• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    over 75 years old
    white male
    independently wealthy
    tough guy image
    media-famous for something that has nothing to do with politics
    not allowed to run according to the Constitution

    Well, he checks all current boxes for a Republican candidate

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    While I like Arny a lot more than anyone else I have seen looking for the position please, no more celebrity politicians.

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        11 months ago

        As of now, yes. However, there are a lot of people in the US who would like to change the stipulation that naturalized citizens can not be president. So a push for this could pass, especially for someone like Schwarzenegger who is a republican and the right kind of immigrant.

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      11 months ago

      I agree that we don’t need more celebrities, but he has more government experience than the last guy. Not an endorsement, just showing he cleared the incredibly low bar.

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    I’ve talked to a person IRL who didnt understand that Arnold is a US citizen, was the governor of California, but was born in Austria and cannot be president.

    To some people, they also think foreigners can’t be governors and were convinced one of his parents were American because he “looks American”

    It’s not necessarily related to this post, but a personal anecdote about my experiences with stupidity

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      because he “looks American”

      That’s the issue Obama had in the Republican’s eyes. He looks African.
      /s

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    Meh. I like him better as a commentator. His run managing California wasn’t that great. That said, I think he’s a damn sight better than anything the conservatives have in line for president.

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    If you hear Arnold on various podcasts, his ideas in general are pretty meathead.

    He talked about solving the lack of a House speaker by “Locking everyone in a room with no bathroom until they have a solution.”

    His solution for his child forgetting to turn off a light was to “Throw the mattress out of the window into the pool.”

    This is a dude who has more experience banging his fists demanding things than actually leading. Where I think he’ll do some progressive things, just like Reagan, he’ll do some thing that sounds good on paper but not at all researched and then fuck over the country for decades after their death.

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      He talked about solving the lack of a House speaker by “Locking everyone in a room with no bathroom until they have a solution.”

      The solution the came up with? Piss.

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      Yeah, in the recent podcast with Rob Lowe there was a lot of “industry good, government bad” with an extra helping of “both sides are the same”. He was also praising Reagan several times. Arnie is a conservative boomer through and through.

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    Could he be speaker? Anyone can right? Or is that not allowed because of succession?