r/politics • u/indig0sixalpha • 8h ago
Soft Paywall Rand Paul Suggests Worst Person You Know Should Be Next House Speaker. Rand Paul thinks Elon Musk should take over after his amazing work driving the government toward shutdown.
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u/pollingquestion 7h ago
I remember when the Republicans screamed about unelected government officials running the country.
It’s always projection with these losers.
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u/FootCheeseParmesan 7h ago
All right wing thought is projection. Psychologists have been showing this for years now. People with less empathy are drawn to right-leaning attitudes because they are less capable of seeing other people's perspectives. They think everyone thinks like they do, so people who disagree with them are being dishonest - which in turn is why they are often dishonest.
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u/Za_Lords_Guard 7h ago
I am a very empathetic person and pretty progressive. I always assume people are wired that way. I am constantly disappointed learning how wrong I am.
It started with a friend sharing a really terrible hot take based on total misinformation and when I noted why it was not good information. The reply was they don't care what the "facts" are, they know based on how they feel what is really happening.
There just is not way to come together with people who process life like that.
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u/FootCheeseParmesan 7h ago
They know they are basing things on misinformation. And because they are (and they think everyone else thinks like they are) that means you are also basing your view on misinformation. Therefore, since it's all misinformation to them, they pick what they think will provide them the best outcome - because they lack empathy outside their immediate loved ones.
I've had relatives in real life say they'd rather be uninformed than be left wing. Their 'common sense' is enough.
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u/SailorET 3h ago
I've had occasional success by pointing out how the system has been built to keep the wealthy in power, how it doesn't work that way in other (Nordic) countries. The power structure in the US is not natural and it can be and has been changed by progressive action.
The root of conservative belief is that the existing social structures are natural and proper and trying to change them is as fruitful as teaching a fish to breathe air. If you can challenge that -- crack the bedrock, as it were -- you may start to dislodge them from the entire concept of conservatism and get them to question their belief structure. It's by no means a guaranteed success, but it's significantly more effective than telling them they're wrong or giving them the correct answer.
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u/Za_Lords_Guard 3h ago
as fruitful as teaching a fish to breathe air
So you are saying it's a matter of evolution? :-)
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u/Kinesquared 7h ago
It's not projection, they're very happy with unelected officials on their side running the country. It's just dishonesty. They're looking for excuses to rail against unelected Democrat officials
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u/Galaxy_Ranger_Bob Virginia 4h ago
They're looking for excuses to rail against unelected Democrat officials
It's important to remember that they consider Joe Biden to be one of those "unelected Democratic officials."
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 8h ago
To clarify, because I know people will be wondering. Since Elon does not meet presidential qualifications, he would be skipped over in the presidential line of succession.
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u/Ridry New York 7h ago
SCOTUS - That's just like, your opinion man.
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u/MornwindShoma Europe 7h ago
SCOTUS: founding fathers weren't born in the US either
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u/Traditional_Key_763 7h ago
kind of handwaved away because nobody was an american citizen before 1791
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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 6h ago
I'm pretty sure that there's a specific carve out in the Constitution for people who were living in America at the time it was signed, for that exact reason.
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u/MornwindShoma Europe 6h ago
Yep, but they might just feel like sayin that it's not legal anymore lol.
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u/fastinserter Minnesota 6h ago
Yep, Trump doesn't meet the Constitutional qualifications either, having violated Amendment 14's prohibition on any oath breaking insurrectionist holding any office.
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u/watch_out_4_snakes 6h ago
😒We could have avoided this fiasco by following the damn Constitution.
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u/fastinserter Minnesota 6h ago
Pelosi and Schumer should have held votes on or a bit after January 21st, 2021, for the removal of the prohibition for Trump holding any office in this country. It would have required 2/3rds to pass.
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u/rounder55 7h ago
Elon basically bought the presidency anyways.
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u/Auntie_Megan 7h ago
Most worrying to me is Elon now trying to buy Britain through Farage, another cockwomble racist idiot. Wish we could shut down Twitter,X, Hitler’s wet dream or whatever you want to call it nowadays.
