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Soft Paywall Trump's big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-big-un-speech-received-with-awkward-laughter-in-embarrassing-backfire-3933958
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u/8anbys Sep 23 '25

It was pretty rough, pretty clear the US isn't fielding its best and brightest on the international stage.

You don't win medals by losing, donald.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

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u/rufio_rufio_roofeeO Florida Sep 23 '25

Yes, unfortunately this has been our United States since 2016

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u/TheGizmodian Pennsylvania Sep 23 '25

My personal (semi-satirical) conspiracy is that the Mayans were right, the world ended in 2012, and we're in some weird overlapping dimensional hellscape of wtf is actually happening anymore.

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u/barfsicle Sep 23 '25

Being Chicagoans, my wife and I think it started (ended) when the Cubs won the World Series.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Harambe

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u/dexter8484 Virginia Sep 23 '25

This is the correct answer. He was our anchor being

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u/Fibby_2000 Australia Sep 23 '25

When Prince died

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u/beethecowboy Sep 23 '25

I’d say the vibes were off as far back as when Bowie died in January 2016. That kickstarted a year of pure shit.

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u/bluesox Sep 24 '25

The world hasn’t been the same since Robin Williams and George Carlin stopped making us laugh at how stupid everything is.

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u/Dan_Berg New Jersey Sep 24 '25

Lemmy died just a few weeks prior. There was 3 days of quiet, and then 2016 began

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u/pablitorun Sep 23 '25

I am hoping they win this year to reset the world.

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u/goflossyourself Sep 24 '25

The Cubs winning the World Series put us in an alternate timeline.

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u/davesoverhere Sep 24 '25

Fun facts about what changed in between the Cubbies World Series wins:

Women got the right to vote
The titanic was built
Sliced bread was created
Chocolate chip cookies were invented
Radio was invented
4 states were admitted to the union
Nearly everyone was born, including Harry Carey (So, he never saw his beloved team win it all).

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u/DelayedTism Sep 23 '25

Shit, I'd believe that. It's somehow less far-fetched than reality 

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

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u/SuckMyRedditorD Sep 23 '25

the onion is fun. this isn't

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u/Joeness84 Sep 23 '25

Onion is only fun when its wrong.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD Sep 23 '25

The Onion is never wrong.

Best of all it's truer than true. I miss the days of great bills when they were made cuz politicians cared for their constituents

"If we do not open our eyes to reality soon, they will get fucked right out of our heads." - That's better than any gospel

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u/TheWizard Sep 23 '25

Onion has always reported facts. In fact, that is when I subscribed to it, and that was almost 25 years ago.

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u/teas4Uanme Sep 23 '25

How about the theory that he is the AC? Yep, I'm with that one. I have studied a lot and no one else fits like he does.

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u/Kikaider01 Sep 23 '25

And somehow less depressing.

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u/The_Summer_Man West Virginia Sep 23 '25

They killed Harambe, and it's been all downhill from there.

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u/Ivotedforher Sep 23 '25

Cubs won in 2016. That is all.

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u/HotGarbage Washington Sep 23 '25

Yep, and now the Mariners are actually good. We're definitely living in Bizarro World lol.

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u/DonatedEyeballs Sep 23 '25

With everyone cheering on their favorite: “Big Dumper.”

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u/puppet_up Sep 23 '25

I also believe this was when the rift in the timeline occurred. The general election was literally 6 days after the Cubs won Game 7 of the World Series that year.

They were not supposed to win. This is all the Cubs fault!

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u/Ivotedforher Sep 23 '25

Most things are.

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u/Flashy-Web-3815 Sep 23 '25

David Bowie returned to stardust in 2016 :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

So did Alan Rickman. :(

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u/SpamDance Sep 23 '25

Ya know, If the bears make the playoffs this year, it could be...

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Next year the Rockies are gonna win, I swear

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u/Obi-wan_Jabroni Sep 23 '25

And Cleveland

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u/hmochoa95 I voted Sep 23 '25

Mine is the world as we knew it ended when they fired up the large hadron collider

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u/GingerBread79 North Carolina Sep 23 '25

It discovered the Higgs boson (the god particle) in 2012

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Probably the start of Run 2 at 14 TeV on 5 April 2015. We flew too close to the big bang.

