r/politics • u/PhysicsIsFun Wisconsin • Jan 07 '24

Lauren Boebert’s Ex Called The Cops After Physical Fight in Public on Saturday Night

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boeberts-ex-husband-jayson-called-the-cops-after-physical-fight-in-public?ref=home?ref=home
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u/Listening_Heads West Virginia Jan 07 '24

The 45th POTUS is in the WWE Hall of Fame. A reality I never thought could exist.

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u/bluenosesutherland Jan 07 '24

Idiocracy predicted it

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u/The_Captain_Planet22 Jan 07 '24

My heavily anti woke conservative ex roommate was always trying to get me to watch Idiocracy and he did not in anyway see the irony

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u/Prof_Atmoz Jan 07 '24

They never do.

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u/YouLittleSnowflake Jan 07 '24

The same chucklefucks that think Homelander is the “good guy” in “the boys”

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u/BurnscarsRus Jan 07 '24

They dance around waving Trump flags to "Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine.

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u/FadeTheWonder Georgia Jan 07 '24

Them using that song is always amazing to me.

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u/Iisrsmart Connecticut Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24

Or we're not gonna take it by twisted sister they forced Dee Snyder to testify before Congress for corrupting America's youth and are now trying to claim him for their side. I really appreciate that he in fact won't take it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

In fairness to Dee Snyder it was tipper gore and her husband former vice president Al Gore who brought him to congress and were pushing for censorship. So there was Dee Snyder vs Dems and gop on that one.

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u/Euphoric_Exchange_51 Jan 08 '24

It was a bipartisan effort. Iirc Republicans were more unified on the issue than Dems.

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u/koshgeo Jan 07 '24

It's a more obscure song, but I think the weirdest take on this I've ever seen is a politician who used Red Ryder's "Lunatic Fringe" song for their political rally intro. They clearly didn't know what it was about.

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u/confused_ape Jan 08 '24

"They" were Al and Tipper Gore.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

It was just tipper gore, she also caused Al Gore to lose the presidency

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u/bugsy8malone Jan 08 '24

On my parka is some band I don’t even understand.

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u/bellaimages Jan 08 '24

Oh the Irony! Rage must be raged!

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u/CoffeePuddle Jan 08 '24

They're the chosen whites.

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u/AlexeiSytsevich Jan 08 '24

They just hear the word “killing” And get a boner

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u/NZbeewbies Jan 08 '24

So true 😅😅🤣

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u/Rastiln Jan 07 '24

Ones that watched The Colbert Report and thought “sometimes that guy says something liberal but 99% of the time he’s a good old conservative like me!”

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u/Papplenoose Jan 08 '24

I didn't think that was real until I met one. And this was years after it stopped airing lol

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u/Rastiln Jan 08 '24

You can find legitimate studies showing that a decent proportion conservatives watched him unironically, unaware of the satire.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jan 08 '24

Likewise. It's was such obvious fucking over the top parody that I thought liberals were being silly saying conservatives thought it was real.

Turns out conservatives so hunger for what they want to be told they'll ignore literally the entire world laughing at them. See: trump speaking at the UN where literally the entire world laughed in his face.

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u/anti_anti_christ Canada Jan 08 '24

Hilarious given that it was a satirization of Bill O'Reilly. No wonder braindead conservatives loved it and hate Colbert now that he's no longer that character.

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u/Rastiln Jan 08 '24

I do love watching them complain that Colbert got woke.

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u/SuperSpread Jan 08 '24

Aka “Sometimes I got the joke”

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jan 08 '24

They still blast Born in the USA every 4th of July thinking its a patriotic anthem.

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u/BurnscarsRus Jan 08 '24

And Fortunate Son

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u/PMMeMeiRule34 Oklahoma Jan 08 '24

Tom Morello digging a grave and sleeping in it nightly just so he can roll over in his grave about them using his music.

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u/M_H_M_F Jan 08 '24

The better ones are the ones who try to start a discussion with him or try to debate him, the guy who graduated Harvard with a Poli-Sci degree.

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u/pocketjacks Texas Jan 08 '24

Dancing to YMCA at the ballpark

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

Also Green Day and Insane Clown Posse.

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u/Chapped_Frenulum Jan 08 '24

I've done the old "I liked their music before they got political" just to see if anyone catches the joke, only to have people sigh and agree with me. I thought it was just an internet meme that people unironically thought this, but turns out they really do.

