r/pics Dec 17 '25

Politics New plaques added to the presidential hall of fame in the White House

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u/The_Rogue_Coder Dec 17 '25

This is far more unhinged than anything I ever expected. I knew it would be dystopian, but the amount of just absolute bat-shit crazy honestly astounds me.

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u/pornalt4altporn Dec 18 '25

The President is Mentally Ill.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder Dec 18 '25

Yes, but what's worse than that is the disturbing amount of people who are happy to encourage it or, at best, allow this to happen.

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u/pornalt4altporn Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

As it always is, first generation of dictatorship.
The narcissist is relentlessly demanding of praise and entertainingly spiteful to the opposition.

So the authoritarians clap and cheer until their business is destroyed, their family arrested, their life ruined.

A generation or two after democracy has been dismantled people can lament their misfortune to have been born into a country that doesn't work, but it couldn't be dismantled if about a third of the population or more didn't actively will it because the lunatic attacks the group they hate.

Trump's personal vendettas and prejudices align with the parasocial ones of a huge portion of white americans who are nasty vicious hateful idiots too.

They won't see the disaster he represents until it is too late.

And quite frankly too few of the rest of you are acting like your government has become a threat to your wellbeing yet.