No thanks. We don’t need more celebs as president.
It takes a lot more then just being a personality on TV to be a good president.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Make him President you foolish yanks
Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s supposed to take common sense, rationality and the ability to unite people. Things Jon Stewart celebrity or not, has.
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
It also takes a hell of a lot more than that. You don't just need to convince an audience of people who mostly agree with you, you also have to convince a room full of rich legislators who only want for themselves (and occasionally their constituents) that they should do what he wants instead of what they want. It takes compromising your ideals for the sake of accomplishing something, even if it's not everything you wanted.
Just because he'd better than Trump doesn't mean he'd be good.
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Being a celebrity shouldn’t be disqualifying. Trump was a dumb, loud criminal before being president and stayed a dumb, loud crimnal as president.
Stewart is in one of the most intelligent, articulate, charismatic and compassionate people in the public sphere and one can only hope he would be such as president. If he wanted to run, which he doesn’t.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
intelligent, articulate, charismatic and compassionate people in the public sphere
Great but it takes a lot more than that to be a GOOD president.
You need to be more than just popular. I know it’s a common mistake to think celebrities will make good presidents because they have charisma.
That is how we ended up with Trump.
Have higher standards.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
The most important qualification a leader can have is the trust of the population.
Everything else is what advisors are for, and despite what you want to believe Stewart has seen how the kosher sausage is made, when he bullied Congress into taking care of the 9/11 first responders.
There are many, many worse candidates out there, and quite frankly not many better.
Is that a sad state of affairs?
Sure. But it’s also reality.
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
That’s why I didn’t even mention “popular”, and listed a bunch of other traits besides charisma.
Comparing Stewart with Trump is lazy and simplistic, do better.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s almost like a medieval peasant mentality, still regarding the presidency as some sort of faux-monarchy, with a certain aura, missing the point that an executive branch is not just a president who can work the cameras and microphones, that is just the tip of the iceberg, as there are a myriad employees chosen by the president and his top appointees.
There’s an old chinese curse - “May your children live in interesting times”, and there is a saying that the best leaders are practically invisible, as the whole group works towards a common goal.
We seem to always be living through interesting times, gravitating towards interesting characters, when what we really should want are boring government nerds who operate on reason and science, with no need nor inclination to make a loud splash.
scottywh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No more fucking celebrities, please.
It’s always a disaster.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s a couple celebrities I’d fuck.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Danny de Vito?
GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 7 months ago
He’s the one we need, but not the one we deserve.
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
He's a great commentator and humorist... but he'd make a fucking awful president.
He holds a lot of opinions I agree with (and some I don't), but that doesn't mean he'd somehow be able to steer the American political system in a way that would benefit most Americans. He'd mostly be yet another demagogue, just for the left instead of the right.
LZamperini@kbin.social 7 months ago
honestly the worst form of the "both sides" argument I have ever heard lol
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Because they didn’t once explain why…?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He helped the New York City first responders get benefits for 9/11 related diseases and injuries and how do you think pays for that?
Taxpayer, that’s who.
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
Why he would make a good president? I mean aside from "I like and agree with him".
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
Man, people just love dismissing any argument against something with the most inane bullshit...
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I’m sorry, that’s not how this works. I never advocated for him once. You are the one who said he:
“[would] make a fucking awful president.”
“[Wouldn’t be] be able to steer the American political system in a way that would benefit most Americans.” As opposed to Trump, his likely opponent…?? “He’d mostly be yet another demagogue, just for the left instead of the right.”
Do you have any sources for those, or are they just baseless opinions, like mine and everyone else’s…?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
I like him too much to do that to him.