No more celebrities.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president
Submitted 8 months ago by Demigodrick@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67207665
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pensa@kbin.social 8 months ago
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
In fairness, Arnold Schwarzenegger already has political experience as governor of California. He’d be the most qualified celebrity for the Whitehouse if he was a naturally born citizen.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Reagan was an actor, and he was instrumental in the process of fucking up our society to the degree that it is now. He spearheaded deregulation. One of the direct outcomes of that is the rampant increase of wealth inequality, as well as the now-“normal” boom/bust economic economic cycle that started with Black Monday in 1987 and has been getting markedly worse with each crash.
blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Except that was the same thing that gave us Reagan. He was an actor. Then governor of California. Then president. We are still paying for all his bullshit.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The most qualified doesn’t mean the best qualified, though.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also, no more septuagenarians.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Celebtuagenarians
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 8 months ago
over 75 years old
white male
independently wealthy
tough guy image
media-famous for something that has nothing to do with politics
not allowed to run according to the ConstitutionWell, he checks all current boxes for a Republican candidate
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
He is probably the only republican I could see myself supporting
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve talked to a person IRL who didnt understand that Arnold is a US citizen, was the governor of California, but was born in Austria and cannot be president.
To some people, they also think foreigners can’t be governors and were convinced one of his parents were American because he “looks American”
It’s not necessarily related to this post, but a personal anecdote about my experiences with stupidity
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 8 months ago
because he “looks American”
That’s the issue Obama had in the Republican’s eyes. He looks African.
/s
Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 8 months ago
While I like Arny a lot more than anyone else I have seen looking for the position please, no more celebrity politicians.
Schmeckinger@feddit.de 8 months ago
I mean he can’t run anyways.
Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As of now, yes. However, there are a lot of people in the US who would like to change the stipulation that naturalized citizens can not be president. So a push for this could pass, especially for someone like Swarzenegger who is a republican and the right kind of immigrant.
BeefPiano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree, but he has more government experience than the last guy.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Meh. I like him better as a commentator. His run managing California wasn’t that great.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you hear Arnold on various podcasts, his ideas in general are pretty meathead.
He talked about solving the lack of a House speaker by “Locking everyone in a room with no bathroom until they have a solution.”
His solution for his child forgetting to turn off a light was to “Throw the mattress out of the window into the pool.”
This is a dude who has more experience banging his fists demanding things than actually leading. Where I think he’ll do some progressive things, just like Reagan, he’ll do some thing that sounds good on paper but not at all researched and then fuck over the country for decades after their death.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He talked about solving the lack of a House speaker by “Locking everyone in a room with no bathroom until they have a solution.”
The solution the came up with? Piss.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, in the recent podcast with Rob Lowe there was a lot of “industry good, government bad” with an extra helping of “both sides are the same”. Arnie is a conservative boomer through and through.
at_an_angle@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Why unlock the door when they reach a solution? Just leave them in there.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 months ago
People realize Demolition Man was a dystopia, right?
ThePantser@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That was Stallone, Arnold was Running Man
ramble81@lemm.ee 8 months ago
There’s a line in Demolition Man where they talk about the fact that Arnold becomes president after a change in laws that allows him to run. That’s what GP is referring to.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ah yes, another rich white male sex pest with enough power and connections that hardly anyone even knows that last part, exactly what America needs.. 🙄
HollandJim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, he’s old enough now…
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He can’t be anyways. He wasn’t born in the U.S.
iesou@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They got around it in Demolition Man.
darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
you dont have to be born in the us. you just need to be a citizen for over 30 years, or since birth
netburnr@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why did they use a 30 year old photo?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From his time campaigning to be governor?
Old but relevant?
GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Laugh all you want, but honestly? I believe him. He would be leagues better than most politicians we have.
Treczoks@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Downside: He can’t.
GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
And that’s a good thing, there’s only one other immigrant I can think of that has a reasonable shot at winning: melon-musk.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well he wouldn’t be the worst
Toastypickle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That bar can’t get much lower
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To quote Patrick Star - “nonsense”
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I want Arnold Schwarzenegger to become a host of a cooking show featuring pastries
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Wouldn’t that require an amendment to the Constitution?
shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 8 months ago
In a movie, yes.
weedazz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Could he be speaker? Anyone can right? Or is that not allowed because of succession?
Nougat@kbin.social 8 months ago
I believe he could be Speaker of the House. If a succession issue appeared, he would simply be skipped over.
Pretty sure Biden and Harris and their teams are making sure that only one of them at a time is on a plane, and that they both stay on completely different tectonic plates at all times.
jabrd@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Yea he’d probably be a decent one by american standards
roofuskit@kbin.social 8 months ago
We don't need another Reagan ruining the future for us.
SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
The bar is so low by now, my dog would be a great US president. And I don’t even have a dog.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, when you get a dog he’s got my vote
Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 months ago
How do you know his dog isn't the next Blondi?