Anyone thinking this dude is governor material clearly hasn't read his cringe ass book, its Dave Rubin-tier
Matthew McConaughey is considering Texas governor run
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I think he wa planning to run in the party that give it the best chance to win, he saw after Trump he can't win the Republican primary and maintain his image at the same time.
the guy has a lot of hollywood friends. aka people that constantly talk to him and no doubt influence him. I think in the end he would be somewhat redeemable. If this is what Texas wants, so be it. I know he has some history of handwaving the alt right, but, let's look at the current and the alternatives. Again, Beto is the best option but, I think Matthew would be a second. totally quote me in the future when he wins and goes full alt right, I'll deserve it.
The fact that Republicans are now unhinged nazi pieces of shit has made it easier for shitty centrists to claim that they are the best option we have.
The shows playing it straight? Is Randall Park literally playing himself?
You must not know much about Texas governors.
McConaughey would be an improvement.
In a vacuum, he's a dogshit choice and his run would smack of obvious vanity project. In Texas, I'd vote for him too
I mean yeah. I didn't want Biden either. But, here we are, and well, it is what it is. This isn't California. Quote me when you have a better candidate to take on Republican filth.
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Yeah, this is rough, McConaughey is pretty shit, and I’d have to see who the Dems nominate and what the polling in a three-way Dem-McConaughey-Abbott race looks like, but if things boil down to McConaughey vs Abbott, getting Abbott out and putting an L in the GOP’s column in a statewide race would be huge, even if it’s on some bullshit celebrity centrism platform.
Of course, I’d much prefer if this could create enough chaos to let a Dem slip through.
I think it’s a safe bet 99.9% of the time that someone has not read his book
Including me - I'm a veteran of the first ten minutes of the audiobook and not one second more
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Lmao wtf indeed.
Dangerous. I wonder how many of those are Americans that can vote.
That's literally as good as it can possibly get in Texas. And even that would be an incredibly difficult uphill battle.
He is angling for the Centrist role for sure. I would not say that really fits his politics. He used to have a Youtube channel where he posted videos and they were fairly left leaning critiques on society etc. For the hell of it I just went to look as I followed his account. All those videos are gone now and a lot of rebuild texas stuff has replaced it.
That is one way to completely kill his career in hollywood. Not because he is a republican but because he will be making some decisions and having to stick with them. Hard decisions that celebrity types do not like to make and I see him as either a hardliner or flip\flopper.
Will he just stand at the podium, mumble, chuckle and nod a lot like he does in his films?
I suppose shit on a stick is still better than Ted Cruz.
I suppose shit on a stick is still better than Ted Cruz.
He is the voice of rocket racoon in the mcu. If he becomes a politician he will probably stop doing any acting job so either they will recast or kill/sideline the character
Bradley Cooper is the voice of Rocket though. He sounds nothing like Mcconaughey
How the hell did i mix those 2?
... Oops sorry for this weekendEra moment =x
He's a centrist, and wouldn't constantly fuck over blue cities in texas by distributing vaccines away from them, lifting mask policies prematurely and suing cities that try to enforce local mask mandates, so yeah absolutely would welcome him as a transitionary governor as texas goes blue. Abbott would win hands down in 2 years, only Beto would be close but his more recent gun politics would kill his chances.
That also means AOC wouldn't be able to run for higher office if she chose to go for it.
...what would you define celebrity as? The second anyone starts gaining recognition, be it at a local or national level, they're a celebrity. As a Houstonian, at this point I'd say someone like Lina Hidalgo is absolutely a local celebrity. I want her to run for larger offices in the future. "Preventing celebrities from running for office" would mean she would be unable to do so.
Besides Beto (who is coming off back to back losses!), either Castro brother would be good but they both seemed determined to do nothing other than have Julian run for president.
In any event, Abbott is sitting on an approval rating in the 50s, so he’s likely not going down anyway.
Call it what you will, same thing.
Kind of random, but is Steve Carell still pro-trump? I was just watching a roundtable about the Big Short and Adam McKay says:
"Uh, well, Steve Carell [who plays investor Steve Eisman] loves Trump, so I don't want to cross any lines here. I don't want to get him upset."
Carell then says:
"I've made no bones about that"
I guess I was kinda shocked?
They are though.
Yes, he's playing himself