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"Every single American will remember who chose to side with billionaires instead of working people," U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar writes.

"Pithy slogans and angry news conferences are so much easier than actual oversight," Rochelle Olson writes.

"No new parent in the U.S. would turn down $1,000, but this won't even cover the family deductible on most health care plans -- if the parents are fortunate to have insurance," Eric Dregni writes.

"My son is healthy today, but not because the system worked. He is healthy because we refused to accept substandard care," Kathryn Reese writes.

Lay off the anti-Christian sentiment.

"I do not fault anyone my age for having children," university student Calla Massari writes. "On that highly personal level, however, I cannot rationalize myself purposefully bringing new life into a world so rife with death."

"The American way of giving 'memory' prime billing as we talk about cognitive decline is a serious and painful failure to acknowledge the myriad other symptoms and behavioral indicators dementia and Alzheimer's throw at us," Anne Benedict Hovland ...

"Coulter's post, which has since been deleted, was not a gaffe. She's a shock jockey who knew she'd get over a million likes and shares the first day she posted this," writes Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University.

The "America Party" would need to be perceived as something Musk had set in motion but declined to micromanage, with its successful candidates as its natural leaders rather than the Tesla king himself.

"I say let's get rid of the racist-written, purloined, unsingable war-song-question and replace it with the lovely hymn about beauty and brotherhood," Mark Bradley writes.