These fake Musk pages with posts from mainly bots are sometimes amusing

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-musk-feud-escalates-after-musk-floats-creating/story?id=123532608

I'm wondering about this third political party Musk is proposing. My question is: who does he think he's going to appeal to?

• Democrats don't like him because of his association with the orange buffoon.
• Republicans don't like him because he turned against the orange buffoon.

How many persuadable voters does that leave? Whatever happens, I don't see this being 1992 all over again, where Ross Perot sucked out something like 8 million votes in the election (which I believe was more damaging for the Democrats than the Republicans).

Elon Musk, Thiel and the Techbros just bought an election.
Knowing.
Social media power of disinformation and working on de-woking Grok into a Super Gobbels.

A better financed run the can have better shot than most so-called independents.
Hell the endorsed candidates may even call themselves independents for a two-for-one.
In areas too GOP strong he may just quietly work on Elon friendly GOP candidates.

There will be the 'Think Different' campaign with Roman Salutes all around.

Senate and House.
Elon even indicated aim to be tail that wags the dog like TeaParty and MAGA.
Stalemate Senate and House and no President can do anything unless they toe the line.
No majority needed with these in single digit balance.

Presential race.
Probably typical bull, overreach?
Thiel and Musk have J. D. Vance there ready, already, so Elon will probably play both sides.

Elon could push sponsoring a Presidential run media attention.
Grabs the media news cycle and a good chance for regular Joe Rogan, 'oh wow' stares. 
If he doubles down on Ketamine and takes it seriously it could be his downfall.

Elon and Thiel etc just need enough power to wag the dog like Tea-party/MAGA did.

They see voters as NPC's easily manipulated idiots, turkeys happy to vote for thanksgiving, and leopards make such good pets. 

Anyone thinking he will be spending more time at Tesla, and SpaceX, I guess not.

I think I found a logo for the new Musk party.

quickymart: I'm wondering about this third political party Musk is proposing. My question is: who does he think he's going to appeal to?

Guardian: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.

kingdragonfly: 
 Grok is parroting legacy media,”.

Err, yeah because that's what its been fed/trained on..

-and the reason it was given those for homework is the expectation that there was a reasonable amount of fact checking  undertaken before the stories were published, 

If you want to train your AI on 4 and 8-chan be my guest, but I'm pretty sure the outcome will be magnitudes worse

wellygary: If you want to train your AI on 4 and 8-chan be my guest, but I'm pretty sure the outcome will be magnitudes worse

LOL, I think doing the stupid bs he's doing means any support left from Democrats for this "America Party" he wants to set up (lol) will have all but vanished. Way to shoot yourself in the foot 🙄

He will have his work cut out for him convincing anyone to vote for him now.

Part of the LEO satellite thing is that there is constant erosion of older satellites as orbits decay and they are already low.

Chicken little was right, we have a constant growing rain of stuff falling from the sky.

Presently its about at rate of 944 satellites a year just to stand still.
Constellation still growing and also larger more capable satellites too.

In a decade this could be several thousand annually, plus competitor's similar networks.

Thus...
Starships real job, it's needed to lift the tonnage of larger SVs at a rate Falcon can't economically keep up with long term. 
You have to stake out the good positions before competition.
Mars, Moon and Point to Point Military deliveries may be just to get Government to pay for Starship program development.

Possible Ooopsie...
All this periodic table of superheated elements entering upper atmosphere in volume may have similar effect to CFC's on Ozone and other important chemical cycles.
We are not too sure ? 

Maybe that's the plan toxic, radioactive, virtually atmosphere-less, Mars may be a good option.
Comparatively speaking, if knock on of MechaHitler everywhere all the time goes bad.  

MechaHitler may need an escape plan, sadly it's no place for biologicals. 

quickymart:How many persuadable voters does that leave? Whatever happens, I don't see this being 1992 all over again, where Ross Perot sucked out something like 8 million votes in the election (which I believe was more damaging for the Democrats than the Republicans).

 

Expanding on this: Politico posted this recently, an interview with an adviser to Perot's campaign in 1992, which looks at all the challenges - and there are a lot of them - that Musk is almost certain to face:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/09/ross-perot-third-party-elon-musk-00442962

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/16/ai-girlfriend-musk-app-12-year-olds/

Musk launches AI girlfriend available to 12-year-olds

xAI’s ‘crazy in love’ chatbot Ani designed to engage in sexual conversations with users

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