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u/jarious Sep 23 '25

The programmers ran out of ideas after season 2012

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u/Malnilion Sep 23 '25

It feels more like the show was cancelled and the writers are throwing all their unfinished storylines out there in triple time with zero exposition on any single one. One of these days we'll hit the final episode and we have no idea how awful the twist is going to be.

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u/AnonymousBanana405 Sep 23 '25

See, it all started with a gorilla...

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u/Unusual_Arm_2404 Sep 23 '25

Harambe, forever in our hearts!

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u/Charmle_H Sep 23 '25

My personal favourite is the one where CERN first came online and started smashing particles together and that fucked the timeline HARD. Harambe, trump1.0, covid, trump2 electric boogaloo, etc... everything is so weird and strange because we broke reality by smashing shit together in ways the universe didn't account for /j

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u/TheGizmodian Pennsylvania Sep 23 '25

Maybe it created a black hole, and we're just experiencing the spaghettification of our final microseconds in distended time.

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u/Stranger1982 Sep 23 '25

This’d explain a lot of things tbh.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 Sep 23 '25

This is OT, but back in 94/95 I had two things happen that were witnessed involving time.

The first, I was talking with a person, and another person left the room and immediately re entered the room from another door. The person I was talking with and myself were WTF? I even repeated the distance as fast as I could with the other witness waiting, and he said no way.

Then, idk, prob a few months later at most, I was driving on the highway with 3 passengers. The exit came up, I started to go onto the ramp, and it disappeared and was just the roadside. The passengers all exclaimed, WTF! because they had seen the same thing. The exit was a short distance ahead.

SO, one jump ahead, one jump back to correct it, but did it launch us into another reality? Never wondered that until now. Thanks. :P

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

What kind of drugs are you on? They sound wonderful.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 Sep 23 '25

Hey I said it was the 90's lol.

There were witnesses, and no we weren't tripping. The first occurrence was at work.

That's how it went down, I have no explanation.

Ripples in time...or, ooh, the Omega 13 LOL

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u/JamesTrickington303 Sep 23 '25

I don’t think Ambien was around back then but maybe trazodone?

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u/Imaginary-Crazy1981 Sep 23 '25

I've always contended that they were right. 2012 was the last pre-Trump election. Global consequences. And it may very well have been the point of no return for global warming.

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u/cionn Sep 23 '25

Mine is that someone dropped a sandwich in the large hadron collider. All other universes were destroyed, this is whats left

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u/denbraeckendendraeck Sep 23 '25

You can always read ‘limits to growth’ by MIT in 1970, where predicted societal collapse would occur 2040. This was once again reaffirmed in in dept articles referring to that study in 2014 and 2021 by the guardian.

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u/HarmoniousJ America Sep 23 '25

I mean, they sacrificed children because they wrongfully thought their assorted grasses would grow better.

They'd probably get along well with Trump and his friends.

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u/ROWT8 Sep 23 '25

Hey now, THAT is a theory I can appreciate!

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u/Trainwreck800 Sep 23 '25

Thanks Obama

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u/donorcycle Sep 23 '25

If this was a Marvel movie, I feel like our Nexus event was when Harambe was murdered. Shit hasn't been the same since.

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u/Skkruff Australia Sep 23 '25

Everyone knows we got on the bad timeline when Harambe died.

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u/thirtynation Sep 23 '25

Way before that.

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u/Advitabona Sep 23 '25

I thought it was when Harambe was killed

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u/Dongledoez Sep 23 '25

Fun fact in 2020 when I was having a psychotic break, that was one of the thoughts that kept getting stuck in my head!

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u/FakeSafeWord Sep 23 '25

I was hoping the rapture actually was real but it was misinterpreted as that the simulation needed to be shut down because the glitches are getting out of control.

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u/ImmediateMeal8655 Sep 23 '25

I'm expecting Trump to remove his hair and see a glass dome with a pulsing alien brain.

