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Elon Musk says he's formed the 'America Party.' Trump says he's gone 'off the rails.'

www.businessinsider.com

Elon Musk declared on X the formation of a new political party amid his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump over the "Big Beautiful Bill."

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom," Musk wrote in an X post on Saturday.

The Tesla CEO had said Friday on his social media platform that one way the new party could work is to focus on winning just a handful of Senate seats and House districts that could serve as the "deciding vote" on "contentious laws," given the "razor-thin legislative margins" in Congress.

In response, Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Sunday that Musk had gone "completely off the rails."

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Techno feudal fascism vs Steongman fascism.
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To be honest, they both got off the rails long, long ago.
Sun Tzu says, never inturupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
- That was Napoleon
  
  Did you just interrupt him while he was making a mistake?!?!?
Please split the right-wing vote. Please
- It will almost certainly pull some votes from Trump but whether that's enough to make a difference or not will depend on if the DNC can get out of the way long enough to find a candidate anybody actually wants to vote for or if they'll run another "we'll change nothing and you'll like it" candidate.
  
  lol
  "We'll change nothing you'll like" - Democratic candidate
  "Well fuck you, I want facism 😡😡😡" - Progressives
  
  if they’ll run another “we’ll change nothing and you’ll like it” candidate.
  Newsom is already prepping for that role.
The right finally gets a Jill Stein. Good luck with that.
- I mean in fairness, they've always had Jill Steins. We can bitch about the spoiler effect and yell at our guys for voting, but election after election when you look at people focusing the blame on the greens when we lose, liberterians and other right wing parties, always have more votes than left wing 3rd parties.
  Also sadly it sounds like musk is actually planning to do the strategic right way to do a new party. IE focus on house and senate seats to basically to threaten narrow votes.
  In short it sounds more like he's making the republican's "Manchins".
just die already
- None of the Secret Service are true patriots.
- Someone's gotta do it eventually. Maybe some radicalized Tesla or SpaceX employee.
He's not wrong, there are people disillusioned with both parties. But if Elon thinks we're all idiots, and will flock to other nazi party, I've got a bridge to sell him.
Maybe some of the center right, and magas who've been personally wronged by the Trumpsters will swing that way, but he's gonna find the left isn't quite as stupid as he thinks.
Split the vote ding dong, go on, do it. I dare you.
- but he's gonna find the left isn't quite as stupid as he thinks.
  I wish I shared your optimism. Nothing in my experience of life tells me that betting on the left, especially their elected representatives, to not do something stupid is a good plan.
  
  By "left" I'm assuming you mean liberals. "The left" doesn't really have elected politicians. Unless you count Mamdani and he's not even fully elected yet.
Pot and kettle at odds of blackness
- Kettles aren't black, they're metallic, and when the pot calls the kettle black, it only sees its own reflection. But both Musk and Trump are turds. No need for reflection
- Dumbass and Jackass at Tanagra
All aboard the crazy train, we're going of the rails.
This is not a political party, it is something else.
A component of a political platform is often called a plank – the opinions and viewpoints about an individual topic, as held by a party, person, or organization. The word "plank" depicts a component of an overall political platform, as a metaphorical reference to a basic stage made of boards or planks of wood
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_platform
Platforms are built with planks, Elon has no platform.
- The right-wing political power machine has been running on vibes instead of sincerely held beliefs for a while now.
  People who like Musk better than Trump will just make up bullshit about both to justify their choice.
American nazi party.
- He really missed a beat not calling it the Naxi party
  
  The NaXi Party for that Chinese dictator angle.
What an idiot
If it de-thrones Trump, it can't be all that bad
- Well doesn't sound like it's going presidential, and currently I don't think if trump goes for a 3rd term, it will involve elections.
  I mean, we don't have high regard for the guy that killed hitler.

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