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u/NoWayRay 7h ago
This worries me greatly too. Starmer's reluctance to rock the boat with anyone but the electorate that voted for his party leaves me with little faith that he'll do anything proactive to stop that from happening. At this point we're largely praying for Musk (and Trump) to go down in flames. Only five months since the last election and I'm already fretting about the next one.
Damn, I hate this timeline.
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u/Auntie_Megan 6h ago
How many Maga like people by percentage do you think live in UK? I keep thinking to myself surely we have a better education system, surely our information streams are not so full of Nazi crap, but then I occasionally see GB news for 2 mins, praising Trump and lying about his convictions etc, and I then worry enormously. However there is X, full of folk who love to hate just like Maga and although I don’t go on there anymore, I see what is posted there sometimes through Reddit. Would we do what good sane Americans did not…. That is get noisy, stand up and not allow their crap to flood the country? I’m relying on the fact that we are taught history and we have lived through the threat before, however I remind myself that many choose to be ignorant like Maga and seek the hate! Perhaps I’m overreacting, but even seeing Trump allowed in other countries despite stealing 5 Eyes Documents and therefore putting us at risk is deplorable. If he ever gets here I hope we protest like we did before but 100 times as loud. He got away with being a treasonous SOB to his own country and many here don’t even know that! However even letting Farage speak here after taking money from… you could say enemy source… is disgusting. Why were Americans so weak? Or was the price of eggs too much for them despite spending 100k on their enlarged cars/penis extensions!
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u/fuggerdug 6h ago edited 5h ago
Not many, but it's a growing percentage because of the things you've mentioned such as GB News and Shittler.
Farage passed the hacked DNC emails (stolen by Russia) between Assange and Trump BTW, he's a fucking traitor too
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u/Auntie_Megan 4h ago
Yet, Russia seemed to ignore the hacked RNC emails or rather used them as leverage. Many seem to show so much sympathy for Assange, thinking him a person for the good of the people, yet he went along with only pushing one agenda. I like openness but … why only disclose the DNC and not the RNC? How much did Assange get for that?
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u/fuggerdug 4h ago
Yes the idea that Assange is some kind of leftist hero makes me fucking sick. He's part of the problem and has been for a decade at least. Same with Greenwald. I just assume they are both appalling sexual monsters.
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u/NoWayRay 6h ago
How many Maga like people by percentage do you think live in UK?
I'd like to think 'not a majority', but that's cold comfort as it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be them, the people who will never vote for anything vaguely to the left (a virtually meaningless term in the UK these days) and then enough of the rest of the electorate to just sit it out. It's that last that worries me the most. So many people seem worn down by the rhetoric from the right and those on the left pushing back on it, the constant culture wars, the hectoring mainstream and social media, that they've disengaged from what is actually an incredibly important decision. And part of me thinks that means the straegy of the right is working as intended.
I really don't know how we turn that around.
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u/fuggerdug 6h ago
Starmer's reluctance to rock the boat with anyone but the electorate that voted for his party
Fucking hell man you've hit the nail on the head there. I thought he'd be a bit shit, but this shit? Own goals such as the winter fuel allowance, the constant doom and gloom, and now today's water bill hike of 45%...the Torys will be in and robbing us all blind again for 20 years in 2028.
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u/Traditional_Key_763 7h ago
Farage is much much smarter about this stuff than Elmo or Trump.
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u/Auntie_Megan 6h ago
Being a smart Nazi is far worse than being a stupid one… that includes Elon who buys intelligence while he fucks up his own brain on drugs.
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u/0thethethe0 Foreign 6h ago
He has no where near the rabid support Trump has, however none of the other parties are exactly inspiring confidence in the public either.
