Mike Johnson fragte Elon Musk, ob er Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses werden möchte

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-elon-musk-house-speaker-2004601

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  1. Blablablaballs on

    Elon Musk doesn’t want to work, full stop. He wants to  get in front of microphones and tell you he works harder than anyone and then get in his private jet and take a 3 hour nap. 

  2. justwonderingabotit on

    This country is going to Hell and its deserved at this point

  3. AskRedditOG on

    This is how fascism starts. People making “jokes”. People saying what they want to do and then when they get backlash they say “I obviously didn’t mean it”

    It’s not like in the movies where the bad guys take the government by force. It’s more subtle, slow, and done with an air of legal legitimacy. 

    You better start reading up on fascist dictatorships, because in 4 weeks you will be in one. 

  4. Violet_Paradox on

    Elon Musk’s ketamine dealer has one hell of an opportunity to change the world for the better. 

  5. mutedexpectations on

    EM won’t be elected SOTH. This last vote should have proven that.

  6. TheonsPrideinaBox on

    Great, Biff from Back To the Future is going to be the South African speaker of the house.

  7. The Republican party has basically one guy still in congress that can whip together a majority in Thune. The house has been absolute chaos ever since McCarthy got the boot. Johnson is giving up, because he knows he won’t deliver anything with a 3 seat majority. It’s too difficult for him to try and whip together a majority to get anything major passed. Johnson clearly said this out of frustration, as he had worked on this spending bill for months, only for Musk to come in and blow it up, giving Democrats the upper hand to demand more out of the bill. And Johnson is right. SOTH is genuinely one of the hardest jobs out there, because you have to get 218 people to all agree to something, and if even 1 breaks, your bill is dead. Johnson just doesn’t have the political chops to get this job done the way Pelosi, McCarthy, or McConnel did.

  8. Dazzling-Finding-602 on

    He may be testing the waters, but it’s more likely a lowkey jab at Musk’s propensity for throwing his weight around as a political influencer and then stepping aside when chaos ensues because he has no idea how government works.

  9. williamgman on

    For those not paying attention… Go over to the Fox News comment sections under any story that involves Elon… He’s a fucking god there. Comment after comment about how we need to change the Constitution to allow foreign born to be president. Crazy.

  10. JoannaHarris on

    The “America First” crowd sure does love submitting to foreign white men.

  11. KeriEatsSouls on

    If that dumbass gets into a position of power he’s going to shut down the govt for sure in March when the CR runs out (if they vote in a new speaker before then; I’m not sure when that’s happening).

  12. Cephalopod_astronaut on

    Republicans seem to revel in their subservience to their newly-appointed alpha.

  13. Ok_Radio_8540 on

    The Washington Post alleges that in 1995, Musk was admitted to Stanford University’s graduate school but didn’t enroll in classes. He instead used the student visa to stay in the U.S. and work on what would eventually become Zip2, Musk’s online business directory. The Post also alleges that in 1996, investors made a funding agreement contingent on Musk obtaining permission to work in the U.S. within 45 days. Zip2 board member Derek Proudian told the newspaper that Musk’s immigration status was “not what it should be.”

    Law and order right? 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Charge musk with immigration violations, seize his assets, and deport him immediately.

  14. Musk is here to help the dems out by making the GOP such a clusterfuck. … 54D chess right?

  15. No_Clue_7894 on

    LOL

    Being really rich doesn’t make you clever – as [Elon Musk has so adeptly shown](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-420-a8483291.html), Musk suffers from extreme Hubris or is it the Dunning Kreuger Effect at play?

    **Watch out America the phantom breaking genius is a clear and present danger**

    He’s a make-a-wish kid who’s got his grubby, candy-sticky mouth directly over the fire hose of public money that could put out the myriad fires created by the state shrinking Reagan and Thatcher projects of the 1980s. He’s slurping from the chocolate river, but unlike Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Augustus Gloop who falls in and is sucked away, Musk just gets fatter and fatter as we all wait, poised for a splash in the water that never comes.

    Elon Musk was not born – but became – a Dumb Guy, when he was lauded as humanity’s saviour, the STEM-lord genius, and a dab hand at memes to boot. We rewarded him so much for the singularity and purpose of his incredibly stupid mission that it has begun to drive him insane

    He does things like set his company an impossible target for the Model 3 – hitting it by sacrificing his workers’ wellbeing – and then releasing the car with brake failures. Because it’s all about him

    **Phantom breaking**

    [Surveillance video shows self-driving Tesla crash on Bay Bridge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E531GxfEoB81yearago)

    [The Toxic Trio: What Unites Netanyahu, Trump and Musk It is easy to imagine Netanyahu and Musk bonding over demonizing billionaire George Soros. It’s almost a shame that Trump wasn’t there to join in the fun](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-09-18/ty-article/.highlight/the-toxic-trio-what-unites-netanyahu-trump-and-musk/0000018a-a908-d05a-abfe-fd2cd0b80000)

  16. ApoplecticAndroid on

    Wow, this pre show has been really entertaining so far. Can’t wait until the premiere on Jan 20th.

  17. BrightMarvel10 on

    Why would Elon take a demotion from President to Speaker of the House?!

  18. the_Mandalorian_vode on

    Why would Musk want to lower position when he’s already President?

  19. No-Day-5964 on

    Because it’s all Biden’s fault in the eyes of maga. I’m in Texas 30 year GOP control. They still blame democrats for the things they need fixed.

  20. Remember when the Republicans complained about unelected officials controlling things….

  21. can we please get rid of these of the crazy fuckin congressman please? This is INSANE

  22. HotMachine9 on

    This is a satire at this point.

    Honestly, most bizarre history book chapter of all time.

    Imagine it.

    Worlds richest man who owns the largest social media platform in the world (after tiktok) speaks for the house.

    America. You couldn’t write it.

  23. Your Amazon order of hellfire and brimstone has been delivered.

    <doorstep photo>

  24. FrancoManiac on

    Every alarm bell is ringing in America right now, and I’ll never forgive the elected officials or Americans who not only refuse to respond, but are encouraging or otherwise bending under this national emergency.

  25. I have a question about this. The Speaker is in the line of succession after the VP, but the President has to be native born. If Elmo is made Speaker and uses his wealth to smoke these two turds could he be sworn in even though he’s naturalized?

  26. Wombat-comando on

    I don’t think you can be president and speaker of the house at the same time.

  27. redmav7300 on

    Why should he settle for SotH, when he is already the effective President-elect?

  28. I did not have an entire political party getting to their knees and scared shitless to ever express an opinion again because of a second moronic billionaire on my 2024 bingo card but in reality I didn’t have a lot on my 2024 bingo card that’s occurred so there’s that…..

  29. Couchman79 on

    Being Speaker of The House requires a modicum of negotiation skill.

    Elon Musk is from the “My way or the highway” school” of management and the GOP majority for the ’25 and ’26 sessions is razor thin. More troubling is how quickly the current Speaker Johnson offered his job to Musk.

  30. _TheLonelyStoner on

    Honestly we should encourage them to try this. All you need is a majority of the present votes to win so let some idiots try to get Elon in and end up with Hakeem Jefferies as the speaker as republicans cannibalize themselves

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