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Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president

www.bbc.co.uk Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president

The actor on self-help, his terrible mistakes and why he'd make a good president if he was allowed.

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- Well, when you get a dog he’s got my vote
  
  How do you know the dog isn't the next Blondi?
No more celebrities.
- In fairness, Arnold Schwarzenegger already has political experience as governor of California. He'd be the most qualified celebrity for the Whitehouse if he was a naturally born citizen.
  
  Reagan was an actor, and he was instrumental in the process of fucking up our society to the degree that it is now. He spearheaded deregulation. One of the direct outcomes of that is the rampant increase of wealth inequality, as well as the now-“normal” boom/bust economic economic cycle that started with Black Monday in 1987 and has been getting markedly worse with each crash.
  
  The most qualified doesn't mean the best qualified, though.
  
  Except that was the same thing that gave us Reagan. He was an actor. Then governor of California. Then president. We are still paying for all his bullshit.
  
  Natural born is a common misconception. Naturalized is sufficient - he can be president if he wants. 14th amendment clarifies this point.
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  Celebtuagenarians
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- He is probably the only republican I could see myself supporting
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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While I like Arny a lot more than anyone else I have seen looking for the position please, no more celebrity politicians.
- I mean he can't run anyways.
  
  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.
- 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.
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.
Too bad you can't run
- Yes he can but I don’t think he’s very fast
  
  Wasn’t there a movie about this?
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.
- 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.
- Why unlock the door when they reach a solution? Just leave them in there.
- 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.
- He talked about solving the lack of a House speaker by "Locking everyone in a room with no bathroom until they have a solution."
  
  Arnold if he was president
People realize Demolition Man was a dystopia, right?
- That was Stallone, Arnold was Running Man
  
  There’s a line in Demolition Man where they talk about the fact that Arnold becomes president after a change in laws that allows him to run. That’s what GP is referring to.
Well, he's old enough now...
- He can't be anyways. He wasn't born in the U.S.
  
  They got around it in Demolition Man.
  
  you dont have to be born in the us. you just need to be a citizen for over 30 years, or since birth
Why did they use a 30 year old photo?
- From his time campaigning to be governor?
  
  Old but relevant?
Laugh all you want, but honestly? I believe him. He would be leagues better than most politicians we have.
- Downside: He can't.
  
  And that's a good thing, there's only one other immigrant I can think of that has a reasonable shot at winning: .
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Well he wouldn't be the worst
- That bar can't get much lower
  
  To quote Patrick Star - "nonsense"
I want Arnold Schwarzenegger to become a host of a cooking show featuring pastries
In a movie, yes.
Wouldn't that require an amendment to the Constitution?
No.
Could he be speaker? Anyone can right? Or is that not allowed because of succession?
- I believe he could be Speaker of the House. If a succession issue appeared, he would simply be skipped over.
  
  Pretty sure Biden and Harris and their teams are making sure that only one of them at a time is on a plane, and that they both stay on completely different tectonic plates at all times.
Yea he’d probably be a decent one by american standards
Ah yes, another rich white male sex pest with enough power and connections that hardly anyone even knows that last part, exactly what America needs.. 🙄
- Fuck off with your racism/sexism
  
  🤣🤣🤣
We don't need another Reagan ruining the future for us.

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