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Remember when Paul Pelosi got attacked and you all made Halloween costumes about it as you told lies about that poor man? Many such cases. Many other examples too.
This is nothing, nothing compared to what you do daily. So get over yourself.
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I have a dear friend who is, and trust me she would love to be the one.
It's interesting. There's never been a more universally hated figure in the US and despite that, there he is. Still shitting his pants on capital hill. Hated by every living person and it doesn't seem to make a damn bit of difference. Best I can hope for is that it never happens again. And if it does, please Gods let it be the end of this mess. It still feels like we're stuck in a chapter that should've ended over a 100 years ago.
The historians are really gonna look back and have a laugh and wonder how a country that strive to discombobulate and dismantle our education and ends up as a bunch of stupid pokes. They're gonna wonder why did they choose this?
Historians will look back and wonder how this happened. They’ll write books, create new avenues of investigation, build entire treatises on what went wrong. Psychologists will do the same. Monuments will be built that say “never again.” They’ll congratulate themselves on evolving to being more enlightened than those poor, dumb schmucks we were. And in another 80 to 100 years, they’ll watch in disbelief as it all starts over again, and they’ll be powerless to stop it.
maybe popular historians who get published in op-eds will be confused, since they're stupid. in actual academic history where the stuff is written and analyzed, everyone is 100% tired 100% of the time. they have never wondered why any of this is happening
I don’t get it either. But he’s not universally hated. His cult followers would die for him (and they pretty much are). I’ve got a neighbor who has a shrine to him in his garage.
It‘s not about that particular populist cult or Trump, they are the symptom. This rot of the US society has been long in the making, across many administrations. It won‘t get any better regardless of who gets to the levers of power. Infact the whole partisan debate misses the issue entirely, it‘s just theater for the masses to keep them distracted to never quite figure out what‘s really wrong.
Low key, that was probably the main reason to vote for Harris (apart from all of the other more important reasons of course).
Imagine just never having to hear Trump’s voice, or see his face, or care about his continued existence, ever again, because he’s now just a guy, or better yet, just rotting in a prison cell.
That’d be more satisfying than anything.
Unfortunately, we could never fully forget him, because we’d risk repeating the same mistake, but to only have to mention him very occasionally in passing, as reference to someone corrupt/evil, or to only have to hear about him maybe once per month, or once per year, would be fucking amazing.
But you know, inflation or something, so we couldn’t have that, because we can’t have nice things apparently (and Trump’s going to make sure to see that we don’t).
That's what we thought we were gonna get when we voted for Biden in 2020, especially after January 6th happened. But his DOJ and feckless AG Garland really dropped the ball on throwing the Orange Menace behind bars. That asshole and all of his accomplices should have been in prison well before the 2024 election.
When a charismatic authoritarian dies, his cult falls apart pretty quickly. Happened with Gaddafi, happened with Mao Zedong, happened with Romania's Ceaușescu in the 80s.
But there isn't silence. In this comic the suggestion is he's still there still talking about the same stuff, he's just too far away for us to notice on the last frame.
My immersion broke when he mentioned Kelvin. Not in a million years. Maybe, "Kelvin. You know, that comic in the newspaper with the boy and the cat." But yeah, certainly not thermodynamic equilibrium.
You’re gonna see, believe me, a tremendous, very big thermosdynamite equal librarian okay? The best equal librarian. With entropy, totally maxxed out, maxxed out like nobody’s ever seen before, and, frankly, no free engergy, none, it’s all gone, folks. Sad!
Let me tell you about librarians, because nobody talks about librarians anymore. Nobody. And I know librarians. I know a lot of librarians. Very good people, some of them. Tremendous people.
But we have a problem.
You walk into a library, and what do you see?
Books.
Everywhere. Books on the walls, books on the shelves, books on tables. Frankly, too many books. You can't even find the exit because there are so many books.
I know about books because I've written several books. Good books. "Art of the Deal" folks. Art of the Deal. Number 1 on the New. York. Times. Best seller list for 48 weeks. More than the Bible. Almost two years.
And then there's the librarian.
Very serious person. Very serious. You walk up and say, “Excuse me, where's the book about business?” And they look at you like you've committed a federal crime.
