Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/07/25 7:36 PM ET


Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party, according to a Saturday interview with Politico Magazine. Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders.

When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.” “We have been of the opinion that America needed a new political party for a number of years, and so waiting another 24 hours is nothing,” he added.

Musk’s push for a new political caucus emerged from his public feud with President Trump over the “big, beautiful bill.” The tech giant strongly opposed the national debt increase after months of working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut federal spending.

Yang, the founder of “The Forward Party,” said it’s political outsiders like Musk who consider non-traditional approaches to the country’s problems. “I want to work with people that recognize that America’s political system has gone from dysfunctional to polarizing to even worse. And at this point, the fastest growing political movement in the United States is independents,” Yang said. “They feel like neither party represents them, and the two-party system is not delivering what they want to see,” he continued.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5338781-andrew-yang-reaches-out-to-musk-to-collaborate-on-new-political-party/

[Walleye]

1. They head up their ass party. HUTA

[hunter]

15. The "Forgot to Flush Party" was the first thing I thought.

What's most astonishing is that Yang is still falling for Musk's grift.

Or maybe he thinks he can have a piece of it, like Trump did.

Nothing Elon Musk has done, nothing he has proposed, has made the world a better place. From the very beginning, when he landed in California's Silicon Valley, it's all been about him sucking up money from gullible tech-bros and the politicians who direct the spending of our tax dollars.

[brush]

2. Yang again? How many times has he been rejected by voters now?

Now trying to hook up with nazi Musk.

[Dem4life1970]

19. I can see Musk creating

the National American Zeitgeist Institution Party.

[brush]

35. Hiel Hitler salutes and all. And Yang won't object as long as he gets the attention he seeks.

[Be Leave On]

37. very busy

Sorta like Yang, who said Eloon has probably been very busy, a few months ago, I invited someone to dinner and I haven't heard back, so I assume they've been very busy.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Fuck both of them

Just more of the same old oligarchy shit.

[Vinca]

4. Here we fucking go again. This is why we can't have nice things anymore: third parties.

[Jirel]

6. Nothing wrong with 3rd parties.

Having more than 2 parties that matter is NORMAL. It’s the norm everywhere in the world but here, and it used to be the norm even in the US. Complaining about 3rd parties is a sign of political entitlement and lack of faith in one’s own party.

However, tech bros idiots starting 3rd parties for the sake of their egos is definitely getting old.

[marble falls]

7. 3rd parties do not work in a closed two party system wwith winner takes all elections. Force runoffs in ...

... elections where no party has 51% of the vote or more and they work.

[PSPS]

17. That's what many people don't understand

Our constitution defines a winner-take-all election which will always be a two-party system. Otherwise, we'd have a parliamentary system like most other countries. Just ask Steve Forbes, Ross Perot and others who had the same "bright idea."

[cadoman]

25. third-partier is just a political life phase

It makes all the sense in the world for a few years till you actually live it.

Then you realize the reality that the party infrastructure is a paper tiger but is deeply enshrined into law, that only a handful of people understand it, show up to events, and run it, and that you can have as much or as little political effect as you want by participating in the party system.

What is very real though, are powerful election spoilers who are in this life phase and can utterly disrupt a more balanced two party fight.

[Tom Rinaldo]

24. Automatic ranked voting run offs is another way that can works for this

You do not have to throw away your vote if you prefer an alternative candidate.

[Cirsium]

27. Third parties

Third parties have been highly influential may times throughout US history. The Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, the Whigs in the 1830s, the Republican party in the 1850s, the People's Party in the 1890s, the Bull Moose Party in 1912, the States' Rights Democratic party in 1948, the American Independent party in 1968.

[carpetbagger]

29. The first three weren't third parties.

The Democratic Republicans in the 1820s were a factionalized, dominant party. The whigs became a second party when the Federalists collapsed, and the Republicans became the second party when the Whigs collapsed. The others at best were spoilers or parking spaces for party dissidents.

[Cirsium]

31. Hair splitting maybe?

All new parties were formed from elements of old parties and involved factionalized, dominant parties. When do we label a party a "third party"? Only when there happen to be three strong parties on a ballot?

[carpetbagger]

40. Probably hair splitting. But...

Maybe hair splitting, but the D-R Jacksonian faction, the Whigs, and the Republicans all finished second in their first presidential runs and then won in the next election. Their rise was more a resetting of the two party system replacing a previous too-two party than a third party muscling in.

My understanding has been that of internal party change being the driver. TR changed the GOP as an insider. As a third party candidate, he left the party to the McKinley-to-Hoover establishment.

[Cirsium]

43. I know the history

I think that when we talk about third parties here, we are really talking about Nader and Stein and that whole shit storm.

[Vinca]

18. We're not a parliamentary system like other countries. That's why 3rd parties screw up the works. I don't think

there has ever been a positive outcome for the country when they siphon off votes. Nader gave us George W. Bush and the Iraq War as a good example and the Green Party and Jill Stein gave us the first reign of terror under Trump. I suspect they siphoned enough votes away from Kamala to dump Trump on us again.

