Also this is Oprah’s fault. Trump only knows this guy from TV
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Yeah, in all seriousness, fuck Oprah completely. Stalwart proponent of grifters, pedophiles, and rapists.
After marking this latest square on my bingo card, it formed a pentagram and a demon is trying to claw it's way out of the free space. Please help.
No, let him. He is trying to help us.
Dr. Oz might be the most competent pick by the new Administration yet. This tells you a lot about the competence of all the other picks.
In my opinion, as an outside observer, I'd say it is the duty of every patriotic American to mass produce signs that say "THIS COUNTRY IS RUN BY IDIOTS" and post them everywhere.
We all knew it’s run by idiots. That’s what “by the people” means.
I'm looking at my bingo list and I have Hulk Hogan and Anthony Hopkins looking to be picked up for a department.
In real news, there is a certain sub somewhere on the Internet that isn't too crazy about some of the picks. Kind of interesting
I only know Dr Oz from what I've seen on reddit. Which usually isn't a good sign.
OTOH, wasn't Trump expected to gut Medicare and Medicaid anyway? So he won't be able to do much damage.
I see a pattern, it's the people he watches for years on TV and likes who he puts into leading positions.
To be honest this seems in character for the USA, this is what the american people are often doing too, putting celebrities from movies and TV in charge of their country, case in point Reagan, Schwarzeneger and Trump.
You can kick and scream but Trump really is the embodiment of America.
I can and I will continue to make a fuss about it, but goddamn it, you're not wrong. He really is.
He’s the embodiment of America but dammit some of us really thought our country might be willing to attempt being better.
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I had a look at the list you linked and was surprised to see the list pointing out Germans and Polish people so I looked a bit dealer.
The German guy was in the left party which is so small that they always have trouble to get over the 5℅ necessary to be in the Bundestag, so he has never been in any leading position. And even the nomination to become president failed. And even if he became a president, in Germany that is not a leading position, a president just represents a country like a King.
In Poland, for Lech Kaczyński (who was the president of Poland) the wikipedia article down not even mention his work as an actor. On IMDB 4 entries are there. He was voice acting for a animated movie as a 13 years old and this is the biggest of the movies he was involved. The next next is a documentary, so he is not acting. The next one is a special episode of a game show to which politicians have been invited as participants. So no acting here either.
The next from Poland Jarosław Kaczyński, the twin brother also only had the voice acting as a 13 years old and documentaries where he didn't act listed on his IMDB page.
The third and last polish guy in the lis fits the description of a celebrity and politician in power, he was elected into parlament.
For Sweden nobody is listed. Same for South Korea. So from the countries I lived in my feeling that this doesn't happen is supported by the list you linked.
But other Asian countries, god damn! The lists for India, the Philippines and so on are soooo long! I didn't expect it. So it's really different in different countries.
But then the list misses people like Boris Johnson, who was on telly a bit and became mayor of London and eventually PM of the UK mostly because of that.
He was awful at both roles, but people voted for him anyway because they'd heard of him.
I think people in general are politically unaware. It's stuffy and boring, but affects everything. They should care, but it's very hard to make them.
Yes the list is only about Actors, even Donald Trump is not in that list. Still an interesting list.
I guess if your whole life is an act, people forget.
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Nothing surprises me anymore. Reap what you sow americans.
Yeah as a non-American I honestly just don't have the energy to be worried/outraged about what's going on in the US anymore. I've essentially been fretting about America since George W. Bush took office, and it just keeps getting worse. Now they've handed the presidency, house, senate, supreme court and the popular vote to Trump I just... don't have it in me to engage in four more years of people endlessly tweeting about the horrible shit Trump is doing, while nobody does anything about it. Not to mention the decades afterwards it'll take to clean this all up, if that's even possible.
Sorry to all the Americans who didn't vote for this. Good luck.
I, too, prefer the narrative where this is our problem to deal with and the consequences for our actions will be paid for by us.
Now i’m not so sure that narrative is true, but there is comfort and motivation to be found in knowing the world will go on without our shenanigans
It's both amazing ams shocking to watch from an outside perspective. On one hand, they ficked up and need to eat it. On the other hand, this shit will affect the world over time, so that means their fuckup is masterfully large.
Obligatory reply that it’s no less amazing and shocking when you’re watching it from the inside.
No less confusing either. I just have to hope that it’s more ignorance than malice, but the two often go hand in hand.
The result of the "Golden Age of Television"
Ok but the golden age of television is when tv stopped being constrained to news, sports, unintelligent serials, or the occasional series of one off episodes with a brain like twilight zone and Star Trek. It’s the era in which it stopped being exceptional for a tv show to have artistic merit thanks to the rise in expectations of continuity from episode to episode. It’s the least dumb tv has ever been.
This is the product of social media and the failure of the education system
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The US is officially a joke.
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀🌌
We've been a joke for a long time. We the people are finally learning the rest of the world isn't laughing with us...
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It almost seems like he is assembling a heist team. Oh wait...
Consider me Dr of Computer science Werefreeat Last.... last name last.
Now, let's take a look at this computer viruses you were talking about... I assume they come in a big truck right?
The Onion/InfoWars?
Fuggin clown shoes.
Next up on FarceNews: Trump's newest picks to include Cap'n Crunch (Secretary of Defense), Scrooge McDuck (Treasury), and Smokey the Bear (Education).
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Ugh. Somebody totally fucking called this the other day.
It was me. Sort of, I figured he’d be Surgeon General. I fucking hate this.
Please predict that he appoints independent senator from Vermont that the DNC thinks is a joke and lost an election to avoid nominating to something important next.
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