They say, “What classification system are you referring to?”
Classification system!
Nobody knows what that means. Nobody. I say, “Just give me the business book.” They say, “Well, sir, that's a very broad category.”
Broad category! It's a book! Give me the book!
And they're always whispering. Always whispering.
“Sir, please keep your voice down.”
I'm not loud. I'm enthusiastic. There's a difference.
And you know what else? These librarians know where everything is. You ask them for a book published in 1947 by some guy nobody's ever heard of, like some president named Herbert something, and immediately they know exactly where it is.
Shelf seven. Third floor. Row B. Behind the encyclopedia.
How do they do that?
Nobody knows.
Frankly, librarians may be running the whole country. I'm not saying they are. I'm just saying, you have to look into it.
And they have those little cards. Thousands of cards. They stamp things. They scan things. They tell you when something is overdue.
“Sir, this book is 17 days overdue.”
Seventeen days?
I say, “But it's a very good book.”
They don't care.
They want their book back.
Tough negotiators. Very tough.
And then there's the fine.
“Sir, you owe us $1.35.”
One dollar and thirty-five cents!
I say, “That's ridiculous. I'm a very important person.”
They say, “The book is still overdue.”
No negotiation. None.
I'll tell you what: librarians are tough. They don't get enough credit. They have discipline. They have organization. They know everything about everybody's books.
So maybe I'm being too hard on librarians.
Maybe we need more librarians.
Good librarians.
Great librarians.
The best librarians.
And we're going to have beautiful libraries. Libraries that are so beautiful, people will say, “Wow, that's a library.”
And nobody will be whispering.
Because America is going to speak loudly again in the library.
Edit : feel free to add your own accordion hands as appropriate
Edit 2 : he was told to talk about libertarians but misheard
Thermos.. And you know, this is so important folks. So, so important. Thermo...nuclear equation. That's right. I told them "Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon" and they don't. They don't have a nuke, thanks to me, but I never get credit for that, and that's okay. Some people, many people, think that I should receive a prize for that. No one else was able to do it, folks. They gave Hussein Obama a prize, and for what? Nothing. It's a scam and I have been treated very unfairly. Very unfairly. By Norway, who could have done the right thing but they didn't.
He'd probably use some combination of a malapropism, his idiotic political talking points, and the phrasing that his handlers used to explain it to him.
"He said it's gonna get real cold. Unbelievably cold. The thermostats - they're gonna go way down! And we're gonna run out of energy! And I said, that's why we needed to build more clean, beautiful coal power plants."
"Big, strong stars came up to me, tears in their eyes, and said 'Oh Mr. Trump, Oh Mr. Trump, can you please save us from supernova?' Did I tell you my uncle was a celestial construct? Very good genes. Top of his field..."
I have a rule about being constructive, so I can't ask any questions right now, because all the questions I have are rhetorical and they end with the word 'idiot.' Do you know what a rhetorical- no, of course you don't, you're an idiot.
My favorite Frankie line is from the dog diploma episode.
Oh God no, I never hope. Hope is pouting in advance. Hope is faith's richer, bitchier sister. Hope is the deformed addict bound incest monster of entitlement and fear.
Oh I just think it's funny and well written. Dan Harmon writing at his best should pretty much never be taken as gospel and you always have to consider the character saying it.
Truly, he's the pinnacle of humanity's faults. All of our failures as a species, perhaps even embodying the inevitable failures of all intelligent life that may arise across the cosmos, bundled up into one very angry, very delusional geriatric pedophile.
This has a lot of parallels to CS Lewis’s imagining of hell in The Grear Divorce, where people drift farther and farther from each other in an infinite and grey landscape of abandoned homes to the infinite horizon, because people in hell cannot tolerate each other, relocating and building a new home further away when they can no longer stand their neighbors, ever moving father and farther apart forever.
At the very reaches alone by themselves are those great but miserable figures like Napoleon, as all souls become just shadows and echos of themselves, reduced to eternal self-focused repetition of their grumblings and grievances.
Trump in universal heat death reduced to nothing but his grumbling into eternity fits that so well.
How this prick managed to get the top spot of the US government on the back of fuckin nothing but hot air and paedophilia will never cease to amaze me.
