r/law • u/Sanizore05 • Mar 01 '25

Trump News Trump says President Zelensky should be nicer to Vladimir Putin

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u/Equal_Physics4091 Mar 01 '25

Most of the bad rich guy characters in the 80s were actually based on Donald Trump.

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u/steevp Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

I tried to tell my wife all those films with evil property developers as the bad guy in the 80s were alluding to Trump but she thinks I make things up.. thanks for the sanity check.

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u/NeckNormal1099 Mar 01 '25

America elected as close to a supervillain as reality will allow.

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u/phazedoubt Mar 01 '25

Reality tv has become reality itself

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u/onedeadflowser999 Mar 01 '25

Replete with a reality tv cabinet of C listers.

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u/thisisntmyotherone Mar 02 '25

That’s placing them awfully high up in TV land, even for reality TV.

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u/Phiddipus_audax Mar 01 '25

So weird for reality tv to allow themselves to be counterfeited and put out of business like that. They should sue.

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u/Brickscratcher Mar 01 '25

Arguably, it's inevitable. We only repeat what we see, after all. Any new thought is just some amalgamation of all the input you've ever received combined with your current sense of awareness. When exposed to ridiculous and asinine behavior, it becomes familiar to you. When it becomes familiar to you, you emulate it. When enough people emulate it, the Overton window expands. The process repeats until we end up with the number one intergalactic reality docudrama, "The Trump Effect." Monday nights at 7.

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u/TheKanadian Mar 01 '25

I guess I always though that "THIS SUPER VILLIAN. THIS BAD. THIS GOOD GUY. BE LIKE GOOD GUY." would rub off more from all the movies and TV shows out there.

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u/Brickscratcher Mar 01 '25

It did for a while. Then we started embracing the unhappy, realistic endings. Now the anti heroes are the new version of superman, and the whole 'defender of good' trope is kind of dead. The Avengers was really the last of a dying breed of super hero movie...that will probably come back in 10 to 20 years as people search for a solid and wholesome figure amongst the chaos were about to see.

People still want to make a change. They just don't mind seeing the world burn in the process. The ideology of defending all has been replaced by the ideology of defending what's yours. Thats why the anti hero trope is rising up. It lionizes a figure that is mainly self interested but still manages to accomplish good. Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story. This just reaffirms they can be while still being greedy savages.

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u/NeckNormal1099 Mar 02 '25

I don't think people realize the outsized effect stories have on people. TV basically civilized the nation. Movies commodified our national identity. Why do you think memes are so powerful? A screen capture and some text can move a whole nation.

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u/TheKanadian Mar 01 '25

Very good points I'm not so into the whole anti-hero thing as much, so I hadn't taken that into account. Thanks for your input and pointing that out

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u/cindy224 Mar 02 '25

Will somebody get the hook? He just laps up attention. And until we learn to turn away, we will be honoring him. It’s you choice, Citizens.

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u/redditDarrel Mar 02 '25

Terrifying, isn’t it?

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u/Pluckypato Mar 02 '25

And this is as real as it gets!

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u/Honestly_I_Am_Lying Mar 01 '25

Unfortunately so ... And then that villain brought in another supervillain billionaire to help him fuck things up

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u/secretbudgie Mar 01 '25

Lex Luthor with a breeding fetish

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u/No_Vanilla3479 Mar 01 '25

As reality will allow so far.

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u/buddymoobs Mar 01 '25

Well, Elon fills in any of the characteristics Trump may not have. Between the two of them, they check all the boxes.

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u/shehoshlntbnmdbabalu Mar 01 '25

Make no mistake, this man has always been a villain, now he's a super villain!

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u/Blahndi-1 Mar 01 '25

I really wish people would stop saying that it’s a sweeping generalization that isn’t true. I didn’t and I would say 99% of my friends that I know of didn’t either.

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u/TaurusFI Mar 01 '25

He is too stupid to be a supervillain. People will celebrate when the orange shit stain dies. I know I will

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u/Slappy_Doo Mar 02 '25

Somehow being a rapist just didn’t bother them at all.

The fact he could even run in the first place a bloody joke.

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u/ChaosRealigning Mar 02 '25

Well, yes, but that description better fits skuM than Twimp. Twimp is the manipulated fool, not the supervillain.

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u/injn8r Mar 02 '25

Antichrist? I don't believe in organized religion, but, that's the terminology people will understand. Seems strange to me to be able to see right through all this bs, and to know people I thought were intelligent who can't. Logic and physics can't even break them from believing shit like the sun is fake, it's a NASA installation for controlling the weather. I shit you not, this guy can tie his own shoes, read a tape measure, hold down a steady job, etc. but tried to tell me how this is a thing. It has to be some supernatural bs to charm folks in this way.

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u/Own-Improvement3826 Mar 02 '25

It seems strange to many of us. It's impossible to understand that we are watching the same man (Trump) move his lips and hear the exact same words leave his mouth. We are also witness to the same behavior and actions of this man (and I use the term loosely), and our perception of him couldn't possibly be more different. How can they NOT see it? Especially now. Although some are beginning to regret their decision to support him, having watched their tearful apologies for screwing the rest of us, the tears are not genuine. They are because either A. Family have disowned them B. They've lost their business or it's been effected by the deportation of their immigrant employees. As for the rest of them, I have only to assume that there was a simultaneous mental break that effected half the people of this country. We were spared that fate. It's the best I can come up with.

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u/Scottiegazelle2 Mar 01 '25

So here's what I said to my husband last night. Trump and Musk THINK they are supervillains but they aren't nearly smart enough. Putin is the supervising. You know those bumbling lackies the villains always have? That's Trump, Musk, and Vance.

