Elon Musk floated creating a new political party, possibly dubbed the "America Party," this week, potentially escalating his feud with President Trump.

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.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Are we gonna have a reverse Obama, were they claim Trump was actually born on Mississippi and that the SA birth certificate is fake?

  • Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    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?

    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      I mean, he keeps insinuating that he did something nefarious with voting machines.

      So he actually might.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      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.

    • PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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      10 days ago

      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.

        • PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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          10 days ago

          China does not like problems, they want to look calm, affordable and keep aelling their stuff.

          I don’t really see why they should care about a loser like Musk.

          • huppakee@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            I don’t think they’d give him asylum from the goodness of their heart but this man has a lot to offer as long as he’s an enemy of the US government.

      • fodor@lemmy.zip
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        10 days ago

        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.

        • mriguy@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          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.

          And do what? It was very clear that if Trump got elected he’d take a wrecking ball to the country that we will probably never recover from, at the behest of a hostile foreign leader he’s been openly conspiring with for decades. What exactly did they did to stop him?

          • PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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            10 days ago

            They can nationalize half of his companies without a big effort. Musk he’s been acting like a jerk for years now, if they want to ditch him is a matter of nothing. He’s a drogatic, he stole US citizens data, he’s been playing with stocks for years.

            • mriguy@lemmy.world
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              10 days ago

              Sure, they could, and probably should. But evidence suggests they won’t. So what’s the point of them spying on him? They’ll collect a bunch of information and do nothing about it.

    • unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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      9 days ago

      At the same time, let AOC and Sanders make a fourth party, also splintering the Democratic Party.

  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
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    10 days ago

    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.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, you do that buddy, spend lots of money, too. Every single vote he draws will come from HitlerPig, not the Dems.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    The Silly Party?

    Their candidate for POTUS can be Tarquin Fintimlin-whimbinlim-Bus Stop-F’tang F’tang-Olé-Biscuit Barrel.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    “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 😅

    • alaphic@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      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.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        10 days ago

        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.

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    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

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      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.