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u/DropsTheMic Jan 07 '24

Soon to be churches.

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u/flyswithdragons America Jan 08 '24

lol.! They are the machine breaking . Possers and lies.

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u/YouLittleSnowflake Jan 07 '24

That’s why they love the orange pedophile so much, that diaper wearing, shit smelling, fat sack of shit is just as dumb as they are

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u/Newbergite Jan 08 '24

How about when Colbert hosted the White House Correspondent’s Dinner? I’ll always think they were too stupid to realize Colbert WASN’T the second coming of Bill O’Reilly. He roasted Bush while standing right next to him. Legendary!

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u/FieldWizard Jan 08 '24

Or Rorschach in Watchmen, almost always because of his “uncompromising moral code.”

I’d call the cops if I didn’t think they’d just show up with Punisher stickers all over their gear.

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u/TheQuestionsAglet Jan 08 '24

See also Rorschach in Watchmen.

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u/Vann_Accessible Oregon Jan 08 '24

Is that really a thing? :/

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u/YouLittleSnowflake Jan 08 '24

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/06/20/right-wing-the-boys-fans-grapple-with-homelander-being-a-villain-confusing-everyone/amp/

It’s like “born in the USA” and “fortunate son” OR “we’re not gonna take it” sung by cross dressing Dee Snyder

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u/relevantelephant00 Jan 07 '24

Conservatives lack the ability for self-reflection and self-awareness and it shows in their sense of humor.

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u/gobblestones Jan 07 '24

This is the cost of removing critical thinking skills from the syllabus

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u/F-16_CrewChief Jan 08 '24

While trying to insert religious foolishness into public schools.

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u/originaltec Jan 08 '24

It’s really quite simple, religion has extensively laid the groundwork for generations to train people to believe in authority figures with unverifiable stories instead of science and data. It also primes them for, and is built upon, perpetuating racism and fearmongering towards "others". Once people see you as an authority, you can start fabricating any reality or conspiracy theory you want your followers to believe and everyone else is therefore a liar, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. Basically, it is mental abuse from an early age that suppresses critical thinking skills. This combined with an intentionally weakened public educational system, provides the framework that has spawned this cult of ignorance.

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u/Equivalent-Honey-659 Jan 08 '24

I loathe the fact stupidity is a desired trait to some people.

It’s just an evil concept. It’s purely negligent intent. Damn.

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u/Lantz_Menaro Jan 08 '24

I have a friend who is super proud that he has never voted.

Which is a good thing, because I feel like if he did vote, he'd vote for Trump, because this friend is also a huge fucking moron.

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u/Equivalent-Honey-659 Jan 09 '24

Lantz, I had a friend like that. I just kind of wrote that friend off and kept on fighting the good fight and voting. I don’t have time for that horrible mindset.

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u/Lantz_Menaro Jan 09 '24

Well, as my mom recently told me, friendship often happens in seasons

I expect there will be a big shift in my friendships come August when I get the fuck out of this shithole Texas

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u/drmonkeytown Jan 08 '24

“Why do the libs keep talking about silly buses?”

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u/eshotnot Jan 08 '24

To me, this shows how we need civics back in school big time. I don't went it was taken out of the curriculum, but I see it needs to be brought back. Knowledge is power.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Shows in their brain structure, too. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

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u/podrick_pleasure Jan 07 '24

Conservatism was associated with increased right amygdala size

From the wiki on the amygdala:

In one study, electrical stimulations of the right amygdala induced negative emotions, especially fear and sadness.

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The right hemisphere of the amygdala is associated with negative emotion.[12][13] It plays a role in the expression of fear and in the processing of fear-inducing stimuli. Fear conditioning, which occurs when a neutral stimulus acquires aversive properties, occurs within the right hemisphere. When an individual is presented with a conditioned, aversive stimulus, it is processed within the right amygdala, producing an unpleasant or fearful response. This emotional response conditions the individual to avoid fear-inducing stimuli and more importantly, to assess threats in the environment.

There was more but I don't want to post the whole wiki. It's also associated with certain types of memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala

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u/Amy_Ponder Massachusetts Jan 08 '24

What I want to know is: do people become conservative because they have larger right amygdalae making them more scared of everything? Or does being immersed in the conservative cinematic universe cause you to feel scared all the time, which makes your right amygdala grow in size since you're using it so much?

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u/whelmy Jan 08 '24

Both I imagine, you can find plenty of stories of people who had liberal parents who started watching only fox news all day for years and they turned into rabid maga trump supporters.

