Thursday, December 19, 2024

Rand Paul suggests Elon Musk as Speaker of the House

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) made a doozy of a suggestion on Thursday for who the next speaker of the House should be. Current Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is dealing with challenges from fellow Republicans over his government funding plan that was panned by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Trump picked to lead a nongovernmental advisory group called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk has also called for a government shutdown, which is why Paul caused quite a buzz on social media when he suggested having the manchild mogul replace Johnson as House speaker. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Kentucky senator noted that the House speaker is not required to be a member of Congress, and basically suggested electing Musk because "nothing would disrupt the swamp more." He also seemed excited about the "joy" of "seeing the collective establishment, aka uniparty,' lose their ever-lovin' minds."

Comments

Two Putin Fluffer-puffer-uppers...nobody could have anticipated.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-12-19 09:37 PM

About all one can do is wait for the whole thing to burn down and not get in the way.

--The right and the left.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-12-19 09:44 PM

A role in any sort of Congressional operation, beholden to rules and standards set ages ago would absolutely bore Elon.

From a passive observer of Musk and how he handles his business operations: he flies from project to project, kicks over a few trash cans, slams a few doors, fires off some "directives from the top" emails, breathes down the necks of the actual day to day professionals, then leaves to his next company.

Elon Musk locked into a situation where Congressmembers are doing Congressional activities would be dreadfully boring compared to his current optempto of going places for the perception of being everywhere and doing everything.

#3 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-12-20 02:55 AM

Better yet, the gutless GOPer wonders in the House could deposit their voting cards with President Elon and he could do the voting himself. More efficient. Kinda like Twitter became when he grasped it in his cold, dead fingers and squeezed any life out of it

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-20 06:24 AM

Can someone who is not eligible to serve as president become second in line for succession?

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-20 09:15 AM

Can someone who is not eligible to serve as president become second in line for succession?

Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-20 09:15 AM | Reply

I'm sure if it got that far if he was Speaker of the House that they would skip over him and go to the next in line.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-20 10:00 AM

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