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Ro Khanna challenges Elon Musk to televised debate after online spat

newsJun 23, 20267513,082

Rep. Ro Khanna challenged Elon Musk to a televised debate after an online exchange in which Khanna said Musk’s cuts under DOGE 'possibly sentenced to death' 4.5 million children by reducing USAID-related aid. Elon Musk responded by threatening to sue Khanna and publicly calling for his arrest. Khanna urged Democrats to investigate Musk if they regain the House, arguing the dispute is about private influence over U.S. foreign-aid decisions and real humanitarian consequences, not just insults.

Jules⚖️
@northjules.bsky.social

Elon Musk is targeting Ro, calling him an “evil liar” because he dared to challenge him.🤔 Now, Ro Khanna is urging Elon Musk to debate him regarding his cuts to USAID and answer for his actions.

447744d ago
thegregshea.bsky.social68

Q: is Musk an elected representative of US? -No. Q: Is Musk an appointed representative of US? - No. Then Musk’s actions were illegal. Thus, arrest and all the DOGE kids.

slynnw.bsky.social60

I’d rather see a trial than a debate.

winetast3r.bsky.social43

Elon killed at least 750,000 human beings with his cuts to USAID. He is evil, a fascist, crazy, and completely irredeemable.

thislifehappy.bsky.social32

So here we go Musk now thinks his trillionaire status means he’s untouchable more than ever. Go Kanna!! Put him in his place!!!

Bob31

A with African Nazi immigrant coming into the US threatening to arrest a US Congressman! That’s Rich! Shades of Hitler anyone?

Candidus 🌻26

Congress hasn’t asked him to testify once w/ regards to DOGE…

Dan 🔵🌊🇺🇸22

Have him arrested? Musk is not a fucking cop.

Her Soldier: 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌈🦄🌸💙💜 No MAGA’s20

The ketamine queen is not of sound mind to sign contracts.

US Asunder17

Musk called Ro Khanna "Evil"? Richest man in the World who does Nazi Salutes and Wields chainsaws to celebrate cutting off the World's poor and sick.

Jim “J” Johnson14

Never give a bully an even break.

It's Claire13

Americans are also dying because Elon cut them off from life saving programs..

lauriemac916.bsky.social12

Elon Musk is deciding who gets arrested now?

br00t4c12

Scumbag Nazi murderer and thief Elon belongs in prison

PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elon' 🙄11

#ElonMusk still vying for worst evil billionaire award 🥇

Kurt Risser 10

Ro will wipe the floor with Musk's pasty pale ass!

isonope.bsky.social10

musk belongs in prison, or strapped to one of his nose cones

NYCBlueLady9

Has Elon looked in the mirror 🪞 lately! Guy is taking hallucinogenics like they’re 🍬 candy! He needs to shut his filthy #45 butt mouth now! @rokhanna.bsky.social is a class act! Intelligent, knowledgeable and cares!

David8

Musk will never do it. He’s surrounded by sycophants.

[The Great War & Modern Memory]8

Musk in a debate?!? LOL, he's inarticulate, and looks inebriated. Many are saying it's the ketamine.

Butterflies Katz ⓥ8

Elon Musk might be the worst person on Earth.

Carla Martin/Carlabela18

A huge thank you to Ro Khanna for standing up against injustice and people such as Elon Musk. Very sorry Ro Khanna is having to contend with this.

AnnMB487

I don’t think Musk will be able to debate without using a ‘mood enhancer’ & we’ve all seen the vacant grin he gets when he does that.

🥒🐸🌮🦋 Anemia B7

He won't. Elon is a big ol' coochie.

santa-guy.bsky.social6

A very good way to fight back!

deidan.eurosky.social6

I can't belive that in a world without Superman we allowed Lex fucking Luther to be a thing. Jail Musk.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW6

Press musk to sue, his ego will destroy him. He can't debate he's a ketamine junky.

🩵💙🩵 Beth 🩵💙🩵5

I will never understand why anyone pays any attention to Elon Musk, he’s dumber than dirt. Don’t forget, he didn’t invent anything, he bought Tesla, and he hired a bunch of engineers to do everything else. All he does is fund everything.

doreengarfield WAR ZONE SURVIVOR5

He'll NEVER do it because he is too big of a pussy and he would end every sentence looking at the audience and saying something "Am I right, or what??" He absolutely has no idea what a debate is and he'd just try to buy the moderators...and insult everyone.

jackiefromtexas5

Musk in a debate? Do we get to watch him do the bobblehead as usual?

