Current Events > And there it is...Elon as Speaker of the House?

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JoCrazy
12/19/24 11:54:51 AM
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https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1869768295399964765

Rand, MTG pushing for it. Gladly sticking to the establishment by...giving our government to the richest man on earth

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littlebro07
12/19/24 11:57:21 AM
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Jesus fucking Christ

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chris1001_the_sequel
12/19/24 11:58:43 AM
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Don't they have a margin of around 5 or less right now? There is no way they get everyone on board for musk.

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Heineken14
12/19/24 11:58:48 AM
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My favorite thing is when establishment assholes talk about making the establishment upset.

Mother fucker, you were born into this shit. Fuck off, loser.

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pinky0926
12/19/24 11:58:56 AM
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These people make the swamp look like a glacial pool.

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Hayame_Zero
12/19/24 11:59:00 AM
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Conservatives are about to find out real damn quick what a mouth having a foot in it looks like.

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McSame_as_Bush
12/19/24 12:00:04 PM
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TIL Rand Paul is on Gamefaqs

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80904118

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Deej
12/19/24 12:02:02 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d3402aaa.jpg

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UnsteadyOwl
12/19/24 12:02:25 PM
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Being Speaker would mean Elon would have to show up when the House is in session and actually do stuff. I doubt he's up for that kind of work. The way he and Vivek are soliciting volunteers for DOGE makes it clear they don't actually intend on going through every line item of the federal budget themselves.

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ReturnOfDevsman
12/19/24 12:02:44 PM
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JoCrazy posted...
MTG
I'm sorry, this will never not be Magic The Gathering.

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Dark_twisted
12/19/24 12:03:35 PM
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Can the president be speaker of the house though?

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pinky0926
12/19/24 12:20:16 PM
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UnsteadyOwl posted...
Being Speaker would mean Elon would have to show up when the House is in session and actually do stuff. I doubt he's up for that kind of work. The way he and Vivek are soliciting volunteers for DOGE makes it clear they don't actually intend on going through every line item of the federal budget themselves.

I think you've forgotten what timeline we're on.

"Elon replaces house speaker role with AI notetaker bot to streamline bloated government spending", that's not a ridiculous statement anymore.

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creativerealms
12/19/24 12:24:06 PM
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That is so anti-elitist of them.

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Irony
12/19/24 12:24:40 PM
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Doubt it

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Hospy
12/19/24 12:27:28 PM
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Would it be any worse than any other Republican?
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Dark_Moon
12/19/24 12:28:32 PM
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Against the Constitution, not like it matters, but still

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Euripides
12/19/24 12:51:50 PM
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Dark_Moon posted...
Against the Constitution, not like it matters, but still

It's only technically against the Constitution in that the position is second in succession for President (should the Pres and VP both die or be impeached or whatever).

The Constitution has almost zero rules about it

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mystic_belmont
12/19/24 12:58:11 PM
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Anyone can be Speaker, but if the person is ineligible to be POTUS because of any number of reasons, they are skipped over.

BTW, Elon couldn't handle actually showing up for multiple days and doing actual work, he's too busy cheating at Path of Exile 2 and being the top D4 player.

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Bass
12/19/24 12:58:53 PM
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This is cracking me up. We truly live in the dumbest timeline.

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BlackScythe0
12/19/24 12:59:19 PM
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Is it against the constitution because he isn't eligible for president? I just figured the speaker position would get skipped over in that case as he isn't eligible for president.
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mystic_belmont
12/19/24 12:59:56 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Is it against the constitution because he isn't eligible for president? I just figured the speaker position would get skipped over in that case as he isn't eligible for president.

Anyone can be Speaker, they would be ineligible in the line of succession though.

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kiwimyweewee
12/19/24 1:12:33 PM
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Richest man in the world that massively increased his fortune from crony capitalism by the us government is not the swamp.

What the fuck is the swamp then? I guess its anything that isn't them.

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UnsteadyOwl
12/19/24 1:12:38 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Is it against the constitution because he isn't eligible for president? I just figured the speaker position would get skipped over in that case as he isn't eligible for president.
Only the President and VP have to meet the eligibility requirements to be president. Anyone else in a position that's in the line of succession who can't legally be president would simply be skipped over for the next person in line if it ever came to that.

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pauIie
12/19/24 1:13:51 PM
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this country sucks

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NatsuSama
12/19/24 1:15:23 PM
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Nothing says breaking the establishment.... like making the richest man in the world whos part of the establishment, the Speaker.

