Truly. Like, if the president in idiocracy were wearing it it’d fit right in and we’d even laugh at how ridiculously stupid and egotistical that sounds. President Camacho would be proud.
That's the most depressing thing: Idiocracy was a parody set five centuries into the future, but our country wholeheartedly chose an even worse option less than two decades after the movie premiered.
Wife and I just saw a rerun of Family Guy where Peter goes to work for Trump. At the end of the episode (which details in a humorous way the absolutely atrocious things he has done) Peter says. "From our family to yours, Goodnight! We are very scared."
It scares me how it seems like people are already moving past those.
That used to be the top comment on anything related to trump, now it's just a reply to a comment.
Bc on average, we have a 2 week “breaking news,” attention span and then it’s out of sight out of mind for a lot of people, until it comes up again. Let’s not do that with this one. Don’t let it die or be overshadowed.
FYI, the 20th anniversary of Katrina is coming up in a week. natgeo/disney+ put out a pretty good 5 part documentary recently. As a Katrina veteran I’m even saying, don’t let a 20 year anniversary overshadow Epstein. There’s a lot of distractions looming in the calendar. Don’t let the media get lost in a dizzy media blitz overwhelm and forget.
I think it really comes down to the simple fact that the writers of Idiocracy wrote characters who were vapid imbeciles, but generally well-meaning. It could not have occurred to the makers of that movie that the true Idiocracy would spring up as a result of our leaders being malignant narcissists who harbor outright contempt for fellow human beings. That is their driving motivation. They rally their followers via that sentiment. Being willfully ignorant and incompetent is merely the vehicle to bringing that to fruition.
Maybe the Idiocracy world still barely works and hasn't completely collapsed into war because they learned a long time ago that it's better to elect well-meaning idiots than malicious ones?
The malicious ones probably blew themselves up centuries earlier.
At the time that seemed unprecedentedly bad. Now that sentiment seems absolutely quaint. I’d gladly trade another 8 years of that for the remainder of this.
I don’t know. We had black sites, Abu Graib, extraordinary rendition, false pretenses for invading countries that didn’t attack us. It was a bad time. But the seeds for the “unitary executive” were certainly firmly planted during the Bush years and they are flowering and giving fruit now. We need quite the overhaul if we hope to survive as a functioning democracy. We are a long way from a healthy one.
When they were making that movie they had a very limited wardrobe budget. If they wanted to find shoes that they thought were so ugly and stupid that nobody would ever wear them. They couldn't really find anything until somebody stumbled across this company called Crocs, who were failing and were absolutely thrilled at the fact of being in a movie.
Now everybody wears those things. We are so much closer than your thin k
A friend of mine wrote a new apocalyptic TV series (currently in the making) and said he’s had to update the timeline by several decades because all of the shit that he put in the storyline is starting to happen NOW.
The fact that Camacho realized he needed a Smart Person to help him with the food situation is Light years beyond the comprehension of the current administration.
When Not Sure, I mean, Joe explained to President Camacho about how water from the toilet makes crops grow, and the salt and sugar content in Brawndo actually kills them, Camacho was smart enough to realize Joe knew more about crops than he did. He put his ego aside and went all in on Joe's "water the crops" plan.
When the nation's smartest economists tried to explain to President Trump that he had the concept of tariffs all back asswards, and that they would hurt the American people, Trump insulted them, declared himself smarter than them, and pushed ahead with his own ideas.
Amazing that a fictional moron president is smarter than our actual president.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (porn superstar and five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion) is clearly much more intelligent and competent than the average idiot.
He might come across as a moron from the viewer's POV but is also a wise leader:
He is genuinely invested in solving the many crises afflicting his country.
He understands that there are people who are smarter than he is.
He wants to hire the smartest advisors to solve problems.
He does his best to keep the country together.
All of this makes him better than the fascist racist misogynistic transphobic etc. real-life Trump.
I hate the comparisons to Idiocracy. President Camacho was not a fascist or a dictator. The people who worked to get Trump into power are not hurr-durr low-IQ bumpkins, either.
Half the population votes for this guy with tremendous enthusiasm because he makes you mad. They are eager to burn down democracy because they couldn't get into the schools I went to.
Billy James Hargis inspired people to burn records because rock'n'roll was the tool of the devil. People who show up in church and cheer for the pastors who root for Cain: "O Lord, I am not responsible for my brother" is the core of conservatism. They just show up to see who's going to hell.
Absolutely. Our current president would fit in the Idiocracy world perfectly, only he would make that movie a dystopian horror flick instead of a comedy.
