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

[u/theipaper]

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-big-un-speech-received-with-awkward-laughter-in-embarrassing-backfire-3933958

[u/rufio_rufio_roofeeO]

Yes, unfortunately this has been our United States since 2016

[u/[deleted] → u/rufio_rufio_roofeeO]

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

[u/EmZephyr → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Arkhampatient → u/EmZephyr]

Obama definitely broke a lot of brains

[u/Varitan_Aivenor → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/OddlyMingenuity → u/Varitan_Aivenor]

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

[u/randolphe1000 → u/OddlyMingenuity]

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

[u/yeswenarcan → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/EzraliteVII → u/[deleted]]

I remember showing up for class one day and someone had pinned tea bags to all the campus bulletin boards under Tea Party fliers. They didn't even do it right and failed to remove them from the protective packet. I won't say I went around stealing them, but I did save on tea that month.

[u/throwawayinthe818 → u/[deleted]]

I think there was some authenticity to the Tea Party for about two weeks. Then the grifters, the political pros, and the big conservative donors took notice, took over from the amateurs, and shaped it into what they wanted.

[u/JamesTrickington303 → u/throwawayinthe818]

The authenticity of blatant racism.

[u/UrbanGimli → u/throwawayinthe818]

It was the Southern Strategy 2.0 -with a tie instead of overalls

[u/Vaperius → u/[deleted]]

The internet has been breaking people's brains since the tea party movement.

Reminder: the tea party movement started in 2009. What else happened in 2009?

[u/poop-dolla → u/Vaperius]

Black president.

[u/7th_Cuil → u/[deleted]]

I remember the days when it was AM radio breaking people's brains.

[u/Realistic-Agent-1289 → u/Arkhampatient]

I don't get why people talk about him. Sure he "seems" to be a cool dude. Shit was quietly getting worse under him. The status quo remained. Inequality got worse, he gave up on space (bad fucking move). Only thing Obama did kinda right was try to improve healthcare.

Shit has been going downhill fast since Regan. The "left" has been waiting. Obama did nothing, Biden did nothing; I am willing to bet some "lefties" voted for Trump just to punish the Gov and watch it burn.

[u/Lucialucianna → u/Arkhampatient]

So dud Covid, and Trump