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…
  • mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    I mean, ideally we shouldn’t be just running celebrities but after 8 months of this shit I don’t give a fuck anymore. Mentally I am here:

    If it works I literally could not care less. Clearly the people want vibes so let’s just give them the fucking vibes and deal with THAT issue when things aren’t actively on fire.

    Whatever else Stewart is, he’s knowledgeable, charismatic, willing to fight for a cause, and DOES genuinely seem to give a fuck about the average person. That’s a damn good start at least.

    And all of THAT is even under the assumption we get something at least vaguely resembling a normal election, which at this point I think is entirely dependent on when exactly Diddler on the Roof finally strokes out on the shitter.

  • bigbabybilly@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I love Jon Stewart as much as the next guy. I think he could do a better job than Trump is doing, but that’s setting a very low bar. Surely there’s someone more qualified than comedy news host John Stewart.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I’d want someone to represent the populace, not the power. I’d want them to be competent in how society works more so than how money works. I’d want them to have both compassion and charisma. Changes should piss off the minority of the electorate, not the majority. Change should be progressive and forward thinking not the old…“How can we capitalize on this and produce a revenue stream?”. I don’t care if they are famous or not. That being said, I do like to be entertained. I am really tired of the sell, sell, sell business shit that goes on nowadays. Hell, you can’t even write and perform a nice pop song anymore without automatically having a new scent and a clothing line. Hawks everywhere, picking apart the dying corpse of mother earth.

  • FuckFascism@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    JB Pritzker is doing pretty good for IL rn I think he could be a great candidate, he actually seems like a decent guy.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Eh, I trust Stewart’s motivations, but not necessarily his judgment. I listened to him interview Ezra Klein and Stewart fell for his neoliberal Abundance bullshit without any pushback of critical thought. I could see him getting led astray by some of the same Democratic hacks that destroyed the party.

  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Why the fuck are people so obsessed with celebrities? Elect someone actually competent for the job. Idiots.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    The bar is now so low that you could even have a thief, a serial killer or a regular rapist of adults, and it still wouldn’t top having a PDFile Rapist Nepo Baby megalomaniac with authoritarian and racist, genocidal tendencies.

    Seriously, worse than him I’d think only the likes of Hitler. And there’s still a lot of time and leeway for him to become worse than Mr. Funny Mustache in the history books, if allowed. Imagine surpassing the worst man in history by triggering mass nuclear destruction across the globe, ending billions of lives, and for what it’d likely be the pettiest of reasons from a small excuse for a human stain.