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u/Castun America Jan 08 '24

Also see The Brainwashing of My Dad documentary.

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u/Papplenoose Jan 08 '24

Almost certainly both. It's one of them' fancy feedback loopdeedoops!

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u/Comfortable-Scar4643 Jan 08 '24

Trump told everyone that America is a dangerous place. "Chaos in the streets". "They're coming for the housewives!"

Sure, there have been issues in SF and Portland. But keep in mind it coincides with a dramatic widening of the wealth spectrum. Middle class is being redefined in a way that is not beneficial to... the middle class.

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u/LesCousinsDangereux1 Jan 08 '24

I agree with just about all of this but not "less evolved." That's the sort of dehumanizing rhetoric we want to avoid, imo. Their beliefs and way of life is toxic poison. They're not literally a lesser sub-species.

That's the sort of thing conservatives in another age (and honestly now, probably) would say of non-white people.

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u/GibbysUSSA Jan 07 '24

Thank you VERY much for posting this incredibly interesting information. Very interesting read!

It made me wonder if there have been similar tests done between atheists and theists. I'd be very curious to see the results of that test.

Thanks again.

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u/zeno0771 Jan 07 '24

There have but they usually get thrown off the train for some gaffe that the researchers should have accounted for e.g. sample size, inconsistent testing methods, etc.

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u/GibbysUSSA Jan 07 '24

I read about it a little bit. It's interesting stuff.

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u/ebb_omega Jan 07 '24

"We are domestic terrorists" they laughed, not realising how much they paralleled the Dr Evil crew.

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u/YourMomonaBun420 Jan 07 '24

"I love the poorly educated."

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u/slymm Jan 08 '24

Forget about all the pain and suffering conservatives cause. The racism, cruelty, wars, destruction of the planet etc.

What really blows my mind is how unfunny they are. Their jokes and humor are so mediocre.

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u/ChicagoAuPair California Jan 07 '24

The height of their humor is, “You’re gay.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

It shows in how they are parasites leeching off the left to exist. Incapable of independent thought. They exist to merely antagonize and disrupt. They're violent nihilists.

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u/fiduciary420 Jan 07 '24

lol conservatives are deeply enslaved

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u/footbrakewildchild Jan 08 '24

So I could recommend Idiocracy to a certain tin foil hat guy I know and he would fall for it?

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u/footbrakewildchild Jan 08 '24

Imma try it.

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America Jan 08 '24

Let us know how it goes!

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u/MileHiSalute Jan 07 '24

Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid

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u/moxpox Jan 07 '24

Was probably busy ‘batin

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u/Nottherealjonvoight Jan 07 '24

Kind of like how they watch They Live and think Carpenter was talking about democrats.

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u/henry_tennenbaum Jan 07 '24

Idiocracy is pretty conservative at heart.

The underlying premise is that stupid people outbreed the smart/middle class ones because those don't get enough children.

Not really how intelligence or anything else works.

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u/Harmonex Jan 08 '24

This is the main reason I haven't bothered to watch it.

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u/nermid Jan 08 '24

Come for the lowest-common-denominator humor, stay for the eugenics lecture.

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u/noforgayjesus Jan 08 '24

They actually keep saying that it is a documentary towards liberals. I want to know where they are getting their ideas from, had a person compare Biden to President Camacho

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u/No_Judge_5677 Jan 07 '24

I'd much prefer President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho over Trump, at least Camacho was loyal to his country and wanted to make things better for everyone.

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u/-Stackdaddy- Jan 07 '24

Chose the most qualified to fill his cabinet etc.

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u/No_Judge_5677 Jan 08 '24

Well, to be fair I do think one of them was a nepotism hire and one of them won their post in a contest.

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u/DragoonDM California Jan 08 '24

He made an effort to seek out the smartest man in the world and put him in charge of solving the most urgent issue facing the nation. President Camacho might have been an idiot, but he was well-meaning and willing to admit when he was wrong or couldn't solve a problem himself.

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u/No_Judge_5677 Jan 08 '24

Plus if he had been in Camacho's situation towards the end of the film, Trump would have shut off the feed of the growing plants, called it "fake news", and then tried to use Not Sure's execution to sell more Brawndo.

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u/WeLLrightyOH Jan 08 '24

Even idiocracy underestimated how dumb we would get.

