Welp…
Has he filed any paperwork? Gathered any signatures?
Didn’t think so. It’s just typical Elmo Skum: hurricane force hot air scented with billionaire quantities of bovine effluvia.
Good time to make a fourth party.
How many weeks before he gets bored and abandons it when things don’t immediately work, just like everything else in his useless life?
unlike rockets or cars, political party success in America is measured in dollars
He already bought himself an entire department with no oversight but got bored of it after a few months.
A white South African dude created the American Party
ffs did somebody step on a bug in 2015 and change the whole timeline?
I’m thinking of doing a Ghost Dance to bring Harambe back
I fail to see how splitting up the fascists is anything but a good thing. Let them fight.
I’m sure Tesla shareholders are happy to hear he’s picked up another side project.
Don’t you remember? He’s a super genius!
Get ready for some more 12D chess from Mr. Rocket Scientist AI Expert
Odd strategy.
Leftists won’t buy it, and most liberals aren’t going to buy it, and it might divide the right, while team blue is fracturing.
Gonna be a 4 on one, not a 3.
Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.
“The America Party”?
TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it’s pronounceable.
The name is to make a grab at the r’s. If it wasn’t, he would have named it the x party.
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?
A third party is only likely to split the vote of the people who can’t stand trump.
One obstacle all third parties face in the US is party-line voting, which favors the dominant parties.
On possible outcome is that he puts a lot of money into making third party candidates more viable, like efforts to ban party-line voting or supporting ranked choice voting. So, you could vote for the America Party candidate and then if they don’t have a majority ñ, you vote could roll over to the Dem or GOP candidate of your choice, reducing your risk of voting third party.
These changes would help Libertarian, Green and other parties as well. More choice for voters!
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.
Voters? The goal here is to separate Musk from as many dollars as possible
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
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.
Not until the US election system is changed. Until then they are just irrelevant distractions.
