MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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I should watch West Wing some time, I have limited experience with it but am familiar with the premise. :)

You're right...I think a show inspired by the actual Whitehouse would be more like a "Real Housewives" situation. Gossip, screaming, backbiting, probably throwing stuff. . .and then they'd show outside the oval office itself lmao.

"Housewives" is also one I've got the general idea of but haven't watched, except this one I'm not going to bother with. 😂

I remember the Netflix show Space Force poking fun at the new branch. It was silly, and goofy. (I mean, the legend, Steve Carell, c'mon haha.)

But it was light-hearted incompetence. Like people really wanting to make a difference but they were sabotaged and underfunded.

It's awful watching one of the most powerful offices in the entire world being run by spiteful ego-fueled monsters that just want to watch the world burn.

I like to believe people are correct in that these polls might often still be gathered by phone, skewing results heavily in favor of "Elderly fascists who have Fox News on blast, still answer the phone, and answer surveys."

Newsflash: it's not.*

• As long as it's not made by the Brits.

(Looks accusingly at the SA80 / L85 platform... And the Challenger 2)

Wouldn't be surprised to see a headline soon saying that discussion broke down too.

"Don't tell me how to feel. We're gonna feel great. You know what? I didn't hear a thank you from you. We're gonna put the world's biggliest Olive Garden right here in America's 53th state, how about that, Meloni? It'll be the best deal."

And I think it was Blair before that. XD

Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while...

...then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers' rights...

...Then we stopped joking so much...

...and now they're not doing so hot again.

I think there's a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue in order to spur them to greatness once more, even if only out of spite?

Absolutely. Something about that movie's premise was that the ignorance and takeover of corporate influence was the villain, but the leaders were just ignorant and rowdy, not actively acting out of hatred and malice towards... Everyone.

You're right, been awhile since I've seen it but Camacho was being a tank-driving grenade-launching nut just to look cool. He didn't aspire to invade neighbors or anything that we're shown.

Once they could be taught, they could be reasoned with, even with their inflated egos, and they moved shockingly quickly to correct things because they wanted to be good, well-liked leaders, they just didn't know how. (Oh, and limited film runtime lol)

You know, it's known for it's cynical humor but at its heart, I'd almost say it has a "noble dark" (as opposed to "grimdark") tone: The world sucks, but the characters are shown to have a desire to do good at their core, once they see past the bullshit! :)

Hahaha saw this elsewhere too. Great point! Kudos to any support staff who kept their composure during this total shitshow.

And if, let's say he did go for it, they'd sell him out anyway. We freaking know it.

Love how the guy who said "I'll make up whatever stories I need to" told Zelenskyy, after being asked if he's seen what Ukraine is going through: "Oh I haven't personally been there but I've seen stories."

Stories from where, vice couch-humper? RT News?

... Ways other than a civil war to salvage the situation.

This, but a lot sooner, and more successful, could put an end to it and save countless lives.

Heck, the only man in that room was Zelenskyy.

I really need to check out Sum of All Fears again.

That truly is mind blowing to think about, the level of expertise you mentioned and the tooling. Imagine, just think about it, if it were put to use for something other than the potential to obliterate millions in an instant...

Makes a man shed a tear, a bit.

I mean at this point all that'd be left is the IAEA, and the US's nuclear inspectors are probably all fired by now so yeah sure what's stopping them?

Imagine calling a world leader, who's kinda busy leading his nation through a brutal war against his nation, halfway across the planet, just to yell at him on camera like they're on some Fox News shouting-heads hitpiece, for not selling out his country and giving in to the butchers.

Seriously, even for the world's stupidest people, where is the "Okay, wow, you just don't do that, sir." Line?

When does "Defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC." come into play? Seriously, someone please tell me, what do these chodes gotta do to get treated as the terrorists they are?

When do the sworn-in armed forces say "Alright, that's it." and draw down on this gang of heinous criminals and execute them for treason to prevent the world from slipping any further into chaos?

Do we gotta hope for (a successful) Op: Valkyrie 2025??

I've heard shows like Madam Secretary and The West Wing be considered, akin to Star Trek, "competence porn."

The idea, the fantasy, that the people making the critical decisions that affect so many people are consulting experts, weighing heavy costs, consulting the law, and are kept up at night because they care so deeply for making the best call they can so they don't let down all those who depend on them. These characters have been role models for leadership for generations at this point.

And here we are, in a complete fever dream of a failed state: With a convicted felon and failed reality show TV personality, his foreign billionaire handler, and a weak spineless, loud little dweeb we all forgot was even vice... burning the last vestiges of peace and goodwill all around themselves, handing us and our allies over in a competition with other fascists to be the world's worst enemies, screaming at world leaders, destroying the environment out of spite, and heck, shilling beans from the oval office. Because why not.

Who's close enough to this to do something about it? Where are the competent ones who will regain control of the bridge from these terrorists? Yeah, where's our "G20 president"?

Well, I just remembered, we need to support people like Governor Janet Mills of Maine , and empower anyone any everyone who will stand up against this bullying.

Because of course now they'd start just quote-pulling from a book there's no way they've read. Can we go back to when they were just pseudo-scientific?

This seriously felt like being yelled at and talked down to by tryhard managers at some shitty retail job.

They just bust right out the gate with rambling, they're so upset, they demand respect, you need to apologize, you should be grateful, followed by 50 rapidfire questions so they can say "SEE. I'M RIGHT BECAUSE YOU STRUGGLED TO ANSWER." blah blah blah.

Treating a part-time employee like that should get your teeth kicked in. Treating a world leader like that?! MAN.

working for the interests of Putin.

I seriously don't understand the endgame here. I know wealthy elites and war criminals don't seem to have borders, and just grow like an invasive fungus wherever is favorable, but the entire reason this prick even ran was just to avoid jail for his numerous crimes in the USA.

What does he get if he gives Putin everything? What does he get if the USA just friggin' collapses? What does he get if he starts WWIII? Do he and his bully cohorts retire to Switzerland or something? Hide out in hidden mansions in South America?

What is the motivation for this absolute insanity?!

I know rightoidism is a death cult, but is the plan to literally Judgement Day the planet or create an unstoppable Russo-Chinese world duopoly or what?!

I honestly think, were they here today, everyone who penned the Declaration would consider this douchebag's shoe prints to be more a desecration to the office than if King George III waltzed in and took a dump on the desk.

That sounds like pure projection to me.

This republican rhetoric is shockingly smoothbrained isn't it? Their entire propaganda strategy is to blame everyone else for distasteful things they're literally in the middle of commiting themselves.