Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson For POTUS?

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  • vaggar99
    vaggar99 San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    sadly, he would win easily
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,704
    edited October 2017
    vaggar99 said:
    sadly, he would win easily
    Probably.
    He is kind of acting like he's planning on running IMO. He happens to be filming a big movie in metro Vancouver right now, and he has been all over the place schmoozing with politicians - he basically seems to be putting effort into sucking up to everyone. Just recently he recorded a slightly weird video message gushing about the Mayor of Surrey (a city that is part of metro Van), and he is frequently going out of his way to essentially ingratiate himself, making friends with foreign people in power. To me, this seems like the kind of thing a politician would do while making connections and building a rep in another country, not something an actor would do.
    I dunno... he'd be infinitely better than Trump, but I don't want to allow that fact to influence my feelings about movie stars inserting themselves into the White House without adequate qualifications. I mean, just about everyone is infinitely better suited to the job than Trump, so that is about the worst measuring stick of all time. But I will give The Rock some credit - I believe he actually gives a shit about Americans and people around the rest of the world. That isn't exactly something that we should congratulate though. It should be a normal sentiment held by any decent human being.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    PJ_Soul said:
    vaggar99 said:
    sadly, he would win easily
    Probably.
    He is kind of acting like he's planning on running IMO. He happens to be filming a big movie in metro Vancouver right now, and he has been all over the place schmoozing with politicians - he basically seems to be putting effort into sucking up to everyone. Just recently he recorded a slightly weird video message gushing about the Mayor of Surrey (a city that is part of metro Van), and he is frequently going out of his way to essentially ingratiate himself, making friends with foreign people in power. To me, this seems like the kind of thing a politician would do while making connections and building a rep in another country, not something an actor would do.
    I dunno... he'd be infinitely better than Trump, but I don't want to allow that fact to influence my feelings about movie stars inserting themselves into the White House without adequate qualifications. I mean, just about everyone is infinitely better suited to the job than Trump, so that is about the worst measuring stick of all time. But I will give The Rock some credit - I believe he actually gives a shit about Americans and people around the rest of the world. That isn't exactly something that we should congratulate though. It should be a normal sentiment held by any decent human being.
    he's intelligent. he's passionate. he's a hard worker. he's positive. it would be odd to have such a highly successful wrestler-turned-actor as president. it would be almost as, if not more, surreal than a so-called billionaire-turned-reality-star as president. 

    but as a guy who almost never talks publicly about politics, it's impossible to know how suited he'd be for the job. I get that some people think it's refreshing to have a non-politician in office, but I think experience plays a key role in knowing what you are doing. 
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,704
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    vaggar99 said:
    sadly, he would win easily
    Probably.
    He is kind of acting like he's planning on running IMO. He happens to be filming a big movie in metro Vancouver right now, and he has been all over the place schmoozing with politicians - he basically seems to be putting effort into sucking up to everyone. Just recently he recorded a slightly weird video message gushing about the Mayor of Surrey (a city that is part of metro Van), and he is frequently going out of his way to essentially ingratiate himself, making friends with foreign people in power. To me, this seems like the kind of thing a politician would do while making connections and building a rep in another country, not something an actor would do.
    I dunno... he'd be infinitely better than Trump, but I don't want to allow that fact to influence my feelings about movie stars inserting themselves into the White House without adequate qualifications. I mean, just about everyone is infinitely better suited to the job than Trump, so that is about the worst measuring stick of all time. But I will give The Rock some credit - I believe he actually gives a shit about Americans and people around the rest of the world. That isn't exactly something that we should congratulate though. It should be a normal sentiment held by any decent human being.
    he's intelligent. he's passionate. he's a hard worker. he's positive. it would be odd to have such a highly successful wrestler-turned-actor as president. it would be almost as, if not more, surreal than a so-called billionaire-turned-reality-star as president. 

    but as a guy who almost never talks publicly about politics, it's impossible to know how suited he'd be for the job. I get that some people think it's refreshing to have a non-politician in office, but I think experience plays a key role in knowing what you are doing. 
    I don't even think it's refreshing. It's fucking stupid. Being positive and a hard worker and shit is great. But I think a decent federal leader also actually has to know something about, you know, international politics and federal laws and whatnot. :lol: I mean, good lord, it's not an excessive request IMO, for a federal leader to really know wtf he or she is talking about when it comes to Constitutional law, political science, the political histories of other nations, international treaties, etc. I personally know at least 20 regular people who know an awful lot about this stuff (at a university), so I'm sure it's not too much to ask that the leader of the free world know it too. ;)
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    PJ_Soul said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    vaggar99 said:
    sadly, he would win easily
    Probably.
    He is kind of acting like he's planning on running IMO. He happens to be filming a big movie in metro Vancouver right now, and he has been all over the place schmoozing with politicians - he basically seems to be putting effort into sucking up to everyone. Just recently he recorded a slightly weird video message gushing about the Mayor of Surrey (a city that is part of metro Van), and he is frequently going out of his way to essentially ingratiate himself, making friends with foreign people in power. To me, this seems like the kind of thing a politician would do while making connections and building a rep in another country, not something an actor would do.
    I dunno... he'd be infinitely better than Trump, but I don't want to allow that fact to influence my feelings about movie stars inserting themselves into the White House without adequate qualifications. I mean, just about everyone is infinitely better suited to the job than Trump, so that is about the worst measuring stick of all time. But I will give The Rock some credit - I believe he actually gives a shit about Americans and people around the rest of the world. That isn't exactly something that we should congratulate though. It should be a normal sentiment held by any decent human being.
    he's intelligent. he's passionate. he's a hard worker. he's positive. it would be odd to have such a highly successful wrestler-turned-actor as president. it would be almost as, if not more, surreal than a so-called billionaire-turned-reality-star as president. 

