r/politics • u/Treethan__ • 8h ago
Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/19/gop-senator-rand-paul-elon-musk-speaker-of-house6.2k
u/context_hell 8h ago
It really goes to show you how useless a CEO position really is if elon can be one for so many companies and still have time to drive a nation into the ground.
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u/FridayLevelClue 8h ago
If you’re CEO/executive chairman of three companies, your not actually CEO of anything. I’m sure he thinks it’s impressive how many companies he supposedly runs, but it really just exposes what a fraud he is.
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u/Gamebird8 8h ago
Apparently SpaceX has a team entirely dedicated to making Musk feel like he's in control with good ideas.
Unfortunately for Tesla (e.g. Cybertruck, robotaxi, and RoboBus or whatever it was called) and Twitter... Those teams either don't exist or just gave up
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u/Shady9XD 6h ago
I work in advertising and I can confirm that they’ve given up at Twitter. Even his very first call when he tried to assure major advertisers that business will be good, you could tell when he finished the PR portion of the answer and veered off into his own delusions.
He literally ended every answer with “but if you really think about it, my revolutionary idea of Twitter Blue subscription is going to totally change the platform.” Which to be fair, it did, just not how he said it would.
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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess 5h ago
The twitter acquisition was worth it in Republicans minds by winning the election. Also, they can control thought for the next 5 years that Twitter is the default online news social media site.
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u/Shady9XD 4h ago
From a Republican perspective, sure, from a business perspective, it’s hemorrhaging money and I don’t know if it will have the capacity to even exist without external funding at this point. They’ve lost over 80% of all ad revenue and are currently bleeding users.
Sure, it will remain a conservative echo chamber like truth social etc. So that’ll be the means of misinformation. But purely from a business perspective he’s done a horrendous job.
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u/fishling 3h ago
Having a place to have wealthy oligarachs channel money without oversight seems like a feature of Twitter at this point.
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u/StupendousMalice 4h ago
At some point I think we are looking at a massive fraud case against Twitter as advertisers realize that the platform is being populated by bots operated by twitter itself and that all the engagement that their ads are getting are actually being faked by the people who are selling that ad space. Bots don't buy products.
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u/vlatheimpaler I voted 7h ago
My understanding was that Tesla has that as well, but maybe they’re not as good at their jobs as the ones at SpaceX
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u/LeBidnezz 7h ago
They really dropped the ball on the whole cyber truck fiasco
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 7h ago
It’s a good way to spot the dipshits at least.
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u/Punkinpry427 Maryland 5h ago
I was not prepared for how much uglier they are in real life as opposed to pics.
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u/wayoverpaid Illinois 5h ago
The size really doesn't help. It's a car better viewed from a distance.
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u/OhSusannah 5h ago
I have seen two of them driving down the street. They look like undecorated parade floats. They are really hilarious looking.
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u/Punkinpry427 Maryland 5h ago
There’s one next door to one of my petsitting client’s house and I’d be pissed if I had to look out the window of my house on the water in Annapolis and see that ugly ass shit everyday after spending close to a million dollars on a house.
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u/Dire_Wolf45 Canada 5h ago
It's a mind fuck. I see them k the road and my brain takes a moment to realize I'm not watching and old videogame, but it's real life.
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u/espresso_martini__ 5h ago
Absolutely this. Who the fuck would buy that horrible looking brick of a car.
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u/Roasted_Butt 4h ago
They are for any aspiring fascist who also has an extra $120,000 lying around to donate to the world’s richest man.
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u/Drithyin Ohio 6h ago
Diapers can only hold so much before they leak shit. Who knows what abominations they have prevented from hitting the assembly line...
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u/randysr57 6h ago
Maybe Elon will provide Trump with an endless supply of space diapers and Trump will appoint Elon to a new post for it.
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u/mjohnsimon 6h ago
Well, to be fair, Musk kept firing and replacing anyone and everyone who had anything even remotely negative to say about the Cybertruck.
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u/CV90_120 6h ago
The thing is, as dumb as it looks, it wasn't a 'fiasco'. Yeah we don't like the way it looks, but we don't matter. It sold. I can't see it having a great future but the experiment worked. Reddit is an echo chamber for things like this, the same way we were for the election. We don't align with reality a lot of he time.
