Republicans Consider Making Elon Musk Speaker of the House

He is an illegal immigrant.

That may be, but he's not brown and he's rich so it's ok

Wtf is this existence

In 2016 I thought That's it, the US is headed for a civil war 2.0 in the next 10 years. I don't believe that now because no one seems to be doing anything to resist this destruction of democracy by the silicon valley billionaires.

Move fast and break things will be easy for them if nobody even tries to slow them down.

I guessed back when the patriot act was signed after 9/11 that we’d have a fascist dictatorship by 2025. Well….
I really wish my ability to see patterns applied to seeing winning lottery numbers :(
you were too early in your predictions: trump is going to be pushed out in favor of vance and musk is going to vp.
- Assuming they don’t throw away the constitution that their base likes to jerk off too, how would musk qualify? He’s not American born. That and being over 35 are pretty much the only requirements.
More like a decay into a shadow of itself like the Byzantine empire.
Yeah I think playing it slow is part of the strategy.
You can't just take ownership of a country, you need to make people want to give it to you.

I'm for it for one simple reason: the sooner folks realize that our entire "democracy" is a complete sham gussied up as reality TV the sooner folks might start caring enough to do something about it

I know accelerationism is bad, but damn it, I love watching the US destroy itself.

So, the whole not born here thing suddenly doesn’t apply?

I don’t think that matters for speaker of the house? It does matter for president and vp
- The speaker of the house is in the presidential line of succession, right after the VP. So that's a fair question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
Only applies to the presidency. In the case of succession, he'd get skipped. Assuming we still care about the Constitution by then.
- Assuming we still care about the Constitution by then.
  Considering we elected someone who's constitutionally disqualified, I'm thinking that ship has sailed.

He's not competent enough and he'd have the spotlight at him the entire thime. Please let it happen!

What if muskrat becomes Speaker of the House and trump and vance both resign? Is that a legal loophole to get a non-native (naturalized) US citizen into the presidency?

I'm pretty sure they'd go to the next eligible person in line, which is the present pro tempore of the senate

But is Elon Musk not already President of the United States? POTUS Elon Musk? President Musk? Isn't he? Isn't Trump just the secretary of making long faces?

I'm not surprised by the effort, but I am surprised that this is technically allowed. You'd think the Dems would have just made the CIA director Speaker or Senate VP instead of doing it through Nancy and Schumer. Must be an optics thing.

that's some "woke" agenda there if I had to use the same term they made.

The right didn't create the term "woke". They just changed the meaning to anything they don't like.

Am I stupid or doesn't the speaker have to be a congressperson?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/can-elon-musk-become-speaker-of-the-house-if-he-s-not-natural-born-citizen/ar-AA1wbstW
The question came up last year when Republicans floated the idea of pushing Trump into the role after Kevin McCarthy was voted out. Just as was the case with Trump, Musk could become speaker because you don't actually need to be a House member to hold the position.
The U.S. Constitution's only requirement for the speaker of the House is that the person is chosen by the House of Representatives. Thus, Musk could serve as the House speaker if he got the support and votes to do so.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no

Trump found his Beria

Hmm, there may be a long game going on here. Making Elon the Speaker is total nonsense, of course. But if enough Republicans insist, and we have another protracted Speaker battle, it may go past Jan 6, when the Electoral Votes are counted. Can they even be counted if there is no Speaker to convene the House? If they are not counted, it goes to a contingent election. But can there even be a contingent election in the House if there is no Speaker?

Keep this up long enough, and we end up with President Vance. Boy, will that make Trump upset. All his cases that are "on hold" start up again. And the new President starts his immigration crackdown with one very visible illegal immigrant who broke the rules when he came here....