After faltering in his plan to found a new ‘America Party’, the world’s richest person is returning to the GOP fold

In the aftermath of his spectacular falling out with Donald Trump last year, Elon Musk blasted the Republican Party as a corrupt force that was “bankrupting” the United States of America.

But now, after months in the political wilderness, the volatile tech baron has indicated that he will once again devote his enormous fortune to electing GOP politicians, this time ahead of the midterm elections in 2026.

“America is toast if the radical left wins,” declared Musk on X Thursday. “They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore.”

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    I really wish people would understand that billionaires don’t speak for “America” and that their interests are almost exactly opposed to the interests of regular people. This is the case regardless of where on the political spectrum your beliefs happen to lie.

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      Kind hard to believe they don’t when you let them run your country and shit on your laws.

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    god damn was a sniveling little bitch. All that money and he still has to kneel down to the party that turned on him a few months ago.

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    Dude there is no radical left in the US. There’s different flavors of right, one of them is inconvenient to con men. Thats it.

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    fElon will going to need to buy/hack more election machines than last time. I wonder how much that cost, this time he will need more than 7 swing states to turn the tide.

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    No worries, Elmo. Thanks to a cowardly compliant media and lots of fuckery that the Democrats just sat down and took over the years, it’s already rigged. Republicans are likely to win and keep winning.

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    I thought he was making his own party and hated Trump because of big bill and all that shit. And the Epstein files etc

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    Yes because your foray into politics was so fruitful before. Maybe he’ll actually destroy his career this time like he got close to last time?

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      Tesla’s stock creeps ever higher because the insane casino that is Wall Street hangs on his every word. “Well sure, people refuse to buy his cars,” they say. “But now he says it doesn’t matter.” They’re betting on the taxi fleet and humanoid robots taking over and fixing everything.

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        The level of hopium among that bunch just amazes me. I was thinking they might have one of the highest P/E ratios, but there are apparently many companies with even higher P/Es.

        Some of those seem to be medical research outfits, and my guess is that people are gambling on some incredible moonshot kind of thing. I guess people believe fElon’s claims about robots, taxis and their “AI”, but given his track record on delivering an EV for rigs, let’s just say I’m a bit skeptical. The guy also seems to be distracted by a million other things that have nothing to do with running any of his companies.

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    "They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

    Just a reminder that Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant and a fraud.

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    Billionaires spending craptons of money convincing poor people that even poorer people are their enemy is never good for the world.