• tal@lemmy.today
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      14 hours ago

      Frankly, if Musk were President instead of Trump, I’d be rather happier about this upcoming four years.

      He can’t be President absent amending the US Constitution, though, as he’d run afoul of the “natural-born citizen” requirement for the office.

      • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        what’s stopping the office of the infallable, god-king POTUS from just ordering it changed? the last decade has proven that the institutions made to act as guardrails against autocracy, bend in the wind with enough pressure