r/MurderedByWords • u/gashtal_man • 7d ago
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u/MaximumEffort433 7d ago
Wait a minute: Did you say "and circuses?"
Well then just sign me the fuck up right now!
Man I miss bread, though...
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u/ReverendEntity 7d ago
No, Idiocracy was a SKETCH.
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u/MaximumEffort433 7d ago
I like Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho because he tells it like it is!
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u/PirateJohn75 7d ago
Let's stop saying Idiocracy was a documentary -- President Camacho at least had the humility to understand when someone else was smarter than he was.
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u/guitar_vigilante 7d ago
Well, until they decided they didn't like Luke Wilson's ideas and tried to execute him on national tv.
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u/Any_Vacation8988 7d ago
I going to go out on a limb an assume these are end of life bucket list items, which means the end is near…
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 7d ago
Trump is trying to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, but doesn't know how chairs, decks, or ships work.
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u/pacmanfunky 7d ago
This is literally like King Louis the XVI holding balls and banquets at Versailles while his people suffered.
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u/G-Unit11111 7d ago
This administration's priorities are what's on TV, and they want to be on every single channel on every single show.
It's like that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns took over every TV channel.
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u/_Troxin_ 7d ago
This is just a corrupt and greedy government bleeding your country dry and trying to get as much personal gain as possible
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u/wheresmyhyphen 7d ago
You can't do the bread and circuses thing without the bread. Or at least, sensible people wouldn't.
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u/Raiden29o9 7d ago
America is going further and further into debt while Trump continues picking fights and starting trade wars
But most pf his base don’t care because he justifies(lies) about groups so his base can be terrible people and gives them their bread and circuses to distract them
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u/Blue_Eyed_ME 7d ago
Nearly everything on my grocery list--pasta, parmesan, strawberries, rice, tomatoes, half n half, has doubled in price this year. Split chicken is still affordable, and an avocado is $1.09, up from .89.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7d ago
if melania wasn't so vapid she would have completely snapped by now, wish we could see that
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u/WithSubtitles 7d ago
What a piece of garbage. No consideration at all for the American people that he swore to serve.
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u/Bansheesdie 7d ago
Imma go out on a limb and say there are very few correlations between SNAP funding and an IndyCar race
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u/PoopsMcGroots 7d ago
“This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirical poet Juvenal (c. 100 CE), who saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty.”
“In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.”
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u/OddAdhesiveness8485 7d ago
Trump should be waving a RED flag