Jon is too good a person to be president
Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America
Submitted 3 weeks ago by JoMiran@lemmy.ml to videos@lemmy.world
https://files.catbox.moe/ggyfu3.mp4
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BioDriver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
He literally just told you in this video that he isn’t xD you should believe people when they tell you that
qaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Please post political videos to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world next time
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably a coincidence
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This approach worked for Ukraine and Zelensky. Let’s try it in America!
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
People in the Ukraine aren’t americans.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop vertical video syndrome.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We lost that war a long time ago friend.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
He doesnt answer the question
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
People are asking because the people are thirsty af for any sort of competence and leadership from the democrats.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Im am fully aware
But its still not really the same as a clear “no”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Trump is the epitome of “presidential runs.” As in diarrhea.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I like how nobody reads the rules that suggests another community for political videos! Gotta love Lemmy users.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Presidential runs? I’d rather not hear about Trump’s incontinence, tbh
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
This time we elect a good celebrity, for real now.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The video is not about that.
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
bill burr would be better than stewart
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If I had to pick a comedian?
Wyatt Cenac.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Billy Bin Laden can shove off.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A clown? Damn. Tough room.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Oddly, you’d be correct 99% of the time but in Jon’s case he is actually highly experienced with dealings on Capitol Hill.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
VeganBtw@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And he has the charisma and speaking ability to actually win
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Again, not to take away from that… but it’s easy to “speak truth to power” when you are not in power
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
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.
Soulg@ani.social 3 weeks ago
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.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But the great thing about being President is that your allowed staff. Bring the daily show writing crew as your staff writers!
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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)
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
Oh snap
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
those abilities represent an incredibly low bar to clear man… it shows you have had shit leadership for such a long time
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s actually exactly what he’s saying. He just can’t say it directly because it would impact his popularity.
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62154821/23927704
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well, it’s worked out phenomenally for Ukraine….
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Jesus man you’re clueless.