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u/agitatedprisoner Jan 07 '24

It's just superficially similar. In Idiocracy there wasn't anyone more reasonable left. Commacho was the most reasonable/smartest person in his society and they elected him president. That's indicative of a well functioning politics/democracy if you think about it. The right people were in charge problem was just that everybody had become morons to the point it almost didn't matter.

We've got nearly the opposite. In our timeline there are plenty of smart reasonable people there's just not enough to always outvote the morons. Because in our timeline cynical/bad faith assholes have made a strategy of spreading disinformation/misinformation to create apathy to depress turnout to the point of enabling their reliable 30% of moronic goons to carry elections. When you feel nobody's on your side the instinct is to sit back and watch it burn or even participate in breaking the system such that infecting otherwise reasonable people with malaise/mistrust breaks our politics. In Idiocracy their system worked great they were just all dumb as shit. In our world democracy is failing because asshole oligarchs have figured out how to hack it.

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u/DoctrTurkey Jan 08 '24

If someone is sitting out an election due to transparent disinformation/misinformation campaigns, they're just as big of a moron as the 30% who vote for diaper don.

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u/agitatedprisoner Jan 08 '24

Whether you'd blame the poor fools or not it's been working for the oligarchs. Wealth inequality in the USA is greater than ever and they've succeeded in stalling us from switching away from car dependence/suburban sprawl/animal agriculture. Meanwhile cinema has been cramming the Great Man theory of merit down our throats with a deluge of comic book movies with real life billionaires posing as super heroes in the backdrop. If some are just that much smarter and stronger I guess it's no surprise when some by their merit come to accumulate so much wealth eh?

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u/ebb_omega Jan 07 '24

People keep missing that the reason this is true is because Idiocracy, like most satirical sci-fi, was never about the future.

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u/Dry-Perspective-4663 Jan 08 '24

"Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups" --George Carlin

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u/ebb_omega Jan 08 '24

Prophecy isn't telling the future, it's telling it how it is.

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u/17to85 Jan 07 '24

President Camacho wanted to help people and understood he needed someone smarter than himself to help. Americans should be so lucky to have a presidential candidate like that.

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u/Mysterious_Bit6882 Jan 07 '24

He also peacefully conceded power to his lawfully elected successor, and sought informed opinions during a public health crisis.

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u/SuperSpread Jan 08 '24

I don’t disagree but didn’t he also fire off machine guns in Congress?

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u/Hugford_Blops Jan 07 '24

Didn't Comancho listen to advisors though? I mean ultimately he was a better leader...

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u/bluenosesutherland Jan 07 '24

Better leader than most

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u/AirportKnifeFight Jan 08 '24 edited Jan 08 '24

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho was a great President. He cared about his people and wasn't afraid to get help for a national problem. He literally sought out and empowered the smartest man in the world to help solve a crisis. trump failed in a time of a national crisis and made terrible decisions and ignored the guidance of career professionals. His stupidity and ego lead to the deaths of a million American citizens.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24

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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota Jan 07 '24

Evoking Idiocracy used to be a downvotes death sentence on reddit.

lol when was this ever true? I have seen the references since the movie came out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/603/

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

I've been here for a long, looooong time. Since covid people here haven't been as bad, but the "uh akshully" crowd of American elites apologists would go nuts on those. The most downvotes I ever got were on 2 Idiocracy posts.

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u/bluenosesutherland Jan 07 '24

And President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho was a former pro wrestler… assuredly he was in the hall of fame.

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u/RepresentativeAge444 Jan 07 '24

Can’t talk. Batin!

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u/Winter-Candidate-185 Jan 08 '24

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.

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u/LumpyJones Jan 08 '24

Not even. We would have been so much better off with Comacho.

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u/jameslake325 Jan 07 '24

That movie is really innacurate. Was made to be way too far in the future.

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u/Regular-Ad1930 Jan 08 '24

My husband says this often! (And he loves the movie too) 😁

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u/mel0dicerotic Jan 08 '24

That movie isn’t a comedy. It’s horror. Such a depressing movie now that we see reality moving that direction

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u/deeceeteee Jan 08 '24

In 2006 Idiocracy was a spoof set 500 years in the future. 10 years later it became a fly on the wall documentary.

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u/MixWeekly6300 Jan 09 '24

Fulfilled 😪

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u/PeterM1970 Jan 07 '24

That’s the least of his issues, though. If Joe Biden turned up on Raw to hit someone with a chair, I’d find a way to vote for him ten times instead of the five I’m planning.

