• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I’m pretty certain Taylor Swift probably has enough sway/numbers to take the White House if she wanted to.

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          15 hours ago

          I’d vote for anything that doesn’t shit it pants hourly.

          I’d vote for any adult without brain damage.

          I’d vote for Liz Truss’s cabbage.

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              9 hours ago

              yes, its how long liz truss survived being the pm in the UK, a whole head of cabbage(from fresh to rotten) which lasted longer than her tenure.

              the american one is scarramuci.

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        I mean, she’s managed her image and business this long. I think politics is a good fit for her skillset.

        As is the power she’d wield over the Democrat Party. They would worship the ground she walks on (in an attempt for some of that celebrity to rub off).

        …But the election would be gruesomely dirty. I can only imagine all the shit that would get thrown at her.

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            14 hours ago

            A democratic leader needs to accurately represent their constituents and surround themselves with knowledgeable experts. No matter how well-schooled someone is, no one person can know everything involved in running a country.

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                4 hours ago

                A degree doesn’t prove a person actually applied themselves and absorbed the information, and auto-didacts can absolutely study macroecon and diplomacy.

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                  4 hours ago

                  The lack of a degree is what is relevant here because it proves what they haven’t been educated in.

                  She lacks all of the relevant math to be able to study macro. It’s not a subject that lends itself to self teaching.

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                    4 hours ago

                    You can absolutely self-teach math and macroecon. I’m not trying to claim that Swift has, or would, or that it is an easy thing to teach, but the idea that it is somehow outside the bounds of the auto-didact is absurd.

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            16 hours ago

            She’ll have a full cabinet, policy crafted by an army, and practical experience under her belt. She’s clearly charismatic. AFAIK she’s not anti science or conspiratorial or anything… So what if she’s not a Harvard Graduate? As much as I’d like an STEM PhD in the White House, compared to most alternatives, I almost view that as a plus.

            And again, she will have so much power. It would be like Trump, where she can swing unpopular stances through sheer force of will (like Trump is doing in the current Middle East visit: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/15/trump-israel-syria-policy-reverse-biden )

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              16 hours ago

              None of that matters when the person making the final call knows less about how her job works than most of the voters. We need well educated leaders not people you can be almost certain do not know anything about the subjects needed to govern effectively eg the law, economics, history, diplomacy, and what the various parts of the government do.

              We should never select anyone that undereducated. It will always end badly because the leader cannot know what they are doing.

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                16 hours ago

                Ehh, I agree in principle but have grown cynical.

                The American voters clearly don’t care about actual qualifications. The presidency is an attention contest, pure and simple. Truth is relative. Even if we get a highly qualified president in (and I don’t believe that’s possible anymore) they’re going to be totally beholden to Facebook and Twitter politics memes.

                I’d rather have someone that can dominate the narrative and wield actual political power to do decent things, even if their decisions aren’t always the best. Like… who else could bring millions into civic engagement?