Frank D’Elia5

As part of the Obama administration, Ro and Ash Carter helped bailout Tesla and get SpaceX government contracts. I’m glad that Ro is going after that Nazi, but this illustrates the problem of giving government money to billionaires instead of taxing them heavily.

Rusty5

A real man. Remember Scrooge McDuck taking baths in his piles of money? He was a quack, too.

doreengarfield WAR ZONE SURVIVOR4

I think the Elon "mangled penis" story needs to make the rounds again. There are tweets about his "botched" implant. From Dlist celeb Azalea Banks, (maybe more) ...its an online rumor but I feel like he needs to see more about this because I LOVE when he is flustered/annoyed. Man baby tantrum time.

David4

Musk could fund USAID himself through 2030 and not affect his lifestyle.

Aquarius Elayne4

We’ve got your back Ro. Muskrat is a pathetic loser who had the benefit of daddy’s $$ to get him started in his quest to grift everyone possible.

R L B4

You're talking about debating a man who thinks he's above being questioned about anything

Miaganga3

Cry baby ketamine welfare queen

raventerp1.bsky.social3

DSA opposes USAID. It's not just the far right.

Lucy Zartmanski3

Ro is a brave man, he scares liars.

RandolphGibbs3

Musk debating anyone would be a joke !! One: he can’t sit still long enough !! Two : bet when caught in a lie or can’t honestly answer a question with out looking bad , he’ll just do a trump and storm off !!

Heidi Reinberg3

If Elon really had a thing against "evil liars," he never would have gotten in bed with the most evil liar of them all.

studleyfarrock.bsky.social3

LOL. And Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist”

Debra Meeks2

But what did EM do with the info during his DOGE days? People doing the damage shouldn't be allowed in. There should be a software program that tracks hackers and deletes the hacking program 😃 and everything else. Wishful thinking?

Sadie G2

Musk is so socially deficient that he's modeling trump's behavior. Making up stupid demeaning nicknames, calling people who challenge him liars, saying they should be imprisoned. He's also incredibly cheap. He doesn't even make the list of the top 100 philanthropists.

DodgeZen2

F elon should be in prison.

aquart1.bsky.social2

Is Musk on American soil?

Kathy’s Attic 💫🌟✨2

elon can’t put two words together let alone a debate. I’d love Ro to debate him

Ural Moon2

Elon is ill equipped to debate anything. He’s such a fucking fraud. And an ugly one at that.

I Care2

Show what part elon played in the Epstein files Ro...

Culture Crave 🍿
@culturecrave.co

John C. Reilly questions why human rights have become political "Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights?" "Elon Musk says, 'don’t be fooled by the empathy trap'. ... Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower ... our ability to look outside ourself” 🎙️ It's Open Pod

207945d ago
Culture Crave 🍿108

"Do unto others ... It's crazy that we have to argue for these things" 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLH1...

Mohamed63

To become a Trillionaire, a sociopathic lack of empathy or care about others is a requirement. We shouldn't be shocked that Elon's a moral monster, what shocking is that there are people struggling to pay their bills who are being fooled into agreeing with him.

Richard Russell #🟦 🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦 #IStandWithUkraine34

Glad to know he's one of the good guys. Have always enjoyed his humor.

ShadowRealm-Ink15

Empathy is heavily tied to emotions and logical thought. Which is one Item that is in short supply on the right, and another item that is pretty much outlawed by them.

Goofierbrute14

"Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights?" Because growing up their parents didn't tell them that they loved them.

Pragmatic Dog Dad7

I always breathe a sigh of relief when people are who I hope they are.

Carson Armstrong6

Because all these tech guys and quadrillionaires are sociopaths and narcissists.

Kevin (MogarPrime)5

John C. Reilly always had a good heart. Good on him.

Rick Downer4

Elon Musk thinks his superpower is his callousness. He's wrong. His superpower is Daddy's emerald mine. His daddy's superpower was stealing an emerald mine from the South African natives and then trapping them in peonage to dig the emeralds for him.

Dr. Space Cats (Eric Vorhauer)4

BREAKING: The Leopards Eating Faces party continues to promote their leopard factories in spite of faces being eaten.

Cosmic3

Wreck it Ralph has the best takes

Octavious Night3

you know…maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all

Viscera Rabbit || 🔞 || ❤️‍🩹Comms closed❤️‍🩹2

I've never been a fan of the comedy movies he's been in but he just earned massive respect from me now

Derpaderpy2

Oh wow, the guy who bought and completely rebranded a social media platform to turn it into an AI slop blunderland because people were hurting his feelings with Tesla mockery is a sociopath? Who would have guessed Elon Body Odour would be a sociopath? Did you guess he was a sociopath?