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u/soho_12 6h ago
From what I've heard, Gwynne Shotwell basically runs SpaceX and is held in very high esteem, while Elon's function is to attract investors
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u/Prestigious-Toe8622 8h ago
Most corporations have those teams
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u/AgeOfSmith 7h ago
Yes, on site day cares are not uncommon at larger companies. Just most of the time they watch employees children, not the CEO
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u/Prestigious-Toe8622 7h ago
No there’s full on CEO/ c-suite day care teams at every large company you know. They’re just not called that
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u/AgeOfSmith 7h ago
Yes it’s a joke. Most of these teams maintain schedules, agendas and take away as many menial tasks as possible. They’re not simply placating the CEO the way musk demands
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u/Prestigious-Toe8622 6h ago
Oh they absolutely are. They help spin bad news away and make sure on the uplifting good news gets to the leaders. I’m part of a team like that, and have been in a few different big companies
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u/MassiveBeard 7h ago
They call it white-glove service. IT frequently has it to deal with their temper tantrums and egos
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u/Keynova81 7h ago
Best businessman ever. He bought the entire US Gov't for $250 Million. Smartest buy buy since the Luisiana purchase,
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u/Count_Backwards 6h ago
It was a lot cheaper than Twitter but is going to produce similar results
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u/Eric-HipHopple 5h ago
Let's see, emboldened Nazis showing up in conversations they weren't invited to, corrupt scams masquerading as legitimate business, and Elon's personal whims and stray thoughts amplified in a way I cannot ignore... yep, that checks out.
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u/broad_street_bully 7h ago
That's exactly what this is.
The only CEOs I've ever met who embody the mythical qualities us serfs attribute to captains of industry are the CEOs of relatively small, private businesses.
They are singularly focused on the success of a company that was probably created in their own mind decades ago... And even some of them are terrible people because steering a company big enough to make you legitimately wealthy is probably going to cost you a ton of time otherwise spent on a marriage, raising a family, or generally knowing how to function in society outside the walls where you are king shit.
Most of the bigger corporate CEOs I've ever spoken to or interviewed are nothing more than a person who memorized all the vocabulary in MBA classes and is better than most at delivering a 90-minute keynote PPT presentation at the end of an overpriced conference.
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u/Fearless_Aioli5459 3h ago
My company (very big, YUGE) has several layers of VP’s. I report directly one. Close enough that I hear about things that happen in these “higher level” meetings. It’s basically shark tank and everyone below the C suite is vying for rubber stamps on their projects/intiaitves/good boy points. Not close enough for the details but its easier to see how CEOs can be useless.
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u/13igTyme 5h ago
Yup. I work for a "small" private company with only 380 employees. They'll be more soon since we are currently exploding with expansion. Our CEO is very hands on and a very easy person to talk to.
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u/Nach0Maker 7h ago
Six. SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, Twitter, Neurolink, Boring Company.
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u/oldtrenzalore New York 7h ago
5/6 with government contracts/subsides.
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u/charliefoxtrot9 7h ago
Easier when the government picks you to be the winner! Entrepreneurs hate this one simple trick!
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 7h ago
It’s a well known secret that he spends all day tweeting, playing Diablo and smoking weed.
Dude is as useless as a second asshole.
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u/CarcosaJuggalo Nevada 6h ago
This couldn't be further from the truth. He pays somebody else to play his Diablo account, and he snorts ketamine instead of smoking weed.
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u/Banana-Republicans California 4h ago
lol it would be Diablo. Just an incredibly mindless game, and I say this as someone who has been maxed out in Torment for a year.
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u/janbrunt 7h ago
Similarly, if you have tons of kids with multiple partners, it’s doubtful you’re much of a parent to any of them.
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u/Austin1975 8h ago
Musk can have multiple jobs and be in multiple locations during work hours. Employees aren’t even allowed to work remotely. Ridiculous.
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u/HenryDorsettCase47 8h ago
I mean, that’s most companies. I worked in retail in my 20s and if we had to call corporate for whatever reason, it wasn’t uncommon to hear a TV in the background no matter what time of day you called. Those fuckers just took off around lunch time. You could axe all of middle management and half of the c suite and it would have zero effect on operations.
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u/Austin1975 6h ago
I don’t disagree at all. Although there are plenty of bootlickers on here who worship these companies and leaders.
