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.
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.
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.
@Gradually_Adjusting Let’s be honest, if non-natural born US citizens could be president, there’s a non-szero chance we would have seen President Schwarzenegger more than decade ago.
I love Arrnie, fon’t get me wrong, but electing popular figures rarely goes well (lloking at you, Reagan)
Not strictly necessary. If his parents were US citizens–and they aren’t–then it wouldn’t matter where he was born. Kind of. I think that there might be residency requirements for children of US citizens that are born abroad, e.g., if your parents are expats and you live all your life in another country, you might not be a citizen, but it’s complicated. You’d def. want to contact an immigration attorney if that was the case.
BUT…!
The point is that Musk, since he wasn’t born to US citizens, and since he wasn’t born in the US, isn’t eligible to run for president.
It’s an open question as to what happens if he ran anyways, and how votes would be tabulated, etc. It would get messy, but I don’t think that it’s ever happened that someone ineligible has run for president and won any significant amount of the vote.
Right-wingers do. Buying Twitter exposed him as a terrible business man who could only be considered a genius by Trump standards. Luckily for him, many Twitter users do think Trump is a business-savvy genius!! He has an even bigger following now because he isn’t pandering to tech nerds who are genuinely interested in what he’s doing with his tech companies. Now he’s targeting the alt-right with conspiracy theories, Hunter Biden’s dick pics laptop, and “free speech” (for only $11/month!).
“free speech” (for only $11/month!).
Assuming he doesn’t disagree with anything you say, of course. Or your flight data doesn’t hurt his little fee-fees.
It’s hilarious how much of a clown that guy turned into after seeming vaguely accomplished and sane for five whole minutes.
I hadn’t paid too much attention to him other than vaguely wanting to see good things come out of spacex.
But starting at about this moment I began having my doubts that this man was or could be a real-world Tony Stark. If he is, he’s pre-Ironman Stark.
Not a natural born American Citizen, not that the constitution means anything anymore but we at least pay lip service to it sometimes and that’s part of it.
Don’t give more billionaires this idea.
No, they must simply be a natural-born citizen. An American born to American parents is American, no matter where the extraction takes place. Dirt does not enter the equation.
The United States is one of the few countries in the world where people born on its soil to alien parents are automatically granted US citizenship. However, citizens by birth are not necessarily “natural born”, as the phrase has been a subject of judicial debate.