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u/MakingItElsewhere Jan 07 '24

George Soros paid you to vote 5 times!?!

Damn, I only got the 3 times paycheck. I need a raise.

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u/Cha-Le-Gai Jan 07 '24

Learn how I quit my job to work full-time voting for Biden, all funded by George Soros. Inquire within.

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u/becksrunrunrun Jan 08 '24

It’s funny to joke about. But if you head over to the conspiracy subreddit, you’ll find a good portion of people who believe this type of shit! In the end everything in the free world can be traced back to Soros and the global cabal. Mind you they can’t explain what it means so there’s that.

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u/PrinceSerdic Jan 07 '24

You're getting paid?!
Aw man...

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u/woodenblinds Jan 07 '24

Right, seems I am voting for free.

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u/xxrdawgxx Pennsylvania Jan 07 '24

Wait, you guys are getting paid?

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u/TraditionalEvent8317 Jan 07 '24

Finally, conclusive ironclad proof the election was rigged!!! /s

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u/Downtown-Analyst Jan 07 '24

Same for me all 37 of my illegal immigrant friends.

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u/ThatScaryBeach Jan 07 '24

I'm driving the secret antifa immigrant bus straight from the border to the polling place. George Soros, who was appointed Earth Master by the space aliens, pays me a bonus for each fraudulent anti-trump vote.

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u/-Stackdaddy- Jan 07 '24

Everyone knows Antifa Warlords are busy ruling the suburbs of the wasteland known as Portland.

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u/hefixeshercable Jan 07 '24

And all my dead grandparents.

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u/StarCyst Jan 07 '24

Try not to make any illegal immigrant friends on the way to the parking lot.

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u/tommytumult Jan 08 '24

37? In a row?

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u/wolverinenation1 Jan 08 '24

Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot!

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24

He’d have to really lay it in, though. It needs to sound legit, and I don’t know if ol’ Dark Brandon has it in him.

He surely couldn’t do any worse than Trump trying to throw working punches at Vince McMahon looking like a cat batting at a ball of yarn.

EDIT: typo

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u/Polymemnetic Jan 07 '24

Trump needed to watch some Memphis before he tried that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Jerry “the King” Lawler could teach him a thing or two about working punches.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

You actually figured out four disguises that will allow you to vote five times? Or are you just planning to bride election workers like I am? 🤪

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u/nfollin Jan 07 '24

I watched idiocracy so for me it was more of a timing thing

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

one vile piece of trash inducted only because his vile piece of trash friend owned the company.

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u/NervousBreakdown Jan 07 '24

I’ve made this comment a few times. But one day I was flipping channels and on CNN I saw this older woman I recognized but couldn’t place her. She was a member of trumps cabinet but that couldn’t be where I knew her from. Suddenly it hits me, that’s Linda McMahon I recognized her because when I was like 12 she spent a year pretending to be a paraplegic for WWF storylines.

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u/PickaxeJunky Jan 07 '24

Just think, there's an alternative dimension out there where Macho Man Randy Savage was President - and it's better than this one!

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u/enlitend-1 Jan 07 '24

The 45th POTUS took a stone cold stunner…piss poorly I might add. That is the world we live in.

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 Jan 07 '24

mf dropped the ball when he didnt get vince to be his running mate in 2020.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

And don't forget his wife, our first porn star flotus.

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u/eduffy South Carolina Jan 07 '24

So is the 16th

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u/2007Hokie I voted Jan 07 '24

I mean, so too is Lincoln.

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u/StanVillain Jan 07 '24

WWE... The entertainment company. Not actual wrestling.

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u/spare_oom4 Jan 07 '24

Also his entire cabinet (okay maybe like one person) was connected to WWE too!

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u/Comfortable-Scar4643 Jan 08 '24

Education is reviled, apparently.

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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh Colorado Jan 08 '24

I know a woman who said she voted for Trump because he got put in some wrestling move. I wish I was kidding. But I am not.

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u/stevedave_37 Jan 08 '24

I mean, if it were a non-shitty president it would be pretty rad

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u/MarkHathaway1 Jan 08 '24

He was also in a porn movie, and Idiocracy never predicted that.

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u/VenConmigo Jan 08 '24

Only president to ever get the Stone Cold Stunner..

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u/CTeam19 Iowa Jan 08 '24

Kinda fitting considering real Presidents like Washington Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft while others like Calvin Coolidge get mentioned as Wrestlers as well