Wow another Republican against democracy, who would have thought. Why doesn't he just say: "If you have enough money you should be able to buy a country and I would be happy to be bought out."
Rand Paul: "Let's destroy our government and sell it to billionnaires, it'll be so funny to see the "establishment" cry about it, we're so owning the Libs"
The press needs to be all over this. Not for the concern about Musk, but for Rand's statement. He doesn't care about serving the people, or governing. He only wants to disrupt everything to watch people, "lose their every lovin' minds". He just admitted that he doesn't care about the people.
Well he wouldn't be in the line of secession would he then because he's not eligible as he was born in apartheid South Africa and wants to apparently reestablish apartheid in the United States .
May I never wake up in the morning and realize my sole reason for being is to be pissed off each and every day and all my efforts are directed to owning a certain political affiliation. That must be one foul churning gut.
I don't think you can have the second person in the line of succession to the presidency in an emergency be someone who is constitutionally ineligible for the fucking position. Someone needs to straighten out this traitorous fuck.
He forgets one thing: the speaker of the house has to meet the requirements of becoming president of the US in case the sitting president and VP go down
Unless they want a military uprising in defense of said Constitution, they had best follow it. Making musk the SotH would potentially run afoul of the Constitution should Trump & Vance no longer be capable of serving. In that instant, if they tried to slip him in as president it would mean Civil War
Interesting, if not fascinating, how they will use the law, or loopholes they find in it, to justify their actions, while simultaneously blatantly, brazenly, flamboyantly disregarding it entirely as easily as rolling out of bed.
Rand has already lost his mind. He's a member of the Kentucky triumvirate of liars and fools: Rand, Moscow Mitch and Massie. Thank God for Governor Beshear.
Further proof that Rand Paul is an idiot, and that the MAGA GQP is corrupt to its core. Billionaires buying their way into government power is the ultimate definition of "the swamp".
Chain of succession though. The House Speaker is in the line should something happen to the president and so on. Therefore doesn't the Speaker have to be a born US citizen?
This is more Paul grandstanding for a Fox hit.
Musk can't do any actual job in gov't
Can't pass a security check. He's already failed it
Won't divest of businesses because he can't manipulate the contracts
No way in hell he's filling out the disclosure forms
But it does make for a Fox hit
It's the disclosures & manipulating contracts that will keep him out. He is in so much debt to foreign gov't & being monitored by Intel isn't something he can handle. This is all about vanity & being the first trillionaire by 27
Tell me again why the fuck we are willingly turning our gov't over to these completely incompetent treasonous assholes?! Fuck the peaceful transfer of power, we've got it & we
NEED to keep it!
We are actively participating in the demise of Our Democracy. Quit treating this as normal, make it 🛑!!!!
Speaker doesn't need to be a member of Congress but he needs to be natural born citizen . . . Musk is not.
Succession: President, VP and speaker. Congress changed the line of succession a number of years ago . . . from Secretary of State to Speaker of House bc the speaker was ELECTED.
I saw him and his kids riding the Blue Line subway in Washington DC. Unable to contain myself I said “Senator, it’s ironic you are using public transportation funded by socialism.” In front of his kids Rand Paul said “fuck you” and looked away
I don’t think they would succeed with this plan. I know theoretically it *could* happen, but then a non-qualified person would be second in line for the presidency. If something catastrophic happened to both the incoming president and vice president at the same time, the Speaker would advance.
If that was ever to happen, Elon would get past over because he's not an American born citizen. It would then go to the longest serving member of the majority party in the senate. Which would be Mitch McConnell for the republicans.
Elon is not able to be POTUS, according to our Constitution. But the Speaker is in line for the job should anything happen to POTUS and VP. Shouldn't that mean that he is not qualified to be Speaker?
The interesting thing would be that it would put him in line for the presidency, but 'HE CAN'T BE PRESIDENT'. However, he would still work to get both Trump and Vance thrown out with the 'expectation' that he'd be crowned... It would certainly call for popcorn...
2/ Or, he could certify the 25th Amendment to get rid of trump, lead a RepubliKKKan impeachment effort to get rid of Vance, and with those two positions gone, Speaker of the House is next in line to assume control of the country. Since he's not elected, citizenship rule doesn't apply.
