Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'
a year ago by babysandpiper to c/news
Elon Musk said he is starting a new political party, which he dubbed the 'America Party' in a post on X Saturday.
Musk was born in South Africa but obtained his citizenship in 2002. He took an increasingly prominent role in politics through his partnership with Donald Trump during the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle, pumping money into the Republican's campaign and utilizing his social media platform, X, to promote him.
However, Musk and Trump had a very public fall out after the tech mogul departed the federal government. While Musk has walked back some of his more outrageous allegations and attacks, he has persisted with the idea that the U.S. needs a new political party.
This man is a human taint. That said, I would gladly take his money if it would get me into an office where I could implement some real, lasting, democratic-socialist style change. Obviously that last part of the plan would be hidden from him. Commence your down voting.
I’ve got a sign-up sheet going…
I mean fair to say but a real partnership would probably be to really just get someone to play his role while the real player moves through the democratic primary and wins.
Musks role really only is going to serve as a potential spoiler for the republican candidates... no left leaning person is even going to consider a party funded by musk.
Then I’ll take the hit
This is a great plan, patriotic even, and you should do it.
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic.
Nope, very serious, it's a good plan and you should do it. We need people to do what people like Fetterman and that one from NM did to the democratic party.
Ugh, Fetterman.
I've been talking about running essentially on the Republican party platform from the mid-1950s. It's basically what Dems say they want.
I’ve had similar thoughts. I’ve even thought about pretending to be full maga just to get elected. Not sure if I could actually do it though.
It's so much harder to fake being a Nazi than it is to fake being a tiny bit decent. I guess I'm just not as practiced at the Nazi thing as your average conservative is though.
Nobody strained any muscles thinking up that name
Just be glad he didn't name it the All Your Base Party or some shit.
If he named it Lemon Party I might have laughed
oh no, he's splitting the nazi vote
Curious if fetterman will join
Let’s see
I’m sure he will have basically only far right policies but he will call himself and the party “centrist” so I wouldn’t be surprised if some low information Dems fell for it as well
So he's taking half the Trump's voters?
Isn't this, like, good?
Man. It still makes me irrationally angry that so many people dismiss this as a wave, or any-fucking-thing other than what it is, a Nazi salute.
With how much he loves the letter, I'm shocked he didn't call it the X party.
I hear he loves history too, so maybe the History X party. I guess he should include the America part so people know which side he's on.
The "American History X" party sounds about right for him.
The XXX Party, I think that'll appeal to the younger voters
or just call it The KKK
Sex Party actually has a nice ring
Strangely enough in Australia we did have a Sex Party for a while : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sex_Party They actually had some really good policys (in my opinion)
Xae party
We need a third party, but not one made/controlled by a billionaire. We need a new party by and for the common people.
super hypothetical, but if the far right splits, that could open the door for a center left party
Center left? Center left??? How about full blown leftist socialist, because nothing less will do.
Center left in american politics is definitley not what is needed. That's like using a teenage mutant ninja turtle bandaid and thinking thats better for curing cancer than a normal bandaid.
we currently have a right party and a far right party, a center left party winning mayor elections would be like crazy good in the US
This might be the greatest analogy in the history of analogies. Top 10 at least.
We need a better voting system that can support more than two parties, first
The man that interfered with our last election is making a new party. So exciting.
split the right? go Musk! 😂🤮
If you can't build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?
The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn't go away. It's just that now you've got extra tasks to deal with.
Trump didn't get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.
5.5 billion? Is that all?
Yup
- Publicly funded elections
- End FPTP and enact a parliamentary system
- Better media that lets everyone know what's going on
Lots of luck with any one of them, but that's the answer
The problem is that with any type of FPTP system, any compelling leader outside the existing power structure will produce the opposite effect as their stated policies are.
Something like Bernie Sanders trying to drag the Democrats over to some kind of human policy matrix is actually a realistic possibility, but it's definitely an uphill battle... but there is plenty of precedent on the right for a successful leader just hijacking and overriding the existing power structure and taking it in his own direction, it's definitely possible.
There was another thing that Musk made from the ground up. How's that going?
Do you think centrists are really gonna leave the Democratic Party to join elon's Pity Party?
Good, split the tech bro vote away from maga. Add in the rubes who'll believe that the new party represents anti woke freedom, and the gop will lose big.
"I want a fan club!"
The twat is sad he's not in the news as much anymore.
Borrowing from the Brits when I say: Fuck off, ya wanker!
We need a parliamentary system before a 3rd party is viable.
I'm betting on brown
There’s a lot I would do to avoid being given the cars he has.
What is this from?
Party with drugs people... This isn't about politics.
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