Also… some tech-dude-bro white dudes…
Your first gif implies that you’d rather Mosk not start a third party? If so, I’m just wondering why? (Since splitting the right’s vote seems like a good thing… and I doubt he’d “attract disillusioned Democrats”…)
So he’s not using dealerships?
It’ll be interesting to see how his party and twitter interact with campaign contribution limits and reporting requirements- he’s going to promote it extensively on shitter.
They kind of glossed over the fact that the way he said “both parties have failed” was a white nationalist dogwhistle.
Let’s see, no red, no blue . . .
also noted in that language of having “tried red and blue parties”, that must mean that Leon is proposing his party should be labeled “White?”
in addition to the dogwhistle you mention, ot seems mr. skunk is selling a whites-only political party?
edit: @Millie_Fink gets it.
A few of reasons, really.
First, I don’t think it’s gonna derail the GOP, as I think if they win any seats, they’ll just do what other independents on the right do, and caucus with the GOP anyway. Nothing changes for the case of voting, I don’t think.
Second, it’s just another grift on his part, and possibly just a kind of kayfabe - there isn’t actually any real animosity between Trump and Musk, maybe, but it’s just them acting like it, in order to give right-leaning, but trump hating voters a party to vote for that will just end up caucusing with the GOP…
Third, he might well pick up some moderate independents and even conservative democrats. Probably not a lot, but it is still a possibility. I have not forgotten Ro Khanna proclaiming that democrats need to woo musk… Despite all the dumb ass shit musk has done some people just refuse to let go of him as being some sort of fucking genius…
Last… I’m honestly just sick of Musk. I kind of just want him to…
YMMV of course, but that’s my own thinking on it…
Yeah, that would track…
She does indeed!
Ah, yeah, thanks for explaining.
He could run for governor, at least in CA… 
But it wouldn’t shock me in the least, if he tried to run for POTUS anyway.
Not California, but maybe Texas? He very publicly left California for Texas in 2020, although he also stated that he was residence-less. He left to avoid CA taxes on income, so yeah, he’s definitely not a California resident.
The ideal would be that they only steal votes and so more seats go to Democrats. I doubt Musk is really serious though because he’s never serious about anything he tries. My guess is it’s a stunt to show Trump he still needs Musk’s support without giving money to any non-fascists, because heaven forbid he ever fund anything good.
i reckon comrade Frog was referring to another non-native person having been elected as governator of califaah-nia, one Ah-nold Schwarzenegger?
i get what you’re saying, though about his (leon’s) public flouncing from Cali to Texass.
Oh, sorry. I didn’t parse that correctly. Yes. Schwarzenegger met residency requirement for governor because he had a California address and filed CA state returns. There is no age or length of residency or a native-born citizenship requirement for the office of governor. We are pretty easy.
ETA: “native-born” to citizenship, as it was NOT clear. 
oh, sorry, i know you already were keenly aware. i didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.
i just like the idea that Leon flounced out of California like the pissy divaboy he is!
if he thought for a nanosecond that he could ever be governor of California, he would come slithering back to San Francisco like a slimy banana slug!
note: banana slugs are kinda cool, intil they ravage your garden. i don’t mean to disparage banana slugs by making the comparison to Leon Skunk.
anyone in the PNW still remember Slugs of Mystery? pretty obscure reference, but IYKYK.
Slugs of Mystery? I was assuming:
not quite, but let’s not go too far off thread.
Slugs are actually pretty cool, just a little squicky…
To be fair, with Elon Musk, it is a bit of a slime trail.
I could be wrong… I’m feeling pretty cynical today, though.