Welp…
Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.
“The America Party”?
TBH, pretty tame in Must standards. At least it’s pronounceable.
I’m surprised he didn’t go with a stupid acronym
I hope this would split the vote among magas and republicans and the dems would be a shoe in. Sadly, I’ve lost a lot of faith in the dems and their ability to effectively fight for the people. Maybe we need even more parties?
Cool so a third liberal party
I’m all for it. If Brewster’s Millions taught me anything it’s that involving yourself in US politics is the quickest way to lose vast sums of money.
Oh, can “aliens” start political parties in the USA?
Imma start a “British Colony” party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.
He doesn’t have to run himself. He can endorse and fund people to run for him
Political parties are independent entities, not part of the government, so yes anyone can make one.
The entire Democrat demographic hates him for kissing Trumps ass.
The entire Trump demogaphic hates him for going against Trump.
And the Republican demographic have never liked him as far as I’m aware.
So… who are his voters? Probably just a convenient way to shuffle money around.
He’s completely unable to read the room. Understandable really, he doesn’t exist in the same world as the rest of us really.
This isn’t about money. It’s about Elon Musk‘s ego and will to power.
Maybe that’s the only way US will ever get a third party. I’m not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That’s true “checks and balances”.
We don’t need more false choice though. This would be a another bourgeois party. The cards might be shuffled a bit and the rhetoric might change but it’d still be playing the same game with the same cards. It’s still a game of “choose your favorite faction of rich people” despite the tweaks in messaging. There will still be an assurance of “nothing will fundamentally change” to the owners and donors.
are they hiring? i have many expensive ideas with zero guarantees of success
Who do you think you are, an oligarch?
I am but a simple man looking to profit off the vanity of a complete moron with more money than God.
The American Billionaires Party?
If they manage to steal half the GOPs votes, we have reason to thank him.
I’m not opposed to his.
A party composed of billionaires.
That will help in a situation where we have to do a French revolution.
Sadly, such a party would not be big enough to tear into the GOP.
The funniest thing about stuff like this is that there are already a hundred political parties in the US. Every time someone says “we need a third party,” it reminds me of that xkcd comic about standards and protocols.
When people say that they want a third part I doubt they mean it literally, as in they believe there are literally only two parties, but rather I suspect they mean that they want a third party which is large and influencial.
That is a ridiculous comparison. More political parties are a good thing.
They would be, if the political and electoral system supported it.
Which is obviously not the case in the US.
I think the opportunity is better this time around.
Democrats and Republicans secured a two party system and locked everyone else out because of a few things:
- Finances and resources.
- Media coverage. During debates, they had secret handshake deals to only argue against each other, which forces media to only cover them.
Musk got resources. He spent a lot to get Orange Man in power. And TV and news is already lower on the trust scale, as the population leans towards social media.
There’s a few other issues like local/state elections that won’t be friendly to non-Democrat/non-republican parties.
Of course, this is all a pipe dream and like the libertarian party, it’ll quickly get thrown aside and the politicians will fold into one of the two parties.
Do you think there’s any chance that Musk can break whatever is formally boxing out other parties? It seems like just by being who he is right now in history, he could break things.
We need to hope he breaks the current norm in a way that doesn’t put him in power, and opens things up for proper multi-party elections in the future. That’s a lot to hope for though, I guess.
When I think about this, I can imagine Musk fans telling tales of his 4D chess moves and how his plan all along has been to overhaul and improve elections. Or some other bullshit.
Outsourcing your revolution to the billionaire oligarch has to be one of the takes of all time.
Me: Can we have Lenin?
Mom: We have Lenin at home.
Lenin at home:
Not until the US election system is changed. Until then they are just irrelevant distractions.
I’ll just point out the risk of what I’ll call “Joe Roganing” here. Elon pretends he hates both parties while there’s no election coming up. Then when the election arrives he “makes up his mind” and endorses Republicans. This allows him to 1) attract people fed up with both parties just to hand them to Republicans, and 2) have a credible that that forces Republicans to do his bidding.
Absolutely this and I like that term “Joe Roganing”.
So, another copy of the Libertarian Party?
But even more barefacedly just “republicans who don’t want to pay their taxes”
Hey, the Libertarian Party do more than that. Like smoke weed and celebrate the idea of freedom but then rage about immigrants and ignore companies fucking them over.
Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…
Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’
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US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.
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America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.
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At least give it a cool name like The (John) Galt Party or something so it has a better change of splitting the right. I guess the nazi party was already taken?
he’s just so bad with names. Surprised he didn’t call it the X Party. wouldn’t that have been more “cool”? surprised he didn’t ask Grok to come up with party names, I mean hell I use chatgpt to come up with names for videogame characters and it works well.
This is going to fizzle out when he inevitably gets distracted by something else.
gets distracted
Oh you mean the next K-hole? Tonight?
He isn’t trying to split the right, he actually thinks he can win because he’s a fucking narcissist. So they will siphon votes from Democrats by pretending to be pro-Gaza and all of the kids who refuse to read a fucking book will buy it and vote for them.
Perfect timing. Just when everyone hates musk he wants votes.
Yea, that gonna be fun to cringewatch
Honestly, I am tentatively very excited about this. Not because I support that nazi in any way whatsoever. I am excited because he stands to be a significant spoiler for the GOPs elections.
He will pull a Joe Rogan and endorse Trump last minute.
Doubtful that the Musk party is going to swap in Hillary. But it is her turn.
Do they even really like him? I thought pretty much any Republican support for Elon came from his support/association with Trump
I’m a secret leftist amongst a bunch of low information MAGA voters (the ones that voted for Trump more because they’re stupid and easily duped than being giant racists) in a few different circles. All they know is I own guns and answer “oh fuck no” when asked if I’m a liberal, so they assume I’m a non-MAGA conservative*. Hehehe.
Without exception, they adore Elno. They don’t realize it but they’re prosperity gospel types (because stupid), so they assume he must be a good and intelligent guy, otherwise Jebus wouldn’t have made him successful.
*Side note: I have one all hot and bothered about seizing the means of production, just using different terms.
I learned “libertarian municipalist” as a code word for anarchist from Robert Evans. You don’t have to lie and all they hear is libertarian.
hah ! love my new title
I highly doubt it. GOP is a person cult centred around Trump. They liked Musk as long as Trump liked him, but they all hate him now.
I will agree with this.
on one hand, harder to defeat them in a vote because they’d be way more visibly in touch with the incel crackhead core of their voting block. on the other, dude is at least environmentally concerned enough to try avoiding climate and technology crisis as long as the solution benefits/involves him. which is a low fucking bar but still an improvement.