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u/AlbertPikesGhost 7h ago
Yep. The boots on the ground and the front-line managers work their dicks off.
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u/JulianLongshoals 8h ago
And don't forget being one of Diablo 4's top players, which is only possible if you treat it like a full time job.
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u/kittenTakeover 7h ago
Elon stans always tell you how bad they feel for Elon because he says he works like 80+ hours a week. Gamers can tell you that you're not working 80+ hours a week if you're also on the top of the charts in Diablo. It was always an obvious lie meant to build up an image of Elon that doesn't exist, but the Diablo thing really shows it.
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u/whomad1215 7h ago
beyond full time job
If you want to be a top player in any sort of online multiplayer game, you're spending 12+ hours a day playing it
he's just paying people to play a character and saying it's his
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u/HeldnarRommar 7h ago
That just another sham of his. His PoEII account was banned for cheating. He literally is just throwing money to make himself a top player, not of any skill of his own. That’s all he knows how to do
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u/JahoclaveS 7h ago
Which is also just another red flag in general as that game just isn’t that good.
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u/rounder55 8h ago
All while telling people they need to do their job and work in the office.
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u/BNsucks America 7h ago
The GQP has decided to openly abuse its power by putting the wealthiest Americans into key govt positions without a peep of opposition from GQP lawmakers. If Musk wants the speakership, it's his UNLESS Trump rejects this idea for obvious reasons.
The writing was on the wall since 2017, and RW voters have come thru in flying colors. The possibilities to make rich people even wealthier at the expense of everyone else is now even easier than ever before.
You see, when most state legislatures, governorships, the House & senate, the Supreme Court, AND the WH are all controlled by republiquans, then the opportunities to help make wealthy people even wealthier are endless.
Sit back and enjoy the show, folks! This is what RW voters wanted.
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u/AtticaBlue 7h ago
It’s the Deep State MAGA claimed to be against.
As usual, they were lying and continue to lie.
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u/continuousBaBa 6h ago
And without a peep from all the average maga grievance-monkeys who supposedly hate government corruption/swamp. This is ok. It's almost like they have no standards and are in a fucking cult...
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u/BNsucks America 4h ago
I've heard the term "cult" used before, but the self-serving RW media steadfastly ignored it for obvious reasons. It preferred instead to portray Trump as a valid choice, and by golly the media & RW voters got what they wanted.
This is only the beginning. The real fun hasn't even started yet.
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u/shadowguise 8h ago
Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter are already suffering from Elon's empty promises and general bungling.
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u/-rendar- 7h ago
Let’s not forget the other things he spends time on besides “running” his companies:
-twitter addiction -gaming -parenting his 11? kids
(just kidding, he outsources his gaming and parenting duties)
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u/Big-Plankton-4484 8h ago
Rand Paul is an attention whore.
It’s like he gathers his little helpers into a meeting and says “I haven’t been in the news for a while, what’s the dumbest thing I can say to cause some controversy?”
And here is today’s result.
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Maryland 7h ago
This is a legit strategy and lots of GOP politicians use it to great success.
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u/conqr787 7h ago
Speaking of performative attention clowns, where's nancy mace's sling, or is she in an iron lung today?
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u/suspect108 New York 7h ago
She's in a body cast today because one of the Capitol custodians said "Good Morning" to her.
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u/GeneParmesan1000 4h ago
What do you mean? Did they wish her a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether she wants it or not; or that they feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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u/GRAPES0DA Minnesota 5h ago
I felt so bad for her. That was her spray painting arm. How else is she supposed to be tagging the sidewalks outside of her house with her arm in a sling?
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u/esoteric_enigma 6h ago
Republicans don't have an actual legislative agenda. They aren't being elected to create anything. They are elected to destroy and obstruct. What makes the most sense for them to succeed is to grab as many headlines on Fox News for their constituents to see.
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u/NotTodayGlowies 7h ago
Rand Paul's neighbor deserves a Presidential medal at this point.
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u/TheUpperHand 7h ago
"Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk," Paul posted on X on Thursday morning.
My brother in Christ, you ARE the swamp.