1/ Yup, this wouldn't surprise me. As SOTH he can better control the RepubliKKKans to do what he wants, vote how he wants, he can decide not to certify elections, he can lead the impeachment and removal of Vance, and he can refuse to accept an effort to remove POTUS via 25th Amendment.
They’d have to skip him if an opening came up. He can’t be President he’s not a natural born citizen. Does he really have that much free time to be speaker of the house? Also Rand Paul is an idiot!
Found you finally. And yes I agree. If they do this, the Constitution is null and void as is my oath to defend and abide. If need be I will gladly fire the first shot of the looming civil war
Elon Musk as Speaker? Can’t wait for the State of the Union to be delivered via tweet and a Tesla Cybertruck parked on the House floor. It just gets crazier and crazier! #oppositeland
Rand Paul = A classic spoiled child who keeps trying to one-up his whackadoodle Bircher daddy, who taught him how to make money cultivating snaggle-toothed, uneducated Golden Calf Christians and used car salesmen.
Immigration reform (check) NONE
Bills written to become law (Check) NONE
Skip the rule of law,
This administration is putting one criminal after another into positions of power. & the grater GOP are complicit.
Since he is not eligible to be president, how could he be eligible to be speaker bc the speaker is third in line to be president should something happen. You’d think a Senator would know that.
He could be the speaker because the line of succession would simply skip the office of Speaker and move on to the next in line, the Senate President por Tempore.
It wouldn't even be the first time someone in the LoS would be ineligible to serve as POTUS.
The first thing that comes to mind when I read this is not how bad of an idea it actually is, but I recognize the motive. The motive here is not to help the people that elected him, it is to upset the people he doesn't like.
Why The Fuck is He in Office, Kentucky?
Rand spoke out against the cabinets picks, remember...then they injected him with the diaper juice and now he's going whale hunting with a dead baby bear...its amazing...
The speaker of the house has to be qualified and a natural, born citizen of the USA in case he has to become the president of USA. Elon Musk does not qualify.
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What a dumbass fool.
That disqualifies Musk, who is an immigrant and cannot be President.
Rand Paul is just one of the old, white, crusties that have to go.
SO out of touch.
The GOP is utter bullshit.
The guy is a loony who knows zilch about how our government works… he is from South Africa. Republicans can’t govern this country worth SH*T.
Interesting, if not fascinating, how they will use the law, or loopholes they find in it, to justify their actions, while simultaneously blatantly, brazenly, flamboyantly disregarding it entirely as easily as rolling out of bed.
Musk can't do any actual job in gov't
Can't pass a security check. He's already failed it
Won't divest of businesses because he can't manipulate the contracts
No way in hell he's filling out the disclosure forms
But it does make for a Fox hit
Late stage capitalism run amok
NEED to keep it!
We are actively participating in the demise of Our Democracy. Quit treating this as normal, make it 🛑!!!!
Succession: President, VP and speaker. Congress changed the line of succession a number of years ago . . . from Secretary of State to Speaker of House bc the speaker was ELECTED.
He hasn't changed.
Elmo is not eligible to be POTUS.
This isn't silicon vally.
We need a competent adult who doesn't want to watch the US burn just for the lulz.
But you know what? America fucking deserves it.
And we all need to remember who had this idea.
Ego will eat his Pride
Well said!
Immigration reform (check) NONE
Bills written to become law (Check) NONE
Skip the rule of law,
This administration is putting one criminal after another into positions of power. & the grater GOP are complicit.
It wouldn't even be the first time someone in the LoS would be ineligible to serve as POTUS.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-rand-paul-aide-charged-with-funneling-russian-money-into-election-2021-9?op=1
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/rand-paul-delivers-letter-to-trump-from-putin-766743
Why The Fuck is He in Office, Kentucky?
More clowns for the clown show.
Let’s grind government to a complete stop for the next four years
What punchable fucking twat.
To destroy the county to “own the libs”
DEM leadership.
Everyone just rolling over in the face of this? No we fucking aren’t.