[Gore1FL]

20. In the United States, we build our coalitions before the general election

Other countries do that afterwards.

[Lucky Luciano]

22. That's actually a pretty good way to look at it.

Will use that going forward.

[cab67]

21. Multiple parties won't work in our current system.

They work in parliamentary systems, but unless one party secures a majority, they have to form coalitions, and when the coalitions collapse, the government falls.

Third parties in the US are often staunchly opposed to the party with which they're most similar. Ask any Green Party supporter in the US if they'd cooperate with the Democratic Party, and you'll get a vigorous "no." They won't form coalitions with other parties. Thus, they act as spoilers.

[ThreeNoSeep]

32. Third parties have never won the presidency in the u.s.

Yang will split progressive voters.
He is either an effing idiot who will step on the rake for voters so they can smack themselves in the face yet again, or he is a fascist snake in the grass nihilist who knows exactly what he is doing and probably working for foreign adversaries.

[LisaM]

33. I go with option 2.

I despite tech bros. Literally despise them.

[ThreeNoSeep]

45. Oh.

I worry you would class me as a tech bro. My career has intersected with technology for most of my life, from telecommunications engineer to website design and management. I'm far different, I hope, than the willing assholes in the Elon Musk circle, but I started my own small online business when I was younger, and embraced the startup hustle of long hours, risk-taking, and a relentless drive for success that it takes to run a business.
I'm kinda-sorta retired now, but I still manage information systems and technology for a public institution part-time.
Am I a tech bro?
Not trying to provoke, but sincerely curious about how other folks view those of us who grew up in the last century and are into technology.

[LisaM]

46. Well, I probably use the term loosely, but...

I mean the people who are somehow creating the dystopia we are living in, with all our data being mined relentlessly, the charms and quirks of a city (I live in Seattle) being traded in for a glorified suburbia, with a downtown Target instead of local stores, the amassing of wealth at the top (we seem to have the biggest income disparity since the Gilded Age), the inability to do anything without a smart phone, the handing over of housing stock to Airbnb, the end of brick and mortar stores (especially bookstores) thanks to Amazon, and the out-in-the-open misogyny that reigns at places like Tesla and Google.

You are probably none of those things. And obviously there are a wealth of good things that technology has brought us. But I don't like how a handful of companies have been handed the power to change our lives (including the pace of each day) so drastically with no guardrails.

[ThreeNoSeep]

47. I hear you

I did a little more research to the term, and it definitely has a negative connotation of misogyny and racism. I guess I'd be more of a entrepereneurial technophile than a tech bro. Thanks for the clarification.

[Jirel]

5. What a loser.

Still desperate for relevance. All these rich tech bros want attention.

[Javaman]

8. Battle lines are being drawn nt

[William Seger]

9. The Nader Fallacy

The Nader Fallacy is the belief that someone who can't even come close to winning the nomination of either major party could nonetheless win the general election running as a third-party candidate. It's equivalent to believing that less than half of all Democrats plus less than half of Republicans could somehow add up to more than half of all voters.

[genxlib]

10. Yang "believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes"

Yeah...several hundred billion dollars and a powerful social media platform.

That is what he has that Yang needs to be relevant.

Actual policies be damned.

Go away...again.

[wolfie001]

12. E-Loon is a sociopath

[wolfie001]

11. Does he want to pick off Dem voters and help the fascists too?

So many misguided opportunists.

[ToxMarz]

13. Musk is a 'political outsider' like Leonard Leo and the Koch Brothers

are 'political outsiders'. Puppeteer would be a better description. His ideas are crazy, self-serving, sociopathic and drug-addled. Labeling them as 'non-tradtional' doesn't magically give them virtue.

[travelingthrulife]

14. Not this jerk again...

[PortTack]

16. Oh...such a winning combo.....

[Martin68]

23. Gag me with a spoon.

[CousinIT]

26. The Techbro Micropenis Party? n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Call it the "Wealthy Tech bro party"

That would be more accurate.

[Icanthinkformyself]

30. A few possible names

The 'I Got Mine FU' Party. The OO* Party. *"Oligarchs Only". The 'Batsh!t Crazies' or 'Heads up A**es' Party. The 'We Will Accomplish Nothing and Just Piss Everyone Off' party. Go away Andrew. That's a request, not a name suggestion.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Remember this guy?

(https://www.tmz.com/2018/09/16/jimmy-mcmillan-rent-is-too-damn-high-sue-new-york-board-elections-governor/)

[hay rick]

36. I didn't know Yang was a moron. Now I do.

[SunSeeker]

38. Fuck these tech bros. They always think they are the smartest in the room, when they don't know jack shit.

[NEOBuckeye]

39. This will be DOA - Musk is Radioactive in Politics

And Yang won't be far behind if he aligns with him.

[MadameButterfly]

41. Agree. I thought Yang was smarter than this

And more Progressive, actually cared about people. Now I'll never give him a second thought.
Damn idiot billionaires who meddle in our futures for sport.

[Hekate]

42. Not just no, but Heil No

[electric_blue68]

44. Really?! Oh, geeeebz... Go Away, dude!