Elon Musk publicly mused about creating a new political party this week, an idea that could escalate the billionaire’s feud with his onetime ally President Trump.

Musk first floated the idea on Thursday. In between jabs at Mr. Trump, the billionaire posted a poll to X asking his 220 million followers if they think it’s “time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle.”

A day later, Musk noted that 80% of respondents to the poll backed the idea.

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    I don’t think he’s going to run to Russia. The moment he does, he all of his US companies will be seized. So if he wants to go, he’s going to need to find a way to very quickly liquidate everything without the federal government noticing. But you can be sure that the spy agencies are watching him. He’s already too powerful for comfort, and it’s their job to spy on people like him.

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      What he really needs to do is kill Donald Trump and install JDVance as a puppet of the tech oligarchy.

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      But you can be sure that the spy agencies are watching him. He’s already too powerful for comfort, and it’s their job to spy on people like him.

      And do what? It was very clear that if Trump got elected he’d take a wrecking ball to the country that we will probably never recover from, at the behest of a hostile foreign leader he’s been openly conspiring with for decades. What exactly did they did to stop him?

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        Now that he’s rooted through through every government database, and stolen everything, he knows too much If he tries to run to China or Russia, his plane will probably mysteriously crash.

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        They can nationalize half of his companies without a big effort. Musk he’s been acting like a jerk for years now, if they want to ditch him is a matter of nothing. He’s a drogatic, he stole US citizens data, he’s been playing with stocks for years.

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          The issue with that oa that they would then lose the support of the bourgeoisie and so could get coup-ed.

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          Sure, they could, and probably should. But evidence suggests they won’t. So what’s the point of them spying on him? They’ll collect a bunch of information and do nothing about it.

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            US agencies might not have much reason, but foreign ones on the other hand definitely do have plenty of reasons.

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            I guess at that level everybody is spying each other constantly anyway. It doesn’t mean you want to use your info, but it’s sometimes an insurance on your on life.

            Musk got away with much, but he runs companies in Us which can compete globally, and any US president has to be on his side.

            Recently he turned out as a bad (really bad), individual, but for the Magas was of course still ok. Funnily enough, he got his own medicine. A racist South African who got used and dumped cause he has no roots in US.

            Musk is not even the worse there, he’s too stupid. What I fear the most is Thiel, he’s a motherfucker for real.