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Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker (ghostarchive.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This is, completely unironically, what the Founding Fathers wanted

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

To quote Stafford Beer, “the purpose of a system is what it does”!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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?