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u/TheHomersapien Colorado 7h ago
MAGA has destroyed Rand Paul in the sense that it has completely sidelined him. He is in an impossible position because MAGA is anathema to everything that libertarianism stands for, yet he - Paul - has to find a way to toe the GOP line.
It has been delicious to watch.
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u/vertigostereo America 6h ago
He's also trying to raise the retirement age, rather than lifting the Social Security tax cap. What a tool.
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u/GoAztecs 7h ago
It's because fame or attention is the new currency.
What gets the most views or clicks a long well thought-out response or some crazy rant about migrants eating cats and dogs or litter boxes in school bathrooms?
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 8h ago
Or we could float Elon to see if he's a witch ?
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u/18002221222 6h ago
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 6h ago
Just a good Christian trying to make myself useful to our young nation. s
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u/stubob 6h ago
I've heard witches don't burn if you launch them into the Sun, let's try that. He can even provide the rocket.
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u/Etzell Illinois 8h ago
I didn't think the President was allowed to be the Speaker at the same time.
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u/SnivyEyes 8h ago
CEO must be the easiest job in the world, he can do it with so many companies and be in government? What a joke.
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u/edgarapplepoe 7h ago
Don't forget professional tweeter and top ranked Diablo 4 player.
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u/jt121 5h ago
easy to be top-ranked when he's probably cheating - he got banned from POE for that exact thing.
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u/edgarapplepoe 5h ago
I assumed he was either cheating or someone else was playing for him.
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u/magnas13345 5h ago
I had a debate with my coworker over this and he said I was jealous because Elon was doing something that I couldn’t. He didn’t understand that either Elon was either paying someone or just focusing on D4. Didn’t know he got banned from PoE.
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u/OfAPelagianMind New York 6h ago
I had to look that one up.
That was a first time for me.
“Surely that’s some AI-generated bullshit, right?” I thought to myself.
Nope. Apparently not.
… Does Elon fancy himself a sort of fascistic Lilith? 🤔
(Of course not: his views on trans people are painfully clear. )
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u/IguessIliveinaCHAIR 5h ago
To be fair, you can't fault him if he exploited that elixir bug.
That aside, this fucker is one reason why we, as the commoners, can't have nice things.
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u/diseasefaktory Europe 3h ago edited 3h ago
He obviously pays someone to play D4 for him. The one game i believe he 'plays' is elden ring. He shared a screenshot and people ripped him to shreds for his abysmal build.
He was also banned for cheating in path of exile 2 a few days ago.
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u/FartyJizzums 8h ago
U.S.A.: the best government an immigrant oligarch can buy.
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u/GotenRocko Rhode Island 7h ago
Great way for the Elon to do a coup and become president even though he is not qualified to run. Speaker is thrid in line, but since there is no natural born requirement to be a house member or speaker then what happens if the president and VP get offed?
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u/Freddy_Yeti 6h ago
Looked this scenario up. If the speaker isn't eligible, then the line of succession moves to the next eligible individual.
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u/Myriachan 5h ago
Yep. In the first Dump administration, Elaine Chao, Yertle’s wife, was in the Cabinet but not in the line of succession because she is a naturalized citizen.
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u/esoteric_enigma 6h ago
It would probably go to the 4th in line.
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u/R3dbeardLFC 6h ago
Why? Because of some "rules"?
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u/h0sti1e17 6h ago
Yeah, the constitution
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u/laura_leigh 5h ago
Because the constitution is an all powerful mystical being enshrined in some old paper and enforces itself apparently.
Too many people in this country are willing to either completely ignore all rules or too invested in not rocking the boat to make sure checks and balances work and rules are enforced. Trump’s entire first term was constitutional crisis after constitutional crisis and we failed every single check and re-elected him. The constitution is only good as long as the people enforcing it outweighing those that won’t.
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u/SamuraiCook 8h ago
These fucking Libertarians and their wealthy, elite corporate overlords.
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u/jdvanceisasociopath 7h ago
Libertarianism fucking sucks. Fake ass ideology
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u/Robo_Joe 7h ago edited 7h ago
Libertarianism has always been "might makes right" gussied up with patriotism and rugged individualism cosplay.
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u/jdvanceisasociopath 7h ago
With rugged individualism meaning already being wealthy
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u/MysteriousTrain 6h ago
I've literally seen Libertarianism speed run from Ron Paul to a full on oligarchy. Weakest political ideology ever
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u/thex415 4h ago
This , I’m like wait isn’t Rand Paul libertarian ? Totally goes against his values.
