It’s only a partial article, but this is disappointing from Hasan.
No. Honestly I feel so lonely out here as some one who likes the government to not interfere with private enterprise too much AND thinks politicians who are experts in actual politics and law are not a bad thing. He probably wouldn’t be that bad? Who knows, he might be better than Newsom, as I think he may be a more ethical a person based on vibes?
But… IME anything that is simple to grasp, easy to understand, and feels like a quick fast way to fix everything is a bad idea.
No more pop-star presidents with promises of glorious revolution please?
That part. I’m of the mind that we (I know folks here know this, I just mean in general as a country) need to understand that fixing our problems will take a sustained work, and that we need politicians who understand that. Electing someone who is funny and snarky isn’t going to fix it, especially as Stewart kind of has a bad habit of sometimes “both siding” things. I mean, it took him until the ICE raids in LA to even admit that Trump was on an authoritarian track!
But yes, would he be better than Newsom, absolutely.
Also, my brain either can’t or won’t remember if Newsom is spelled with or without an E at the end… 
I’ve also heard Stephen Colbert’s name floated for 2028. If the nominee had to be an alumnus of The Daily Show rather than someone with an actual track record of governing, I think I’d prefer him to Stewart. There’s certainly been a few times when he was speaking from the heart about important issues that were impressive to me. He projected more sincerity than I’ve ever seen from Newsom.
It’s a shame that Al Franken (who was also on The Daily Show a few times) turned out to have that history… During his time as a Senator he helped get some good things done.
We should ALL be done with celebrities or the extreme wealthy in power. We are fucking ourselves over by believing that they’ll be the solution. WE are the solution.
Yeah. If we have to draw our leaders from the ranks of those who have long ago lost touch with the everyday lives of ordinary people, some celebrities are much better than billionaires…but why do we have to? Why can’t we have someone for whom “buying groceries” is actually an ordinary thing?
Right? I don’t think that’s too much to ask, is it? That we stop seeing politicians like celebrities and start seeing them as our neighbors, because, they should be our neighbors! Apparently self-government has no meaning to some anymore.
Well I remember when Joanna Newsom was touring Ys and I still felt capable of boycotting Ticketbastard that allowed me to walk down to the Olympia and buy tickets in the box office (through the art deco glass awning that some arsehole later drove into) and buy tickets that wouldn’t have been available with no service charges.
Good times!
ETA
Point was people searched for Newsome on TicketThieves site and she didn’t come up so I had time to walk into the ticket office.
I saw her on that tour at the Sydney Opera House. Good acoustics in that room.
I was seated next to some tourists who just grabbed random tickets at The Opera House. They were hoping for Opera. I don’t know whether they left more confused or disappointed, but they certainly looked unsettled.
I loved the show.
Wait….you LIKE the acoustics in the Sydney Opera House? I think you’re in the minority, there!
I’m still SMH at Democrats in leadership positions who fail the KISS test when speaking to the public. Reading Newsom’s comments in the HCR thread here…
…gave me a flashback to points made in this video you posted:
HCR quoting Newsom:
He doesn’t believe in the rules. And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done…
…We need to be firm in our resolve…
…We do have agency…
Newsom nodded to President Abraham Lincoln’s famous call from 1862: “The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
I approve of his mocking tweets and hope he keeps that up, because 
and his minions cannot stand to be mocked. OTOH, his style makes me glad Katie Porter is polling well as a gubernatorial candidate, because she knows how to communicate in a way that connects with most people:
Oh god, I hope Porter wins… she’s fucking amazing.