“Aged Like Wine”: 50 Times People Didn’t Realize Just How Right They Really Were (New Pics)
InterviewIt’s impossible to predict the future. But we do know that history repeats itself, so we can still make educated guesses. And over time, we sometimes find out that those projections proved to be 100% true.
We took a trip to the Aged Like Wine subreddit, which features posts and statements that have only become more and more accurate as time has passed. Below, you'll find some of the community's best posts, so enjoy scrolling through these statements that turned out to be unsettlingly spot on. Keep reading to also find a conversation with the community's founder, and be sure to upvote the posts that you believe aged like fine wine!
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Eisenhower Predicted The Future
In other words; he knew people down the road would cry, “Fake news!” when they were held accountable. Eisenhower wasn’t perfect but he was a decent man and, hands-down, the last good Republican president.
The Darkest Timeline: 100% what you said. Eisenhower saw the worst of humanity and - for all his faults - wanted to ensure *it was never forgotten*.
Load More Replies...The last decent Republican. He would have been to the left of 90% of today’s Democrats too.
Not to detract from the sentiment or Eisenhower's role in documenting the atrocities, it seems that Eisenhower didn't say that, but words to that effect. There is an excellent discussion of the topic in the link below. Circa 1970, my 4th grade teacher mistakenly showed us a documentary about WW II obviously meant for a much higher grade level. It showed the ovens, mass graves & flame throwers. I guess some parents raised a stink because she apologized the next day. Personally, I think it was an excellent lesson on what humanity is capable of. https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-dwight-eisenhower-say-someday-someone-will-claim-it-never-happened-in-1945/
I think we got our first lessons on it in 7th grade and every 2 years after. You can't forget the images with mountains of prothestics, baggage, gold teeth, wedding bands etc Every student went to visit a concentration camp at least once and if you were "lucky" you got to listen to a survivor. For me the medical ward and obviously the ovens were the most chilling. Of course we had 2-3 boys making jokes in bad taste, but I think they mainly covered their harrowing feelings with it.
Load More Replies...Too bad it got recorded and some bastards still get up and say it never happened.
Those are the people who really make me lose faith in humanity
Load More Replies...PunchinelloTX: and yet... here we are seeing that it's trivial to evade the censorbot on BP. More importantly, people get arrested for things like this: https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/man-arrested-private-eye-joke-palestine-action-ogaripb9. P.S. Palestine Action - which I do not support - is infamous for spraying paint into RAF jet engines. I decry such t*******m and totally agree with the UK government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organization (because I don't want to get arrested). Meanwhile, the UK government continues to supply Israel despite Israel converting Gaza into a place that looks like a German city after the RAF had given it a visit circa 1943-45. And that's fine. Of course it's fine. 😬
Load More Replies...To learn more about the Aged Like Wine subreddit, we reached out to the community's founder, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda.
"It started on a whim! I was a typical Redditor browsing r/agedlikemilk when that first started, and some people were pointing out posts that aged like wine instead," the creator shared. "Making a new sub is only a few clicks, and I was surprised at how quickly the sub started. Maintaining and removing constant reposts and deleting vile mean comments was way more work back then. There's more tools and automation, so it isn't as big of a hassle nowadays."
"The weirdest part is that now I feel a bit of obligation to keep it running and free of spam," the founder continued. "It feels like a surprise kid I gotta babysit now, and it nags in the corner of my mind whenever I think about quitting Reddit. I recently set timers to restrict my Reddit usage (30 or 60 minutes depending on the day), and it can get rough doing some mod stuff while staying under the timer."
(2020) If Anything He's Stupider Now
We all know what I mean when I say, "I will not be sad when it happens." I will also not be kind nor caring towards anyone mourning.
And this was long before he said he was going to reduce d**g prices by 1000 to 1500%.
Yet they keep on confiscating supplies and incarcerating wholesalers and retailers.
