He'd win too. Why stop at being the head of a genocidal client state, when he can be the big dog?
Why? He's going to win the presidential election without even having to officially run.
And also vice versa. Biden says his (Biden’s) numbers are better in Israel than the U.S.
You think I'm not Zionist enough for ye.... I'm so Zionist I could shoot out lasers hot enough - uh - to lose weight, fat!
Serious
(Warn me if this joke has gone too far)
nowhere does it say you can't elect leader of another country as us president
Imagining the Philly Phanatic as an executioner where his nose that does the little party favor noisemaker thing is a Looney Tunes gun that makes the little "bang!" flag, except it actually kills him
Technically yes, but the residency requirement make it pretty difficult. Although it technically doesn't specify when that residency had to take place.
And there might be some state laws keeping them off the ballot for whatever reason.
Any state laws would be overturned basically immediately. It's understood states can determine like how voting happens but stuff like residency requirements is up to the US constitution/congress/SCOTUS if they fight it. SCOTUS just recently (in line with the past courts so not new) threw out Colorado saying Trump wouldn't be on ballots there. Basically the logic being "that isn't up to states to determine. Just follow the US constitution for national level elections. If he is to be disallowed it will be handed down by congress or courts." (From memory, might be slightly off)
And as far as the residency requirement, it seems to be accepted (although probably someone would challenge this if Bibi ran and won) that it doesn't mean literally living in the states for 14 years but rather maintaining a residence here... so a US citizen abroad who owns or rents a home in the US (I think Bibi does. I assume so anyway) would be eligible under current interpretations. I think it would pass too based on the fact that there are senators from other states who establish residency and run in those states without living there in reality (Oz tried to do that in PA for example. Had he won, no one would have seriously challenged his residency claim even though it is bullshit and against the spirit of the law)
No one would seriously challenge him on eligibility and if they did SCOTUS would have his back, imo. All the SCOTUSes of the past too, not just the current super far right one.
Yeah SCOTUS could definitely overrule any state laws, but it’s just another roadblock.
I never really thought of the residency requirement that way though, I just kind of assumed it meant actually living here.
I can’t find anything indicating whether he’s actually a citizen though. And I think it might be against Israeli law for the PM to hold dual-citizenship.
Tracking his citizenship is VERY oddly hard to do for such a public figure.
It seems though that he has renounced his US citizenship (he lived for many years as a teenager in Philly so he had to be at least a permanent resident to stay so many years) twice, at least, because he can't hold it more than Israeli as PM as you said.
I don't know if he holds it currently, or how hard it would be to get it back (probably instantly given, but I dunno), but it is incredibly wild to me that his shit is so obfuscated online. There should be a clear line of events around his life and there really isn't. You have to read his statements about himself which are unreliable because of course he might be lying.
Unrelated though: motherfucker's dad lived to 102 years old. Holy fuck. Bibi might be around for another 3 decades. Fucking hell.
I’m gonna be a lib here and point out that Knesset Members and Ambassadors can’t hold dual citizenship. Michael Oren, among others needed to give up US citizenship
