I don’t understand your replies. In the video Jon addresses the impulse people have to want folk like him, Colbert, and Kimmel to run for office. He insinuates his disagreement but understands the sentiment. In other words, exactly your point.

yet ITT everybody is already voting for this imaginary ticket

On the other hand, you keep arguing the point of Jon as POTUS in this comment thread when the only point being made was that, unlike most celebrities, Jon has knowledge and experience in the legislative process. You stated that he had no other qualification other than fame. I corrected that misconception. Nothing more.

read the comments… the celebrity worship is out of control here

and with his track record, he could have peen an awesome potus

because that not my point, that’s your strawman

I’m not arguing Stewart is not perfect, I’m not arguing he is worse than the pedo… I’m arguing the reason you are fantasizing about him as potus is because of the mad celebrity worship Americans love to engage in… exactly the same reason the maga idiots won’t listen to reason

lol, tell me it’s not celebrity worship while performing celebrity worship

not JUST popularity contests, that is just America bud

There was a time when I thought that was impossible… now I don’t even have an account

I think my wife keeps one because according to her (and I believe this is true) there are things you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore. So far, I have been fine not buying something if it’s only on Amazon but I can see cases where that would be impossible.

Other than that, fuck Amazon right off

All I said was a potato would be better than Trump, not an ideal choice. Stewart is far from a potato, too, so I don’t know what kind of weird point you’re trying to make.

As clear as possible: the USA could have a MUCH better POTUS than Stewart (actually he said so himself in this very vid)… perhaps, step 1 is to stop looking at celebrities

Sure, I’d much rather have a seasoned politician like Bernie or someone even further left, but I wouldn’t scoff at John Stewart.

Then go a support Bernie and stop wasting time with Stewart who is not running

Sure a millionaire who could retire tomorrow and live in luxury for 3 lifetimes is not afraid of stop working… wow, what courage

Sadly, you seem to be too deep in the problem to understand you are just adding fuel to the dumpster fire

My original point is that the very American celebrity worship phenomenon, which has turned your entire government in a popularity contest, is BAD for you… so maybe don’t keep going down this route?

I swear some people find themselves in a hole and they just want to keep digging

who says I am?

Why are you dealing in absolutes? if I am not with you, even partially, I seem to be interpreted as being against you

All I am saying is that, if you take Jon Stewart celebrity status away, all you have is a man with no interesting education to speak of who does seem interested in the welfare of vets… that’s it. You can go to ANY VA facility and find people with more education and a life long career of helping Vets

Yet you want me to think you wanting Jon Stewart for POTUS has nothing to do with celebrity worship

I mean, I get your point, but… are you really going to pretend Stewart wouldn’t be better than every fucking Republican?

no, of course not. But the piece of dog shit I just scraped off my shoe would be a million times better than all republicans blended together so that is not really a measure of goodness

yes but why choose a celebrity that knows politics when you could have someone with a full education and career (or at least you could wish for one)

and he is getting handsomely paid to continue his show… if you’d tell me he retired from TV to just become and activist you’d have a solid point

what am I accusing anyone of doing?

but if a fucking potato can do it… imagine what an educated person with a good track record and a career of helping could do… why do you still want a potato?

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.

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)

those abilities represent an incredibly low bar to clear man… it shows you have had shit leadership for such a long time

fucking weak…

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

Again, not to take away from that… but it’s easy to “speak truth to power” when you are not in power