Welp…
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
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.
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!
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!
I fail to see how splitting up the fascists is anything but a good thing. Let them fight.
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 Must 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’m surprised he didn’t go with a stupid acronym
TAP is 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?
A third party is only likely to split the vote of the people who can’t stand trump.
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.
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”.
The problem is the US isn’t setup for third parties to really work, all this is going to do is most likely be a spoiler vote from Republicans and give more wins to Democrats. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll win a few seats in uncompetitive districts.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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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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.
