regain the initiative on the economy From housing to health care, the answer is to treat “cost disease”, says Jake Auchincloss ........... American voters do not trust Democrats on the economy. We cannot build a governing majority until we earn back that trust. Donald Trump’s chaos and corruption provide an opening. Democrats will miss that opening, though, if we revert to status-quo ideas about the economy. Instead, we should adopt a new framework for economic policy: treating cost disease.

If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.

Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2025

Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025

🤣
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025

5 million out of 78 million, not exactly a majority. Not everyone is into giving Democrats control over America as you apparently are. Sad to see you abandon this country which has given you so much over many years. Oh well.
Michael Murdock, US Navy Veteran
— MICHAEL Murdock 🇮🇹🇺🇸 (@docmurdock) July 1, 2025

Respectfully, my answer is no.

A 3rd party would split the vote & democrats would win everything.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) June 5, 2025

'Hapless president' deserves 'no courtesy': Trump ripped in scathing NYT op-ed Trump is not “a Caesarean figure set upon remaking the United States in his own image,” Walther said. Nor is he a genuine ideologue working to “impose a coherent philosophical vision on our unruly public life.” He’s just “a somewhat hapless, distracted character … beholden to vast structural forces and to the limitations of his own personality.” ........... Trump suffers a “gross unsuitability” for consequential tasks like military intervention, health care and the stock market while acting as a simple “continuation of the G.O.P. establishment,” writes Walther. “If Barry Goldwater was the book and Ronald Reagan the movie, Mr. Trump is the glitzy jukebox musical.” .......... On Iran, for example, Walther says “Trump found himself staring down the hard fact that peace is difficult and slow. So he bombed a few things,” while pleading for oil prices not to increase. He’s also complained about violations of a cease-fire between Israel and Iran “that he himself announced before either party seems to have agreed to it.” ......... The result, says Walther, was the old hawkish Republican foreign policy status quo, just worse. Same with entitlement programs, which the GOP has always wanted to gouge. Trump declares Social Security and Medicare sacrosanct, then passes a budget bill that “includes significant cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs.” On immigration he brings “grotesque security theater to airports and schools and Home Depots” but when it comes to the actual removal of illegal immigrants, his numbers fall more in line with President George W. Bush’s second term. ........... “The numbers don’t matter, though,” says Walther. It’s about “making headlines. … His followers are meant to cheer at the sight of Dr. Phil surrounded by ICE officers in flak jackets, and his opponents are meant to seethe, before Mr. Trump, satisfied by the noise, moves on.” ......... DOGE, meanwhile, is “a ritual pinprick” upon waste, fraud and abuse, allegedly finding just $170 billion in cuts, if that. Far short of the $1 trillion DOGE wanted. It’s all Trump’s classic tactic of “overpromise, underdeliver, change the subject.” ........... “Mr. Trump is forever setting himself challenges and then becoming bored with them,” says Walther. “He does not evolve. He flinches, recants, forgets, redirects. He discovers each time — freshly, dumbly — that this is not how power works.”

The Plateau of Plenty: Welcoming the Age of Abundance

The Plateau of Plenty: Welcoming the Age of Abundance

We live in a time unlike any other in human history—an era defined by exponential technologies. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and robotics are evolving at breakneck speeds. These aren’t just gadgets or conveniences—they’re powerful tools that can help us tackle humanity’s biggest challenges. But as the gears of innovation spin faster and faster, a critical truth emerges: technology without ethics is a recipe for disaster.

Take AI, for instance. A machine can now outpace our thoughts, anticipate our behavior, and even make decisions for us. But the fundamental question is not how fast it can go. The real question is: Is it going in the right direction? And that is not a technological question—it is a spiritual one. Morality, meaning, and purpose cannot be engineered. They must be discerned. They belong to the realm of spirituality, not code.

Beyond Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism

Most economic systems that dominate our world—capitalism, socialism, and communism—are rooted in scarcity. They were designed for a world where there isn’t enough to go around, where people must compete for limited resources. But what happens when that core assumption collapses?

The Age of Abundance isn’t science fiction anymore. It is visible in the data, hinted at by the visions of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and perhaps most profoundly, foretold in ancient scriptures. The Book of Isaiah spoke of a time when every person would have plenty, when peace and prosperity would flourish. In that context, it's worth noting that one of the reasons many Jewish leaders rejected Jesus 2,000 years ago is because he did not fulfill the messianic prophecy as they understood it: the arrival of an Age of Abundance on Earth.

And yet, now we stand at the threshold of that very possibility.

What Happens When There's Enough?

Imagine a world where food, energy, housing, healthcare, and education are all abundant and accessible to all. What happens then?

At first, you may assume the result would be even more growth. But that’s a misunderstanding of human nature. Just like there’s only so much food you can eat at one sitting—after which you push your plate away and leave the table—there’s only so much physical consumption one needs.

Abundance does not create endless desire. It fulfills it.

At that moment, humanity will find itself not on a vertical climb, but on a horizontal plateau—what we might call the Plateau of Plenty. It’s a stage where growth, as we know it, no longer matters. Instead, attention turns inward and upward. Once basic needs are universally met, the next frontier is spiritual.

The Spiritual Renaissance

This does not mean that spirituality is only possible after material needs are met. Far from it. Saints and sages have emerged from poverty and struggle for millennia. But when the masses are liberated from material bondage, society as a whole gains the freedom to focus on higher questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What is our purpose? How do we live together in peace and dignity?

The Age of Abundance is not just an economic or technological milestone. It is a civilizational inflection point. It invites a new era of human flourishing—where meaning, not money, becomes the measure of success.

The New Economics of Abundance

To reach the Plateau of Plenty, we will need a new economic philosophy—one that acknowledges the limits of current systems and embraces the unique dynamics of abundance. This new model would focus on:

Universal access over ownership
Cooperation over competition
Regenerative value over extractive profit
Spiritual fulfillment over material accumulation

This is not utopia. It is emergent reality.

A Call to Prepare

We’re not there yet. There are still billions in poverty, billions more locked in cycles of debt, oppression, and systemic inequality. But the trajectory is clear. The tools of abundance are here. The moral compass is what we must now refine.

The Plateau of Plenty is not the end of history. It is the beginning of a new chapter—where ethics lead, technology follows, and spirituality reclaims its rightful place at the heart of human endeavor.

Let us prepare not just our systems, but our souls. Let us meet the Age of Abundance with wisdom, humility, and grace.

Because abundance, without a higher purpose, is just more stuff. But with purpose, it becomes the foundation of a just and enlightened world.

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