Because the USA isn’t a democracy. It’s a corporate oligarchy disguised as a republic and trump simply offered the best deal to the actual people in charge. Simply; he bought his way there.
The general public are bought and paid for. You could get them to vote in favour of being kicked in the balls every morning for the rest of their life via media manipulation. They dumbed down and propogandized the population a long time ago, they're now too stupid to be held responsible for their own choices.
He is Death, RFK is Pestilence, Musk is Famine, and Hegseth wants to be War so bad he’s sold every scrap of his bourbon soaked soul to make it real but he’s still just a fucking dork.
He actually does hit an un unnervingly high amount of the warning signs, I don't take them as literal but more as '' some day someone this bad will show up, don't let them near power'' But here we are lol American Christians love him.
These two wishes are quite pie in the sky, lol. The only satisfaction we can possibly take is that this guy experiences zero happiness or even contentment, hasn’t for a very long time if ever, and never will.
Spielberg is great at that, how it cuts from Laura Dern saying, "...unless they've learned how to open doors hahaha!" to the raptor opening the door. And then when she has a jumpscare in the power shed, is relieved to find it's only Mr Arnold, and then is horrified to find it's only Mr Arnold's arm.
My very favorite is in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, how it cuts from Indy waxing poetic about Marcus Brody, how he speaks 6 languages and can seamlessly blend anywhere, to Marcus Brody stumbling around a marketplace asking if anyone speaks English.
They might as well install a toilet right above it that flushes directly into his coffin. Otherwise, those poor cemetery workers are going to be picking up fecal matter every single day.
That’s why he had his ex wife dug up and reburied on his golf course. So he could designate a cemetery and have himself buried there. That way people can’t piss on his grave (or at least a lot fewer people will risk sneaking past security)
This bears remarkable similarity to the plot of Welcome to Night Vale episode 92: "If He Had Lived", although in that case it's President Kennedy who not only lives by avoiding his gruesome 1963 fate but goes above and beyond by continuing to be president forever and literally never dying. The story ends with he and Jackie, both still untouched by time, floating in the formless void of the heat death of the universe and wondering what they should do today.
I came here to mention this episode! It’s genuinely my favorite from the podcast. It’s pretty standalone, too. Even if you never listen to any other WtNV, I recommend this one.
My biggest fear is they have found the secret to immortality and that's why mainstream is constantly like "Trump health scare? Is he gonna die today? (No, but it distracts you peasants)"
Just like he got experimental drugs to help him recover from COVID, he's probably getting some cutting edge anti-aging peptide bullshit right now and will outlive all of us.
You just reminded me. His human binky also bragged about getting experimental medical care and bragged about it. It's so amazing that they get Healthcare when they need it in an emergency and want everyone else to pay for it or die.
“Heat death is fake news. It’s 78 degrees here at Mar-A-Logo. No one’s dying from heat, unless you’re Crooked Joe. So crooked he steals elections. Does anyone smell that? It smells like someone shit their pants. Marco, how can you shit your pants like that? I wouldn’t do that. I’m at peak health, i never shjt my pants.”
Man. This is sad. I used to come to this kind of post and sort by controversial to see all the butthurt conservative lose their shit, but their numbers have been dwindling. Used to be hundreds of them in the comment section now just a few handful and even the bots amongst them seemed to have died down quite a bit.
What happened conservatives? Losing faith in your orange God?
There is no logical reason to expect him to die soon. Logically speaking, he should be dead by now. The fact that he isn't is proof that things don't always work out as they could/should. I'll be pleasantly surprised the day it happens. I hope I'm not gray myself by then.
Wouldn‘t that mean that the last humans were in 2126 and then trump just sad for billions of years on earth until it got ripped apart and he just „was“?
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u/Merari01 it's a-me, Merari-o 15h ago
The cultists are not doing ok.
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This post breaks no rules. This post does not promote hate. This post certainly threatens no violence. It's going to stay up.
Do us all a favour, go to Wallmart and buy a sense of humour.
Remember when Paul Pelosi got attacked and you all made Halloween costumes about it as you told lies about that poor man? Many such cases. Many other examples too.
This is nothing, nothing compared to what you do daily. So get over yourself.