Public sentiment towards Elon Musk's announcement of the America Party is overwhelmingly negative, with widespread skepticism and disdain expressed by commenters regarding his motives and suitability for political leadership. Many view his actions as self-serving and detrimental to the political landscape, reflecting broader concerns about the influence of billionaires in politics and the potential for increased political division.

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Nice, now the right can choose between christofascism and technofascism!

Vast-Mistake-9104

50501_Protest_8647

Anyone else find it funny that he founded it out of California, after he fled California because they were holding him account to his horrible employment practices?

GryphonOsiris

Elon Musk is so out of touch with reality that he thinks trump is the reason people don't like him. 

trump is the reason that people don't like trump. The reason people don't like Elon, is Elon. 

Agente_Anaranjado

A South African starting the American Party!!??  After what he did?  I am not trusting this.

BioticVessel

me watching the republican party splinter like

https://preview.redd.it/jht1a6q7cbbf1.jpeg?width=1179&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=2282d89401685bd26aa50522fcfd3409ffedf2cb

mensfrightsactivists

Genuinely curious how the ghouls behind Project 2025 have been working on this for decades... yet didn't think twice about risking it all by making a blood pact with an unstable ketamine-addicted man child built like a refrigerator.

Necessary-Bus-5221

I hate Musk only a tiny bit less than I hate Orange Cheesus, and I’m guessing most non-MAGAts feel the same, so I have no freaking idea who he thinks is going to join his billionaire-aligned political party.

GregWilson23

How do I help sign up Republicans for this?
😂😂

overitallofittoo

What stops him from rigging the election so his party wins?

Less-Contribution562

This is like something out of Tim and Eric.

moderngulls

An even farther to the right right-wing extremist party. Great! Founded on Nazi principles. That's what the U.S needs. WTF 😒

Curiousone_78

Oh god I recognize that address, I used to work there.

The party is gonna be based out of a SpaceX facility? Fuck off

wolfheadmusic

What a fuckin’ clown show. Welcome to the great American Circus Age.

FlashyPaladin

So, who in theory, would take the mantle of this new party? Elon can’t run because he wasn’t born in the US, so how does this even work?

BraveHeart626

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cashewcappuccino

dstruct0

Interesting he starting in California, a state he hates

mikeP1967

Oh wow. *Another* party for billionaires.

kiwispouse

Tesla CFO had to get second job since his compensation is all stock at Tesla.

Rough_Board_7961

*deep breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

mermaidreefer

Dankecheers

absurd_nerd_repair

ghost_o_-

The "Custodian of Records" and "Treasurer" is the CFO of Tesla Motors.

AlfalfaReal5075

Elon Musk can go shag himself.  Can’t call him a traitor because he’s really not American.  I’m so sick of these billionaires screwing around with our country and making life harder for good people.

EnthusiasmAny8485

While this can be a good sign as it divides MAGA I remain firm in my belief that 6 months before the midterms him and Trump will have a "magical" get-back-together.

KazePhantom

Democrats! Stay out of this!

Let Elon split the conservative vote.

clashtrack

WookieDeep

He already stole one election he’ll definitely steal midterms again with this one.

excellent-throat2269

Did he really use a proton email address for this?

Artemicium

I’m not convinced this will split MAGA even a little.

propervinegarsauce

Yo Elon, I’ll hold signs up for you. Just gonna have to pay me $10M cash first. HMU

mickeyt13

Am I reading this right? You can only be in the party if you support Elon as the candidate?

LOL

This guy gets nothing.

DynamicDolo

Do you have to be white and of Afrikaner ethnicity to join?
Or just an apartheid believer?

Atlwood1992

Well he does control the poll machines, so I guess he is our next president.

TentacleHockey

Can someone explain to me how Elon Musk can legally run for president, when Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution says the president must be born in the U.S. or born to U.S. citizen parents?

Putrid-Network712

why not establish in Texas? if he thinks he can attract any Dems (let alone CA dems), he should really open a dispensary with his current drug dosing and make some more crazy money

mdkennedy3

If he want this party to be successful, he'd better pour a few billion into supporting ranked choice voting. That's the best path to victory for candidates outside the two main parties.

ChangedEnding

Will probably shave off right learning independents but if it begins the trend of breaking the 2 party system, I'm all far it.


And, of course, fuck musk

Prize_Major6183

Let the dumbasses follow him. As long as it splits the magats, I'm good with this. If leftist tesla bro's sign on, that's a problem.

threesunrises

This is definitely a good thing. If we can all work towards a Democrat party that is for the people, progressive, and against corporate dark money while those idiots all fight amongst themselves, we may just turn this ship around. Musk dumping tons of money into republican primaries is a gift to progressives.

DirtyDiscsAndDyes

Do I get a million dollars if I vote for it?

Actual-Court-3227

He could pull over Libertarians, tech bros and white supremacists/nazis that voted trump. Can't wait to see who ends up making up the majority of its base.

sealosam

Really their HQ is located in California? 