    but as a guy who almost never talks publicly about politics, it's impossible to know how suited he'd be for the job. I get that some people think it's refreshing to have a non-politician in office, but I think experience plays a key role in knowing what you are doing. 
    I don't even think it's refreshing. It's fucking stupid. Being positive and a hard worker and shit is great. But I think a decent federal leader also actually has to know something about, you know, international politics and federal laws and whatnot. :lol: I mean, good lord, it's not an excessive request IMO, for a federal leader to really know wtf he or she is talking about when it comes to Constitutional law, political science, the political histories of other nations, international treaties, etc. I personally know at least 20 regular people who know an awful lot about this stuff (at a university), so I'm sure it's not too much to ask that the leader of the free world know it too. ;)
    totally agree. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    he posted something on instagram the other day, teasing (joking?) a prez run in 2032. 
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,202
    his dad died today.
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    Vice-president. This year. Running-mate to Biden or whoever. Seriously. Why the hell not? Trump changed things forever. The Dems won’t accept it. And if getting rid of Trump is such an emergency as the Dems keeping telling us, maybe drastic measures are called for. What does Trump have that the Rock doesn’t? The Rock is tenfold the successful businessman Trump is (self-made by the way). Ten-tenfold the humanitarian Trump is. Why can’t he be a leader? And’s he’s fucking cool and interesting. Nothing about the Democrats is cool and interesting. Trump is the worst, but his fans think he’s fucking cool and funny and are eager to vote for him. The Rock would garner worldwide, positive attention for the Dems. Is it waaaay outside the box? Of course. But Trump’s LONG GONE from that box, and Dems need to find him and layeth the smacketh-down on his candy-ass!
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    his dad died today.
    I'm sorry to hear that.  He's always struck me as a man with good character.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited January 2020
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    his dad died today.

    Yeah, I saw a good little report about that today on a local station down in Sacramento.  They showed how Rocky Johnson got started right there in that very studio and later went on to become more famous.  They interviewed the guy who at a fairly young age was Rocky's photographer.  He talked about how Rocky was a good guy and well liked.  It was very cool. 
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,315
    The Rock is way to dangerous to be POTUS.  Have you all forgotten about The Corporate Elbow???  I have not.  I remember the pain it caused. The suffering.  
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    Jason P said:
    The Rock is way to dangerous to be POTUS.  Have you all forgotten about The Corporate Elbow???  I have not.  I remember the pain it caused. The suffering.  
    not to mention that eyebrow. one raise and the constitution explodes. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Jason P said:
    The Rock is way to dangerous to be POTUS.  Have you all forgotten about The Corporate Elbow???  I have not.  I remember the pain it caused. The suffering.  
    not to mention that eyebrow. one raise and the constitution explodes. 

    :lol:
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,202
    Jason P said:
    The Rock is way to dangerous to be POTUS.  Have you all forgotten about The Corporate Elbow???  I have not.  I remember the pain it caused. The suffering.  
    he can't win. there is a lot of footage from when he was with the nation of domination. they can make a ton of opposition commercials from that stuff. goes to show that nothing in your past is really locked away.

    :lol:
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    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,202
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Jason P said:
    The Rock is way to dangerous to be POTUS.  Have you all forgotten about The Corporate Elbow???  I have not.  I remember the pain it caused. The suffering.  
    not to mention that eyebrow. one raise and the constitution explodes. 
    the eyebrow is the signal to nuke someone's rooty poo candy ass.
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    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095
    Only if Becky Lynch is VP.

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    Triple H or Mankind as SOS

    stephanie mcmahon would make a killer press sec
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,315
    The Rock has the charisma to do it.  But I don't think he is insane.  Plus he has to have a million skeletons in the closet.  His resume:

    Pro Wrestling upbringing
    Football at The U
    WWE Raw / Smackdown
    Hollywood Actor

    Yeah.  No way Dwayne is looking for 200 million people to start digging into his past with a fine tooth comb.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,528
    He just poste on instagram that in some poll "46% of americans would approve of The Rock running for President". he said he is humbled, and "if it ever happens, it would be an honour to serve". 

    please god no. please America, learn from your mistakes. celebrities with zero political service/experience should not win the presidency. 
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  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    He just poste on instagram that in some poll "46% of americans would approve of The Rock running for President". he said he is humbled, and "if it ever happens, it would be an honour to serve". 

    please god no. please America, learn from your mistakes. celebrities with zero political service/experience should not win the presidency. 
    Those debates would be great though lol. 

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