Welp…

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      It’s Musk so he’ll probably rebrand them as NaXis.

      Maybe enough MAGAts will join him that it will split the vote and it will get easier to get people with basic human decency elected. That is assuming we continue to have elections.

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    I just want to remind anyone thinking that this is a good thing because it will siphon off voters from the Republican Party - Elon Musk is only doing this because Trump cut the EV mandate from the Big Bullshit Bill and didn’t appoint his guy to NASA. No matter what he says about spending or debt ceilings, he doesn’t care about any of it and was in the loop the entire time that legislation was being crafted. He’s still only in this for himself, just as he was when he gleefully threw a Nazi salute on stage thinking he just got everything he could ever want when he bought the president his office.

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    I hope this becomes big enough to split the right-wing vote. I wish him all the success possible.

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    I hope that he sloughs off enough support from the Geronocrats and Turdpublicans to give the Progressive movement a chance to become mainstream. In a battle between four armies, I think AOC would win.

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    The neo-Nazi saluting bastard wants a political party? F-him and strip him of US citizenship for illegally working in the USA.

    If anyone has a chance to create another party. AOC and Mamdani.

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    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.

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    How many weeks before he gets bored and abandons it when things don’t immediately work, just like everything else in his useless life?

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      unlike rockets or cars, political party success in America is measured in dollars

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        He already bought himself an entire department with no oversight but got bored of it after a few months.

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          In 1962, Congress created the role of “special government employee,” which allows the executive branch, the legislative branch and independent federal agencies to bring on employees for specific roles on a temporary basis.

          SGEs are limited to working for the government for no more than 130 days out of a 365-day period, though they can work multiple years, and they can either be paid or unpaid. NPR has reported that Musk is not being paid for his work with DOGE.

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            If you’re just going to copy and paste from an NPR article, you might as well provide a link while you’re at it.

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    I fail to see how splitting up the fascists is anything but a good thing. Let them fight.

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      True that. Although in a would be tri-party system, so in case this new party gains somewhat reasonable backing, it gains significant bargaining power over the much bigger parties because it would likely hold keys to majority vote. So it might just become much greater than its apparent size… But yeah, I doubt much anything comes out of this.

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        Liberals hate musk and won’t vote for his party. Split the stupid vote and watch Dems win unwinnable races. If he pulls that off for 2 election cycles you might even see Republicans go in on ranked choice voting.

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    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.

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    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.