This occurred to me the other day and I feel like it’s so crazy that it maybe could happen. Is it too late for him to run in the upcoming election?
He was not born in the US, and is therefore ineligible for office.
You have to admit though that after all of the Obama birther bullshit, it would perfectly round out the Gaslight Obstruct and Project gameplan.
If they don’t manage to tick every box oh well, pobody’s nerfect.
Also for all their fussing about Obama not being born in the US (even though he was), their guy, John McCain actually wasn’t born in the US, but in Panama. McCain was still considered a natural-born citizen because of an act of congress which stated:
And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.
Which would also presumably cover Obama even if he wasn’t born in the US, since one of his parents is American.
Also Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico but was allowed to run for president in 1968 for the same reason.
Oh I didn’t know that! Good call.
I used to think it was a bad rule. Now I see.
I guess, I mean there could be value in having an outsider in office, just not him. But I don’t know. It is a little sketch.
Put it this way, should the range of eligible candidates include the world’s richest person, or merely the richest person born in America?
I think the thought of this rule is to prevent an actual puppet of an enemy country being bankrolled into office by a malicious foreign entity. Obviously he could do it himself. But he’d still probably destroy this county quicker than he destroyed Twitter.
You’re talking to a guy who thinks that has probably already happened at least once, so I’m thinking if it at least stops Musk from running then the rule at least had an unintended good side effect.
That said I don’t think more billionaires will need to become presidents to kill the country. They nearly succeeded with Jan 6 already.
And that’s fair, there are plenty of puppets that were born here. But I guess in the brain of the founders, maybe that was was inconceivable. If that was indeed the intent.
Neither was Ted Cruz, but he still ran in the primary.
How embarrassing for him.
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Don’t give more billionaires this idea.
Too late, they saw how successful it was for Trump.
Honestly…im fucking here for that. Obviously he would never get elected but holy shit his campaign would be deliciously cringe worthy.
That’s what they all said about Trump though too. “Obviously he would never get elected”.
…true
If he was planning to, helping Ron DeSantis to launch his own campaign would be kind of a weird move
Trump was (and, fuck, maybe will be again) elected president. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. As of right now, no he can’t since he isn’t natural born, but hell, it’s not impossible to have the constitution amended, just very unlikely.
I remember after Trump was elected, I stopped watching House of Cards (I think this was before Spacey’s indiscretions were mainstream public) because reality really became stranger and scarier than fiction.
