once you stop taking politics seriously it’s fucking hilarious that the americans elected a president who felt the need to be in a fucking Home Alone movie because he is that egotistical.
you probably have to do a ton of weed or randomly dissociate after coming home from the grocery store where you spent your life savings, but man once you get there
I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there’s a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
Reminds me of the ridiculous advice I’ve heard from my parents of just showing up to pester the boss at the job you want until they hire you. It may have worked before the days of LinkedIn and Indeed, but these days the people picking out application candidates almost always have nothing to do with the position they’re hiring for.
the crazy part is that Murdoch and Co.'s grip on america is so strong that he has half the country dancing to his tune, through a combination of stupidity and greed (fox/WSJ/majority of “independent” radio stations etc.)
Well, that parts not crazy, it’s just really depressing.
Propaganda works, and we really should have written a few more laws to protect independent media before everything calcified into place
UK had those laws, but Rupert Murdoch had lunch with Margaret Thatcher right before he purchased the Times of London, giving him a 40% market share in news media in the country. You wanna take a guess on whether those laws were enforced after their little meeting?
we did have some media-ownership limits couple decades back…
Bush and Clinton got rid of those
hence why people say both parties are the same…neolibs and republicans have the same end-goal
It’s not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.
The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.
Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.
I hate him. So much.
you know that old joke about how every american is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
or carlin’s old joke about how US politicians don’t just come out of the ether, they’re born and raised in shitty little greedy communities just like themselves
america is finally getting what it deserves, there’s some fantastic irony in it being entirely self-delivered. (insofar as if the US-elite werent so short-sighted and greedy, they would have easily been able to stop Murdoch and other propagandists (some russian, some chinese) from tearing the country apart. but they didn’t because the american elite largely dom’t care about the US, they’re just pissed that somebody else has outdone then in squeezing their own.
I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…
It’s always been a joke.
It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.
Just imagine Kevin Spacey as a president. Noone would vote for a known pedo and a sex offender, right?
Zelinski, the auto parts King!
there’s precedent for electing pedo felons.
don’t think there’s a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.
he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.
what
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn’t enough that everything in that hotel is labeled “Trump”, he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.
halvar@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Nah it was the Plaza Hotel, so it’s very understabable he wanted to make it clear in whose hotel Kevin is
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
bro looked a lot less orange
also why does everything turn to politics???
I was on a post about beans and people were arguing about politics in the comments
please stop
I don’t have enough depression medicine for this right now
lastweakness@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You’re in a post about the housing situation in the US, what were you expecting?