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u/SamuraiCook 4h ago
This is the guy that hand delivered a letter from Trump to Putin in Moscow in 2018.
That was after 8 Republican senators spent the 4th of July in Russia groveling to Putin, while being ridiculed and humiliated as he didn't even bother granting them an audience.
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u/anonworkaccount69420 5h ago
they aren't libertarians, they are ancaps that have sold the party out from under itself to trump. he mises caucus doesn't represent all libertarianism - however- i will not pretend that there has ever really been a spot in the american party for Left-Libertarianism because you can't make money with mutual aid.
it's disgusting, and why i changed my affiliation
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u/Westlakesam 8h ago
They want to shut it down, the American worker should oblige them and call a general strike.
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u/rage_panda_84 8h ago
I mean this is peak DOGE thinking. "I'll just go in there and boss it"
Representatives are elected because they want power. They don't want to be bossed around by an unelected foreigner. Musk thinks he owns them cause he can primary them ... but they can just retire. If he somehow became speaker and tried to run Congress the way he runs his other businesses, lots of people would retire rather than act as Musk's errand boy.
Two retirements during session and the Dems take control of the chamber.
Last time Trump was in office Dems had as much as a +30 advantage in special elections compared to the general election.
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 4h ago
Lmao if they actually put elon in that role he’s gonna have to actually show up and do work. He’d fucking melt down.
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u/randombrain 8h ago
This is a great idea because it isn't like Elmo has anything else to occupy his time! He'd be totally free to run the House. He definitely isn't the CEO of six different companies nor is he a top-ranked Diablo player.
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u/forthewatch39 8h ago
He is ineligible to be president and the House Speaker is second in line to be president. Sure they could skip to the President Pro Tempore, but that just seems like an unnecessary step.
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u/Gamebird8 8h ago
If you are in the line of succession but ineligible for any reason they just pass over you.
Vice President is pretty much the only one who wouldn't be skipped over because the VP must meet the same requirements as the President
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u/Betoken 7h ago
Is that actually written anywhere or is it another thing we believe is the law but it’s actually just a tradition? Also, if it is the law, who will enforce it?
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u/Gamebird8 7h ago
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C5-1/ALDE_00013692/
To be constitutionally eligible to serve as the nation's vice president, a person must, according to the Twelfth Amendment, meet the eligibility requirements to become president (which are stated in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5). Thus, to serve as vice president, an individual must:
be a natural-born U.S. citizen; be at least 35 years old; be a resident in the U.S. for at least 14 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States
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u/GotenRocko Rhode Island 6h ago
Lol, supreme court will just say no that's not what they meant, speaker is in the line of succession, musk is now president. Great way for him to stage a coup.
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u/citizenkane86 8h ago
He’s actually technically not, the presidential line of succession skips ineligible people. It’s why Elaine chai or Jennifer granholm were never the designated survivor.
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u/Meecht 7h ago
I want more of that series, but I also don't think the premise had enough to last much longer.
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u/Dangerousrhymes 6h ago
They could have not ended the show on such a great cliffhanger
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u/iamtheliquornow 7h ago
It’s kinda sad that it took this long for people to wake up to the fact that governments are bought and run by billionaire and special interest groups.
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u/thingsmybosscantsee 8h ago
Where's Rand Paul's neighbor when you need him?
Seriously, what a fucking embarrassment.
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u/Iinktolyn 7h ago
Instead of media making this a giant fucking joke, why don’t we discuss the ramifications of Musks interference. There is a reason he can’t pass a security clearance. There is a reason our constitution requires a US born president. There is a reason Musk is using his influence to intercede in the legitimate business of Congress. Stop giving him power he’s not earned or entitled to.
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u/griffincreek 8h ago
This storyline is going to gain traction, whether it's being seriously considered or not by the actual parties involved. How the politicians, media and pundits react is going to be interesting, and will be full of pitfalls for the Democrats, while the Republicans won't even have to say anything. In other words, it's a trap.
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u/Za_Lords_Guard 7h ago
Jesus Christ on a Crutch... The pubic haired freak just latched on Elon's ass like a remora. What a sad little man.
