• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    For a moment I imagined a future where Mamdani was elected president. I’m sure that at least half the country would almost literally explode in rage.

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      Unfortunately with the laws as they’re currently written, since he was born in Uganda, he can’t be president.

      That’s not me trying to poo-poo the idea of him being president, that’s me saying the laws need changing.

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        Doesn’t need to change, we have those rules for a reason.

        Also, should see how he actually does as mayor before giving him too much credit. Plenty of other politicians have been flops or changed their tune once in office.

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          What is the reason? Honest question.

          Like, obviously we can have restrictions. Basically Id say shift the age requirement to time as a citizen instead. But I really don’t see why a kid born in Uganda and moving to America at 7 years old (Like Mamdani) and running for president at 42 is really any different than a kid born in America and running for president at 35.

          I don’t know when he got his citizenship. But shift the age X years to whenever he got it.

          The plan of having a 35 year long sleeper agent living in America is fantasy. That’s significantly too much work when you can already buy our politicians right now and not wait 35 years. (APAIC comes to mind first)

          I feel like all Citizens should be able to run at some point. I really don’t care what patch of dirt you were born on.

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        If orangeboi is alive and runs for a 3rd term, all bets are off, because running for a third term is explicitly and unambiguously unconstitutional at this point in time. And there is approximately zero chance the fascists could get an amendment through to change that.

        So, yeah, Mamdani could run, and Obama could run, and W could run, and Clinton (Bush) could run, and the Governator could run, and Jimmy Carter’s ghost could run, and eel-on-musk could run, and Putin could run, and -

        You get the idea

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        According to Trump constitution doesn’t matter. So what it also says birthright citizenship is a constitutional right, and can’t run for more than 2 terms. Yet Trump talks of running for a third. Also his complete disregard to the first amendment tells me fuck it. Lets let him run for president. But after he done being mayor or New York.

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      He’d be such a great contender, and not only for watching those people literally explode, but of course is disqualified based on being a naturalized citizen.

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    It’s a step in the right direction, that’s for sure.

    But in this timeline, electing someone who’s not a kiddy-diddler is a step in the right direction and a third of our country (and 2/3s of our fucking government) don’t wanna do it…