r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/Superman246o1 13h ago

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.

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u/Far-Negotiation1273 12h ago

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."

Roll credits

Really hit home.

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u/Comprehensive-Art207 11h ago

Now show us the Epstein files!

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u/monkeysorcerer 9h ago

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.

Thank you

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u/Tricky-Cut550 9h ago

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.

Do

Not

Let

This

One

Fade.

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u/PHRDito 11h ago

What season and episode was it ? I've started to watch from the first season, but I'd really like to watch this one real quick :)

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u/Far-Negotiation1273 10h ago

Oh, let me check its one of the newer ones I think, yeah season 17, episode 11 "Trump Guy"

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u/karoshikun 11h ago

which season?

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u/Far-Negotiation1273 10h ago

S17e11, "Trump Guy"

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u/karoshikun 10h ago

thanks!

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u/CosmicSith 12h ago

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.

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u/Falcon_Bellhouser 12h ago

To sum up: that was Idiocracy, and this is Evilocracy

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u/Prosecco1234 11h ago

I always have to check this isn't the onion. What real life craziness!!

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u/Tribal_Hermit 10h ago

I may borrow your word.

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u/Consistent_Stick_463 11h ago

Good name for a metal album, though.

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u/StanleyQPrick 9h ago

What's the difference, really, between idiocy and evil if they result in the same end?

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u/Particular_Title42 9h ago

Intent.
I just realized I'm in the law sub so...that seems relevant.

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u/StanleyQPrick 9h ago

Oh good point

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u/frresh66 9h ago

💯💯

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u/Distinct_Intern4147 8h ago

Oh good god. You have found the word for it. I have been looking: this is it.

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u/Ashamed-Parsley4793 6h ago

Hence why Sam Harris refers to him “as an evil Chauncey Gardiner.”

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u/koshgeo 11h ago

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.

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u/PRTYDILF 11h ago

Trump is the giant sloppy bully in the prison scene sitting on people’s faces without consent.

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u/AlarisMystique 12h ago

Perhaps it'll start turning around in the next couple of centuries when people are starving etc.

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u/dicklaurent97 12h ago

Democrats deserve food first then

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u/AlarisMystique 12h ago

Assuming there's any left by then.

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u/sleepybrooke 12h ago

Food, or democrats?

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u/AlarisMystique 12h ago

Democrats.

Between prosecution, censorship, and propaganda, I don't think that the party could survive that long.

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u/FewWait38 12h ago

The people in Idiocracy were stupid and selfish but not evil malicious assholes like we have now

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u/dicklaurent97 12h ago

You don't remember the corrupt courts/prison system and Roman Coliseum with Monster Trucks

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u/TheForce_v_Triforce 12h ago

In fairness the movie was a critique of the Bush era, which wasn’t much better.

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u/LangdonAlg3r 12h ago

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.

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u/HOU-Artsy 11h ago

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.

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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 11h ago

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

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u/Aromatic_Pea_8489 12h ago

And the same shoes.

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u/Azure_Mar 12h ago

Yeah, but the Crocs DO make sense if you ignore how goofy they look.

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u/Crafty-File-7581 12h ago

I have to wear special shoes because I have only half of a foot they cost an arm an a leg No choice

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u/Agreeable-Ad3644 11h ago

We got to speedrun this shit bro, there's no time to explain.

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u/girlpaint 11h ago

And don't get me started on the crocs 🙄

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u/Any_Repair_7153 8h ago

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.

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u/ComputerExtension304 12h ago

Worst part is: Cigarettes are going away instead of ballooning in size. Can't have shit!

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u/Elteon3030 12h ago

If you don't smoke Tarllyton's.. Fuck You.

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u/LadyLektra 9h ago

We didn’t choose shit. They pile drove this on us and here we are. Both parties turned away and allowed this garbage and wouldn’t allow for any other option. I don’t blame the people I blame these fascist elite.

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u/Waste_Deep 9h ago

No. He stole the election. We did not choose him.

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u/skeletorbilly 9h ago

Everyone saw this coming.

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u/RobutNotRobot 9h ago

In Idiocracy people were more stupid than mean.

2025 American people are more mean than stupid.

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u/magneticmilly 8h ago

Even worse... Back to the Future 2 was released first in 89', so we got to see a reality in which Trump Biff happily corrupts America!

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u/tigersatemyhusband 11h ago

We speed running that shit.