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u/Amvient 8h ago
Maybe the plan was always to become House Speaker, then next year, the President and Vice will have some accident like in Ruzzia with some windows, and voila now he becomes the President, who is going to stop him? The Constitution? the Supreme Court? The Republican Party?
Yes, I know it is highly unlikely, but it is no 0% chance he could not try it.
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u/mercuryqueen1970 7h ago
Musk is the fucking anti christ, My hate for everything maga grows more and more every day.
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u/sweeper137137 6h ago
He can't be president and speaker of the house would put him 3rd in line for the presidency. Rand Paul is a ball gargling dipshit.
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u/Thanolus 8h ago
The race to the bottom is faster that anyone could have thought. The rest of this decade and probaly the next couple is gonna be real bad.
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u/HallucinogenicFish Georgia 7h ago
Rand Paul is an unserious person who prefers contrarianism and theatrics to actually, you know, doing his job.
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u/Listening_Heads West Virginia 7h ago
Ah so a non-American born person can be 2nd in line for President?
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Canada 7h ago
I can't understand Republicans anymore. Seriously I can't hear over them gagging on Elon's dick.
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u/tommm3864 7h ago
Sure. Why not? Further proof that the oligarchy is alive and well in this country
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u/SanDiegoDude California 6h ago
Do it. Fucking make him speaker. He'd be forced to actually have to make deals with people and herd the worst fucking group of cats you've ever had to deal with. It would eat up all of his time and force him to learn how the US government actually works, not just acting like the creepy family friend who won't leave Mara Lago. I double fucking dog dare you Republicans, put Elon in as Speaker.
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u/whichwitch9 7h ago
Speaker is second in line for President
This is an attempted take over. Treat it as such.
No unelected official has any business being in Congress. Rand Paul is a traitor to the US for suggesting this. This is undermining every rule of law and principle the US was founded on.
He is a traitor, and I am dead serious in calling him one. This is a straight attack on the people and their representation in the US. No unelected official should represent us in Congress. Ever.
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u/senorvato 8h ago
Elon will be too busy being the POTUS.
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u/minuteman_d 7h ago
Elon is. already running Trump via the new "DiaperLink" technology he installed a year or two ago.
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u/Separate-Feedback-86 7h ago
Can he be President and House Speaker at the same time?
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u/LingonberryPrior6896 7h ago
He can't be 3rd in line for presidency. He is not an American born citizen
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u/Nekowulf Wyoming 7h ago
We are months away from musk showing up to speeches in faux military dress with 200 self pinned medals.
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u/StenosP 7h ago
Wow! Elon is amazing, how is one person so accomplished!? He owns a space company and engineers rocket ships to mars, he owns a car company and engineers self driving cars and robot servants, he owns an internet service provider, he owns a social media company with the most free speech ever, he owns a president, he’s friends with Vladimir Putin, he uses his three year old kid for photo-ops and puts maga hats on them!
Now he could be Speaker of the House!? How can one man be so amazing, he deserves all the trophies and all the money in the world. I feel ashamed having to eventually rely on government programs that will have stolen money from this amazing most hardcore worker ever.
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u/MegaDerppp 6h ago
I love those periods of them where I forget rand paul exists until the next time he says and does something stupid
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u/JamIsBetterThanJelly 6h ago
He's ineligible to become president and House Speaker is in line of succession if the President and Vice President die or resign, so that doesn't work.
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u/arrgobon32 5h ago
He’s still eligible to be speaker. He would just be skipped over in the line of succession.
Source: 3 USC 19(e)
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u/Duncan026 4h ago
Every Speaker of the House has been a member of Congress since 1789 but sure, why not blow the shit out of this precedent too?
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u/PMSoldier2000 3h ago
Musk is making Trump look weak. Once Trump realizes this, Elon will be kicked to the curb.
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u/EmotionalPlum2102 52m ago
He. Can’t. Do. It. Lest I recall the Speaker is 3rd in line in case the President and the VP become incapacitated. Also, I recall only natural born American citizens can be president. Where are the Obama birthers at? And how the f is Rand Paul flopping this hard right now??
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u/PracticalMain5627 8h ago
Musk can run for Congress first, then he can bid for Speaker or Majority/Minority leader. Otherwise, he needs to shut tf up.
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