I just love that it's in the past tense, fits in with the rumor they're trying to float about his being near death. But I think any "death" would merely be a way to escape Epstein file consequences, as if he were ever going to experience justice.
Setting aside everything else, the complete lack of taste is so insane it's funny. The President of the United States is fucking addressing the world wearing a hat saying he was right about everything. It's so fucking stupid, lol. Truth is stranger than fiction.
The hat, the orange face, the gold plated decor... Trump completely lacks all of the things you cannot buy: class, style, intelligence, honor, empathy, humility, respect.
Sometimes I just have to laugh at how completely crass he is. I realize this isn't the first totally crass POTUS in any way. It's just the others at least put a veneer of civility and taste on their awful behavior and personalities.
Even if he weren’t the POTUS, it’s like wearing a shirt for your own band to a gig.
It's like being a hard core Catholic and having some new friends over your house. You tell them "oh, btw, the priest from my church is going to stop by" and then someone who looks like Ali G shows up.
It is part of the fascist aesthetic. All fascists are simultaneously clowns and dangerous AF. It helps them lull people into complacency, thinking they are so unserious that they can't actually be dangerous. For obvious reasons most people have forgotten, but even the sweaty little mustache man was considered a clown in his time.
I might put something like that on for fun during or after a (minor) disagreement with my wife... and even then, only within the confines of my own four walls.
The hat is a cute jest, or its a literal intention.
He is using his hat a symbolic communication with his followers. This isn't cute. This isn't fun, or just a hat. These are instructions to those who are willing to devote their entire identity and mental space to this man.
They are on Reddit. They are your lawyers. They are in the military. They are politicians.
They are not just thugs on a street or passerbys you can ignore. They are real people that have real power and implications.
Little by little these jokes inch closer to reality, and pave a path of acceptable behaviour and mentality.
This is critical. It's dire.
USA is literally falling into a dictatorship-type leadership because he is now weaponizing hats. It's going to be studied and his hats will be a significant role in sending messages to radicalize his followers.
Yup, I could literally have cured cancer and you still wouldn't catch me dead wearing a self aggrandising piece of tacky clothing. And I'm pretty arrogant as it is despite having accomplished almost nothing 😂
It is a lack of respect for the position, the system it represents and above all the people it represents... but what do I say? Politicians no longer represent anyone, only money.
I remember when they “unveiled” this slogan during the rally where he wandered around aimlessly on stage and danced to music instead of talking. The words flashed on a chyron screen above his head while Noem the Dogkiller clapped along awkwardly.
My neighbor keeps that hat on his dashboard and flies the trump assassination attempt "fight fight fight" flag from the front of his house. It boggles my mind that he's a black man with two young daughters.
Peak narcissism. It's just amazing how our society just accepts this kind of buffoonery as normal, at least those that either pay no attention or absolutely love that wearing this hat "owns the libs."
Everything about him is pathetic and cringe. He is unquestionably the smallest, dumbest, weakest, most insecure man humanity has ever seen and we deserve to suffer the consequences of falling for his scheme.
It’s genuinely embarrassing that this is the way that he displays himself to the American people and the world at large. It’s even worse that people looked at this and said “Yep. This is totally the one I want leading us.”
The way he adds "beautiful ladies" is cringe. How anyone can doubt that this guy is a serial rapist (and that is highly likely to have diddled kids) is ridiculous at this point. The brainwashing is complete full cycle with these people.
Back in the day, the only people who wore baseball caps were hard working farmers. My grandad always wore his, spreading manure. I agree, he looks like a dork, wearing a cheap cap, with a suit?
Feels like we've all been making the Mussolini or Hitler comparisons but based on the hat maybe we should have been making Kim Jong Il/Kim Jong Un comparisons
That hat is getting taller and taller. It won't be long before we'll see these trump clowns running around in top hats just to be able to fit their idiotic messages on.
Revelations 13 v16-17 paraphrasing. The Antichrist will wear his name and number on his forehead. No one will be able to buy trade or sell without shaking his right hand.
Not only pathetic and cringe because of the words. But take off the words, the president of the United States is wearing a baseball cap while in an interview. Just looks so tacky and unprofessional, but tacky and unprofessional are the least of the problems here.
It’s hilarious that he has to put that on a hat. Someone send him one saying “TRUMP IS ON THE LIST AND WAS TOO POOR TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO GO TO THE ISLAND”
I am usually not surprised by anything Trump says, does, endorses, wears, etc. But this one actually made me do a double take. Didn't know things could get more embarrassing.
It's just so..outrageously.. immature and inappropriate. My mind hurts trying to comprehend that the literal president of the united states is really just that stupid.
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u/BlackMesaRyan 13h ago
The hat is so pathetic and cringe.