What's funny is so many actually fall for this and will support it.

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Prototypic
12/19/24 1:20:02 PM
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Rand Paul talking like he isn't absolutely part of "the establishment" is almost impressively delusional.

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davyheinz
12/19/24 1:23:38 PM
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They want oligarchy or dictatorship, not even a question anymore. Smarter people already knew this but theres really no doubt left now. Guess they want Congress as a facade, in name only.

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Sariana21
12/19/24 1:29:18 PM
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Although reigning in Congress technically works too, I assume she meant reining in.

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CADE_FOSTER
12/19/24 1:32:45 PM
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This is why Elections have consequences people fucked up and here we are now
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Srk700
12/19/24 1:33:39 PM
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TFW even Mike Johnson isnt far right enough for these shitstains.
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CADE_FOSTER
12/19/24 5:12:57 PM
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smh
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Deej
12/19/24 5:15:05 PM
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CADE_FOSTER posted...
This is why Elections have consequences people fucked up and here we are now
Maybe someday people will learn that elections have consequences
(They won't)

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SaikyoStyle
12/19/24 5:15:54 PM
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Deej posted...
Maybe someday people will learn that elections have consequences
(They won't)
Its our fault because we didnt warn them hard enough.

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havean776
12/19/24 5:16:50 PM
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SaikyoStyle posted...
Its our fault because we didnt warn them hard enough.
"Earn our vote!" People sicken me. Not as much as Trump voters but close.

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008Zulu
12/19/24 5:55:33 PM
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Dark_twisted posted...
Can the president be speaker of the house though?
Anything is possible in Musk's America.

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darkphoenix181
12/19/24 6:03:56 PM
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So Elon offs Trump and Vance and now he is president officially
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CADE_FOSTER
12/19/24 6:05:06 PM
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he can be speaker but he wouldnt be in line of succesion cuz he wasnt born here
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Garioshi
12/19/24 6:11:20 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ef9a55c1.jpg

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Southernfatman
12/19/24 6:12:19 PM
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Garioshi posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ef9a55c1.jpg

What an idiot and a total bitch. Like holy fuckin god that's so pathetic.

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havean776
12/19/24 6:13:37 PM
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Garioshi posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ef9a55c1.jpg
How are these people so removed from reality?
Beliving Musk and Trump are outsiders. No they are the system.

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mybbqrules
12/19/24 7:09:28 PM
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*points emphatically at sig*

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Robot2600
12/19/24 7:12:36 PM
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my sig too

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lilORANG
12/19/24 7:14:41 PM
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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
Don't they have a margin of around 5 or less right now? There is no way they get everyone on board for musk.
As if Dems won't cave and do everything Republicans want anyways

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EPR-radar
12/19/24 7:17:12 PM
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lilORANG posted...
As if Dems won't cave and do everything Republicans want anyways
Actually, it looks like Democrats just missed an opportunity to cave to Republicans (the Musk-Trump deal to delay the debt ceiling just died in the House (it needed D votes to pass)).

Let's hope this continues.

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Flaming_Fire619
12/19/24 7:19:26 PM
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Before Musk basically single handedly killed the debt bill, i think this may have had a shot.

But after this I have a feeling that there's no way they'll get all conservatives on board for it.

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AceMos
12/19/24 7:20:48 PM
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Deej posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d3402aaa.jpg

NO IT WOULD NOT BE FUCKING FUNNY IT WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE FOR THOSE OF US WHO WOULD SUFFER

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EPR-radar
12/19/24 7:23:42 PM
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Flaming_Fire619 posted...
Before Musk basically single handedly killed the debt bill, i think this may have had a shot.

But after this I have a feeling that there's no way they'll get all conservatives on board for it.
The problem with the old deal (from the Musk/Trump point of view) is that it didn't deal with the debt ceiling. That means Trump's budget-busting new tax cuts for the rich would have needed an embarrassing Republican vote to raise the debt ceiling they supposedly care about.

The shitty deal that just failed in the House was the Musk/Trump attempt to get Democrats to own raising the debt ceiling.

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thronedfire2
12/19/24 7:28:04 PM
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wasn't Trump 100% against raising the debt ceiling while Biden was president? lol

Repubs don't have their majority yet, and I won't blame Dems if they force Trump to start his term under a government shutdown. There's no reason for them to vote for a budget that cuts a bunch of shit now, when another one will just have to be approved in a few months anyway

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