NYT To Elon Musk: PLEASE Do Not Start A Third Party!!!!

If the New York Times were any more predictable, it would be a fucking clock.

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Last week, when Elon Musk threatened to start a new political party in retaliation over being pushed out of Trump’s inner circle, I predicted that the legacy press would be openly hostile to the idea.

My reasoning was very simple: The legacy press is extremely predictable about certain things. If it’s bad for Democrats, it’s legitimate. If it’s bad for Republicans, it’s not.

Thus, RFK Jr. was a legitimate “independent” candidate until he became a threat to Trump, then he was damaged goods. Hacked emails were a legitimate story until the emails were Trump’s, then the press rediscovered journalistic integrity. Writing headlines about American bombs being used in Gaza was very important until Trump was president, then no one wanted to talk about that anymore.

Third parties are bad for Democrats and the press LOVES them. Despite not being a serious candidate by any metric and clearly a Russian asset, the press always gives Jill Stein all the oxygen she could ever want. The press hyped up Andrew Yang long after his expiration date came and went. Remember Third Way? The legacy press had such an embarrassing crush on them, it bordered on stalking.

But here’s how the New York Fucking Times is reacting to Elon Musk’s newly announced third party:

Well, gee golly! They don’t seem to be excited about a new third party in America! That’s so weird! The legacy press is always going on and on and fucking on about “both sides” and how broken the two-party system is. Funny…you’d think the NYT would be super jazzed to have a new entry into the electoral field.

Instead, they really want Elon Musk to know all the reasons there’s just NO WAY he’ll be able to pull this off!!!

Mr. Musk boasted on Sunday that his plan to radically transform American democracy would not be difficult — suggesting he had spent little time studying state ballot-access and federal campaign-finance laws.

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Qualifying a slate of 435 House candidates, were Mr. Musk to take his idea national, would require about three times as many petition signatures as putting a presidential candidate on the ballot in every state and could cost more than $50 million just in signature gathering, Mr. Winger said.

$50 million! Where would the world’s richest man worth over $400 billion find that kind of money?! Best to give this up right now!

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The NYT also wants Musk to know it’s a lot of work to build a political party and keep it going. Musk is notorious for losing interest in things and the people he hires will be targeted by the regime for punishment. Who’d risk it?! Better to just give up, buddy, before the grifters come calling:

That could leave Mr. Musk dependent, at least somewhat, on the mercenary types who populate the world of minor parties and ballot-access campaigns, and who may be willing to suffer reputational damage with national Republicans if the paycheck is big enough.

In recent days, cash-hungry ballot-access operatives have been conducting frenzied research and developing proposals with the hopes of getting them in front of Mr. Musk, according to one person doing just that. Some of them have begun spending inordinate amounts of time analyzing his social media posts.

It’s important to note that the Republican Party is infested with these exact mercenary types and operatives with nary a word from the deeply concerned NYT. But isn’t it nice how they’re looking out for their good buddy Elon?

Now, here’s where the Times gives the game away by explaining what their real worry is:

On his social media site, Mr. Musk has floated the idea of holding an American Party Congress this August in Austin, Texas. He suggested that he would be interested in keeping a “laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts” in the 2026 midterms. And if those candidates were to win, he said, they would “caucus independently,” but “legislative discussions would be had with both parties.”

An independent caucus would be much easier to do and well within reach of a man with $400 billion. That cannot be allowed.

So why, exactly, does the NYT find this so threatening? Why aren’t they cheering one of the few people in the country with the unlimited resources needed to kick off a new party or create a caucus capable of, ahem, holding “both parties accountable?”

Again, this is not complicated and I touched on this last week. Musk is not creating a centrist party. He is incapable of creating one. Elon Musk with his very-well documented history of white nationalism and hate speech and tongue-fucking Nazis on Twitter can no more create a centrist party than I could fly over to South Korea and become the lead singer of BTS.

Putting aside the fact that my girls would spontaneously combust from the eternal cringe of me getting on stage, I do not speak the language. And neither does Musk. He speaks fluent hate and rage. He does not speak fluent moderate. So how is he going to attract moderate voters, especially from the left?

Short answer: He can’t.

Long answer: He abso-fucking-lutely can’t. He can, however, attract Republican voters who really REALLY hate Trump. There are a lot of them and that number is growing. These are people who will never vote for a baby-killing godless pedophile liberal but they’re mad at Trump’s warmongering and tax cuts for billionaires and cuts to Medicaid and breaking Social Security and and and. They’re also conditioned to follow wealth and power. Musk has both.

Musk can easily “laser-focus” on a handful of seats. He won’t make any headway flipping blue seats but claiming several red ones? He can do that with his pocket change. What are Republicans going to do? Complain that he bought the elections? Citizens United, sweetie! Money is free speech. It’s what you wanted!

Maybe they could insist that Musk is bribing elected officials? Oh wait! Bribery is legal now, thanks to the Republicans on the Supreme Court!

And this is clearly what is freaking the NYT out. Musk can very easily take control of a chunk of the GOP and bring everything they try to do to a screeching halt. Now, that’s fine when Republicans obstruct Democrats. It will not be acceptable when Musk interferes with the GOP’s next round of tax cuts and funding to ICE.

Worse, if Musk does seize control of a caucus, he’ll control it long after Trump is gone. The GOP was not very kind to Musk when he was exiled. Don’t you think he’ll remember that and continue to seek retribution? Malignant narcissists are not known to be very forgiving.

Again, this will impact the GOP and the GOP only. Musk is not going to scoop up any blue seats, only red. Thus, the New York Times views this correctly as a threat to one party and one party only. And in the eyes of the deeply compromised NYT, the wrong party is under attack. Splitting the GOP risks leaving the field open for the left and, well, fuck that noise. What if Democrats nominate someone like Zohran Mamdani for president?! The Times editorial board is already setting its own ethics on fire in a desperate bid to stop such a “dangerous radical” from becoming mayor. Can you imagine what they would do to stop one from becoming president?

Keep an eye on this. Should Musk move forward, with either building a caucus or an entire party, watch for the reaction from the NYT and the press that follows its lead. They’re already nervous and it’s going to get ugly as they fly into a full-fledged panic. Watch them and you’ll see exactly whose side they’re on. Hint: Not America’s. Not democracy. Not the rule of law.

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