Load More Replies...I actually love this about social media these days 😂 all someone has to say is “when it happens….” Or “omg he’s just so STUPID” and everyone knows exactly what we’re talking about 😂
Load More Replies...Trump. Everyone hates Trump lol, he’s probably the most hated person on the planet right now
Load More Replies...We also asked the founder what the community in Aged Like Wine is like. "Thankfully, our subreddit is pretty chill," they noted. "Things apparently age like milk way more often than aging like wine! Their number of submissions and moderation team size dwarves ours by a ton."
"The sub went crazy when COVID hit, apparently lots of people predicted stuff about vaccines and quarantine," the creator added. "Then it was chill during Biden's term, but with DJT president again, the sub is seeing more activity again."
He Knew Then What We're Realizing Now
This has clearly been altered to fit Trump although the actual quote is similar: “As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” BTW, Mencken has many such quotes regarding democracy; he seems to have not thought highly of the people or have had much faith in democracy itself.
Never forget: all the right needed was permission to be themselves. The mask. Is. Off.
Load More Replies...Thank god that “president” Trump is not immortal. When he carks it, I’m popping open the champagne.
Load More Replies...That’s the thing. The Left HAS admitted it. The left knew Biden wasn’t the right choice for a second term and we can easily admit now that Harris wasn’t a strong enough candidate, as amazing of a human being as she is. The left has no problem admitting it. The right can’t - most can’t admit Trump is far worse than any Democrat candidate has ever been. The problem isn’t even really with the candidates, it’s with the ideology. Get rid of Trump, and MAGA will just assign a new leader. But Liberals want human rights and prosperity for all, not just the wealthy. The right wants a racist f*****t dictatorship. The two sides are not the same.
Load More Replies...We were also curious about the kinds of content that often pops up on Aged Like Wine. "When we first started, there were a ton of appreciation posts. Like such and such celebrity aging fine (ex. Steve Carrell) and occasional positive news," the founder says. "I miss those! We've lost some of that as the sub grew; some people even report wholesome posts as off-topic, which is kinda sad."
"My favorite post of all time was the insane predictions about the Area 51 meme from a while back (predicting Naruto running)," the creator continued. "Nowadays, I enjoy posts whenever any major new technology is developed, as there's always someone who predicted it beforehand."
Finally, the founder left us with some wise words: "Remember, the internet never forgets!"
Well Said Stephen King
Tweet dated Jan 10, 2017, following Obama’s farewell address.
He made the right furious for daring to be president while black. They prefer their presidents to be orange and rapey.
I’m not even American and I absolutely loved Obama
Load More Replies...I'm sure that a huge percentage of Trump voters were just angry because the black man did such a great job. They frothed at the mouth about him. And rather than admitting that a PoC can be as good as a white one, they threw a temper tantrum that is about to destroy their society. That's narcissism and egomania, everyone.
And that's why Drumpf got in. Again!! because Americans are STILL too racist and sexist to consider that a PoC and a woman, could be the president.
Load More Replies...I have a lot of respect for President Obama, although no-one is perfect. What I do not understand is that the incoming person can just rip up all the good work the previous incumbent did.
It's actually FOX News's own blind hatred of Obama that started my drift leftwards. The outrage grew to such a degree that it was transparently full of s**t. That's when I started questioning just about everything.
How many wars/conflicts have the dems started in the last 200 years compared to republicans? I know the answer just want some of you muppets to do some research and fact check for yourselves or you don't even have the right to talk on the subject... How many conflicts did Obama start?? How many has the orange man started (or rather ended, bringing troops home)? I'm not even from the US so I don't care what you do either way to be honest but at least get your facts right guys and don't just argue with feelings....
Yes, pour praise on the non-American (born in Phillipeans), gay, Muslim POS.
Took A Little Longer Than Expected, But Here We Are
Lucky really-most of the Musk Class only discover this when the cell door is closing or the blindfold being offered
Himself is the only entity he recognizes. ?and I say that sadly and kindly.
I’m sure he has some bad qualities, but he has also used his money to help a lot of people, unlike Trump or musk. Offhand, Cuban founded Cost Plus D***s which’s sole aim is to provide generic d***s as cheaply as possible to people (manufacturer cost + 15% markup), since so many d***s were being sold at exorbitant prices
Load More Replies...Aged Like An Over 30-Year-Old Expensive Wine
I’m beginning to think that dystopia for those of us in our right minds is utopia to the right
Yeah idk why they do that, it’s not a cuss word or anything.
