That "God Emperor Trump" meme is becoming more likely all the time.
Not him launching a crusade to unite humanity. Him being hooked up to a life support machine that keeps him alive in the most technical sense of the word while his followers worship him.
Imagine being told your entire childhood how genius the American system is; how our leadership structure is the only one in the world (and the only one that has ever been) capable of being a fair, righteous, humanitarian global hegemony.
I always considered myself a smart kid, but god damn did it take me an embarrassing amount of time to wake up from that shit. Sure, I had my criticisms, but the American system in its design still held this untouchable, infallible quality. Since fully discarding any trust in the US systems at their very core half a decade ago, everything has seemed so obvious in confirming the idiocy and unworkability of it all.
My question is for long-time (10+ years) self-identifying enemies of the state - did the mainstream discourse always look so cartoonishly satirical? Because this shit these days...lmao
My friend who is a lot older and the one who really got me into leftism was extremely leftist during the Iraq war days. And a Muslim immigrant. And they always tell me that everything may seem crazy right now, but anyone who was aware during that time can see it's only like 75% as bad as it was then.
Many doctors are saying it folks, they’ve been saying, and many are agreeing with them, people, a lot of people, they’ve been saying we have some of the best breathing. We’ve been doing breathing like you never imagined. Y’know I spoke to the doctors, they say “you’ve got lungs like I’ve never seen”, and they’re doctors folks!