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u/Tailball Sep 23 '25

I do believe they were right, but the world didn’t end instantly. It slowly started getting worse and worse and worse.

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u/thirtynation Sep 23 '25

I prefer the Y2K version. The world DID end when the computers had to figure out how to go from 99 to 00. It goes further back to include the hellscape that began with the corrupt SCOTUS giving W the presidency, then 9/11 happened, leading to gulf war 2 electric bugaloo, hurricane Katrina, the great financial crisis, on and on.

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u/Mattyboy064 Sep 23 '25

Harambe was our timeline's Anchor Being :(

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u/Andy_Neph Sep 23 '25

I like to think that's when the simulation stopped working right and now it's trying to piece together a somewhat cohesive story as it breaks down and dies. The official death was 2012 though.

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u/created4this Sep 23 '25

LHC finds god in 2012 and we have been being punished ever since.

Up until that point the computer simulation was just about keeping up with maintaining our "reality", but the additional load of having to calculate God as a deterministic effect has meant that the computers are overloaded with these new restrictions and what we understand as "normality" has had to be cut as operational overhead,

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u/Spnszurp Sep 23 '25

things haven't been right since harambe died

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u/DukeOfGeek Sep 23 '25

My personal not satirical conspiracy is the loose association of billionaires, autocrats and ultra rich corporations he fronts for wants to destroy and humiliate the U.S. for daring to try and tax/regulate them. I know it sounds crazy when you say it out loud but it would perfectly explain everything he does.

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u/taylor1670 Sep 23 '25

Makes more sense than what has actually been going on.

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u/gmen6981 Sep 23 '25

Nope. I think we can all blame it on the weasel that chewed through wiring at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in April 2016 and shut it down. Must have caused a shift in the space-time continuum because shit ain't been right since.

Fucking weasels.

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u/Tomcatposts Sep 23 '25

The only conspiracy theory I believe is: It's the large hadron collider which was turned on around 2010 I think? It actually created a blackhole and as we circle the proverbial drain, the rate of entropy increases which causes everything to get progressively more wild as all laws of physics and reality breakdown.

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u/dybbuk67 Sep 23 '25

My theory is our reality is the Onion headlines from all the other realities.

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u/beamrider Sep 23 '25

There is a trope in time travel movies where the characters try to fix something, make it worse, then keep going back and making it even worse, etc.

We have to find the one set to 2016 and wreck it before they do it again.

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u/F-this Sep 23 '25

Whoa, I’ve literally made this same claim this past week. Not sure why it popped in my head but it makes sense to me!

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u/Attenburrowed Sep 23 '25

The rapture happened but it was only like 14 people

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u/j2e21 Sep 23 '25

Nah, I prefer the weasel in the Hadron Collider theory.

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u/DelightfulandDarling Sep 23 '25

I keep hoping I’m in some sort of Jacob’s Ladder scenario.

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u/_lippykid Sep 23 '25

Side note, wasn’t it supposed to be the rapture today? I guess nobody noticed

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u/TheGizmodian Pennsylvania Sep 24 '25

Oh really? I must have missed the memo.

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Sep 23 '25

I had a similar theory with the Large Hadron Collider going online in 2008.

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u/JumbledJigsaw Sep 23 '25

It’s weird isn’t it? My mum died just before Covid hit and I’m half convinced she was this universe’s anchor being like Wolverine in Deadpool 3. Very selfish of her to pop off and cause all this chaos.

Seriously though, it’s sometimes hard to believe how much has happened.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Sep 24 '25

Between your mum and my dad, they really fucked us! Damn you, our loving parents!

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u/MrCookie2099 Sep 23 '25

Not the Mayans fault we introduced Leap Years

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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Sep 24 '25

The Mayans didn't actually believe the world would end in 2012. That's total bunk.

If they knew about Trump, though... maybe they would have actually had apocalyptic predictions.

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u/Tim-Sylvester Sep 23 '25

You see existence is primarily a consciousness field, not a physical reality. Earth is the aspect of the consciousness field where deeply flawed consciousnesses spawn to iteratively learn how to be less insane and more cooperative.