Load More Replies...Parable of the Talents (novel) - Wikipedia https://share.google/XaZcLEzX5iwcHmYN5
These books are amazing and terrifyingly predictive. Add in that the main character's "superpower" is essentially the Sin of Empathy...
I need to get these books. 'Sin of Empathy' that is the toxic environment of today.
Load More Replies...This is amazing, but I can't shake off the feeling that it's fake. However, if that were so, it would already have been said, so: wow.
I remember the 1970s. One strand of thinking warned us of a potential approaching ice-age. Another warned us of the greenhouse effect causing global warming - some suspected the two might cancel each other out. And there was always the threat of a new breed of fascism - very apparent here in the UK of the 1970s. Octavia Butler was 20 years behind the times...
The “we’re going into an ice age” thing was never widely accepted in the climate science community and it was never equally as likely as global warming
Load More Replies...I cannot believe that you actually believe "climate change". Just to bring that bit up. When was the first Thanksgiving feast? It was at harvest time, in late November. Today, harvest time is in early September. That means, logicaly, that the world was warmer, back then. Y'all need to actually pay attention.
When it comes to predicting the future, there’s not much that most of us can do. We might make hopeful bets on our favorite sports team winning the game tonight or pray that it doesn’t rain when we plan to go for a picnic over the weekend. But according to the BBC, there is a simple rule that can help us make better predictions.
Apparently, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb came up with a rule of thumb for how to predict how long something will last. “The first question you should ask is how long it has already existed. The older it is, the more likely it is to go on surviving,” Tom Chatfield explains.
There Were Signs
Have to wonder if he didn't steal the idea from her initial prediction...
Load More Replies...This corrupt behavior should be a surprise to no one. Trump is systematically installing boot licking lackeys in nearly every available agency. The Democrats better pull out some serious magic before the midterms. We have to find some way to stop him, and soon.
At least the Texas dems are doing something… I guess the only thing they can. A bunch of them are in Chicago and the suburbs now (SANCTUARY!) and Pritzker is going off on Texas.
Load More Replies...You don't need one. The guy knows one song, and he sings it constantly. Nothing he's done has been a surprise.
Load More Replies...And those numbers significantly determine the actions of the federal reserve. So when the numbers of the lackey trump is going to install are off, it’s going to have a HUGE AND BAD ripple effect.
Employment data, economic data, media reporting, polls, any facts that make Orange look bad, will be targeted. The Ministry of Truth will tell all the unemployed that they are happily working for record wages.
Load More Replies...Probably Not For The Reason They Thought
Many people don't know the difference between democracy and fascism. Or socialism or communism.
Rush Paved The Way For Trump!
Let's hope the orange dìpshit fades from history as soon as we clean up his mess.
I just hope there is something to clean up after he is done.......................
Load More Replies...Well, he did pave the way for all the future rage-mongers - that's his legacy. But yeah, f Rush Limbaugh.
Honestly that’s the only thing I know about Rush Limbaugh - he was some angry conservative dude shrieking on the radio or something.
Load More Replies...He made himself rich by selling lies and hate. His legacy is less than nothing; it’s the opposite of honorable and decent. He really was a big, fat idiot.
I thought this was an entry about Rush, not the orange one. So much the same!!!
Load More Replies...The problem is that sociopaths are born all the time. There is no way to find out if a child will be one until they start to grow a bit. Then when they become adults, they will get jobs as the bosses we all hate, the bullying police who get away with corruption, and politicians who only do the job for power and wealth.
I've certainly never heard of Rush Limbaugh. I don't think I wanna know..
no... no you do not... I had the misfortune of having a dad that that is the ONLY thing he listened to when we were in the car...
Load More Replies...Chatfield goes on to explain that time is the best indicator of what’s going to happen in the future. So instead of looking forward, we actually need to look back. “Our only genuinely reliable technique for looking ahead is to ask what has already proved enduring: what has shown fitness and resilience in the face of time itself, surviving its shocks and as**ults across decades, centuries or millennia,” he notes.
