Iām sure the Jesse Ventura 2020 signs are already being printed up, and a Ventura/Schwarzenegger ticket would be run if it were legal. Get your shit together, America. This is fucking embarrassing.
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The very successful CEO of one of Americaās largest employers? Iād gladly take him as a possible nominee over, say, Kanye West.
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Honestly if thereās one thing I hope this presidency does, itās disabuse people of the idiotic notion that government should be ārun like a businessā. The interests and motivations of businesses are ultimately antithetical to the interests and obligations of governments. America doesnāt need a CEO In Chief. If Bob Iger ends up being the Democratic nominee, weāre doomed.
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I donāt see why.
He hasnāt yet said anything moronic about ārunning the country like a businessā, nor has he said that he wants to be president to improve business prospects.
Until heās actually said those things, Iām not going to doom-say.
It gets even worse than this. It now also allows for a lifetime cap on employer provided insurance benefits.
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Iger being the Democratic nominee in 2020 would be so unfathomably tone-deaf Iām not sure I can put it into words. Both parties are perceived as being in the pocket of big business, more interested in their own profits than the well-being of the working man. Republicans are doing a great job of proving that out on their side, but Democrats are (theoretically) trying to re-cultivate the image of being the working manās party. Nominating the CEO of one of the worldās biggest and most powerful mega-corporations to be their presidential candidate while trying to make that case would be an act of stupefying idiocy that will likely cost them yet another election and give us 4 more years of the Fanta Menace as the left fragments even further.
Truthfully, I donāt know Iger from Adam. He almost certainly wonāt be as flagrantly self-indulgent or flat-out stupid as Trump. He may even be a fairly moderate-minded person. But barring some crazy Obama-in-2004 barnburner speech between now and the presidential primaries where he declares healthcare to be a human right, supports raising the minimum wage to $15/hr, and insists on taking extensive immediate action on climate change, Iger would be yet another āleast-worstā offering at a time when āleast-worstā is the actual-worst thing Democrats could possibly field.
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I get what youāre saying: that the possibility of having a CEO fighting a CEO for president would be an absurd notion on its face. Itās a symbolically bad idea. Yes, I see what you mean by that.
But another potent symbol is fighting fire with fire. If Americans are tired of āpoliticians running for presidentā (which, yes, I know thatās goofy), the idea of a āgood CEOā taking on a ābad CEOā isnāt a terrible one. That is, if Iger is even truly interested and is a good candidate, which Iām not convinced of, either.
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The only thing that can stop a bad CEO running for president is a good CEO running for president!
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Maybe we need to fight a bad CEO with a COO! Or maybe a CFO!
Or Al Franken, thatād be cool too.
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But we can be assured that Copyright would be āLife of the Creatorās Corporation or Derivative thereof in perpetuityā
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Just once, Iād like to fight fire with a fire extinguisherā¦
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Weāre going to need a bigger extinguisher.
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He keeps on making a different argument than the one he thinks heās makingā¦
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Believe me, he meant what he said because what he said was what he said. He was right then because heās right now in the here and now. Capisce?
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Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear/
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I posted about it earlier. The source is 4chanās /pol/ board.
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So now, after the vote, Republicans go back and delete a promise they had madeā¦
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