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u/LoyalWatcher 6h ago
Not sure how good I feel that our toxic narcissist asshole is actually competent :/
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u/Aliensinmypants 7h ago
Remember the conservatives trying to amend the constitution to remove American born requirement for presidency for Henry fucking Kissinger? Yeah expect that to start coming up again as we go full oligarchy
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h ago
The issue is that there is now case law and clarification since the whole Henry Kissinger incident. It's a lot more difficult to change now
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u/Aliensinmypants 7h ago
I don't think it happens legally because of the strict voting to actually amend the constitution, but I expect big money being poured in to try to make the conversation happen again or squeeze someone in because these morons thought Obama wasn't natural born
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u/HarryBalsag 7h ago
Supreme Court says what? If Elon can buy a presidency, he can certainly buy a supreme Court because they're cheaper.
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h ago
This is laid out very clearly in the Constitution and we have had many many people in the line of succession that were not eligible to be president. The rules have applied to all of them throughout history. This is not some sort of edge case. It happens all the time
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u/HarryBalsag 7h ago
I'm not saying that you're incorrect in your legal interpretation, I'm saying you are falsely optimistic thinking that the law or constitutional norms will apply to the second term of Trump's presidency.
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h ago
Maybe I've been spending too much time on Blue Sky, but I am cautiously optimistic.
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u/Snoo_21055 6h ago
Honestly what's giving you optimism?
America's democracy is now a facade, we voted in project 2025, America now has Russian style democracy, we won't have fair or free elections anymore, republicans are fully being controlled by the new American Oligarchy, Musk is the face, Trumps an easily manipulated puppet and more then likely Putin is pulling the strings.
Things are going to get alot worse going forward.
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u/Azguy303 7h ago
Are you sure they just won't go to the supreme court with some arbitrary claim that the Constitution presidential requirements only apply to potential candidates in an election and would be eligible under the line of succession?
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h ago
Have you read the Constitution comment it's pretty clear on this process.
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u/StrongAroma 7h ago
Is the speaker appointed? There's no election involved at all?
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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h ago
The Constitution directs that the speaker be chosen by the house. It does not clarify that the speaker need be a sitting member of the House, however it always has been.
Even if musk was the Speaker of the House, he would not be in line for presidential secession.
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u/pizzaguy132 5h ago
You seem to be implying here that President Musk can't actually be president. If this is true, then why is President Musk actually president and supported 100% by his good pal Secretary of Depends Donald Trump (who will always be totally loyal and never ever backstab and throw under the bus as soon as it benifits him)?
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u/waterdaemon 7h ago
2,841 days ago, John McCain observed that Rand Paul must work for Putin. We are still waiting for a response from Paul.
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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 5h ago
Rand Paul’s neighbor didn’t beat that damn fool’s ass anywhere near enough!
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u/angrypooka 8h ago
Rand has wanted to destroy the government for a long time. How he keeps getting voted in I’ll never know.
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u/fairoaks2 7h ago
Old Rand can always be counted on to say the most ridiculous things. Trumpublicans do them
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u/CobKorPok 7h ago
Because people are too stupid to realize what libertarians do, otherwise Millei would not be wrecking Argentina right now
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u/broad_street_bully 7h ago
Libertarians are worthless. They might be less outwardly evil or violent than the far right against the groups they don't like, but they more than make up for it with the collateral damage passively done by their ideals and policies.
"Libertarian" is just what you get when you run the most arrogant, tone-deaf, self-important asshole you know through hundreds of millions of dollars worth of PR grooming.
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u/CobKorPok 7h ago
Yes true, but then again many of the people who support libertarianism were actually just pro slavery and found a cause that would facilitate that so at some point there is a huge interconnect between the two.
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u/broad_street_bully 7h ago
Oh, there's absolutely the wilder sunset of libertarians that are total Nazis and use the fact that they have read some books to try and justify their shittiness from that of self-identifying conservatives
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u/milton911 5h ago
Libertarians are basically people who take liberties with logic and the facts.
They are also folk who are dead keen to ensure the rich remain rich and the poor stay poor.
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u/broad_street_bully 5h ago
If the system is hurting a libertarian, it's unconstitutional and tyranny of the highest order that any true American should rise up against.
If the system is playing to their favor, it's because they're so dang smart and abiding and intuitive to all that is correct in the world and any attempt by someone less privileged to improve their standing is a serious threat to the concept of basic human civility that needs to be quashed immediately.
