Trump picks Dr. Oz, the celebrity TV doctor, to run Medicare and Medicaid

I had a look at the list you linked and was surprised to see the list pointing out Germans and Polish people so I looked a bit dealer.

The German guy was in the left party which is so small that they always have trouble to get over the 5℅ necessary to be in the Bundestag, so he has never been in any leading position. And even the nomination to become president failed. And even if he became a president, in Germany that is not a leading position, a president just represents a country like a King.

In Poland, for Lech Kaczyński (who was the president of Poland) the wikipedia article down not even mention his work as an actor. On IMDB 4 entries are there. He was voice acting for a animated movie as a 13 years old and this is the biggest of the movies he was involved. The next next is a documentary, so he is not acting. The next one is a special episode of a game show to which politicians have been invited as participants. So no acting here either.

The next from Poland Jarosław Kaczyński, the twin brother also only had the voice acting as a 13 years old and documentaries where he didn't act listed on his IMDB page.

The third and last polish guy in the lis fits the description of a celebrity and politician in power, he was elected into parlament.

For Sweden nobody is listed. Same for South Korea. So from the countries I lived in my feeling that this doesn't happen is supported by the list you linked.

But other Asian countries, god damn! The lists for India, the Philippines and so on are soooo long! I didn't expect it. So it's really different in different countries.

"it's ok because other people do it" is not a good argument.

Also, the scale of any activity subject to that excuse is relevant. Many electorates occasionally act weird, some electorates are notorious for the same acts.

Yeah that is true, but I also did not claim that. Anyway I have a hard time finding any celebrity in office in the countries I lived in (Poland, Germany, Sweden, South Korea), doesn't mean it doesn't happen though, just that it looks to happen much less often.

She would actually be a good one.

Judy is tough, but fair. I love her.

I can and I will continue to make a fuss about it, but goddamn it, you're not wrong. He really is.

The kicking and screaming is more proof.

As I understand it, Arnie is actually fairly intelligent, and also surrounded himself with competent people who knew how to do the jobs he asked of them.

Yeah. He got a bunch of parks built, and a bunch of other things to improve basic qol.

I did not want to put in any judgment on how well celecreties do in office, it was just an observation that this doesn't really seem to happen in other countries to this extend. But there instead mostly professional politicians or scientists like Angela Merkel run the show.

While I do think positively of him, I'll raise the counter example of Ronald Reagan.

You forget clowns are much more dangerous when there are no adults in the room.

I used to live in England back in 1999-2004 on and off during the summer with my mom. Even then we were a fucking joke. I learned very quickly to lose my Texas accent and just tell people I was Canadian. I literally almost got my ass kicked several times after 9/11 when my fellow Brits found out I was from America. I wasn't even old enough to vote at the time. I haven't been back since 2009 but I suspect nowadays they'd just feel sorry for me. I live in California now which is rife with it's own problems but at least my family and I feel somewhat safer here than in Oklahoma or Texas where we lived most our lives. I couldn't raise my daughter in Oklahoma and feel that in doing what's best for her. Plus California is fucking beautiful and there's so much to do and see! Cost of living is the only downside here for me.

A lot of it is nervous laughter now but I'm sure it's the same down there now too.

Dr Nick would be preferred

I, too, prefer the narrative where this is our problem to deal with and the consequences for our actions will be paid for by us.

Now i’m not so sure that narrative is true, but there is comfort and motivation to be found in knowing the world will go on without our shenanigans

This is pretty much the feeling as an American too.

Ok but the golden age of television is when tv stopped being constrained to news, sports, unintelligent serials, or the occasional series of one off episodes with a brain like twilight zone and Star Trek. It’s the era in which it stopped being exceptional for a tv show to have artistic merit thanks to the rise in expectations of continuity from episode to episode. It’s the least dumb tv has ever been.

This is the product of social media and the failure of the education system

You know what he said multiple times on his demented rants. Tivo is the best invention since, well I don't remember the full quote

Obligatory reply that it’s no less amazing and shocking when you’re watching it from the inside.

No less confusing either. I just have to hope that it’s more ignorance than malice, but the two often go hand in hand.

Well CUT IT OUT, then!

Please predict that he appoints independent senator from Vermont that the DNC thinks is a joke and lost an election to avoid nominating to something important next.

Doesn't matter anymore. Didn't read past the headline, so I didn't realize the real appointee for Secretary of Education is actually the wife of the strut-around/smell-money/fall-over-in-his-chair wrestling dude from the memes.