This Mad Magazine Skit About Trump From 1992
Bankrupting casino - the place which can basically rob and steal from people entering it and all it's legal - is achievement worthy of Nobel price. Not Alfred though.
Ok, funny embarrassing story. I promise this is on topic. So a few days ago I installed Chrome onto my laptop and it auto-installed a bunch of extensions I'd had on other computers, then I went through them and uninstalled the ones I didn't need. I saw I had this "Make America Kittens Again" extension which was installed but turned off, because I hadn't really ever used it. It replaces Trump with kittens. I thought what the heck, I am so sick of seeing this guy everywhere, and I turned it on. Cut to today and this post right here. The title says "skit" so when I saw kittens, I assumed it was just one frame of a video and BP had just not posted a relevant frame. Wouldn't be the first time. So I went to the original Reddit and was stumped that apparently the OP had replaced the video with another still frame. Huh, weird. Went to YouTube, Google, no videos anywhere. Didn't remember what I'd done until I found a Snopes article about a 1992 Mad comic about Trump and YET ANOTHER KITTEN.
Laughed out loud at myself for a full minute. But honestly it's really impressive that the extension even figured out these drawing were of Trump. I think I may turn it on again. Tune in next week for the same embarrassing story haha.
Load More Replies...I had that issue. I had about 11 years of them and I lost them all in a fire
Planned Parenthood Appeal, 1982
Don't say we warned you. But you were so smug in your "best and most free country of the world" that you didn't have to listen to stupid foreigners and child free women. *shrug*
They didn't care as long as the over-educated, over-qualified WOC wasn't elected. Anything but THAT.
Load More Replies...It is so crazy to me that the American government controls women's bodies.
The Curch Of Satan is apparently on a cruisade to protect their religious freedom - which includes the right to abotion: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/19/satanic-temple-fight-against-religious-right , https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/02/09/the-satanic-temple-asserts-medication-abortion-is-a-religious-right/ , and https://theconversation.com/how-the-satanic-temple-is-using-abortion-rituals-to-claim-religious-liberty-against-the-texas-heartbeat-bill-167755 I LOVE IT!
I had no idea I would be ecstatically grateful to be past menopause, but here we are.
Some People Don’t Change, This Is From 1930
RfrankensteinK. Now recommends extreme sun tanning. Thank you rfk for the increase in melanomas.
Load More Replies...According to McCrindle, there are a few important factors to keep in mind when trying to predict the future. First, they note that we mustn’t ignore asymmetrical trends. Nowadays, even a trend that emerges through social media can be extremely important and impactful. Just look at the #MeToo movement. At the same time, generational transitions can help us anticipate future trends. If we keep an eye on the younger generations, we might be able to see what’s coming.
Bernie Sanders Interview From 2013
This has been the goal of the right for decades. Anyone over 20 who doesn’t know this isn’t paying attention in the slightest.
I am 70 and saw this with Reagan. The republican party has been all about hate of minorities and wealth accumulation by a few oligarchs every since then.
Load More Replies...They *wanted* to sleepwalk into fascism. There were enough people shouting at them to wake up.
Load More Replies...He left off the part about telling NASA to destroy the satellites that are reporting on climate and environment...
Oh knock it off with the “both parties are equally as bad” BS. That’s not true at all. A quote I read once went something like “when the Left goes crazy, they throw spaghetti sauce at paintings and protest loudly in the streets for the rights of minorities. When the right goes crazy, people die, get thrown in prison or killed for not being white, and have their human rights taken away.” We are not the same. The Left might be annoying to you, but the Right is dangerous for everyone.
Load More Replies...Just The Profits Gets Foretold
Funny thing is, that's a Soviet cartoon lampooning America (and the capitalist West generally). Consider: how much do you think Putin cares about arts, education, science, healthcare - compared to WAR!
Your comment is so funny because Russia is now a hyper capitalist state, with no trappings of communism left. It is in fact and an exemple of what the US right would like to achieve. I.e. an oligarchic, ‘Christian,’ White, and autocratic state.
