The current administration poses such an existential threat that almost anything would be better, but when people suggest electing a different celebrity who they like to be president I worry our fame worship is clouding some of the lessons we should be learning - ThreadSky

kattenbarge.bsky.social • 15 hours ago

The current administration poses such an existential threat that almost anything would be better, but when people suggest electing a different celebrity who they like to be president I worry our fame worship is clouding some of the lessons we should be learning

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liblift.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think some of us are just submitting to the fact that we live amongst a really dumb populace, and we really just want to win. It’s pretty much just acceptance and harm reduction.

gloriasync.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I once sat next to a table of people in a cafe discussing wether The Rock or Oprah should be the democratic candidate. It was several years ago and I could see then there was a problem, like, maybe someone who understands the law and politics and foreign affairs might be better?

cheriemill.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I worry because people seem more interested in entertainment from politicians than policy. I’d be happier if lawmakers were boring again, but I don’t think that will ever happen.

stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I'm literally doing a lecture about celebrity and politics in a few weeks time.

One of my seminar questions is about which celeb would make the best Prime Minister. I'm dreading the answers....

xenobrina.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We had a better, more qualified choice in November but ya'll collectively decided you preferred this 🤷‍♀️

kylostimpy.bsky.social•15 hours ago

People so rarely see examples of famous people with true values exemplifying fairness and equality these days that they don’t even know what it looks like any more.

kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Maybe we should try the time honored tradition of giving the job to the busiest and least paid person and they'll just hurriedly work through it to get to the rest of their tasks?

michaelrsnyder.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Ok, I’ll do it…

davidkister.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Well said.🤙

analogvampire.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Confusing real life for a TV show is how we got Donald Trump in the first place.

#TheApprentice

robb666.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This whole situation has changed me.

I remember reading something about Trump's antagonism toward generals and likelihood to cut defense spending in weird and chaotic ways...

And my first thought is:
Hopefully this sparks a military coup.

robb666.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It's unfortunate that he seems to be stacking the deck to prevent that.

winterpancake.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Well, where do all the people he fires go

its-its.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Celebrities or business men. We need people in office that understand that governing is totally different. The only good things that might come out of this: value of government, reducing world dependency on US military (should be shared), and crippling taxes on the wealthy.

kattenbarge.bsky.social•15 hours ago

A lot of people look at carefully crafted celebrity philanthropy PR—which is tied to the existential threats our country is facing—and see it as a solution and not part of the problem

kattenbarge.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Celebrities who have a LOT of money doing tricks to distract you from wealth hoarding are not going to fix the country. They don’t actually represent the interests of the majority, and they’re not qualified for the job

supermichael.bsky.social•14 hours ago

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

algerianhiss.bsky.social•15 hours ago

GOP, 2007: Obama is a one-term Senator!! He doesn’t have enough experience!!!

GOP, 2015: We need an outsider, someone not from the swamp [ie, someone with no experience]!!!

Most Americans know little to nothing of political history or American history, but they know TMZ

rst-one.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Never forget that this all started with Ronald Reagan, a movie star, who left us in recession in the name of reeling in big government.

lemonadelauren.bsky.social•10 hours ago

taylor swift donating pennies to food banks while so many are unemployed, can’t afford food, gofundme’s begging for medical care, etc. also lady gaga being silent on trans people

oregonipa.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I assume I’m gonna get blasted for this, but I think you are spot on and I would include Michelle Obama, who I hear people bring up endlessly.

She is more celebrity than politician.

its-its.bsky.social•15 hours ago

You are quite safe here. She has said numerous times, that she dislikes politics.

oregonipa.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I understand, but the topic of Kat’s thread is about people who suggest celebrities to lead us, not what interest celebrities have in leading us.

dfunqued6.bsky.social•15 hours ago

a number of them are billionaires

algrhythm.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This is why I'm volunteering to be the first AI candidate, using an avatar created by Image Playground, plus a platform and rally speeches straight from ChatGPT.

You know. Like Reagan.

jderekbondurant.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Arik Armstead won NFL man of the year for donating maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars a year from his $12m+ annual salary. When it is institutionalized it is even worse. He hasn't done anything to dent his personal wealth though his charities are commendable and valuable for his community.

restlessjack.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It's deeply sobering to me to think about how much media/journalism consumption has nosedived over the last few decades. There used to be basic expectations for keeping up with the news, reading non-YA books, watching movies that were about adult problems and not superheroes, etc.

restlessjack.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I watch movies/TV from just a few decades ago and it's already strange how they make references to past history or current events that just presume a level of basic awareness that modern pop entertainment does not.

restlessjack.bsky.social•14 hours ago

More and more, there's nothing except pop culture, and most of our pop culture now is just "good guy with superpowers fights bad guy with superpowers." When that's the default frame of reference for everything, you're in trouble.

julmm.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I missed the latest but I can only imagine and yes totally.

sushisue.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I've always said that fame worship is how we got Reagan.

joeymonzo.bsky.social•15 hours ago

We are the reality TV nation now. Not ideal.

cherrybluemoon.bsky.social•15 hours ago

https://5calls.org/

chrisanders74.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'm fairly certain Pritzker is going to be making presidential moves soon and could ultimately be the candidate. Another billionaire but a left leaning billionaire. If this is the way the game is being played, I'm not sure how we fix it.

hebelkins.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Step one: overturn citizens untied
Step two: limit campaign donations
Step three: remove lobbyists
Step four: limit campaigning time frames like they do in England.

philadelphiaaf.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Expertise and experience matter. Trump is a horrible person and also a horrible public chief executive. Other celebrities my be better people but most would not be good chief executives either.

creative-barb.bsky.social•15 hours ago

You are so right!

huge-jackedman.bsky.social•15 hours ago

We picked the wrong show, change the channel

bewellgroomed.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Agreed. So many people want an easy answer to solve this disaster to democracy that we’ll be rectifying the rest of our lives

kootafoot.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Are there many white women's groups being organized to fight back and make amends after many failed to vote for Harris as expected. Certainly an inclusive group but organized by white women since they reportedly did not show up. It was supposed to be The impenetrable wall.

kenrouleau.bsky.social•15 hours ago

🎯

omarbradley.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think we just are noting that money/fame makes the path easier to getting elected. Of course I'd rather have Harris or someone else qualified, but if Oprah or Dolly were my options to block outright monsters like trump & elon then I'd pick them in a heartbeat.

harukogordon.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I have said for 20 years I would have voted for Arnold. And I mean Arnold the politician. Who improved his state, the economy, is fair and reasonable and kind.

mullinshere.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Americans have a tendency to think they know a lot more about public figures than they do. It's ironic, because in countries where you're more likely actually to rub shoulders with actors or well-known musicians, running into them in stores for instance, they don't pretend to understand their lives.

pinksim.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Or a different business man that they personally like...

This country is obsessed with wealth and celebrity to a detrimental degree

pinksim.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Or how everything bad that's happening now, is equated with a storyline in some fiction book instead of actual human history. Irritating

Okay I'm done

winterpancake.bsky.social•14 hours ago

And rarely even a fiction book containing relevant wisdom

johnnykupo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It’s not just fame worship, but a messiah complex. Undoing this mess is going to require a lot of people, working for a long time, for the common good, which is becoming increasingly uncommon.

ncwashingtonian.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Every time I see someone comment on a certain billionaire's Bluesky page that he should run for president, I just shake my head.

kraut2k.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Literally any random person that you see on the street would be a better fit than the current orange occupant. The odds of having a sense of empathy and right and wrong are much more likely to occur, and that alone would make them a better fit for the job.

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