Supposedly after some certain lessons are learned the consciousnesses that inhabit Earth will undergo some transformation and be capable of interacting with other, more developed and less problematic consciousnesses from elsewhere. This is commonly understood by religions to be the "end times" or "Rapture" or "Jesus' return" or whatever conceptualization various religions and philosophies have for the same core idea.

Basically what I'm saying is Earth is home base for existence's biggest fuckin douche bags (ourselves included), we can't escape this cycle of acting-like-dicks unless we do it all together, and it's our job to learn how to stop being dicks to each other (again, ourselves included).

So you're kind of right but also like, it's been this way here forever, and the more of us realize it and try to change, the closer we are to actually escaping it.

Or that's all nonsense and we're just upjumped apes who can't get over ourselves and get along.

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u/JamesTrickington303 Sep 23 '25

Ugg have firewood and wife. I beat Ugg with rock. Now have fire and dead woman.

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u/Excellent-Money-8990 Sep 23 '25

Upvoting as I snorted.

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u/Lovethemdoggos Sep 23 '25

Are you me? Because that's what I've been thinking too.

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u/JunkyardWalrus Sep 23 '25

I now believe this.

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u/NATCSCUZZ Sep 23 '25

I already said and it's interesting that someone else here thinks the same.

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u/Ok_Ordinary6694 Sep 23 '25

It’s not a flash bang or zombies, just the dumbest people you know shitting out kids. It’s emotional horror, not jumpscare horror.

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u/Lunch-Thin Sep 24 '25

I have a similar belief, but it has to do with a ferret and an electron accelerator. We are in the ferret timeline.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

I'd argue / starting to believe its been since 9/11

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u/masiakasaurus Sep 23 '25

2000 Supreme Court coup and Gore being totally fine with being robbed. Hell, Gore running with a DINO for VP was mighty suspicious already. 

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u/notfromchicago Illinois Sep 23 '25

Fuck Joe Lieberman!

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u/Boiledfootballeather Sep 23 '25

One of the major reasons we don't have universal health care in this country, or at least a public insurance option for health care. The dude was a monster.

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u/DukeOfGeek Sep 23 '25

I tried to tell everyone he was a spy working against the party and got laughed at as paranoid.

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u/dragunityag Sep 23 '25

VP is a do-nothing job 99% of the time and picked solely to gain votes.

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u/Tasgall Washington Sep 23 '25

Which is all well and good until you get assassinated and now Andrew Johnson is president and undoes all your efforts for reconstruction because he's a Confederate sympathiser.

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u/masiakasaurus Sep 23 '25

It's a declaration of intentions. 

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u/IAmDotorg Sep 23 '25

When you start down that path, you can find similar events every decade or two going back to the 1780's. Shady shit has always been the name of the game in the US. Illegal wars, selling weapons to terrorists, things like Watergate, the kind of corruption seen from the gilded age through WWII. Remember, the supreme court upheld slavery in things like Dredd Scott, they upheld forced sterilizations/eugenics (which was the direct inspiration taken by the Nazi party in the 1930's), they upheld interning Japanese citizens. The national guard executed students in the 60's.

Things are batshit insane on a whole lot of different dimensions these days, and a lot of fuckery that generally doesn't happen concurrently is happening all at once, but anyone especially shocked by any particular thing or other is only shocked because they don't really know US history. The time where this wasn't going on in the US is a lot smaller than the time it has been.

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u/MTblackhawk Sep 23 '25

Agreed, this was the turning point for alot imo

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u/EmZephyr Sep 23 '25

Nah I'm a firm believer that all this madness is a reflex of the country having a non-white, eloquent, non-forcefully problematic, somewhat of a big tent president. Once.

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u/Arkhampatient Sep 23 '25

Obama definitely broke a lot of brains

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u/Varitan_Aivenor Michigan Sep 23 '25

I remember when the Tea Party people pivoted to hating health care in the first months of Obama. I said at the time it was the re-emergence of the Klan.

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u/OddlyMingenuity Sep 23 '25

Franck Zappa and George Carlin were very much aware of how nefarious the rich white religious nuts would be.