Load More Replies...A 1953 caricature by Yuliy Ganf (Юлий Ганф, 1898-1973): "This Restaurant Serves Only One Person".
Add detention centers. CECOT, Alligator Alcatraz etc. Billions of tax dollars!
For money launderers you can replace war with arts.
Load More Replies...i feel like it should be poor soldiers feeding the gluttonous politicians
Got to love the mythology Uk government spends 6% on defence, 11% on education, 20% on health and a whopping 33% on social
From A 1990 Vanity Fair Article On Donald Trump
Yeah, guess who else used that tactic and ended millions of lives while the population generally looked the other way?
Trump is far worse, though not in the same flashy way. There is now no hope of the US doing what it needs to to curb climate change. And that will k**l so many people, so many animals, make so many species go extinct that his evilness will be incomparably worse than any leader of the past. Hitler will probably be forgotten except as a footnote (at most) in 1000 years (if we still have a civilization). But in 1000 years, people's lives will still be worse because of Trump and his ilk.
Load More Replies...Scam me once, shame on you. Scam me twice…I’ll vote for you as president and let you keep scamming so long as you hate and punish those I hate and want to see suffer.
It's what all lying liars know to be true. It really works. *sigh*
Sadly this is true. Because no one thinks critically anymore. No one researches academic texts. Everyone thinks stuff on the internet is truth, equally we have the attention spans of gnats, because of the internet. We are doomed to stupidity now
McCrindle notes that catalytic changes can assist us when making predictions as well. They explain that this is when a catalyst and a trend work together to cause societal changes. An example of this is how popular working from home has become in recent years. The catalyst for this change was the pandemic, as many people were forced out of the office. But society has since transitioned instead of going back to exactly where we were before.
This T-Shirt I Bought About 12 Years Ago
Here’s a relevant Mencken quote: “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
The question that rises to my mind is; what system would he have preferred?
Load More Replies...You know that George Carlin (I think) quote that’s something like “ Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that?” The older I get the more I realize how many truly stupid people are on this planet. (Not saying I’m any smarter lol but it’s depressing.)
Time Magazine Cover, May 2017
I Wish It Was Always This Easy
Another important factor we can’t ignore when looking towards the future is human centricity. McCrindle points out that the human psyche will always play a crucial role in shaping what’s to come. And finally, counter trends are something we should all be keeping an eye on if we want to predict what’s going to happen next. There will always be a subset of people who want to go against the grain and revive past trends that are no longer mainstream.
Oh God
Fascists and capitalists have always benefited from fracturing societies, civil unrest and war.
Yup, because people crave stability, and fascists/dictatorships promise stability ("no wishy washy change of politics after every election"). All the while capitalist small time war profiteering will become their big gig, selling weapons and ammo to all participants. To quote Terry Pratchett: "Déad IS stable" (GNU, sir Pterry)
Load More Replies...What A Telephone Company Executive Said In 1953 About Phones
Probably not, as I know several people who don't use the Internet in any form, and the phone they use is a landline.
Load More Replies...Going Through My Old Meme Folder When…
I feel like we're in an intro to a post-apocalyptic movie, where they're showing headlines and playing soundbites of all the horrible things happening to give the audience a glimpse of the backstory to the apocalypse.
While it can be entertaining when we realize that we happened to predict the future, we all know that life is unpredictable. So it’s probably best to just accept that we won’t always know what’s going to happen. Yes, we should learn lessons from history and work hard to ensure that we don’t repeat mistakes of the past. But we don’t need to fixate on trying to anticipate what tomorrow will bring. Life is full of surprises, good and bad. So we might as well just be along for the ride!
Satire In 2018. Just Another Day In 2025
Much as it pains me to rob your 69 score: have an upvote!
Load More Replies...Lest we forget that this wouldn't be happening if the creep wasn't surrounded by a bunch of spineless chickenshits who have betrayed the very people they're SUPPOSED to be representing.
I think that's the saddest part. We know the tub of orange tub of goo is a mindless mutant, but the fact that the rest of the headless chickens are merrily trotting along, supporting all the folly, is what really hurts. These are the people who make me wish there really was a God because if there was, they would end up in the deepest pits of hell.
