Man literally stole a plot point from Babylon 5.
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And that’s basically it!
Huge B5 fan, but I'm drawing a blank. Trump is like Clark, but what else am I missing?
I've got $10k for the next president to reenact this with DJT in Obama's spot.
That's funny, you think there will be a next president after Trump
He's not going to live forever
That's funny, you think a guy who's falling apart at the seams will live forever.
His children will inherit the throne. Usually the eldest, Don Jr., so Donald Trump is still the boss.
Actual criminal trying to normalize being a criminal.
lol this guy is a really sore loser he can never forget a butt hurt. related link (July 18 2025 dated lol)
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4086-pr-15-25
Isn’t this against the no deepfakes law the cunt has been pushing
Yes and nothing will happen from it. News outlets squak. The cult laughs. The "libs" get angry. The government does nothing because even if they did this is a presidental action and he has immunity.
I can't believe how fucked everything is. I'm over it. I just want to survive with my family.
The "libs" get angry.
Rolling your eyes and muttering "what a fucking idiot" isn't the same as getting angry.
Yeah I don’t usually get pissed, I’m just perpetually baffled.
No cause it reeeeeaaaaly happened.
Trump sued CBS for something far less...and won! C'mon Obama I know it's distasteful but sue that bastard!
Poor Obama he isn't even doing anything. Let the guy enjoy his playboy lifestyle in peace
Terrible foreshadowing, too obvious.
The authors of this world suck.
"no one is above the law" it says... While Trump is literally acting like he's above the law and the supreme court allows it.
Everything is projection
why, does Obama have the Epstein list?
Obama still got that free penthouse suite in trumps head I see.
What a fucking dick hole
that was before trump Now I watch us politics like a sitcom
it would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous
pedophile president breaking his own law about posting bullshit online
Just FYI. We in Europe are watching what you guys are up to and being super judgemental. Get your shit together.
I think what’s pissing me off about the US most right now, is even through the dumpster fire and their idiotic elected leader, Americans are STILL moraizing, looking down on others and being the world police
For the record, we average citizens don't want to be the "world police". This is what President Eisenhower was referring to as the "Military Industrial Complex".
Starting in the 1980s, the United States, which insisted on strict terms for the re-payment of Third World debt, itself accrued debts that easily dwarfed those of the entire Third World combined — mainly fueled by military spending. The U.S. foreign debt, though, takes the form of treasury bonds held by institutional investors in countries (Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Gulf States) that are in most cases, effectively, U.S. military protectorates, most covered in U.S. bases full of arms and equipment paid for with that very deficit spending.
This has changed a little now that China has gotten in on the game (China is a special case, for reasons that will be explained later), but not very much — even China finds that the fact it holds so many U.S. treasury bonds makes it to some degree beholden to U.S. interests, rather than the other way around.
So what is the status of all this money continually being funneled into the U.S. treasury? Are these loans? Or is it tribute? In the past, military powers that maintained hundreds of military bases outside their own home territory were ordinarily referred to as "empires," and empires regularly demanded tribute from subject peoples. The U.S. government, of course, insists that it is not an empire — but one could easily make a case that the only reason it insists on treating these payments as "loans" and not as "tribute" is precisely to deny the reality of what's going on.
- Except from the Beginning of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Nobody else appointed the US as "world police".
It's a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.
The young left has become the world moral police and it has nothing to do with the military, right wing uses the military. The young left is just using shit slinging. But Americans need to get to the back of the line when it comes to moralizing or leading global issues, the rest of the world doesn’t want to hear it from Americans
I don't understand anything you just typed. Who's "young left"? The global "young left"? You think only the "right wing" uses the military?
And who should be leading global issues? Europeans? Chinese? Russians? Indians? G8? G20? UN? Who?
Or is it that Americans are the only ones who can't or shouldn't be allowed to "lead" or "moralize"?
Genuinely confused.
Yes, Americans need to shut up, we don’t wanna hear it, fix your damn country before you start criticizing others. You only cheapen a movement by leading out and infecting it with your toxicity.
It’s hard to explain who the “left” is in the US right now because you all think the left means just you and your group of friends. You are all punching left and fighting each other while the right is united and you guys let them win. You’re all so weird and you can’t see it from the inside, but the rest of us around the world don’t want to hear your opinion anymore
I'm an American who moved to the Netherlands in July of '22. I spend a lot of time going back and forth. My then fiancé, now my wife, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the pandemic. Given the obvious price difference for medication to treat the disease, I decided to move in with her instead of her coming to the US.
I find it disheartening to see what the rest of the world thinks about Americans up close. I am competently multilingual enough to hold conversations. I have to admit now that I understand why other natively born Americans pretend that they're from Canada outside of the U.S.
Despite my embarrassment about the body politic and discourse from my country, I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe. Either that or they've always been here to begin with. To me, the difference is that the scale is much smaller.
I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe
America's worst export.
Yeah, for sure. The Russians have been busy in all countries. The reason things got out of hand in the states is because you have a two party system. You only need to control a few people to control enough to take over the country.
That being said, Americans need to take a page out of the French play book at this point. If you try to make a Frenchman work an extra half hour a week, Paris will burn. That's the level of outrage you need here. Nothing short of that will be effective. Don't protest, riot! A few people hanging about with plakards isn't going to cut it when the government is deciding which TV shows they'll allow, threatening politicians, protecting pedophiles, killing witnesses in federal custody, detaining people without cause, deporting/imprisoning people without trial, and deploying combat troops against peaceful protesters.
I'd like to point out that all this shit is not normal and Americans need to understand how deeply fucked up the situation is. From where I'm standing I'm not sure most of them do. Yeah it's regrettable that fascism took hold in the states despite the rest of the world screaming at them to stop, but what's really alarming is that they're just kinda going along with it.
Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. "We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don't care about]" was something my old team unironically said to me more than once
As a leftist American, you're right. There's a simply incredible amount of the population who refuse to participate in politics at all, then another huge swathe who gets all their news from social media or a single source which never gives the whole picture. I've protested, I've written my leadership, I've changed family and friends to the side of sanity but it feels like there's just no winning like this. I'm ready for a general strike, to stop paying federal taxes but it's all self harming if done alone. Our leaders have failed us basically across the board and I'm hoping that they've fucked up enough in the eyes of the general public so there's a correction and we can get this country far more socialized and kick corporations off welfare.