Welp…

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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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    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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    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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    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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        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.

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    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?

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      Dems won’t do shit to make people’s lives better but they won’t open up concentration camps and will mostly leave trans people alone.

      Unless the dinosaurs talking shit about Mamdani and AOC are brought to heel.

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    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!

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    Oh, can “aliens” start political parties in the USA?

    Imma start a “British Colony” party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.