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:
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I was going to make a joke about how King Charles should dissolve Elon in a vat of acid, but I'm not sure if that's comes off as promoting violence in our current climate of oligarchicide.
Since this is advice given to a monarch by a person who otherwise has no impact on the rich and powerful, I'd argue you could call this a case of Jester's Privilege
We should bring that back. If nothing I do matters, then nothing I say matters, right?
It would definitely be skirting the line of what we would moderate, but I think we'd probably let it go just because it's a comic book villain ending rather than saying "shoot him in the head" or whatever.
Plus, it would obviously be a joke.
Edit: all I can picture is this, but with Elon's face on it.
I think Luig[MESSAGE CONTENTS CORRUPTED]usk.
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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.
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.
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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.
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He can put him on ignore?
I think King Charles should do it. That way no more King Charles.
Musk should fuck off back to South Africa.
It is my hope that the UK adds a second parliament, just to give Musk the middle finger.
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Even amongst Britain's right leaning folk this is a pretty stupid take..
Oh it's simple. If the king wants the UK to follow his last french counterpart's fate, this would be a romantically dramatic way of doing this.