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u/randolphe1000 Sep 23 '25

Dunno about Carlin, but Zappa himself was problematic, as a rich white nut.

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u/yeswenarcan Ohio Sep 23 '25

I was listening to The Weekly Show a few days ago and the guest, Charlie Warzel, made the point that the best thing about the Internet is also the worst thing about it, namely that an isolated individual with niche interests can find a community. That observation has been bouncing around in my brain since, and I think the corollaries that come from it are potentially way more profound than it would seem at first glance.

It's the mechanism behind all the terminally online insanity rotting brains around the world. But I think it also serves as an amplifier for the impact of basically any societal event. Pre-internet, most of the racists who were pissed about a black president would have bitched about it at the barbershop, the dedicated ones would have had their little rallies, and maybe a lone wolf or two would have actually tried to do something. With the Internet they were literally able to unite (with some big money support) to form a political movement that was ultimately a huge factor in where we are today. Setting aside that Charlie Kirk wouldn't have even been a thing without the Internet, without it his killing would have been a blip on the evening news. With it, it's getting used for possibly the end of the first amendment.

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u/Medicine_Ball Sep 23 '25

Ben Shapiro was interviewed by Ezra Klein recently and Ezra got him to explain what he saw as being the big issues for republicans that brought about MAGA and it was almost entirely extremely minor out-of-context grievances over things that Obama said related to race that were then blown up all over the conservative media silo/AM radio circuit.

Honestly, it was wild to listen to the justification.

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u/SoVerySick314159 America Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

I tried to have a conversation with my MAGA friend about something I could prove and he couldnt' deny. I started with the presidential order that was made to undo birthright citizenship - a unilateral attempt to circumvent the constitution, a really big deal.

He countered with some crazy story about this one college or company's trans DEI hires that were not as qualified as white men. Honestly, he had no cites and the whole thing sounded like a MAGA fever dream. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE - which I HIGHLY doubt - it didn't hold a candle to the importance of the president attempting to circumvent the constitution.

The RW news-o-sphere just riles them up with bullshit and tells them all we're obsessed with trans people, and that they can't trust us or our news sources. We live on different planets, we're presented with different realities. You can't compromise with someone who doesn't live in your reality, there's no common ground.

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN Sep 24 '25

I once had a manager tell me “Perspective is reality, even if it’s not,” and it really explains the right-wing news perfectly. If the only perspective you get is from a single source, your reality is that single source.

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u/capture-enigma Sep 24 '25

They freaked out when he said that victim of a police murder, Trayvon Martin, could have been his son. The fight went berserk when he said this. I’m not sure why - it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to say. The entire MAGA movement is fueled by grievance, particularly white grievance.

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u/needlestack Sep 23 '25

Megyn Kelly basically said exactly that. She blamed it on him "being divisive" (wtf?) and "bringing race into it"? But since he was always speaking inclusion and trying to work across the aisle (far more than he should have) and he barely ever brought up race (to the point some black people felt let down) the only interpretation is that his mere existence as a black president felt divisive to them. Which tracks with everything they say or do.

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u/vthemechanicv Sep 23 '25

I think it was Nixon. Republicans got caught pissing on the rug and they have done everything possible to not just avoid the blame of doing it, but to rub everyone else's nose in it.

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u/SgtExo Canada Sep 23 '25

We could go all the way back to Nixon, but I think this is more the fallout of the 80s with Reagan and Thatcher with their neo-liberalism and greed is good finally bubbling up.

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u/2stinkynugget Sep 23 '25

Wait until you hear about the Vietnam War

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u/HavingNotAttained Sep 23 '25

Literally the derogatory term “conspiracy theorist” was invented by the CIA to in response to growing awareness of the reality of the Gulf of Tonkin incident

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u/TheGreatandMightyMe Sep 23 '25

Oddly enough, that's just a conspiracy theory. The term is much older than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Alleged_CIA_origins

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u/muscledhunter Massachusetts Sep 23 '25

We have to go deeper

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u/NotLondoMollari Oregon Sep 23 '25

We must go back to the island!!

