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GOP primary voters told a CBS poll last month that their top priority in a presidential candidate is someone to “challenge woke ideas,” among Democrats. An unnamed candidate who makes “liberals angry,” was not far behind with 57 percent support.
I guess get Elon Musk to run. :p
While I say that being funny, as Elon is every bit as well hated IME, I have still been hearing a few names thrown about. Whomever they pick, they need to find someone who is no-nonsense and there to get things done, and not give us politics as usual.
Thankfully the Constitution prevents that from happening.
Do we even know if Elon is “natural-born”? He could have been constructed in a lab by internet memelords.
Hey. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent him from running if he felt like it.
I invite you to check out Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
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Unless South Africa, Musk’s place of birth, becomes a member of the Union, I think Elon is out of luck for the Presidency.
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But I really have to question what that even means anymore. The GOP doesn’t have a platform, other than “what Trump said” and hasn’t for some time. (I wish I were joking - the official party platform in I want to say 21? 22? was just “we support Trump.”) It seems like they’re only interested in winning some kind of bizarre christofascist purity contest. I haven’t seen a single piece of policy to come from Republicans that wasn’t aimed at harming some group or another. Sure - I guess if that’s your goal they’re “getting things done” but in reality they’re just the party of no.
Sort of. The parties approve platforms every four years, in alignment with the Presidential campaign. But in 2020, they simply didn’t bother making a new one. They even voted on and approved a resolution saying they wouldn’t write a new platform.
I’ve noticed pretty much the same thing. The GOP is looking more and more like the Democratic Party with each passing day, as if they weren’t essentially interchangeable as it is. It’s not out of the question that George Orwell’s 1984 isn’t too far off from what we actually do have.