4w ago

Elon Musk suggests creating a new political party amid Trump rift

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Elon Musk publicly mused about creating a new political party this week, an idea that could escalate the billionaire's feud with his onetime ally President Trump.

Musk first floated the idea on Thursday. In between jabs at Mr. Trump, the billionaire posted a poll to X asking his 220 million followers if they think it's "time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle."

A day later, Musk noted that 80% of respondents to the poll backed the idea.

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4w ago

Elon Musk suggests creating a new political party amid Trump rift

www.cbsnews.com /news/elon-musk-trump-feud-new-political-party/

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4w ago

Elon Musk suggests creating a new political party amid Trump rift

www.cbsnews.com /news/elon-musk-trump-feud-new-political-party/

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What a loser. But please, by all means. Fracture Trump's base.
- Until he will be persecuted and will hide in Russia, which will drive Donald to help Ukraine in the end.
  I really reallu hooe I will be right.
  
  I don't think he's going to run to Russia. The moment he does, he all of his US companies will be seized. So if he wants to go, he's going to need to find a way to very quickly liquidate everything without the federal government noticing. But you can be sure that the spy agencies are watching him. He's already too powerful for comfort, and it's their job to spy on people like him.
  
  If anywhere else he'll go to China.
- At the same time, let AOC and Sanders make a fourth party, also splintering the Democratic Party.
"the 80% of people in the middle" that do Nazi salutes and say Germany should forget the national shame of the Holocaust, while flying to Germany to campaign for and praise the modern day Nazi party...
How very centrist 😅
- All while being so k-holed out your pee-hole don't work no more... 😋 Aaaand attempting to lure anyone with a working uterus and a twitter account into his weird natal cult...
  Clearly just very normal activities that every American engages in on a daily basis.
  
  I like how you have to specify that it's a natal cult because he broke his dick and is effectively infertile through natural means. Also a natal cult is much more pathetic than a sex cult, at least someone is having fun in the sex cult.
- Tbh I'm a little surprised he didn't say it was 88%
Yes, please steal 5-6% of the R vote.
- It'll rope in a lot of dem centrists too.
  
  Just call them Republicans.
So then the US will have three right wing parties. Choose your flavor:
Corporate Neoliberal Party
American Nazi Party
White Apartheid Apologists
- I love how this was the thrust of the Russian meddling campaign, using #bothsides to build voter apathy.
  I'm not saying you're a Russian meddler, but I know the source of that duck quacking noise I was hearing.
Andrew Yang rn
The Nazi party isn't new, dipshit.
- https://youtu.be/ovCf9VRLnDY
I'm all for it because it will split Trump's vote, but there's really no point as there won't be free elections for anything more serious than dog catcher in the US until the fash have been forcibly evicted.
The democratic options expired Jan 20th 2025. Resist.
Thing is, he's absolutely right. It's way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.
Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.
Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.
- The real problem is with the way elections work. Any third party started in this system that's successful will wind up being absorbed by or absorbing one of the other two.
  
  That's not actually a problem, though. It's better when both parties support your issue; then there is no viable opposition to that issue.
Remember when he was going to make a new iPhone when he was having panic attacks about apple banning twitter? This will be just like that. The guy jumps from thought to thought like the direction of the wind. He can’t follow through on anything himself, he just throws some money at it and pretends that he does the work. So many people could do so much more than him if they had his resources.
- What i was thinking, only way he ends up doing this is if someone else does it, it's successful, and he buys the party, that's the only thing he's been good at, and basically what he tried with trump.
The party logo will be an ancient far eastern peace symbol.
- Except backwards.
Split the Republican party!
i hope he succeeds in creating a third party because it will break the 2 party system and opens the idea to vote for another option to americans.
And i hope the party then gets taken over by people in favor of unions and stuff
- Hoping the third party fractures the right is all you can hope for while we're a first-past-the-post voting country. Any new party popular enough to displace a party will simply become the other second party and create the same mediocrity. Until then, it would just siphon votes from the closest two-party option.
  The only way this gets fixed is by ranked choice or similar voting systems, that remove the tactical voting incentive.
- a third party […] will break the 2 party system
  ignore all other 3ʳᵈ parties
  bruh
  
  Feel Clean! Vote Green!
  
  I mean a large enough one
  currently the other third parties are not getting enough attention
This is awesome. Will hopefully wedge drive the Right with the biggest spoiler of all time making Jill Stein, Jojo, or Nader look like slivers by comparison.
A Nationalist American Zenith Initiative Party. Really "Bring America back to its high point" kind of movement.
I thought you had to be liked by someone to start your own party. Does anyone even likes Elon Musk? The liberals hate him, the conservatives hate him, MAGA hates him, centrists hate him. Is he gonna fill his party with bots like he did Twitter?
- I mean, he keeps insinuating that he did something nefarious with voting machines.
  So he actually might.
  
  I mean even if he admits it what's gonna happen realistically?
- Musk has quite a “tech bro” following (which we don’t see because we don’t live and breathe on Twitter and such), and that group wields enormous psychological influence over the population.
  Seems unlikely, but If Musk aligns himself with Peter Theil, Zuckerberg, critical software devs and such more closely, that’s an extremely dangerous platform for Trump. They can sap power from MAGA (and anyone else) with the flip of a switch.
  There’s quite a fundamental incompatibility between tech oligarchs and the red meat MAGA base, too, as is already being exposed. It’s going to get much more stark over the next few years.
Anyone remember Ross Perot? He created the Tea Party, which eventually took over the Republican party.
- Let's hope this causes more Perot-esque vote spoilers on the right wing.
I thought trump losing was only hope of fracturing gop. Never thought I'd see this. Season 2025 writers are giving plot twists!
Yeah, you do that buddy, spend lots of money, too. Every single vote he draws will come from HitlerPig, not the Dems.
Fuck no. While I very much want more parties, a party created by and for oligarchs would suck the donkiest of elephant balls.
Excellent idea. You do that, Elon.
"What if we made a party that represented everyone?"
Holy shit, I don't think anyone's thought of that. Jamie, check the web to see if people ever tried creating a party for the rest of us.
Chat, type 1 if you think having a party that represents 80% of America is a good idea.
- That's the joke. Every party says they represent most people, but end up in the pocket of the wealthy and corporate interests of it gets big enough
Reminds me of Ye and his public stunts.
Do it you coward.
The vote of 80% of the people that are lefton Shitter doesn't say much. And how many responded?
'I'll make my own party with blackjack and hookers'
Oh shit I hope he keeps this up
Call it American Party X and we have a deal.
Are we gonna have a reverse Obama, were they claim Trump was actually born on Mississippi and that the SA birth certificate is fake?
“I’ll make my owl political party! With blackjack and hookers!”
The Silly Party?
Their candidate for POTUS can be Tarquin Fintimlin-whimbinlim-Bus Stop-F'tang F'tang-Olé-Biscuit Barrel.
"time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle.”
surprisingly based idea? i mean i would have included the lower 10% as well, but apart from that, how are you'all gonna talk this one bad?
- Perhaps because the narcissistic lying liar have never cared for anybody but himself, and especially not poor people?
- Among a lot of other problems, this is a drug addled idiot and known liar saying random bullshit he thinks people will like with no substance behind it
  
  I can't tell if your talking about trump or musk.

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