Summary
Elon Musk has called on King Charles III to dissolve the UK Parliament, citing past controversies involving Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Rotherham Scandal.
Musk accused Starmer of inaction during his tenure as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and urged a new general election, drawing backlash for spreading misinformation.
Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.
Musk’s growing political involvement globally, including support for right-wing parties, has sparked calls for regulation against foreign interference.
Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.
Is that what “critics” argue about?
How about the massive South African white elephant in the room:Why the fuck should Charles even acknowledge Musk’s noises?
They’re manufacturing consent for the plutocracy — that has always owned politics — instead of doing what one would expect in a democracy… bringing in a psychiatrist to explain the mental illness indicators Musk is very obviously displaying.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a brain tumor. He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one, and none of them are “normal”.
Too much money, like Michael Jackson and so many others.
Boatloads of drugs and yesmen too.
You can’t blame the drugs lots of high people not interfering with another countries government calling for fascism.
Well do the usual drug enjoyer have the possibility to interfere in foreign politics?
I’m pretty sure you’d be surprised about the “adults” you wouldn’t think who are out there enjoying drugs.
He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one
Aren’t all leaders?
For politicians, it takes a particular mindset to think you’re the solution to other people’s problems and run for any election. I instantly distrust people who thrust themselves in the limelight and propose to rule others for their own good.
As for CEO’s, it’s very well known that a disturbing percentage of them display psychopathic traits.
If I was Charles, I’d offer Elon Musk a knighthood to piss him off.
Musk would have to choose between stoking his gigantic ego with the title at the cost of giving up any post in the federal government as per article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution or humiliate himself and refuse the title to keep running the orange utan he’s invested billions in.
without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
He’d just buy enough congress people to get it passed.
I doubt that would work.
All Trump would do would be to make his post an unpaid advisory one and then he’d get to insist people call him Sir Elon.
It’s not like he needs the paycheck or the benefits and he would love the ego boost.
Or he’d just do exactly the same as he was going to do anyway, it’s not like anyone stopped him hiring his own family members in blatant disregard for the law, why would this be any different?
Very true. I keep saying the same thing about other things and I should have realized this applies as well.
He’d take the knighthood then have the rules changed to suit himself
You act like th US cares about what the US constitution says.
It’s called an Honorary Knighthood - for non UK citizens.
Best thing chuck can do is ignore the gnat until it gets near enough to swat
Set date for a ‘LONDON TEslA PARTY’ and throw all those shitty cars into harbor!
The ocean is already polluted enough, I suggest dissolving them in acid.
Even amongst Britain’s right leaning folk this is a pretty stupid take…
What can the King do?
Ignore it entirely?
Here’s something kinda cool about the Monarchy. The king can just decide that Musk’s interference is illegal and shut down Xitter in the UK would be kinda funny.
I’m not a fan of that approach, but at the same time you don’t ask cancer to leave your body, you cut that shit out!
The king has no real power. Real power lies with the prime minister since previous kings with the same name and the Glorious Revolution. He’s a figurehead.
Here’s an interesting (although old) video
The word “theoretically” is doing a lot of lifting in that video. He said that the Queen is in important political figure, but that’s incorrect. The monarchy in the UK survives by being apolitical and they all know that the day they start meddling in politics is the day when the royal family loses its one remaining role in the UK - ceremony. Their long standing popularity comes from the pomp and circumstance, and if they get mixed up in politics, they’ll become deeply unpopular, just like everyone else who tells the British people what to do does in the end.
All the real power went in the civil war and the glorious revolution. Parliament decides who is the monarch. If the king went rogue, he’d be gone before you can say “that’s not what we were looking for in the role of ceremonial figurehead.”
“The Crown” actually includes, quite as a matter of law, the government and specifically the prime minister.
So all the stuff about signing laws isn’t real power. It’s not about whether it becomes law, it’s about when it becomes law.
The King is The Sovereign, but he is not sovereign, Parliament is sovereign.
He embodies British power, but he doesn’t wield it.
Fascinating. I learned something new today! Thank you for taking the time to share :)
Obligatory Jay Foreman video that explains exactly what would happen if the Monarch would use their power.
I hope he suggests musk seeks professional medical mental health.
Musk is not in a healthy position. Someone needs to reach out to him, so he gets helpI wouldn’t be surprised if he had long Covid clouding his brain, he started going loony not long after the first big covid wave in the US…
Used to be-
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An introvert
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Kept his opinions largely to himself outside some occasional jabs (ie. ‘The trampoline is working!’)
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Intelligent
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Supported universal health, free university and UBI
Post 2021 -
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Very opinionated, but mostly not his opinions- those of other people.
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Extroverted to a high level, constantly talking.
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Dumb
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No longer supports any of the left ideals he used to, now it’s all full extreme-right.
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This guy is everywhere
No, he just bought the loudest bullhorn is all.
I think King Charles should instead order Elon Musk dissolved.
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.
I mean, if the king really wants to become beloved of the people he should indeed make a visit to parliament, and request they dissolve Musk’s UK holdings.
There is a 23 billion blackhole in the budget so we’re told. I think a one off tax of just 10% on Musk based on his total global net worth could be in order.
Bold of you to assume the royals care about the economy
Royals don’t set taxes.
How about dissolve musk?
Tell him to fuck right off, preferably.
Well, he has sausage fingers, but he can still do something like what Mummy likely would have done if some South African upstart tried to tell her what to do:
He can put him on ignore?
We need another Luigi
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.
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 to strap musk to the top of his next test rocket
