Elon Musk Offers an Update on His Plans to Form a Third Party

Townhall ^ | 07/05/2025 | Rebecca Downs

[nikos1121]

This guy is obviously going thru some manic state.

[Dr. Sivana]

Close to 1.25 million people voted, with 65.4 percent in favor of such a party.

Some of them are Dems who want to see the conservative/MAGA vote split.

Most, however, picture this undefined party as a party that mirrors the respondents views. So many of the people who want a third party have opposing visions, so the number is meaningless until the 3rd Party is defined.

Trump made running for and winning the presidency look easy. He is an amazing historical figure. Starting a party that would displace one of the majors, at least on a regional level, is SEVERAL orders of magnitude greater. Musk has a fat wallet, but a lot of his assets are likely not that liquid. It will also be hard for him to get a team of people who know their way around, and won't just take the money and not really make it happen.

Musk hasn't thought this through.

[Round Earther]

If he wants to rattle the cage of the establishment, he could run for the Senate seat in Texas in 2026.

Paxton (R)
Loser Democrat (D)
Musk (A)

Paxton would win, but it would be absolute chaos.

[Flaming Conservative]

Elon is brilliant, but he’s way off base here. All a third party would do is divide the conservative vote and give democrats both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Not to mention that the desire of the majority of Americans would most likely be unattainable.

[nopardons]

He really is NOT all that "brilliant" at all.

Sadly, far too many are taken in by him, for some inexplicable reason, which I am unable to fathom. Perhaps it's his wealth.

Anything, he is sort of an idiot savant, but even that isn't really all that true.

[Ciaphas Cain]

I have manic depression. I used to work in a mental health facility, helping other people because of my own experiences with manic depression. I'm currently trying to get an agent for my memoir, much of it is about having manic depression.

I'm familiar with manic.

And Elon Musk is definitely manic right now.

He needs someone to pull him aside and try to talk him to calm down. He doesn't really know what he's doing right now. If it's anything like what happened to me, he's feeling a rush of euphoria and probably has ever since the election. DOGE was an enormous triumph for him and like a junkie he must have more of that thrill. He's basically trying to do anything that will make him feel like a cartoon character. Whereas others who are manic seek such thrills from spending money they don't have, or out of control libido, or running circles around the parking lot at 2 a.m., in this case we have a man with MANY BILLIONS of dollars and nobody substantial in his life to make him pull back from the edge of the abyss.

We are definitely in some crazy times!!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Even if Elon had an IQ of 1000, there are some things he should not try.

Stay in your lane, Elon, and keep creating things that will better mankind. Leave the governing to lesser mortals. You DON’T have to do it all.

[Polanski]

I think he also has bipolar. Mostly because bipolar is ebbs and flows over many months. It’s not up and down fast typically, it takes time.

There are treatments for it that should work well but he probly loves the high parts enough that he’ll refuse any treatment. And he’s probably also on lots of drugs.

Dr Drew needs to work on him for awhile. Then again most of Dr Drew’s patients ended up worse off too.

Elon just needs to take a few months break from life. Not like his Starship is doing well anyway, and could probably do fine without him.

[JudyinCanada]

Agree. It’s like he’s gone from front and center in the news, being with President Trump all the time, in the thick of things, and then sidelined, for whatever reason.

He seems to feel like he was owed much more than that for what he went through for the country, and the good things he did. Not sure how this is going to go. I have to think that him being autistic is playing a part in this.

I feel sorry for him, but wish he’d stop whatever he’s trying to do.

[Polanski]

That last meeting he did in the Whitehouse, Elon had a black eye. He was in a fight, physically, and stood there arms crossed like I have when slighted in places. He looked mad, and right after said Trump was on Epstein’s island.

I wish we had some JFK style tapes of this and Biden’s after debate videos, they’d make any World Star insanity look normal.

All this stuff going on is a clown show.

[lee martell]

This would be a very long time for a Manic episode to be sustained, wouldn’t it? Of course, it’s possible for a Peak to simply become a New Plateau. Maybe that’s his Venn.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

If he goes for changes in the senate or house and not the president. Then his party could upset the apple-cart in those houses.

[basalt]

man...Elon flew too close to the sun and this political stuff went to his head. Hes a bit on the delusional side. He needs to tend to his businesses.

[spokeshave]

Even if Elon had an IQ of 1000, there are some things he should not try.

He has no "Tacit Knowledge" of things American

He is ticked off that Trump removed subsidies for Electric Vehicles

He is in cahoots with the Chinese Communist Party.

He wants a human/computer inerface with his company Nuralink

One of his many offspring's planted a booger on the Resolute Desk.

Suck it up Elon....you are passed shelf life.

[Ciaphas Cain]

An episode can be brief. A day or so.

It can also last weeks or months.

[politicket]

And Elon Musk is definitely manic right now.

President Trump attempted to pull him into his family structure and help him have some stability in his life that he never received from his father.

Sadly, it didn't work. Elon had it all - he's just too blind to see it.

[Fresh Wind]

Musk is a modern snake oil salesman.

[grey_whiskers]

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[Fresh Wind]

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