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No one voted for him. Hes not american. What can be done? Amazing these absolutely insane things are happening.

He's an American because he got naturalized citizenship. According to the State Department and the Supreme Court, at a minimum, he qualifies as an American.

Not if he immigrated here illegally (which he did, according to his brother). There’s no valid path to naturalization via an invalid/fraudulent lawful permanent resident status.

He is currently a naturalized American citizen. For him to lose that status, he would have to be stripped of it by a legal process, commonly called denaturalization. [0] It is not enough for people to accuse you of having committed fraud in naturalization.

> There’s no valid path to naturalization

I think it is correct to say that your naturalized status can be unwound if a prosecution against you is successful, but until that happens, you are considered an American citizen. Presumption of innocence and all that American stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturalization

he's not American enough to run for president.

Right, and that's why he installed Trump as the proxy president.

The B-21 Raider will cost $700 million apiece. The US Air Force will buy about 100. During WWII the best bomber of the war (so somewhat the equivalent of the B-21 for the time) was the B-29, and the US built 4000 of those. And many, many more of other types of bombers. How did we get from there to here?

Musk's company meanwhile is churning out rockets like there's no tomorrow. They are at number 35 of the super huge one, the Starship, although rumors are that they are currently in various stages of build with 4 more.

Your point is weak, 35 is less then 4000. Even still if it's equivalent we can only speculate what his role in rockets actually is all we have is pr.

What I do know from personal first hand experience (ex-Twitter) is that he is a terrible leader and person. Also he isn't smart. No media influence on how I feel about how he runs companies.

> Your point is weak, 35 is less then 4000

Ok, I admit, I could have spent more time crafting the argument. The point is, SpaceX has already built 35 of the Starship, and flown quite a few of them, all while in prototype mode. When they reach full production mode, they intend to build one Starship per day. You may retort that Musk's promises don't amount for much, but it is a fact that SpaceX launches more rockets than any other company in the world, private or government-owned. Just this year they've launched 13 times, which is almost one launch every other day.

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