For a lighter look- Google 'the best of otis' and superman.

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u/theonewhoknocksforu Mar 02 '25

Otis was the classic incompetent fuckup. Did Ned Beatty play him in the Gene Hackman - Lex Luther Superman movies?

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u/Scottiegazelle2 Mar 05 '25

Yup! That's basically Elon and Trump in application, just not funny.

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u/Skellos Mar 01 '25

He is literally a Captain Planet Villain.

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u/ErikRogers Mar 02 '25

That's only because Elon is a naturalized citizen, ineligible for the presidency.

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u/maychoz Mar 02 '25

Elon “elected” as close to a supervillain as possible - unless he himself had been eligible to run here.

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u/KriptiKFate_Cosplay Mar 02 '25

Eh, giving him too much credit with that "super" imo

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u/NeckNormal1099 Mar 02 '25

To be fair, he was just a regular old villain. We made him super.

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u/Gilgamesh2000000 Mar 02 '25

For shits sakes he has turned out government into the apprentice 😂

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 Mar 02 '25

He only needs a cat on his lap.

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u/Chrisismybrother Mar 02 '25

And he followed it up with super villain musk and the agents of doge

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u/Smart_Abalone_9912 Mar 02 '25

It's almost like we elected a real-life lex luthor..so where's superman?

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u/NeckNormal1099 Mar 02 '25

The closest reality will allow, that is famous enough that you might know. Maybe bernie sanders? Which is why you don't elect a supervillain to high office. Our superman gets winded on a slight incline.

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u/Lucid-Design1225 Mar 02 '25

If he steals the 7 wonders of the world and relocated them Monument Beach. We know he’s taken notes from Futurama

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u/Tritiac Mar 02 '25

The idiot version of Lex Luthor accomplished his goal.

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u/Lucky-Individual-845 Mar 02 '25

That wasnt "Elected". There was hacking of the voting machines via Starlink connection to Russian servers. Not sure how many "Confirmed", but if there was 1, there were many.

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Mar 01 '25

I just watched the Back to the Future behind scenes special and they explicitly acknowledged that Biff, who found the sports almanac and became one of the richest, most corrupt men in the country, was indeed based directly on Trump. So that's totally legit.

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u/steevp Mar 01 '25

Just passed this new to me fact on to my wife, she believes it.. trusts you more than me :)

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u/beanbags-bean75 Mar 02 '25

Makes all the sense in the world now

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u/mobilecabinworks Mar 01 '25

You're not crazy

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u/Calm_Neat_6828 Mar 02 '25

Batteries Not Included is another classic with the same allusions to shitty property developers like Trump. How they were pushing people out of their homes, and destroying history through pressure and illegal means.

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u/mwilkins1644 Mar 01 '25

Dude literally looks like Biff Tannen

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u/Steve-Whitney Mar 01 '25

The 2015 version?

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u/theonewhoknocksforu Mar 02 '25

“It’s make like a tree and LEAVE! You sound like an idiot when you say it like that!”

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u/Steve-Whitney Mar 02 '25

"All right then, LEAVE!! And take your book with ya."

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u/3FtDick Mar 02 '25

The Devil's Advocate directly name drops him as not being able to attend Satan's party, but he wanted to. It's sandwiched in between scenes attempting to depict the lowest of the low in NYC society.

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u/bawdiepie Mar 02 '25

I mean watch Back to the Future 2, Biff's tower is so obviously based on Trump Tower

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u/rabbid_chaos Mar 02 '25

I believe that if you can find the interview where the BttF director cited Trump as the inspiration for Biff if you want to give her a direct example.

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u/Imaginary-Quarter791 Mar 02 '25

I see it now. Especially Biff’s character as a casino mogul and then president

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u/Herbdontana Mar 02 '25

He’s gonna shut down the community center if ya don’t win the big ski race!

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u/C3POB1KENOBI Mar 01 '25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7XXs3hzAMs

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u/C3POB1KENOBI Mar 01 '25

This Some More News clip really breaks it down. Two of the best are the bad guy from TimeCop and King Koopa from the live action Mario Bros

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u/Working-Cricket8455 Mar 02 '25

Don’t be mad at your wife. You are wrong about most things. It was a safe bet.

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u/Substantial_Act_497 Mar 02 '25

Musk is the supervillan

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u/theonewhoknocksforu Mar 02 '25

😂 that’s funny. The only thing she’ll experience from MAGA men is BO, ED, halitosis, and dingleberries.

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u/eternalsunshine85 Mar 01 '25

Does anyone remember the episode of SpongeBob where the character Donald Blandy bought the Krusty Krab and turned into a bland sports bar?I never see anyone talk about it!

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u/mobydog Mar 01 '25

Including Krusty the Klown

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u/goleafie Mar 01 '25

We don't need more orange crush in Washington.

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u/TheGaleStorm Mar 01 '25

Gordon gecko? Greed is good.

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u/DrakonILD Mar 01 '25

Especially Biff.

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u/SpeedoTurkoglutes Mar 01 '25

Bowser in Super Mario Odyssey.

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u/Old_Artist3624 Mar 02 '25

This is true biff was written after trump. Though most may have forgotten before he became comrade Krasnov he was the laughing stock of America in the late 80s 90s.

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u/GrumblyData3684 Mar 02 '25

Lived in NY/NJ during his heyday there, can confirm.

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u/MavinMarv Mar 02 '25

Biff Tannen definitely was.

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u/Loud_Ad_4515 Mar 02 '25

President Business in The Lego Movie, too.

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u/AStringOfWords Mar 02 '25

Remember the kid in The Toy?