Set date for a 'LONDON TEslA PARTY' and throw all those shitty cars into harbor!
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So, technically, the monarchy signed over the majority of executive power to Parliament with the Parliament Act 1911 which gives authority over taxation and budgets to Parliament.
But bills do also technically still require Royal Assent, which has not been withheld since 1708.
So... the Crown COULD try to force an impasse where nothing can pass without their approval, but then Parliament COULD make the Crown live off canned beans.
Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?
"err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the,, ,uhh,,,,, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress..... burp"
As a Brit I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.
I also think that King Charles should dissolve the monarchy as it’s sickening to have such a thing in 2025.
People often say but tourism. The fact is France gets many more visitors a year than Britain and they got rid of their monarchy. We could make more turning Buckingham Palace into a bougie hotel for instance.
Can you tour bukingham palace?
Small sections.
I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.
He illegally immigrated into the US, it's quite literally his MO
As an American (and ashamed of it), can we give Elongated Muskrat back to South Africa?
I think King Charles should instead order Elon Musk dissolved.
Let's dissolve them both in a vat of acid
I seem to recall doing such things to be unwise for kings named Charles
It's a mixed bag actually. Charles 2 did it successfully but only because he essentially had a popular mandate to do so. (Parliament kept trying to do an Inquisition of Catholics, and people were unamused.)
James 2 tried to follow that act and was deposed in 3 years. So mileage may vary.
Time for some right wing infighting.
We need another Luigi
If someone luigi'd musk the US and the entire world would be better off. Somebody else can run his companies, probably do a better job, and not be an asshole while doing it.
The US might legit get worse unless there were several near-simultaneous Luigi events. We have a bad habit of using those types of situations to just increase big brother's overwatch and create more privacy/freedom invasions against the populous.
That said, if the US gets worse at the safety of everyone else's democracy... I'm willing to take that sacrifice.
People miss this point. There's hundreds, if not thousands of people in similar positions of using wealth to "influence" politics. They will use any event as an excuse to tighten the security state.
As far as money goes, (according to the Forbes top list) Elon musk is by far the wealthiest individual in the states. Musk is at $244B and the next up is Bezos at $197B. There is a $47 billion gap between #1 and #2 in that list. And one of them is using their money for political gain much more than the others. The rat literally bought an entire social media platform to spew his own personal propaganda. The same rat who was on stage with Trump, and guess what, is now one of his top advisors. The ultra wealthy have invested insane amounts into political campaigns, but Musk is on another level.
Yes. Every single ordinary person would benefit from it.
We need thousands of them.
The more they will try to screw us over, the more people will resist.
It seems they're pushing society in a direction where more and more people will have nothing left to lose. Might be inevitable, how long it takes is the question.
It seems they’re pushing society in a direction where more and more people will have nothing left to lose.
That's just the negative side effect (negative for them) of pushing society in a direction people will have nothing. But it's inevitable, and it's proof that the big capitalist lie based on infinite "growth" and exploitation will never work in the long term.
Best thing chuck can do is ignore the gnat until it gets near enough to swat
The yanks will do this and then whine about foreign interventionism lmao. This should be a cassus belli and we should sanction the US.
Nah. Just quietly file a secret indictment and arrest warrant against Musk. Inevitably he'll forget about it and move on. Then a few years later, gallivanting about the world like billionaires do, he'll step foot in Britain on some random business. That's when you grab him. Arrest him then and put him on trial for violating various espionage and foreign interference laws.
The yanks are pissed about this guy too. The problem is his boy won the election so nothing's going to happen on the official side for 4 years unless he falls out of favor.
I'm not sure anyone is really in control of Elon and many Americans would be happy if he just went away.
The problem is that level of wealth should not be in anyone's hand. Elon is demonstrating why, but Elon shouldn't have been allowed to get into this position.
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Can he please stop sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Being a US president isn't enough. He wants to be the German chancellor and British PB now, too?
I think you meant British PM. Although I’ll take PB if it was for Prime Bastard.
Autocorrection but let's say it was deliberate.
I think King Charles should do it. That way no more King Charles.
Ol' stinky should just shut up
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