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Actually… celebrity worship of this type is why America is in the hole it is in.
I have no doubt Jon Stewart is a thousand times better than the Orange Pedo but that is true for 98% of the population.
What kind of preparation would Jon Stewart have to be a good President of the USA? other than being famous?
Oddly, you’d be correct 99% of the time but in Jon’s case he is actually highly experienced with dealings on Capitol Hill.
After leaving The Daily Show, Stewart maintained a low profile in entertainment industry circles, but used his celebrity and voice in a sustained advocacy for 9/11 first responders and war veterans’ health benefits. In 2019, he received the New York City Bronze Medallion for his “tireless advocacy, inspiration, and leadership (helping to) pass the permanent authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act”. He continued using his platform as an advocate for veterans by being instrumental in helping pass the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, which expands healthcare access and funding to veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service including burn pits.
so that makes him a good activist… the leap from there to POTUS is like you seeing me volunteering at a soup kitchen and wanting to give me a Micheline star restaurant to run
He has his hands on the pulse of the collective conscience, he’s used to keeping up on current events and really understanding the common sentiments associated with them, has experience managing a team of support staff, has great people skills, genuine good will, and an intention to have a positive influence on society.
Honestly, what more does a president need? They can appoint relevant experts for their cabinet picks, they don’t really need to have any expertise or political experience themselves as long as they have the qualities listed above.
Kind of agree, but he has shown he’s willing to fight for great causes despite his notoriety, he tends to speak truth to power, and he already knows what it means to be famous, so I guess it’s better than a lot of alternatives.
And he has the charisma and speaking ability to actually win
Again, not to take away from that… but it’s easy to “speak truth to power” when you are not in power
Plus, he put a medal on a nazi so he doesn’t speak ill of Big Pharma again. He knows how to fall in line and do what he’s told.
In this specific case it’s not just blind celebrity worship, he has solid experience pressuring legislators into doing the right things like with helping 9/11 firefighters, he’s generally on the correct side of most issues that affect the working class, and is a very good rhetorician (acknowledging that his show has other writers as well) to give speeches and communicate to the populace.
But the great thing about being President is that your allowed staff. Bring the daily show writing crew as your staff writers!
so that makes him a good activist… the leap from there to POTUS is like you seeing me volunteering at a soup kitchen and wanting to give me a Micheline star restaurant to run
Reagan and Trump have proven that actors and media personalities are extraordinarily good at pushing their agendas. The problem isn’t that they were/are celebrities. The problem is that their agendas suck.
Stewart has consistently demonstrated his agenda, on the air and as a lobbyist. His agenda doesn’t suck. His agenda is what this country has been looking for my entire lifetime.
Don’t cockblock my candidate.
Reagan and Trump have proven that actors and media personalities are extraordinarily good at pushing their agendas. The problem isn’t that they were/are celebrities. The problem is that their agendas suck.
so maybe, just maybe, go with someone that has an actual education and career to show they have a good agenda? not just someone that seems nice… I do not think he has done bad things but he has barely been successful at ONE thing he has pushed the gov for (and not that successful because Vets keep getting defunded)
What kind of preparation would Jon Stewart have to be a good President of the USA? other than being famous?
He has shown that he has the very necessary ability to say, “I don’t know.” And him being famous for what he does has put him in the unique position to follow it up with, “But I know some people who might…”
He has also demonstrated the very essential ability to listen when the smart people (and Doris Kearns-Goodwin) are talking.
Do I think he would be a good president? No. He’s very much a liberal capitalist that worships the status quo we had under Clinton.
It’s just that he demonstrates the qualities of a good leader that people are searching for in these demon days.
Do I think he would be a good president? No. He’s very much a liberal capitalist that worships the status quo we had under Clinton.
So he should be aligned in the complete opposite direction of the country and the world. Ok. You think he can turn it all around in 4 years with a divided house?