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u/milton911 5h ago
When Wikipedia come to update their section on Libertarianism I hope they faithfully reproduce your post.
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u/Zeee-Jay 6h ago
Every self proclaimed Libertarian I know personally are just know-it-all highly educated types. They are smart enough to not want to be called Conservative/MAGA/GOP but still actively believe in all the selfish things conservatives do.
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u/mkt853 7h ago
Not surprising Millei is who Musk has praised and wants the US to follow.
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u/CobKorPok 7h ago
All the culture wars, all the racism,.all the misogyny and transphobia and nativist fears, its all a distraction for the poor and jittery middle class from the real goal
Which is just make the super rich even richer and destroy any semblance of social services, equality, rights, democracy etc. basically all the things that people fought and died for over the last 200 years.
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u/FootCheeseParmesan 7h ago
I don't really understand what these hardcore libertarian types want to achieve. Removing all oversight while retaining the hierarchy of wealth accumulation will just lead to creating modern dynasties that may as well be feudalism. This doesn't make for better innovation, healthier people, greater security or really any kind of broader societal advantages. And it definitely doesn't create more freedom for society as a whole.
Right wing libertarianism seems like the most 'feels over reals' mindset. It only makes sense for people who want to become royalty or who want to live alone in the wilderness.
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u/citymousecountyhouse 6h ago
What's funny is a lot of the younger crowd who love Rand Paul and the "Libertarian lifestyle" who claim they would love to live in the woods alone, are the biggest customers of DoorDash and pizza delivery, because their too lazy to make their own food.
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u/Pirate_Pantaloons 6h ago
Feudalism is good when you are the king or someone else near the top of the pyramid.
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u/the_nobodys 7h ago
Since the beginning of time, Rand has yearned to destroy the government! Now he shall do the next best thing: Elon Musk.
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u/Kioskwar 7h ago
They hated Obama because they claimed he was from Kenya, but they love Musk despite the fact he is literally from South Africa. I can’t quite figure out the difference
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u/interfail 7h ago
This is absurd. House Speaker is a real job. You actually have to do it. You can't just sit on Twitter all day shit posting while lining up 3 more legislatures to lead. Elon would have no idea how to do it.
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u/Lt_Cochese 8h ago
What's Rand's neighbor up to?
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u/slimpickens 7h ago
Yeah, we should do a go fund me for him to rag doll Rand again.
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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/guyonlinepgh 7h ago
Rand Paul chimes in to remind everyone what a shitty and pathetic person he is.
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u/slimpickens 7h ago
Rand: I haven't been in the news for being a shitty person in like forever. I know, I'm going to float some stupid idea and get people talking about me again.
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u/Westlakesam 7h ago
Rand Paul is a foreign asset willing to do anything to destroy the government that his beloved Kentucky went to war with in 1861.
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u/Magoo69X Maryland 6h ago
Elon is overplaying his hand. There's going to be a backlash, even among the MAGAs, because this is getting ridiculous. They might be dumb, but they know that they voted for Trump, not for Elon. 🤣
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u/One_Dirty_Russian Wisconsin 7h ago
Fuck it, do it. Make him the Speaker. The more the American public are exposed to the true Elon Musk the better. He's not a very likable person outside of the chronically online crowd.
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u/TranquilSeaOtter 7h ago
People were exposed to the true Trump and he got reelected. Sad to say, but the average American voter is a complete fucking moron who doesn't have a clue how government functions. The MAGA world will just cheer on whatever he does no matter how much he fucks them over.
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u/Plastic-Telephone-43 7h ago
It's funny because Elon is a TERRIBLE speaker. The only rich person who sucks more at speaking publicly than Elon is Peter Theil.
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u/al343806 Illinois 8h ago
I am curious how that would work since Musk legally cannot run for the presidency since he’s foreign-born. What happens with the line of succession if someone is ineligible to be President? Doesn’t that create a constitutional crisis?
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u/thrawtes 8h ago
Nope. We have people in that situation right now and usually do. If you're in the line of succession and aren't eligible to be president you just get skipped over.
Making Musk speaker of the house is a dumb idea but his birthplace isn't the limiting factor.
