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.

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    “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 😅

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      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.

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    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.

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    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?

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

      So he actually might.

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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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