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Elon Musk joined Trump call with Ukraine’s Zelensky after US election

www.cnn.com Elon Musk joined Trump-Zelensky call amid concerns for future of Ukraine war | CNN

Trump put the call on speaker and Zelensky thanked Musk for his help with providing communications through Starlink to Ukraine in the ongoing war with Russia, a source told CNN.

Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

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Do y'all think Elon's looking to run for office one day? Or does he just find it exciting to be included?
- Musk doesn't need to run for office. He's the richest man in the world. With Trump as president, Musk can just call him, offer a few million and get whatever he wants.
  
  Musk has enough money to change whatever rules he wants and tie up all the government lawyers for years fighting over all the rules he might want to break.
  Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
- He's not eligible, born in south africa
  
  lol, doesn't matter.
  
  Funny how this reflects exactly my train of thought.
  Oh god, what if that asshat runs for president next?
  Oh, wait, isn't he from Africa or something?
  pew
  Wait, doesn't his buddy run the country, his party and the supreme court?
  panic intensifies
- He can't be president, and I don't see him interested in any other position.
  
  Until trump, supermajority in Congress, and a hand picked supreme court say so
  
  It’s in the constitution. It’ll take a lot more than that.
  
  Yep. Look up the standards of a constitutional amendment. (Spoiler alert: having a supermajority is a good start)
  
  Constitutional amendments also have to be ratified by the states. That’s not trivial.
  
  You really think the Trump regime will give a shit about state’s rights?
  
  While it is a big standard that it has to be ratified by the states. What a lot of people don’t realize is the citizens do not get to vote on a constitutional amendment for the United States. It’s the legislators. The citizens get absolutely zero say. Didn’t know this until just a couple of months ago I actually thought it was the people who voted on it. Now let’s look at the political map of the United States. Do the Republicans hold more legislative houses in the states or did the Democrats? And how big of a percentage split does a given state have to have?
  What I mean is, for example North Dakota, that legislative house, the Senate and the House of Representatives, how many senators have to vote in favor of to get it to pass for North Dakota? How many representatives have to favor in favor for pass for North Dakota?
  Is there enough Republicans in that state in both the house and the Senate that would vote in favor this?
  Now look at each state look at the difference in between Democrats and Republicans in each state.
  I don’t know if we’re at the point yet where they could get The needed majority, I literally have not counted the Republicans in each state.. But it would be an interesting question.
  
  Yeah, you need 38 states to ratify it. If we go by governors (so I don’t have to do a ton of research, but it’s probably representative of legislatures), only 27 states are Republican controlled. Good fucking luck getting a partisan amendment through.
  
  I think you're right. It would hinge on the natural-born-citizen clause and that's probably hard to "reinterpret" even for a loaded court.
  
  The Constitution can be changed; it has been 27 times already, so I don't see why everyone seems to think it's set in stone.
  
  the constitution ain't worth shit.
  
  Hold my beer
  
  the constitution
  ...yeah that's a couple months away from being slathered in Trump's feces and filed securely into one of the whitehouse's toilets.
  
  it takes but one order from putin and suddenly he's eligible.
- He's from South Africa. He can't run for president.
- Musk bought Trump and Trump won, musk already has the office.
- Elon Musk is a fluffer, he's the Gimp

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