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If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic. Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, beca

If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic. Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.

m463 6y ago
Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985? Marty: Ronald Reagan. Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis?
coldtea 6y ago
Well, Reagan became president back in 1981, which wasn't much different. If anything he was just an actor (before getting into politics, which is even less qualification that a salesman/real estate guy. And, aside from spending on BS like "Star Wars" and escalating things with USSR, Reagan also established the neoliberal greedy nightmare we live in since.
- brandonmenc 6y ago
  > If anything he was just an actor Well, he was also a union big shot for over two decades, eventually elected as president of SAG. Then, he was governor of California for nearly a decade. So, quite a bit more qualification than "just an actor."
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >Then, he was governor of California for nearly a decade. Yeah, so like Schwarzenegger.
- rufusroflpunch 6y ago
  You could make that argument for every President since Woodrow Wilson at least...
- sib 6y ago
  > If anything he was just an actor He had a longer political career (and one more directly relevant to being the chief executive of a government) than Obama before each became president.
f430 6y ago
Kind of like right now, how Simpsons predicted a global recession after President Trump's term is being jokingly brushed off even as it seems like we are in a bubble. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S
- fwip 6y ago
  A throwaway joke in a Simpsons episode does not "predict" a recession to any degree of reasonableness.
  - f430 6y ago
    just like Trump's presidency right?
voodootrucker 6y ago
Seriously, reason from first principles. The incentives are the outcome. It was predicted in mainstream media (granted as a pessimistic joke): https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-predicted-the-presidency-of-donald-trump-566796 https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-...

m463 6y ago

Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985? Marty: Ronald Reagan. Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis?

coldtea 6y ago

Well, Reagan became president back in 1981, which wasn't much different. If anything he was just an actor (before getting into politics, which is even less qualification that a salesman/real estate guy. And, aside from spending on BS like "Star Wars" and escalating things with USSR, Reagan also established the neoliberal greedy nightmare we live in since.

brandonmenc 6y ago
> If anything he was just an actor Well, he was also a union big shot for over two decades, eventually elected as president of SAG. Then, he was governor of California for nearly a decade. So, quite a bit more qualification than "just an actor."
- coldtea 6y ago
  >Then, he was governor of California for nearly a decade. Yeah, so like Schwarzenegger.
rufusroflpunch 6y ago
You could make that argument for every President since Woodrow Wilson at least...
sib 6y ago
> If anything he was just an actor He had a longer political career (and one more directly relevant to being the chief executive of a government) than Obama before each became president.

f430 6y ago

Kind of like right now, how Simpsons predicted a global recession after President Trump's term is being jokingly brushed off even as it seems like we are in a bubble. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S

fwip 6y ago
A throwaway joke in a Simpsons episode does not "predict" a recession to any degree of reasonableness.
- f430 6y ago
  just like Trump's presidency right?

voodootrucker 6y ago

Seriously, reason from first principles. The incentives are the outcome. It was predicted in mainstream media (granted as a pessimistic joke): https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-predicted-the-presidency-of-donald-trump-566796 https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-...