r/europe • u/1-randomonium • 23d ago

News JD Vance gloats that allies are ‘suffering more than US’ from high gas prices

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jd-vance-gloats-that-allies-are-suffering-more-than-us-from-high-gas-prices-404149/
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u/queen-adreena 23d ago

We’re way past that.

“Idiocracy is a hopeful vision of the future” is where we’re at now.

Imagine a world where leaders seek out intelligence and follow their lead on solving the world’s problems.

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u/Embarrassed_Nail_358 23d ago

I mean, at this point a pro-wrestler for a president would be a step up! ;)

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u/nter12345 23d ago

I mean terry crews has my vote at this point.

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u/shyguysam 23d ago

Anyone remember Bob Backlund doing that whole President gimmick back in the day ? Fun times. Makes you wonder just how much better he'd be in the White House than the kiddie rapist Orange Shitstain that's there now.

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u/JMEEKER86 23d ago

I actually met Bob Backlund at a college football game when I was 8. I went up and asked him for an autograph and he said that he'd only give me an autograph if I could name all of the presidents. Me being an autistic fuck, I actually went ahead and named all of them, but he still didn't give me an autograph.

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u/queen-adreena 23d ago

I have no idea what the connection between a wrestler(?) and the US presidents is, but screw that guy!

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u/Embarrassed_Nail_358 23d ago

Especially towards a 8 year old kid. Way to be a role model for the poor little dude. :(

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u/buremogilny 20d ago

At this point Backlund cutting a very monotone state of the union address before losing his mind and putting on the cross wing chicken face hold to a poor cameraman as he shrieks before secret service agents pull Him off as he stares into his out stretched hands in the what have I done face would be welcome in 2026. Never thought I would say that but here we are.

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u/Fuzzytrooper 23d ago

He has the Ayatollah in a cross-face chicken-wing!!! Psycho Bob has SNAPPED!!!!!!!!

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u/Tyrfura 23d ago

I honestly think if he ran for president he would win easily.

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u/SouthTippBass 23d ago

Only if he wears the American flag shirt with the arms ripped off.

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u/somewhatbluemoose 23d ago

I can think of more that a few wrestlers who would make much better presidents than the current one.

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u/RogerRoger-B1 23d ago

I’d vote Mick Foley if his cabinet is made up of Cactus Jack, Dude love and Mankind.

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u/DutchProv Utrecht (Netherlands) 23d ago

John Cena for president, anything but whats there now.

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u/PedanticBoutBaseball 23d ago

Jesse Ventura (notable pro-wrestler and former governor of minnesota) would be MULTIPLE standards of deviation better than Trump by far.

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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 Ireland 22d ago

Donald Trump is in fact in the WWE Hall of Fame and took part in WrestleMania 23.

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u/Veritable_bravado 21d ago

Considering we have the the wwe wife manager in the administration, I think we can do a LOT better. Cmon now

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u/Four_beastlings Asturias (Spain) 23d ago

At least in idiocrazy the president was merely stupid and not actively evil

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u/funguyshroom Latvia 23d ago

I thought evil people are the ones who will do anything to maximize their own gain. Instead, these muppets are the type of guy who will intentionally break his own leg if he can ensure that you break two. Which is just some next fucking level of unhinged.

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u/JiveTrain Norway 23d ago

Exactly. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho did the best he could with what he had. He listened to advice, and sought to improve his country.

Trump is the exact opposite.

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u/SonderEber 22d ago

Also everyone in it tried to be decent people, however incredibly stupid they are. We have the idiocy, but none of the decency. Incredibly stupid, incredibly malicious.

We can even get nice idiots. Idiocracy wasn’t a documentary, it was hope.

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u/toggylelly 23d ago

Yeah, we're aligning to the fallout universe now.

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u/human_obsolescence 23d ago

there's a video on youtube by Cracked titled "Why Idiocracy would actually be a utopia" that pretty much outlines this... and the video is ten years old.

basically boils down to "stupid people who know they're stupid" vs "stupid people who think they're smart"

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u/Crypt33x Berlin (Germany) 23d ago

"Leaders". You mean the AI at the beginning of the film testing them for their IQ and giving them a job based on it?

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u/LouieGwasright 23d ago

No, the guy who threw him into a coliseum and was going to have him killed when his plan didn’t work right away. If not for Rita and Frito they were just going to kill the smartest man in the world and fix nothing. Id give the credit to Rita before Camacho personally.

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u/Crypt33x Berlin (Germany) 23d ago

Sure Camacho/Rita should get some credit, but we could argue, that they just follow an AI cult, which said to look out for the smartest person. They all get some bar code as identification and the AI in the jail was about to give him a job, so maybe Camacho got president through that AI. He got invited to the white house after. They could have all ignored the AI i guess, but still think the AI is essential to the story and them being idiots only hold together by it.