Joel S.
@joelhs.bsky.social

This is the only thing anyone should ever say about Elon Musk. He deserves to be talked about in the same category as Mao and Stalin as one of history's worst mass murderers.

174645d ago
Samhain54

I mean, not defending Mao or Stalin but Hitler is right there and Musk is a Nazi...

Your Ad Here33

Part of this will require making the public aware of the fallout, and that it wasn't an "accident", it was intentional. It should be hammered in that the way aid was ended was intentional to maximize harm. No handover, winddowns, plans. Just chaos and destruction.

Hairy Colic Junior27

Don't forget Churchill and the Bengal famine

TTourou 🧶20

May I suggest a comparison with Leopold II, instead?

Busty Poseur 🔻15

Mao & Stalin believed in socialism & effectively defeated fascist forces. Your go-to “evil guys” speak to your brainwashing by people like… Elon Musk. Henry Ford, Prescott Bush, Fritz Thyssen, Alf Hugenburg, Rupert Murdoch, etc etc. anticommunism is a disease which degrades understanding of history

John Wallach10

For people that claim to love the constitution they sure don't know its contents.

burt ☭ 🔺10

mao and stalin lifted millions out of poverty. boring left punching

ꀭeͤ✞ꌚe͎n̆̈ 𝕊⊍תּḋᥑy҉҉8

We must use simple terms that even a cognitively limited person like Elon Musk can understand, he's a Nazi traitor murder and thieving conman.

Lenna6

At least Mao and Stalin had actual goals they were working towards. The deaths under them occurred during a rapid industrialization of those two nations Musk? Just ego and greed, nothing more. He's worse than Mao and Stalin At least Mao and Stalin stood for something

Snake's takes4

*Capitalists doing capitalism capitalistly* You: "DURRRR THIS IS COMMUNISM"

Crazy Cat Lady Abroad4

Let's say he wins and the court determines that he's only responsbile for the deaths of 3.9 million kids. Is that really a win?

Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop4

He is a deeply flawed individual who a few decades ago would have been shunned and marginalized. The present environment with its ultra-individualization, extreme selfishness, extremely nice tax laws for the rich, and lack of any decency made him possible.

firedrakelucky.bsky.social4

Same for the people who hired him.

Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹3

Trillionaires with their SLAPP suits is our future 😕

Jim Dagg3

This is exactly the kind of lawsuit you *don't* want to make as I recall - because once this goes to discovery things get spicy fast.

dietrimi.bsky.social2

To be "sent to The Hague" means to face trial for severe international crimes—such as war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity—before an international court located in The Hague, Netherlands

Ready for football 🤦‍♂️2

discovery should be a hoot on that lawsuit

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com

the thing about this and his threats to ro khanna are that musk and space x have a great deal to lose if a democratic majority in the house decides they want to open investigations and hearings into what happened under doge

108244d ago
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE225

trump can pardon him, but that can’t stop a house investigation that can do even more reputational damage to him

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE97

i have no doubt whatsoever that he rushed the space x IPO to get it done before they could take office (assuming we win)

Vituperative Erb62

It would be a huge pain on the ass but if California wanted to open up a narcotics investigation of Musk he’s going to have a real bad time

Partyglouberman43

If we have him out here talking about it defensively on video then thats a great sign hes fucking terrified and we should keep pulling that string

Warren Terra28

In Feb 2025 House Oversight voted 19-to-20 not to subpoena Musk; Ro Khanna was conveniently absent despite ample and repeated notice to his staff. He was full of excuses for his absence and claimed that he was unaware and would have subpoena'd him. Many people including this reporter were skeptical.

Billy Christ22

A family member of mine spent 20 years working on maternal and infant health in Africa with USAID till she was summarily fired. When the DOGEbags ended her career, she had been working to contain an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever that is now running rampant. Elon Musk should be in prison, at best.

🧑‍🎤Moonman Ziggy 🇺🇸🇺🇦6

I don't know much about the law, but I'm hoping we can run a class action lawsuit against him to the tune of $1T. Every American that had their data accessed should be compensated for the hell he will create with our data.

like_a_bosstonian3

Start with DOGE, then move on to Tesla falsely reporting safety data, then move on to market manipulation, then move on to…

Snootacamund2

That’s one of the weirdest combination shave with stubble on a man’s face I’ve ever seen, is it an affectation? Some chronic condition?

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