Do you think that George Clooney is testing the water?

[MrsSkylerWhite]

Just that.

Imagine Mr. Trump is not a happy bunny today.

Nah, think he just wants Joe to move over to avoid ending up with an untrammelled fascist in power.

MO is a remarkable, impressive lady but she has no relevant experience for the job.

If the Dems look at all of their senators, congressmen and women, governors etc, not to mention their own VP, and the best they can come up with is the wife of the guy who did the job before then there is no hope for them at all.

I am astonished that the Dems have allowed this to happen. I get the differences in the party systems that make removal of a serving President or a candidate more difficult. But it’s been so obvious for so long that Biden’s mentally incapable that it’s a real dereliction of duty that he hasn’t been moved against by his own party. You only had to look at him two years ago to know that he must have trouble remembering his wife’s name.

Thanks Dems, you’ve secured the dangerous orange loony a further term. 👎

I was thinking of a couple of non USA presidents when you put up this checklist, they tick the boxes.

Yes but why do closeted men get to tell everyone else what to do, how to vote and what to think?
They can't even be honest about their own sexuality yet they're very involved in everything and pontificating on what needs to be done.
Why should we listen to closeted men?

Also Clooney promoting Nescafe?
Nestle have a shocking track record in the developing world.

I remember a fair few posts where people would say his capacity is declining and up until recently there would be a lot of backlash claiming it wasn’t the case

I think it was hidden under it’s an attack etc rather than face the issue which made it all worse

Yes at least one British PM, one Australian PM etc.

French, Canadian.

It's no bar to high office.

Couldn't care less if Clooney is closeted or not, but he's not a suitable replacement candidate.

Gibe a clue on who you think the British PM is as I can't think who that would be?

It's a sad fact that people still feel they have to hide their sexuality but it doesn't surprise me as the world is not a liberal place.

Arnie made it as a politician so I think the American's wouldn't be opposed to it, though obviously you couldn't shoehorn in a non-politician at this late stage. The democrats do need to stand someone other than Biden against Trump though. I always assumed that would have been the plan they would have had in place following the last election - let Biden's experience win it for the and then introduce a successor. The 2 candidates both seem massively unfit for different reasons.

Maybe it's no one's business, but there's no way on earth the Americans will vote for a gay President (even if he were qualified) and it would come out over the course of an election campaign.

Without that, I tho there's a fair chance Clooney could one day be president.

The US election baffles me. From all those millions of people, how have they managed to come up with two such unsuitable candidates?

Google will help you very quickly with the PM, but Britain is very different to the US. Can you imagine any British PM, regularly spouting on about God? Even the religious ones don't talk about it, but in America they all have to pretend they have faith.

I could see Clooney being president (not this time), but not if he has those skeletons in his closet.

They keep alluding to Newsom who they could parachute in. He runs California.

Ah ok rumours around Sir Ted Heath, before my time.

Far more openly gay MPs now though I’m sure they will experience some homophobia.

I watched ‘A Very English scandal’ a couple of years ago, it showed how absolutely desperate people were to maintain the secrecy for their careers and to be socially accepted. Desperately sad for all involved.

Yes, I think an openly gay PM could win here, but not in US

I hope so.

The problem is that they would have to get rid of Camalla Harris, the vice president to install Newsom.

They both live in California and so she would have to sell her home and move to a different state as electoral law states they can’t run in the same state.

Evicting Camalla to install a white man when their most loyal demographic support is from Black and Hispanic women would not go well.

Jog on??

No thanks love, you can take your conspiracy theory nut bollocks and you can "jog on" in fact why not take a taxi it will be quicker

Why do you think you have the right to know what a person does and who they do it with it their own private life. It has nothing to do with you.

The real scandal is that the press covered up Biden’s condition for so long and did not report on it, they covered it up.
Now they say he has been like this for over a year, but here’s a vanity fair ‘’’reporter’’’ no mention of Biden’s decline.

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/joe-biden-fundraiser-hollywood-julia-roberts-george-clooney

Yes - Ted Heath.

Rumoured - PM Harold Holt - Australia. The net was definitely closing in on him and he took a dip from which he never returned.

Rumoured - PM Billy McMahon - Australia.

There’s some really nasty homophobic nonsense on this thread.

TinySmol
Great forensic analysis there!

as in
resolutely confirmed bachelor is set up with a woman with whom he would not in the normal run of things, ever encounter.

Hasty arranged marriage to Lebanese /English International Human Rights Lawyer,

IVF twins purportedly surrogate (Amal not seen for last few months of her confinement)
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George moving into politics has been mooted for a long time, based on his perceived
integrity - remember him being arrested with his Father at the Sudanese Embassy, 2012?
then wed in 2014
his Clooney Foundation for Justice, clean cut movie image, constant gushing
over his wife, her showboating at premieres, carefully presented glamorous persona - if we look back we will see a pattern formed when we were not paying attention

Clooney into politics isn’t such a wide stretch.

Ronald Reagan won over everyone with his charm and bonhomie, including a starstruck Maggie Thatcher and a more restrained but charmed HMtQ.

When circumstance demanded, Ronnie was ready, Invasion of Grenada by request,
the famous ATC strike when he sacked the lot of them mostly his warm relationship with a liberal minded Gorbachev, ending the Cold War.
No one thought Reagan could realistically fill the role, but he did, a great President..

Would Clooney be able to fill these actor/President shoes.

Perhaps Clooney will attempt to emulate him : actor, confident public speaker, popular, charismatic, squeaky clean, appealing, wife and two kids, who knows.

And conspiracy fantasies. My goodness

https://www.newsweek.com/actors-who-became-politicians-1601389