Would You Vote For A Celebrity If They Ran For President, Again. The Rock And Will Smith To Run

Would you vote if a celebrity ran for office, presidency, be they on your team or not?

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    Votes: 4 36.4%

  • Nope

    Votes: 7 63.6%
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Will Smith considering it...

www.billboard.com

Will Smith Doesn’t Rule Out Running for Office Someday: ‘I’ll Consider That at Some Point’

Will Smith has not ruled out running for office some day, saying, “I will certainly do my part, whether it remains artistic or, at some point, ventures into the political arena.”
www.billboard.com www.billboard.com

The Rock has not only plans to

www.independent.co.uk

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson says he would run for president if ‘that’s what the people wanted’

‘So I would wait, and I would listen. I would have my finger on the pulse, my ear to the ground’
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

But will play said role on TV...

www.huffpost.com

Dwayne Johnson Reveals Why He's Running For President -- In A TV Show

The Rock was wrestling with the idea for the sitcom "Young Rock."
www.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com
 
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We shouldn't have a president anymore or it should just be a figurehead position for a general vision direction. Everything is too complicated now for one person to have that much power. While celebrities may mean well there are really a lot of things like foreign policy and economic policy knowledge that is needed.
 
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If I believed in them I would just depends.

Going forward we should have both sides run together from now on. A Dem for President and their Vice President a Repub or vise versa.
 
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lowdru2k said:
If I believed in them I would just depends.

Going forward we should have both sides run together from now on. A Dem for President and their Vice President a Repub or vise versa.
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This seems awfully familiar.....It'd be hilarious if they made a tv show about two historical rivals who had to be a Vice President for the other one because of a dumb rule and call it like, "John Adams" or something LOL
 
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Or we could pick (or they could kill their way to the top) an Emperor... do away with parties! What could possibly go wrong...
 
I think people misunderstand what a President does and doesn't do. I would say a President is more of a figurehead, but not in a negative way. It is still a very important job. The importance comes down to surrounding yourself with smart people, who in turn appoint smart people. In 2016 when Trump ran, we were told "he would surround himself with smart people". Well that didn't happen and things fell apart.

Presidents set the tone of the administration, and then put smart people (hopefully) in charge of executing that. For example, Biden's goal is so many vacceines in his first 100 days. He sets the goal, but I doubt he has much input in the day to day. Hopefully, that's a team of people looking into that.

There's also layers of government. Let's just say for the sake of argument that Bernie won. Would we suddenly have $15 min wage and universal health care? Of course not, because any law would need to pass the house and the senate. It is important for a President to compromise. Right now Biden is taking a lot of flak for backing off on $15/hour but it wasn't going to pass, and we need to be realistic.

I don't think celebrities are a good idea in general, but if it comes down to say Will Smith or Trump... well I'm gettin' jiggy with it. A celebrity wouldn't necessarily be terrible, provided they actually worked with government.
 
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Kerosene31 said:
I think people misunderstand what a President does and doesn't do. I would say a President is more of a figurehead, but not in a negative way. It is still a very important job. The importance comes down to surrounding yourself with smart people, who in turn appoint smart people. In 2016 when Trump ran, we were told "he would surround himself with smart people". Well that didn't happen and things fell apart.

Presidents set the tone of the administration, and then put smart people (hopefully) in charge of executing that. For example, Biden's goal is so many vacceines in his first 100 days. He sets the goal, but I doubt he has much input in the day to day. Hopefully, that's a team of people looking into that.

There's also layers of government. Let's just say for the sake of argument that Bernie won. Would we suddenly have $15 min wage and universal health care? Of course not, because any law would need to pass the house and the senate. It is important for a President to compromise. Right now Biden is taking a lot of flak for backing off on $15/hour but it wasn't going to pass, and we need to be realistic.

I don't think celebrities are a good idea in general, but if it comes down to say Will Smith or Trump... well I'm gettin' jiggy with it. A celebrity wouldn't necessarily be terrible, provided they actually worked with government.
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So no to Martian Sheen or Bill Pullman?
 
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If a celebrity has the experience then ok. If they are just starting out and truly want to make a difference the they should start local, we need more change at the local levels to truly fix the country.

Most of the time when they say they want to run for president its just to feed their ego. Having the thought that the can just go in and do better isnt enough and its naive and arrogant.
 
I will however vote for who ever will go and fix my stocks! :mad:
 
f*** no. You can pretty much graph a line to bitch ass Reagan to how s***ty this country has become.

Trump, if you even consider him a celebrity, made it even s***tier.
 
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lowdru2k said:
Tom Hanks should run.











Swede
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With

brie larson marvel GIF


As VP
 
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Plainview said:
It depends. Depends on how aware they are, who they would choose to be their advisors, their history with local, national, global, humanitarian, and equal rights issues.
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I could see voting for Al Franken but he's been a senator he wasn't just a celebrity, I can't think of anyone famous I want to see in the white house. Too many celebs are too far one way or the other for my liking.
 
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Plainview said:
It depends. Depends on how aware they are, who they would choose to be their advisors, their history with local, national, global, humanitarian, and equal rights issues.
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I agree, if the right person came along I would. But I still voted "no" because, generally speaking, most of them are idiots.
 
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I've only voted once and I'm never voting again. Unless there's an R beside the candidate's name here, they automatically lose by default anyway. I always saw it as a complete waste of time throughout the years and I was proven right.
 
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