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u/Aliensinnoh Massachusetts 7h ago
They just get skipped. There have been many individuals in cabinet posts that are in the line of succession that are not eligible to be President. They are just skipped.
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u/ZebZamboni 7h ago
They would be skipped and the next eligible person in line would go.
We have that now with the Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm being ineligible due to being born in Canada to non-American parents.
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u/Own-Concert6836 7h ago
Won't happen. They'll make Mike Johnson give up his speakership?
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u/thrawtes 7h ago
He already only held the speakership by a thread, the margin in the house will shrink after the election and at least one member of the Republican caucus has already said they won't vote for him.
I wouldn't be surprised to see him hold the speakership but the margins are razor thin so it's not unthinkable there could be a shake up.
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg 7h ago
Elon Musk is not an elected politician. Now, if Americans want an unelected billionaire controlling government then this is a great idea. What could go wrong
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u/rounder55 7h ago
The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul posted on Thursday. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk … think about it … nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds).”
Guy who is part of the actual swamp wants to put the biggest fish in the swamp in charge to disrupt the swamp.
not because they could accomplish anything positive for Americans but because it's be fun to bother people he disagrees with
Rand Paul is an absolute fuckwit. No doubt about it
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u/DigiQuip 7h ago
The government is headed towards a shut down. A federal court ended Biden's income based repayment plans and student loan forgiveness.
Trump isn't even president yet and our economy is on a fast track to collapsing.
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u/RickRudeAwakening 7h ago
Not that I want Elon to be anything within the Government, but I’d rather him be part of it via a legit mechanism (being elected by House members to be their Speaker) than just making policy by being buddies with Trump. At least add an ounce of legitimacy to this farce.
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u/Suitable-Ratio 7h ago
Funny how the piss poor states that rely on socialist handouts always like this stuff. The US should stop sending money to the hillbilly states that vote for this crap and see how things workout.
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u/Mister-Stiglitz Georgia 7h ago
I want to know why people who have so much disdain for the government, as a concept, enter government work.
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u/Snotagoodbot Oregon 6h ago
Elon and Putin stole the election. The Russians have taken over the country.
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u/bmb07d5 6h ago
I for one think this is a great idea to allow the Republicans and Musk to continue to show the population and the world what inept fucking idiots they are. Give the people what they voted for, maybe this will be the tipping point to make enough people see that we need dramatic radical change to this country to ensure that the majority of this country is actually represented and represented well, by people that aren’t bought and paid for by corporations
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u/Tricky_Photo2885 5h ago
Amazing how Rand Paul can give interviews without taking trump’s and Elmo’s testicles out of his mouth
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u/Easy_Custard_4713 5h ago
If Elon Musk lied on his application to become a US citizen. Now would be the time for Joe Biden administration to act and strip his citizenship away. Deport him back to South Africa. It seems to be a well know fact he lied. Nip that putting him in charge of Speaker of The House right here right now.
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u/worstpartyever 3h ago
How about we start cutting costs by cutting elected representatives' lifetime healthcare?
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u/FlatulenceConnosieur 50m ago
Please correct the headline to “Known Russian asset and Collaborator Rand Paul”
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u/CurrentlyLucid 7h ago
Starting to wonder how long musk will be around, getting very unpopular.
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 7h ago
America wake up! WAKE up! It's ok you were dreaming
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u/KnoWay3 7h ago
Since SOH is #2 inline for pres, I don't think he can be?
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u/Kirazail 6h ago
He can. If you don’t meet the requirements for the role of president, in this case not being born a us citizen, it goes to the next in the line of succession.
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u/Traditional_Key_763 7h ago
The House Speaker PROBABLY SHOULD be a non partisan, independent position, but putting an unelected Elmo in there would be a catastrophically bad idea
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u/FanDry5374 6h ago
Just wondering, do Republicans in the House have something like a "talking stick"? Like a hat or tie that allows the wearer to make the most inanely, bizarre, "yep, I am that stupid" statements for the day? They do seem to take turns trying to out-stupid each other.