Very conservative of them lol

nunchucks2danutz

“The America Party” is a really stupid name.

Lifeboatb

Lead by an affluent South African white who was pro-apartheid. He’ll split the Republican vote so go for it Doge boy!

Eve-was-framed

If you're a Democrat, and you're progressive, don't you fucking dare join this party. Let this doomed fucking party split the GOP down the fucking Center. Hopefully it splits them at their fucking reproductive organ, and let them cesspool into fucking eternity

EDIT: Voice text puts punctuation in the wrong places, so I fixed it.

pitthappens

I'll make my own party, with blackjack and hookers!

Hamphalamph

Omigod the same thing that caused us to get the worst president (Wilson) is gonna be the doom of the Republican party. Their votes will be split, leaving Democrats to take the lead.

EyeNguyenSemper

It’s not a good thing because Musk did it.

WoodenIndication3592

Sorry, folks. I believe this is fake. 

If you search FEC.gov for “America Party”, “American Party (AMEP)” or the committee ID of C00910323, ya get nothing.

IHasTehDumbz

I hate that this will probably actually become a thing

Charming_Function_58

nerdtastic8

FalconRacerFalcon

So he's implying that anyone whose not in his party is un-American... I hate it already

kdupe1849

jim45804

DadIsLosingHisMind

CFO of Tesler is now the CFO of this joke

Aramedlig

theant99

We’ve tried the red party, we’ve tried blue party now time for the white party! /s

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Praying enough stupid people about this to care to split the Republican Party.

miscpx

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Like? He’s not American?

louie_a

avokuma

cuvent

We haven’t forgotten what you did asshole

I_Heart_80082

iinvisigoth

Was "X, the Everything Party" already taken?

sphinxthoughts

&gt;When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.

Said by richest billionaire in the world.

![gif](giphy|DPqqOywshrOqQ|downsized)

bruxellexs

Yeah, he can keep that nonsense to himself and get into fights with libertarians.

thenoctilucent

He’s a fucking idiot if he thinks he’s gonna siphon off a statistically significant number of people from either party but at least he might start attacking the fascists that he actively helped get into power now instead of whatever bullshit he’s been up to.

thewomaninthemoon

Illustrious-Limit-53

This is simply ketamine becoming sentient and forming sentences.

I seriously have never read anything that is so obviously drug-fucked.

spitey

Splitting that republican party….

![gif](giphy|10Jpr9KSaXLchW|downsized)

Fresh_Profit3000

"Centrist policies everywhere else" shut the fuck up omg 😓

tornwallpaper

While this loser keeps himself occupied with dumb shit like this, we gotta keep pulling the dems left, just like Zohran is doing. Let’s NOT be the party of billionaires.

Bread_Low

walkingtalkingdread

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aewright0316

did the people of his social media site vote for him to go away? keep that promise first

Jrk67

Mermaid76

Are there still people out there who think this guy is a genius?

Striking-Donkey8985

did he just announce that he plans to physically attack the White House? like how are we supposed to read that tweet about force at a specific location???

84th_legislature

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I just want human rights and fucking health care man

constantchaosclay

He thinks his self-selecting, global userbase full of bots and sock puppets is a good basis to infer the US voting population's opinion.


Hope he spends way too much money though 

Scullenz

Straight white men in this country are deeply unwell lol

ZombieWerewolfGhost

natural_log93

![gif](giphy|h0MTqLyvgG0Ss)

Jill Stein seeing a bigger grifter coming for her corner.

Writerhaha

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Birdfishing00

Ehm….Hell no, thank you.

https://preview.redd.it/hi2lhnkkt5bf1.jpeg?width=770&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=c70cb7901777fd10efa09b17d1579c991cc14f70

SorryNotSorry_78

firehawk12

OhMorgoth

he's so serious he let the first random asshole to respond decide the party platform. dickhead even threw centrism and accelerationism in there together. a winning stew of bullshit served to the subjects of the naked emperor of zombie twitter

Spirited_Egg_6713

Can the fucking monkey paw stop already? can someone burn it? *STOP FUCKING WISHING ON THE MONKEY'S PAW*

Endsong-X23

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TheCommonKoala

so he can put thousands of dollars into the trump campaign — the same trump that he accused of being a pedophile despite knowingly working with him — &amp; he still has the capacity to make a political party? 😐

shellys-dollhouse

I absolutely believe in breaking the 2 party system in the US. 
But Elon, get 👏🏽 out 👏🏽 of 👏🏽politics 👏🏽 we do not need nor want a Robber Barron party with industrial elites at the head. Y’all that is literally a return to 1920s America 🤦🏽‍♂️

tepidDuckPond

I don’t like saying this cause I feel it’s rude - but since he’s a twat… YOURE NOT EVEN AMERICAN. You don’t go here, stay out of our shit.

STMIHA

"free speech" = pass for racism, sexism, ableism, the list goes on.

Angry1980Christmas

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