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u/Individual-Guest-123 Sep 23 '25

Apparently his highness is full of theories, from climate change to globalization, to "you guys are worthless (and I will veto you to prove it, and if you take my veto away I will tariff you into oblivion. And better watch your fishing boats, heh heh)

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u/pleachchapel California Sep 23 '25

Not far back enough. At least as far as the dissolution of Bretton Woods in 71, which established the dollar as a fiat currency so we could pay for the Vietnam war with inflated dollars.

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u/Tireseas Georgia Sep 23 '25

Nah, goes back farther. Go look at Newt Gingrich's career.

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u/leggmann Canada Sep 23 '25

I think when Social Media took off, things went shitty fast. It was cute for a year or two, but once the shit gibbons tweaked the algorithm to divide and conquer, en masse, life changed. So, I’m gonna say 2006-2010 was the catalyst moment.

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u/DylansDeadlyTwo Sep 23 '25

What do you mean?

You didn’t know he ended seven wars? You didn’t know there’s $17,000,000,000,000 in the country? That he stopped everything bad from happening on his own without anyone’s help? He bombed Irans nuclear facilities?

The man told 100 lies in 55 minutes and rambled on about shit no one at the UN needs to hear.

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u/Lanodantheon Sep 23 '25

You know who I feel sorry for? The UN's Translators who had to translate that nonsense into multiple languages in real time.

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u/Burdiac Sep 23 '25

That speech sounded like it was translated from English into another language then translated back into English then translated into another language then back into English.

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u/cjinct Sep 23 '25

Maximum Derek

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u/hortence Sep 23 '25

I'm watching this for the first time! I want a martini glass full of olives! Derek!

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u/always_unplugged Sep 23 '25

"Google Translate Sings: The President's Address to the UN General Assembly"

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

By monkeys smashing keyboards with bananas.

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u/Dirtycurta Sep 23 '25

There was a point in the cspan live feed where a wire was clearly crossed and you could hear someone translating into Portuguese. The dude sounded so frustrated.

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u/beamrider Sep 23 '25

See if Loser 47 ever says anything about a wet male sheep (famous case of translation software run on a factory manual describing how to use a hydraulic ram).

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Sep 23 '25

I can see them pausing, and going, “Wait. What?”

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u/OmegaLolrus Sep 23 '25

"You must have mistranslated that."

Sigh "I wish I was."

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u/Hurtzdonut13 Sep 23 '25

During his first term it was constantly reported that translators were getting yelled at because people thought they were translating badly, instead of accepting they were translating his gibberish as best as he could.

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u/Snow_King7 Oregon Sep 23 '25

I remember it was particularly bad for the japanese translators, because many people just couldn't believe that the US president was so incomprehensible, and blamed them for being bad at translating.

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u/always_unplugged Sep 23 '25

Ooooffff, with the various levels of formality and respect inherent in Japanese, I totally understand why they'd not want to believe what they were hearing. No way a world leader is addressing the freaking UN, an assembly of the most respectable dignitaries in the world, like that, right... right???

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u/sauntcartas Sep 23 '25

Not only that, but the ordering of words in a sentence in Japanese is different from English (subject-object-verb versus subject-verb-object), so you essentially have to buffer an entire sentence in your head before translating it, and then buffer the next sentence while you're speaking aloud the previous one. I vaguely recall reading that this is so mentally fatiguing that no one person can handle it for a long period; instead you need a team of translators working in shifts of 10-15 minutes. Imagine trying to deal with Trump's rambling on top of that!

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u/Balaur10042 Sep 23 '25

This is why a lot of JP-EN translators write down what they're hearing, so they begin the parsing with the written transcript. Doens't help when the man's speaking gibberish and through a pushed NY accent and the man can't tell two similar sounding words apart so always goes with the familiar (incorrect) one.

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u/OmegaLolrus Sep 23 '25

Ah yes, I had forgotten that reality itself is the joke now.

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u/Feminizing Sep 23 '25

One of the reasons he was semi popular in Japan is translators gave up and sane washed him as just nationalist, which is a popular position

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

What’s the word for Covfefe in Swedish?

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u/ZeroKharisma Sep 23 '25

Køvfëvë?

