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[-] TheAlbatross 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Someone who has actually had an American experience. Someone who's been homeless, who's worked more than one job just to barely make rent. Someone who's viewed home ownership as a pipe dream. Someone who's waited tables. Someone that's done drugs just for an escape. Someone who's lost friends and family to those same drugs. Someone who's had a total stranger express hate for them just for being outside the in-power group.

No more of these disconnected rich pricks who don't really know how the average person lives.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Damn girl, you want ME for president.

[-] justmercury 2 points 1 week ago

government by the people, right?

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

by the formerly homeless waitresses who have lost family to drugs, anyway

[-] j4k3@piefed.world 21 points 1 week ago

Anyone that has managed a homeless shelter or soup kitchen for over a decade.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How about Jon Bon Jovi?

During COVID he spent his days ladling soup in his soup kitchen.

He knows fame and fortune so that won't be new to him

Last year in September he helped someone not jump off a bridge.

Has been married to the same person since 1989 and they were highschool sweet hearts

"On December 15, 2010, Bon Jovi was appointed by then U.S. president Barack Obama to the White House Council for Community Solutions."

So he knows some things

https://jbjsoulkitchen.org/

He now has 3 soup kitchen's.

Seems like someone that would do some good even if didn't exactly meet your qualifications

[-] j4k3@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The point is to get someone that is incorruptible by wealth. Someone that is purely altruistic not out of excess but out of the very fiber of their being. I want someone poor by choice, someone who rejects all the pomp and ritual. Someone that will tell a billionaire no, I will not visit your island or take your gifts, and do so every single time.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fair enough

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

Justin Amash, Zohran Mamdani, JB Pritzker, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Greta Thunberg, my brother the historian, Chuy Garcia, Tammy Duckworth, Tom Daschle, Chance the Rapper, Dave from the movie Dave...

I could pick a random person off the street in my neighborhood and they'd be better than the current President. But if I had to pick just one I guess I'd pick Tammy Duckworth, since she's the most likely to win reëlection.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Jon Stewart.

[-] golli@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

John Oliver (or alternatively other talkshow hosts like John Steward, Stephen Colbert, or Conan) could be another interesting choice.

I'd assume he is probably more intelligent than me and has already spent a lot of time presenting problems and thinking about solutions. He'd also have the right energy to get things done.

That said, I think without changes to the capabilities of the office, I actually don't think they'd get that much done. Despite what it sometimes may look like, Trump can only do most of the things because others support it. This isn't a one man show.

[-] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

They also come with a competent team that is already working on politics.

[-] Brekky@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

My second comment of the day with the same answer funnily enough....

Dolly Parton!

[-] Hellotypewriter@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago

Jesus. Not kidding. Let’s see how hypocritical the Right really is.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Kim Jong Un

[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Given Trump's second term kinda proves there are no legal or ethical restrictions to becoming President, assuming that precedent sticks, then I'd like to see anyone who's not a wannabe dictator come back and oust Trump.

Shit, Louis Rossmann as President would be kinda awesome.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Bernie Sanders

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, or Greta Thunberg.

[-] birdwing 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If we include dead people, Kropotkin.

Otherwise, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, AOC...

and if I'm wondering who would be the best able to fulfil that -- Bernie Sanders, with Zohran as VP. He already has quite some experience.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lord Buckethead

Boaty McBoatface

Edit: I forgot Funny Valentine

[-] TimeChild@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Julia Louis-Dreyfus would have my vote

As Elaine Benes, right?

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Maduro easily, just taste really. I think everyone could get used to his addresses and get over their issues within time. His responsibilities to Venezuelans are far more important though, so I understand him not wanting to be our Fuhrer.

[-] LawBodilyAutonomy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Jim Gottstein, lawyer who won in the Alaska Supreme Court and exposed company documents proving zyprexa causes diabetes.

[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
[-] darkmogool@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago
[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Arnold Schwarzenegger. He would be already if he was allowed.

But honestly, at this point, anyone who wasn't entirely evil.

[-] birdwing 2 points 1 week ago

Monkey's paw closes

Wish granted. A cat who demands a new sparrow campaign, but for mouses, is elected president.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Zohran Mamdani

Knows politics, but is a person I'd trust to fix things.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sam Kinison

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Colonel Sanders

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zach de la Rocha

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I like Mamdani -- he is well spoken and passionate about helping people. Jon Stewart would do a good job, but I don't know if we need more celebrities.

[-] Miner_Fabs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mr Beast.

not because he'd be particularly good or competent at running a country; i'd like to see if/how he would milk being the president for content.

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

TODAY WE'RE GOING TO COMPARE A $100 GRENADE TO A $10 000 000 NUCLEAR WARHEAD!

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Anyone throughout time?

Disraeli?

Abraham Lincoln again?

Muhatma Ghandi?

[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Andrew Yang

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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