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One of the world’s most powerful billionaires, Oprah Winfrey, said in a recent interview that she is considering a run for the White House especially after President Donald Trump’s victory in the November 2016 election. Winfrey would be the nation’s first black woman president and first woman president if she won.
Winfrey, 63, spoke with financier David Rubenstein in December in an episode of Bloomberg’s “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations,” that premiered Wednesday. When Rubenstein asked the legendary TV host about whether she’d run for president Winfrey said, “I actually never thought that was — I never considered the question, even a possibility, I just thought ‘Oh, oh.’” Rubenstein responded, “Right, because it’s clear that you don’t need government experience to be elected president of the United States, right?”
NO. FUCK NO. THIS HAS TO STOP.
Allowing no experience whatsoever people, regardless of their celeb status to think they are somehow magically fucking qualified to be president. Can we get some godsdamn standards up in here? Please? Also, 63 years old. In four years, 67 years old. I have nothing against that age, I’m close enough myself at 59, but hey, here’s a radical fucking idea: how about if someone actually qualified and at least 20 years younger steps up and runs? Also, how about someone who isn’t a fucking billionaire? Y’know, someone who at least knows what reality is, and doesn’t have billions of cushions against it.
The PRESIDENCY is not supposed to be a popularity contest (I know, I know), nor is it supposed to be a hobby for celebs. Jesus.
I’m going to go paint, before I fucking explode in an overarching blend of outrage and frustration with the utter idiocy that is the united states of stupidity.
Via Raw Story.
This makes my thinkerbox hurt.
The possibilities are endless:
Dr. Oz as Secretary of Health.
Dr. Phil as Secretary of State.
Whoopi Goldberg as Vice President.
Deepak Chopra as head of National Science Foundation.
Hey, it’ll be an improvement over the present regime!
… and she’ll give everyone a CAR! You get a car, you get a car, and you get a car!
[*retching noises*]
I, for one, welcome our new oligarchs!
I think the new model for our presidency is:
Celebumannequin up front, to hypnotize the TV viewing voter, with all the real work fobbed off on some nerdy VP.
On another hand, Trump just felt a disturbance in the Force.
At least Oprah can read off a teleprompter.
let’s look at Oprah v Trump:
susceptibility to woo: Oprah = Trump
empathy: Oprah >> Trump
intelligence: Oprah > Trump
arrogance : Oprah > Trump
generosity: Oprah >> Trump
ethics: Oprah >> Trump
Certainly not the best situation, but if forced, it’s obvious.
Marcus:
No, no she can’t. Don’t you remember this: http://uproxx.com/tv/people-really-hate-oprah/ ?
Not only was she fucking awful, people went near insane over her inability to pronounce the big words correctly.
We should bet which oligarch’s next. Peter Thiel’s already in the ring, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos. What about Martha Stewart?
What scares me is that the endgame is we elect actors that have agreed with shadow consortia to channel their political will in return for the financial sinecure that comes with being president. Who wants to say that John Lithgow couldn’t sweep the nominations? Or the over-rated Meryl Streep?
Ouch, I feel a blog posting coming on…
naturalcynic:
Not, it is fucking not. It’s this sort of idiot thinking got us into this mess in the first fucking place. Insular billionaire, check. Ignorant, check. Will willingly separate herself from business interests? I’d bet not. Will indulge in nepotistic idiocy, check. Has zero experience except at self marketing, check. Provides platforms to idiots and purveyors of the worst woo, check. Narcissistic, check.
What in the godsdamn fuckety fuck is it going to take for people to stop entertaining this crap, even facetiously?
CAINE!!?! OMG!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BRAIN!!!!!!
Blissful ignorance, evaporate
joyful slumber, shatter! I had no idea that Oprah’s
narration was overdubbed atop Attenborough.
That is practically lovecraftian WTF. It makes me want
to whack myself in the head with a brick.
I had the Attenborough version, of course, and felt it was bad enough to hear Attenborough reading someone else’s script (you could tell immediately by the thin information-density)
Marcus:
I THOUGHT YOU KNEW!
Yeah, I had the Attenborough too, there was no way in hell I was going to listen to Winfrey try to strangle choke her way through that.