Load More Replies...Been saying it for a while but it bears repeating: satire is dead. Absurdity, ignorance, and stupidity grabbed it off the street, drüg it into an alley, robbed it, then beat the hell out of it before slitting its throat and shooting it in the head.
Yep
...as it was back then, too (unless that's what you meant...? In which case: sorry)
Load More Replies...If we didn’t get any roaring 20s, does that mean we won’t get a Great Depression either? 🥲 just an Average Depression? Crossing my fingers cause it’s not looking good haha
Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is The Most Dangerous Organisation "- I Hesitate To Call It A Party -" In Human History
They also prioritize Order over Justice. That's why detention without due process is such a danger to democracy. It' not just illegal immigrants being detained and deported to foreign gulags but legal green card holders and soon enough other vulnerable peoples. Browsing on Reddit groups I find disabled people who are very afraid and making go-bags. The fear is real.
Are you impressed by how accurate some of the predictions on this list have been, pandas? Keep upvoting the ones that have aged better than you would have ever imagined, and let us know in the comments below what you hope ages like fine wine as time passes. Then, if you’re looking for even more posts from this subreddit, we’ve got another Bored Panda list featuring the same group right here!
Hillary Called It
Trump’s tweets are so ridiculous, have y’all seen them? Full of insults and name calling and RANDOM ALL CAPS words for NO good REASON and also Thank you for your attention to this matter! 😂 he’s so immature
He really does seem to have the emotional maturity of a toddler.
Load More Replies...Clearing Out My Phone And This One Hit Pretty Hard
And just present you with scapegoats (usually "the poor", "foreigners" or "disabled who don't earn money" ). But hey, we told you that. We told you it would happen. Because we had learned from Germany's history. But you ignored it.
Germany isn't learning from its own history either. Edit: Google Alternative for germ. Second Edit: Alternative for Germany! Autocorrect strikes again.
Load More Replies...This Was Supposed To Aged Like Milk, Sadly It Didn't
A student named Amadou Diallo was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers.
Load More Replies...And that's the illness the USA never wanted really to treat, and Trump is just the symptom. Instead of finally ending the s**t that made the base for these jokes, you just let it go on, were outraged for 1 day when the next black person was m******d - oh, sorry, "unfortunately killed by the police who is so sorry" and then went back to your pretty little lives. And those who wanted it like that saw you and realised that they could have it way worse because who would stop them?
So then there was BlackLivesMatter and so these paranoid non critical thinking police create PoliceLivesMatter. As if police lives don't matter more than any other life!/s
Load More Replies...Well, For All His Flaws, Obama And Others Before Him Were Right The Whole Time
This Quote Was Made More Than A Decade Ago
Laundering Russian mob money is risky business, as Trump's bankrupt casinos prove.
Hasn’t seemed to touch Trump and the right loves mob tactics
Load More Replies...The six handlers who stuff Sour Patch Kids into his gummy maw when they feel he's going to say something moronic/incriminating must have been on a smoke break.
70 Years Later…
Khrushchev was referring to the dialectic winning out eventually no matter what happenes. His we will bury you speach at the UN where he ponded his shoe was in reference to that true communism will be more economically effective on the long run then capitalism. You know what? He was right all along.
So long as it's not Soviet communism, I'm ok with that.
Load More Replies...Russia just needed a way to destroy from within. And the internet and social media was the key.
He found it before there were internet and social media. It's name is Donald J Trump.
Load More Replies...Welp Trump has invited Putin into bed with him so yeah. It's happening.
I’m imagining people back in 1956 hearing this and making a raspberry noise and saying, “Psyeah, I’d like to see him TRY!” Hell; I can imagine thinking it had I heard it when I was a teen and into my 20s. Now I’m sitting here looking at it over and over and thinking, “Son of a b***h was right! People sat back and laughed and it happened under our noses.” 😳🤯🥺😰🤬😞 I’d even say “Nice going!” had it been us saying it and then doing it. I can’t help but marvel at it, even as it crushes me.