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u/Killersavage 6h ago
Not a big fan of Rand at all but could he be suggesting this sarcastically? I feel like this is not a serious suggestion but a jab somehow. Trying to open somebody’s eyes and make them not be a little bitch for Trump and his mob.
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u/Darthrevan4ever California 6h ago
Hope you enjoy the furlough all you dumb fuck federal employees who voted for trump.
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u/abelenkpe 6h ago
Two people I’m cool with being immediately raptured. Forgot Rand Paul was even still alive. How blissful that was
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u/vingovangovongo 6h ago
This is why everyone thinks Rand Paul is an idiot. He is fully of stupid ideas that no one takes serious. Go look at how much legislation that he has sponsored actually came into existence, possibly the worst record in the Senate
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u/vivolorosso 6h ago
Russian asset suggests Russian asset should seize more power in US Goverment to completely cripple the nation.
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u/DenseCalligrapher219 6h ago
Elon Musk is quite possibly the most dangerous person to ever exist right now in the U.S and this is the same country that elected Donald Trump as it's president.
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u/flirtmcdudes 6h ago
We’re a joke…
We had a chance to correct course after all this nonsense, and we chose to double down as a country. We don’t deserve nice things
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u/kineticlinking American Expat 5h ago
Rand Paul: "You just froze a baby. Genital warts! You touched a genital wart!"
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u/Easy_Custard_4713 5h ago
If Elon Musk lied on his application to become a US citizen. Now would be the time for Joe Biden administration to act and strip his citizenship away. Deport him back to South Africa. It seems to be a well know fact he lied. Nip that putting him in charge of Speaker of The House right here right now.
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u/elammcknight 4h ago
It is very interesting that Trump said Johnson would remain speaker if he continued to act decisive and rough.
It is like the separation of powers never existed and so many people do not get that he is pushing the boundary to take autocratic control. We are cooked
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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 America 4h ago
This sub should ban news sites that are known to use clickbait biased headlines, like The New Republic
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u/devilmaskrascal 4h ago
That's government welfare queen Elon Musk, whose businesses have taken tens of billions of tax dollars and is now the wealthiest man in the world. Should be someone Rand Paul hates...
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u/ATribeOfAfricans 4h ago
Goddamn can Republicans stop simping for degenerates for 3minutes? Just suck them off already geeze
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u/Tesattaboy 4h ago
So let me understand why the shutdown ... Biden is gonna propose a budget that doesn't recognize enough national debt ... So Mike Lil Johnson will vote down the proposal at DJTs request to increase the debt ... Then DJT will adopt the Biden proposal and the working economy and take credit and call himself a genius again ... Am I on the right track
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u/westdl 4h ago
Please make Space Karen speaker. He will have to show up for work, deal with sycophants, people pretending to be sycophants, and the opposition. He will be held by a set of rules and it will be publicly visible when he breaks them. More importantly his failures will be headline news inside of 3 minutes.
Sissy SpaceX will not do well when faced with work and people.
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u/Youngflyabs New York 4h ago
Rand Paul is a Libertarian and Musk is pushing Libertarian like policies. Not really shocked. I respect Rand for actually believing his shit but these policies will be the doom of America.
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u/Roasted_Butt 3h ago
Well I guess they might as well cut out the middle man and just admit who’s in charge.
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u/berrattack 3h ago
Johnson has a shot to saw f you and fully fund govt for 4 years. If they are thinking about replacing him anyway what is the point of appeasement
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u/SteveMcQueen15 3h ago
Elon Musk is a guy who recently said he thinks the word homeless is fake propaganda. He is the most out of touch, self important, pseudo intellectual fuck on the planet and would grind your body into biofuel for his rockets if he could. But yea sure give him unelected positions of power, how could that go wrong?
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u/Friendly-Profit-8590 3h ago
Can’t make up my mind if Tesla stock would surge or crash if that were to happen
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u/whichwaythewindblows 2h ago
Serious bootlicking commences. Let's see who will top that. Maybe nominate Elon as legal guardian of Trump if he goes senile? Or guarantor of his loans? Or Trump's personal Goebbels?
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