He has also demonstrated the very essential ability to listen when the smart people (and Doris Kearns-Goodwin) are talking.
Oh snap
those abilities represent an incredibly low bar to clear man… it shows you have had shit leadership for such a long time
Actually… celebrity worship of this type is why America is in the hole it is in.
Actually, it isn’t. Sure, Trump is from reality TV but without the four decades of neoliberal rot hollowing out the country people aren’t desperate enough to think this fool can fix everything alone.
Trump is a product of decades of austerity, lax antitrust enforcement, and reverse welfare.
That’s actually exactly what he’s saying. He just can’t say it directly because it would impact his popularity.
Well, it’s worked out phenomenally for Ukraine….
Celebrity worship is pretty much how we’ve always chosen our leaders. It’s basically how all democracies have always chosen their leaders really. Maybe it’s less the problem of celebrity worship and more who the celebrities we choose to worship are. Maybe that’s the issue.
Jesus man you’re clueless.
Stop vertical video syndrome.
We lost that war a long time ago friend.
This time we elect a good celebrity, for real now.
The video is not about that.
I like how nobody reads the rules that suggests another community for political videos! Gotta love Lemmy users.
Jon is too good a person to be president
He literally just told you in this video that he isn’t xD you should believe people when they tell you that
Hope is for the young. Like single digits young. I lost all hope in high school and 30 years later everything is still trending downwards.
Probably a coincidence
This approach worked for Ukraine and Zelensky. Let’s try it in America!
People in the Ukraine aren’t americans.
Trump is the epitome of “presidential runs.” As in diarrhea.
He doesnt answer the question
He says and I’m paraphrasing here, that the person who asks him that question is threatening him withna twilight zone like curse. He is trying to say it politely but he doesn’t want the job and that the question comes from a place of frustration. He doesn’t want the job.
True. Instead he spoke to why a person would ask him or someone like Colbert or Kimmel to be president. Though, in his answer, you can hear he doesn’t want the role.
People are asking because the people are thirsty af for any sort of competence and leadership from the democrats.
He does, he essentially says don’t put your faith in me as doing so signals you have already given up.
Its not a single one-worded answer of course, and that’s because it’s understood a question like that requires some explanation of why you would come to the end conclusion.
You can quite obviously hear him say that he’s a terrible person for the job.
He’s an entertainer, he needs to be popular with his audience, and thus he needs to disguise negative feedback with humor.
If you speak plainly, he said to the guy wanting him to run for president “you barely know me, you just heard like 5 sentences you like and you’re already wanting me for president. That’s totally stupid, but it’s understandable because these 5 sentences are already better than anything you heard from Trump. I’m not even a good candidate and you’d still take me just so you don’t have to have Trump. So no, please actually try to elect someone that’d be good at the job, don’t force me to do who would suck. Look at what I’m doing now, I can’t even plainly tell you what I think, my desire for approval is so high. Be happy that I only use my charm for random humoric nonsense, if I’d use my charm for personal gain I’d basically be Trump, he also was mainly an entertainer.”
So yeah, while he doesn’t answer it, he does his best of trying to answer it based on the constraints that his person is being placed under.
Im am fully aware
But its still not really the same as a clear “no”
Presidential runs? I’d rather not hear about Trump’s incontinence, tbh
bill burr would be better than stewart
If I had to pick a comedian?
Wyatt Cenac.
Billy Bin Laden can shove off.
Jon has spent his entire career being exceptional at being a clown and communicating.
It’s not unreasonable for people to presume that a smart person who is good at communicating might make a great leader. But I think the role calls for more different skills that others have spent a lifetime specifically crafting (as opposed to performing stand-up and doing for television for decades).
He’s doing what he wants to do within the constraints offered to him. Do you think he wants to be working for Paramount? He had that show on Apple for a few years before butting heads on iPhone manufacturing practices, then he got pulled back into David & Larry Ellison’s world.
A clown? Damn. Tough room.
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