When Mehdi Hasan sat down with Jon Stewart last month, the roles were reversed. This time, the Emmy-winning host of The Daily Show was the one asking the questions — about corporate media, Gaza, Do…
Zelensky was the star of a sitcom about a public school teacher who becomes president, and cleans up government corruption.
Ukraine was incredibly corrupt, filled with Russian stooges who were looting the country blind, and the people wanted Zelensky’s character as president. That character was fictional, so Zelensky was the next best thing, and it turns out that he took his job as seriously as his TV character.
There is still a long road ahead, but I believe that they can weed out the last problems. they need to get out of the soviet mentality, and that happens best with cooperation with EU.
Well, we’ve already had Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, arguably Al Franken (he was on SNL), not to mention the Cheeto Bandito. Clint Eastwood and even Jerry goddamned Springer both made it as far as mayor. There are probably tons of others I’m forgetting.
So that ship has likely sailed, I’m sorry to say. Too late; we’re already stupid.
Springer went the opposite direction. He was a lawyer and a politician, and after his career fizzled, he went into media. He was an actual news anchor before he got a national reputation for hosting a trashy TV show.
Jon Stewart is not a “celebrity”. It’s not like electing Jim Carrey to be president. He’s shown himself to be politically savvy and informed on policy and just generally thoughtful and intelligent many times. He seems like he’d make a good politician, and also he has a massive following already.
The “left” has absolutely failed to produce any candidate willing to fight for socialized healthcare, workers rights, anti-genocide, proper immigration, lifting up the poor, increased salaries and taxing the rich.
Stewart has been bipartisanly slinging shit at every politician doing stupid shit for years. He’s politically educated absolutely amazing at speaking.
Our political system is on rails, we are only capable of fielding corporate shills, and only in two flavors: the ones that want to kill the poor and immigrants, and the ones that just want them to almost but not quite starve.
It is quite impossible to third-party someone organically; it may not even be possible to third party someone with money and connections.
Either way, you won’t have to worry about it, they’ll dismantle enough of the vote (already underway) that it doesn’t matter what people do, we’re going to stay on these rails until a true uprising happens. And we’ll probably live to see armed atlas bots patrolling the streets mowing down ‘dissidents’. It’s only a matter of time.
Im not sure how this request is relevant to the topic. No one is talking about nominating Ashton Kutcher. This is not someone who’s famous because they’re pretty or act well, he’s famous for his mind, and just happens to also be funny. So I have to believe all these comments calling him a “celebrity” are knee-jerk reactions or in bad faith.
But no one knows what any politician is really like off camera. We do know what Stewart’s record is though, and he actually has fought for at least one political matter in court and before Congress, and successfully. He is at the very least a thinker. You can’t possibly be a good comedian and not be, a legitimate debater, and he can rally a crowd. It is not the same thing as supporting your average Hollywood celebrity, because he isn’t one.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a standup comedian and I think he’s doing a pretty good job as president.
Zelensky was the star of a sitcom about a public school teacher who becomes president, and cleans up government corruption.
Ukraine was incredibly corrupt, filled with Russian stooges who were looting the country blind, and the people wanted Zelensky’s character as president. That character was fictional, so Zelensky was the next best thing, and it turns out that he took his job as seriously as his TV character.
There is still a long road ahead, but I believe that they can weed out the last problems. they need to get out of the soviet mentality, and that happens best with cooperation with EU.
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Well, we’ve already had Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, arguably Al Franken (he was on SNL), not to mention the Cheeto Bandito. Clint Eastwood and even Jerry goddamned Springer both made it as far as mayor. There are probably tons of others I’m forgetting.
So that ship has likely sailed, I’m sorry to say. Too late; we’re already stupid.
Springer went the opposite direction. He was a lawyer and a politician, and after his career fizzled, he went into media. He was an actual news anchor before he got a national reputation for hosting a trashy TV show.
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As a non-American, this baffles me.
Jon Stewart is not a “celebrity”. It’s not like electing Jim Carrey to be president. He’s shown himself to be politically savvy and informed on policy and just generally thoughtful and intelligent many times. He seems like he’d make a good politician, and also he has a massive following already.
The “left” has absolutely failed to produce any candidate willing to fight for socialized healthcare, workers rights, anti-genocide, proper immigration, lifting up the poor, increased salaries and taxing the rich.
Stewart has been bipartisanly slinging shit at every politician doing stupid shit for years. He’s politically educated absolutely amazing at speaking.
Our political system is on rails, we are only capable of fielding corporate shills, and only in two flavors: the ones that want to kill the poor and immigrants, and the ones that just want them to almost but not quite starve.
It is quite impossible to third-party someone organically; it may not even be possible to third party someone with money and connections.
Either way, you won’t have to worry about it, they’ll dismantle enough of the vote (already underway) that it doesn’t matter what people do, we’re going to stay on these rails until a true uprising happens. And we’ll probably live to see armed atlas bots patrolling the streets mowing down ‘dissidents’. It’s only a matter of time.
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Fierce independence and rugged individualism…just like everybody else!
Im not sure how this request is relevant to the topic. No one is talking about nominating Ashton Kutcher. This is not someone who’s famous because they’re pretty or act well, he’s famous for his mind, and just happens to also be funny. So I have to believe all these comments calling him a “celebrity” are knee-jerk reactions or in bad faith.
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But no one knows what any politician is really like off camera. We do know what Stewart’s record is though, and he actually has fought for at least one political matter in court and before Congress, and successfully. He is at the very least a thinker. You can’t possibly be a good comedian and not be, a legitimate debater, and he can rally a crowd. It is not the same thing as supporting your average Hollywood celebrity, because he isn’t one.
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