Better him than Newsom.
Now THAT’S a guy that has potential to be a good president.
Seems like a perfect candidate. Astronauts are intelligent, determined, hard working and don’t freak out in pressure situations.
Can’t get any more All American than a Senator former astronaut, veteran. Was he a star quarterback as well?
I’ll take anyone that’s been able to experience the Overview Effect.
The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.
A 2018 questionnaire survey of 39 astronauts and cosmonauts found that humanistic changes predominated over spiritual changes. In particular, the survey found a moderate degree of change in the Perceptions of Earth subscale (Earth as “a beautiful, fragile object to be treasured”), which significantly correlated with subsequent involvement in environmental causes.
Immediately after his October 2021 Blue Origin flight, William Shatner told founder Jeff Bezos, “What you have given me is the most profound experience. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now.” However, in October 2022 he recounted that it took hours for him to realize why he wept after stepping out of the spacecraft: “I realized I was in grief for the Earth.” He later said that “I saw more clearly than I have… (the) slow death of Earth and we on it.” His biography Boldly Go recounted that “it was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands… It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”
Except the Amazon guy. His takeaway from his suborbital flight was that it would be cool to place factories in orbit.
Trump’s… This is it? Of all the billions and billions and trillions of star systems and I only get to fuck up this one tiny blue dot in one of them? Who made this universe? I want to demand that he or she, but mostly he give me more planets to fuck up. He doesn’t deserve all knowledge about all planets with living life in them!..
40 days and 40 nights later…
Anyway, so a big Jesus comes to me. Big fellow, crying, very burly. He comes to me and says. He says, Mr president, says. He. He says to me. To me. He says. Mr president. Crying the big burly fellow. And remember, its jesus. I found him. Well some would say he found me. Yeah I locked him up. Told him to not be a little bitch and give us, give me more planets. He says to me. I told him I’d release him if he give us more planets. Its up to him really, if he wants to free himself. He says Mr. President, I’m here to now the lawn. I says not now mother effer! I always say it like that, I coined, well I 100 dollar billed the phrase “mother effer”. Not now, because I was never given my pace price I want more planets. I’ll be their acting president. I’m what you call a good actor, a great actor actually. Don’t know if you watched but there’s a little thing called “home alone too” and star in that movie. I deliver the most wonderful dialogue. I says. So jesus, he’s at the detainment facility. He’s a bad hombres, won’t give us planets!
I’ll re-clarify… Any non-CEO that’s been there.
It seems that the mental bullshit that enables someone to operate as a large company CEO can even overpower something that brings normal people to tears.
Knowing this, how are we not putting them into asylums for the safety of the rest of society?
There was talk about going to mars a while back. I say we let them.
Force them*
Preferably in a ship built by amazon warehouse laborers.
He should. If not to win, to show the rest of the idiots in the country what a legitimate leader looks like.
I like him, he at least has the balls to call out these fascist cunts. Having said that, next presidential election is going to be a kangaroo election. Trump already said last time if he got in, you’ll never have to vote again; he’ll have it fixed so good.
The only real hope is that Trump doesn’t live that long.
Sure, but his entire cabinet is Russian lackeys. This doesn’t end when he stops breathing.
Does he? He wouldn’t say whether he thought there might have been any illegal orders to the military. Like his statement was hypothetical rather than about a campaign of murders and an undeclared act of war. I don’t recall him saying anything forceful as Americans have been attacked by masked brown shirts either.
He’s a centrist with a cool resume, not a fighter.
ffs.
I agree. I’ll tank some downvotes for you.
If we don’t have an actual socialist running in 2028. All my efforts will be spent on sabotaging the Democratic party by any means necessary.
We either have a complete takeover of that party by the left; or we burn it to the fucking ground.
My bet is on the bonfire.
