Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker
Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is floating Elon Musk to be Speaker of the House after the powerful, billionaire tech businessman helped torpedo a bipartisan agreement on a short-term spending bill.
Why it matters: He's the first GOP lawmaker to explicitly suggest Musk should be Speaker, and his comments come as Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) bid to keep his job is under serious threat.
Musk has already emerged as one of the most powerful voices in politics, and has become one of President-elect Trump's closest confidants.
What he's saying: "Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk," Paul posted on X on Thursday morning. "[T]hink about it . . . nothing's impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka 'uniparty,' lose their ever-lovin' minds)"
Between the lines: The Constitution does not specify that the Speaker of the House has to be a member of the chamber — though they always have been.
non-representative names have been floated over the years during Speaker elections. paul has long been an advocate for slashing government spending, though he is in the wrong chamber to have much say over who will win the Speakers' gavel in January's floor vote. Trump, meanwhile, told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning that Johnson will "easily remain speaker" if he "acts decisively and tough" and eliminates "all of the traps being set by Democrats" in the spending package.
Only in costume
The speaker being the third in line to the presidency but not needing to be an elected representative is such a blatant loophole it feels like it's been left there as a just in case someone wants to do a proper coup someday
He'd be skipped over because he's not natural born.
Which would mean second in line goes to the position that's by tradition given to the longest serving member of the Senate majority party, i.e. one of the oldest.
The speaker is an elected representative though
I thought so too, but no. It seems that way because the House traditionally chooses an elected rep to serve in the role, but you don't actually need to be a member of the House to be Speaker, the House can choose whoever they want to serve in that role
The Speaker is the only House officer who traditionally has been chosen from the sitting membership of the House. Manual Sec. 26. The Constitution does not limit his selection [the Speaker] from among that class, but the practice has been followed invariably. The Speaker's term of office thus expires at the end of his term of office as a Member, whereas the other House officers continue in office ``until their successors are chosen and qualified.'
They almost definitely won't do this for Musk, but they could
not in this scenario
no chance Elan Munk would take a role requiring any sort of responsibility in group processes/protocols. he is way too aggressively stupid to have the capacity for it and would never even try to learn. nor would he accept some junior bodyman standing there whispering what he needs to do next.
the guy is way too egomaniacal to be in a room that has rules for when to talk and when to shut up. even reading his court transcripts made it obvious how much he resented being temporarily, narrowly subjected to a far more simple version.
He'd have to attend the state of the union too and just sit there for an hour, which is kinda funny to think about
He would absolutely bring a laptop and start playing Diablo.
no chance Elan Munk would take a role requiring any sort of responsibility in group processes/protocols.
this exact same sentiment is true about donald trump but that certainly hasn't stopped him.
This is why Donald Trump has never run for a legislative seat.
There's a big difference between chief executive, and legislator. One at least needs a passing familiarity with parliamentarian rules, motions, objections, that sort of nerd shit. The other needs to be able to make speeches, and act as a figurehead.
That being said, I fully support Elon Musk becoming speaker of the House. Watching him crash&burn will bring me so much joy.
This is, completely unironically, what the Founding Fathers wanted
To quote Stafford Beer, “the purpose of a system is what it does”!
There's a reason the Constitution was written by a couple hundred of the richest, most powerful men, secluded from everyone else, and presented as a feint accompli to a weary population.
I like to ask my most patriotic family members, if they would accept a modern Constitution written by Elon Musk, Mitch McConnell, Nancy pelosi, The Walton family, and George Soros. In secret. If they think such a document could truly protect their liberty. If they think such a document would actually safeguard them?
And if not. Why CAN they trust the 18th century equivalent of Peter Thiel?
Real "the rules don't say a dog can't play basketball" energy.
Deeply unserious party. It’s a real shame Rand Paul’s neighbour didn’t finish the job when he had a chance.
Dude your whole country is just a clown show of idiocy.
imagine being a vassal to an empire this fuckin' stupid
Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by!
what a clownshow
those clowns in congress did it again!
What a bunch of clowns
Rand Paul floats
Elon Musk for House SpeakerHe's a witch!
He came down in a BUBBLE, doug
but he can't speak and doesn't know his offspring masturbatory habits
Elon would find the job too boring and would try to appoint the Grok AI chatbot to be speaker for him.
This feels like a jock from a rival high school telling the local team who to pick for their captain. I have trouble believing they're gonna take marching orders from any Senator, much less Rand Paul
lol i literally just posted about the libertarians going full mask off corrupt "authoritarian" after someone said we should just take the ideology back for the left again
do it do it do it i want people to associate it with a cartoon DOGE with Elon's face booting stomping everyone with less then 50 million net worth
Don't worry! You just need to
in four years and Kamala will fix everything!
please please it would be so funny
Actual hell. It may be entertaining, I guess.
Musk must have some compromising videos of Rand or something.
It would be really funny but not for the emerald boy
The speaker of the house has to actually do work though, something musk is incapable of.
booo make trump the speaker and musk the parliamentarian