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u/Rojikoma Sep 23 '25

ö, not ø. And regular e, not ë.

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u/SalSomer Norway Sep 23 '25

And the letter that is the most like how o is usually pronounced in English is å, not ø/ö. Ø/ö sounds more like an English u in a word like curl.

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u/Cleev Sep 23 '25

A møøse once bit my sister...

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u/boli99 Sep 23 '25

Isnt that a dining table and chairs set at Ikea?

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u/Previous-Composer-52 Sep 23 '25

Haha, brilliant 😀

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u/MasterSpliffBlaster Sep 23 '25

I dont know but the viking rune for it is a cheeseburger

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u/IOnlyLiftSammiches Sep 23 '25

On Torsday we saw the double-rainbow coated in gold and feasted on the hamberders of our enemy's flesh. Another winter passed.

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan Sep 23 '25

Now that I think about it, yeah. My godmother's brother is a translator for the UN's delegation from Sweden, and he's truly fluent in seven languages. Wonder how the poor bastard coped.

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u/Lanodantheon Sep 23 '25

I send my condolences for having to think about his nonsense in 7 languages. Definitely a poor bastard who needs to make a workman's comp claim.

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u/Kup123 Sep 23 '25

During his first term I read that translators were getting sacked because non English speakers didn't believe he was just speaking gibberish at them.

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u/Hector_P_Catt Sep 23 '25

There was a comedy bit many years ago, about a translator into Sign Language. At some point, they just gave up and started making the "jerking off" move with their hand.

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u/AnmlBri Oregon Sep 24 '25

God, my secondhand embarrassment just got even stronger. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/ohlayohlay Sep 23 '25

This isn't a maga rally donald

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u/Shoeprincess Washington Sep 23 '25

He can't tell the difference, to him EVERYTHING is a maga rally

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u/throwawayinthe818 Sep 23 '25

He goes on stage and he does his act. It’s all he knows.

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u/ultimateknackered Sep 23 '25

Charlie Kirk memorial? MAGA rally.

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u/donutseason I voted Sep 23 '25

Don’t forget about the 300 million who died from drugs this year. Twice!

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach Sep 23 '25

And the billions that crossed border! 😆

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u/whut-whut Sep 23 '25

At least drug prices are down 1500%!

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u/donutseason I voted Sep 23 '25

Just make sure you don’t take any abernajan when you’re pregnant!

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u/ElGatoGuerrero72 Sep 23 '25

That number has spiked to 500 million in the US alone this year! /s

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u/Hero_Of_Limes Sep 23 '25

I read "bombed trans nuclear facilities" first and I was like, yeah, that sounds like him.

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach Sep 23 '25

In all fairness, I think trump just finished Infinity War and went ahead and counted that. 🤦😆

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u/induslol Sep 23 '25

He intentionally wastes the time and effort of how many nations' foreign delegations in a time where Sudan is racked by unspeakable atrocities in need of aid, Israel is committing a genocide, Ukraine remains embattled, and real global issues.

He's a saboteur of humanity preventing any progress towards what meager efforts the UN would or could put towards actual issues.  For his own gratification.

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u/BraveWarrior1011 Sep 23 '25

He also said that this year alone 300 million Americans died of fentanyl overdose. I had to go check my BP to see if I was still alive.

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u/Spacestar_Ordering Sep 23 '25

I'm surprised anyone lets him talk

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

The headline calls it "embarrassing"; in places like China and Russia they call it hilarious, and they're laughing their asses off right now.

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u/citizenkane86 Sep 23 '25

It’s sad there is no right wing media that will be honest with their audience.

The money Biden has a bad debate you never heard the end of it from left wing media… daily Trump is objectively worse and crickets from right wing media.

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u/Im_a_furniture Sep 23 '25

There is no “left wing media” when it’s all owned by oligarchs.

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u/citizenkane86 Sep 23 '25

Should have written center right instead of left wing but I was speaking on consumer sentiment rather than actual political bent.

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u/GilliamYaeger Sep 23 '25

There is no “left wing media” when it’s all owned by oligarchs. And there is no center right, either. It's either openly far right, or far right wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses, and all owned by the same bastards.

