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Who's the potato and who strapped those toddler's swim goggles around its top-meat knob?
KKKaroline Leavitt was appointed only because she's the only one cruel and dumb enough to do that job.
She responded: “It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bulls*** questions.”
What a cunt
Everyone is far left when they are so far right.
Ok yeah. But of course she would think this is a smart thing to respond to a journalist with, she's 12.
Yup, you're governed by petulent children.
shes not wearing her lying CROSS anymore. shes looks 10-15years older for a 28year old.
I mean in any other timeline that would be pretty funny...
They simply don't give a shit about decency.
I think it's actually a little bit deeper than that.
Yes, it's true that they don't care about decency, but also "I don't care about decency" is their brand.
Trump is a bully, and they love him for it. He's their hammer after years of being told that they were racist and ignorant, and that they were supposed to care about those things. He's their rebuttal. "You can't make me be decent, and I'll prove it."
Now a lot of the other MAGA's are trying to do the same thing, but only some of them can pull it off. Like JD Vance tries to act tough, but I don't think he's fooling anyone.
They care about being decent to the ~~white~~ right people....
~~white~~ right
OOPS HAHA SILLY AUTOCORRECT /s
Idiocraty is not satire anymore
Well in idiocracy they were dumb but well meaning, these people are just evil
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. President Camacho was not smart, but he was well meaning. As soon as he knew there was someone smart enough to fix their problems he put them on task and worked to improve people’s lives.
There’s nothing well meaning from the current administration and anything good that possibly comes of it is happenstance. The current administration is not idiocracy, it’s a kleptocratic authoritarian nightmare.
Plus, as far as we know President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was not a rapist, of adults or children which is another thing he has over Donald.
I'd argue that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is smarter than Trump.
If anything, it's gone from dystopian to utopian compared to reality..
Always been real and always will ..
No one understands that fucking movie, and all think they're the main character
Idk can we stop with the idiocracy posting? I get the film; I don't think I'm the main character, I think the plot is eugenicist and that while uneducated people put Trump back in office, stupidity is not genetic.
Do they actually say that its about genetics? Been a while since I watched the movie but in real life children of uneducated parents tend to remain uneducated (which is of course a major flaw in the current education and social system), not to mention the massive efforts of current US leadership to keep people uneducated in general. I could see the premise of the movie playing out without the assumption of intelligence being a genetic feature.
I mean the movie was fun in its time, and has a good critique of societal trends from the mid 2000's, but yes. Literally in the beginning of the movie, after they freeze the mc, the narrator explains that society became a shithole because while intelligent people waited until their 30s to have maybe 1 kid, stupid people had so many kids that they just bred intelligence out of the gene pool. Even at the end the narrator explains that nothing really changes, because while the mc and romantic lead go off to raise 2 intelligent kids, the stupid sidekick went off to have 32. Sure, it was more a plot device than an actual moral stance, but it is also a deracialized form of literally THE core belief of the eugenics movement.
Yes, Terry Crews, funny guy, good joke, it maps onto the Trump admin decently if you squint. It's a funny satire, but it's also 20 years old. People were Idiocracy-posting on MySpace during the Bush admin when the movie came out. And considering the basis for Maga is also purging the undesirables, maybe resting on the laurels of a movie whose plot is based on there being immutable, undesirable genetic characteristics is a bad idea, or at least in poor taste.
Yes I remember the beginning, just wasnt sure if it was explicitly said that its the gene pool that caused the change. Imo you could make the same movie and leave out that 'fact', it would still work. Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionally more kids could lead to that outcome given the current circumstances. As it is, there is a huge correlation between family income and level of education, but there is no causality, which disproves the genetic part.
I mean, not really? Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionate amounts of children wouldn't impact intelligence at all, like bro go back far enough and all of our ancestors were uneducated. Like it wasn't that long ago that 100% of parents and 100% of children thought if you pissed on a certain tree you'd get struck by lightning.
Idk. Honestly I get why they did it; I'm wracking my brain and the only reasonable explanation I can think of would be smartphones, which didn't exist when the movie was written. You don't know what you don't know, you know? Like I said it's still a good movie, like it's still funny and captures a fair bit of seeming trends, it just also sets itself up as a wet dream for people who think other people don't deserve the right to have children, which is a pretty core belief of the people we're trying to mock.
They’ll find what hubris will get them in time
What a white trash twit
shes only 28 too, hate and marrying someone older than you are ages you really fast.
My mum picked a EU country ruled by a far right wing politician who haa been attacking civil rights and political freedom?
Obviously this is rediculous but imagine if by chance the Huff Post reporter's mother was actually a senior international politics negotiater...
Like Karoline says "your mom" and the reporter is like "that's rude and unprofessional". Karoline then replies "no, you misunderstand. Your mom, Mary, was the main negotiater at the table for the USA. She did a fantastic job. She didn't tell you?"
That would have been a good time for everyone involved! 😄
Which is the exact opposite of what happens to reasonable people every time Miss Leave It steps up to the podium for a fresh batch of fascism apologia.
I agree but it would of been funny as hell if it happened like that... Or better yet, like a TV show... "actually we did some research and found out she is actually your mother who gave you up for adoption while in college. And we have her here today to meet you for the first time since you were 4 days old..."
Ridiculous negotiator to be sure.
Rock-smacking lowly beasts are running the show (into the ground).