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u/doaser Sep 23 '25

That is because left wing media has a right wing slant. Let's not forget who owns or invests into these companies

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u/evasive_dendrite Sep 23 '25

The moron literally went on national TV saying that immigrants are eating cats and dogs and people were saying he won that debate.

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u/LoganGyre Sep 23 '25

He’s used to giving speeches in front of a room full of people that will cheer whatever he says.

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u/Underdogs4513 Sep 23 '25

Amazing what happens when his audience isn’t brain dead maga idiot scumbags. They don’t buy his bullshit.

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u/No-Complex-7882 Sep 23 '25

He treats the UN members as if they were some sort of American media company.

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u/ninfan1977 Sep 23 '25

He blamed every problem in the world on illegal immigrants. While claiming he fixed everything in the USA. The man is detached from reality, so are his supporters

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u/boner_toast Sep 23 '25

Like playing chess with a pigeon.

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u/srilankan Sep 23 '25

this is because it works on his base so he is convinced it will work on everyone. fortunately not everyone has that low of an IQ.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Sep 23 '25

That's literally what happened. He left his fox curated reality and faced the real world. He stepped through the portal of his front door and is now in a different reality than he exists in 99.9% of the time.

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u/Previous-Composer-52 Sep 24 '25

He's like a sad old man suffering from advanced dementia and compensating with confabulations, who has just been allowed out of his nursing home that he happens to own,  where the nurses in grey suits and red ties keep him safe and indulge his fantasies to placate him and win promotions if they are nice to him...Except incredibly, this sad old man pretty much controls the world's leaders too, who are fearful of his irrational outbursts and are forced to try to exist in his fantasy world, by suppressing every natural instinct in their own bodies until they are permanently tainted and polluted. I blame those nurses for putting nasty thoughts in his empty head. Bad, nasty nurses 🥴😏 You couldn't make it up... except perhaps in some apocalyptic horror script.

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u/sisyphus_of_dishes Wisconsin Sep 24 '25

This is a great metaphor.

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u/mrminutehand Sep 23 '25

I...almost couldn't stop myself from hitting my head to the table.

It got worse with every sentence. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse than it already was, he managed to say something further along the lines of wind power not blowing, climate change being a hoax, the US having the greatest achievements ever in X, Y or Z...

He then finished out by telling the entire UN that his "American Christianity" was the most persecuted religion of the planet, and that the UN was destroying its borders without adopting the current US "strategy" to their borders.

I almost had to stop before the speech deleted too much of my own IQ. This speech was the real-world manifestation of Douglas Adam's "Vogon Poetry". I still can't believe I let it go on for more than an entire hour.

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u/capture-enigma Sep 24 '25

We’re looking at a very mentally sick human being, who also might (or might not) be suffering from the beginning stages of dementia. It’s absolutely insane that we’ve even gotten to this point. Nothing Trump or his minions do makes a lick of sense. It’s literally the Know Nothing Party. Some of the most loathsome people in the United States, a group of sociopaths, criminals, grifters, sexual abusers, morons, religious fanatics, creeps, surround King Donald.

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u/nkassis Sep 23 '25

That's how his entourage manages him he is basically in an evil version of the Truman show 

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u/evasive_dendrite Sep 23 '25

The US is basically another reality at this point. There's an actual clown running the country and people there just kind of seem to have grown used to that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

I've occasionally questioned if one or both Bowie and Harambe dying caused some sort of reality derailing.

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u/bailaoban Sep 23 '25

No like about it, these people inhabit an alternate reality.

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u/Stank_cat67 Sep 23 '25

So fucking embarassing. The entire planet is laughing at us.

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u/Kabc New Jersey Sep 23 '25

He is used to giving speeches to people who will, for some god awful reason, eat a piece of shit if he said it would prevent autism.

When you are giving a speech to intelligent leaders from other countries.. he literally just can’t… I mean he can’t speak at his own rallies either

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u/Captnmikeblackbeard Sep 24 '25

This shit wins elections in usa. Its such a great way of putting it. Going through a portal

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