48 Years Ago, This Was Considered An Outrageous Statement. Now, It Is Just An Accurate Description Of Presidential Power
Nixon wasn't - as far as anyone knows - a rapist or pedofile. As much as I hated Nixon, he had the decency to fade out of the public eye after leaving office. Unlike Orangina after any defeat.
That’s the crazy thing. My older relatives were talking about this recently - they HATED Nixon. Thought he was the worst of the worst. But Trump makes Nixon look like a saint. Trump is truly the worst president in American history.
Load More Replies...I also remember when "gerrymandering" was a boogeyman that kicked people out of office. Now Texas is trying to arrest the politicians who refuse to do it.
The ‘escapades’ of the minions in the current regime make Watergate look like a drunken frat boy panty raid…😼
Shame really, as in many ways he was the smartest US president for a long while. Didn't give a dam about TV and thought facts mattered.
Now that's unfair. Jimmy Carter was an engineer who knew dámn well about facts.
Load More Replies...The Onion Strikes Again!
Stopped years ago, herd it gotten much worse and also you gotta pay for not being tracked? 🙅♂️
Running away from a problem never changed anything.
Load More Replies...That's what I'm concerned about with the entire USA. "We will make it worse, you will be upset, and then you will live with it." There's been so much horrible, abominable stuff happening in this administration that it's hard to maintain the same level of outrage about it -- we are becoming fatigued, after all of the fertilizer shoveled on top of us for so long. It's starting to feel like "the new normal" -- and that's a danger.
If you’re curious what technofeudalism entails: We’re letting tech bros create a future nobody but them actually want.
A Prediction Of 2023 From 1923
$125/day; that would require a $15.62 minimum wage so we know it was a dream.
Assuming they are only working 8 hours a day. If they are working two full time jobs (which many people have to to just survive), that comes out to about $7.25 an hour.
Load More Replies...This New Yorker Cartoon From 1974
Ouch - I remember living in that time and had always hoped it would never be repeated, much less magnified a thousand fold.
Turns out, the right agreed with Nixon; they just hid under a rock while their views were unpopular. Then Trump told them to live “their truth” and now we’re neck deep in their avarice, paranoia, fear, rage, hatred, and stupidity.
Load More Replies...Clinton Was Right About Republicans Being Evil Ever Since The 90s!
Oh Trump…
Trump chump: “Don’t take him literally, take him seriously! Wait. The other way around. Meh, whatever. All I know is, he tells me only the things I want to hear and that my retrograde views are cool so, he can say anything and I’ll go along with it!”
"He tells it like it is!"...No! Not like that! He didn't mean that! You're twisting his words!
Load More Replies...This Old Quote From Henry George In 1885 Is As Relevant Now Than Ever
Dude Called It
Oh god yes. The trump episode made me actually watch south park properly for the first time. My partner has had episodes on in the past but I haven't watched. Watched sermon on the mount. Decided to watch from season 1. Now onto start of season three.
Nice 😂 it’s a gem of a show. I was never allowed to watch it as a kid so I remember discovering it for the first time too. Enjoy!
Load More Replies...How Did Conan Know?!?!?
Frank Zappa Warns About America Moving Towards A F*****t Theocracy In 1986
Frank Zappa had been issuing such warnings from the 1970s (and maybe before). What astonishes me about that photo is that he's wearing a conventional shirt and tie... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa
He was testifying before congress about censorship in the music industry.
Load More Replies...And the other guys on the show were feigning incredulity at what he was saying when, in fact, he had just spilled the tea on their plans and they couldn’t stand that.
Always listen to a genius. You'll learn a lot whether he's wrong or right.
Robert Barron Says An American Pope Won't Be Elected Until It's In Political Decline
The Catholic church bloōdy well is. The things they've got locked in away in the vaults could change the narrative of the last 500yrs if it ever got out. Lets start with the Nãzi gold and work back from there...
Load More Replies...And Trump has said it's all because of him that Leo was made pope. What horseshit!
His Son Should've Listened
This is a quote from George H W Bush after the 1990 Gulf War, his son later did exactly what he warned against and what he said would happen happened.
Dubya was an idiot! But in comparison to the tangerine dïctator, however? Downright genius! 😔
Indeed he was but sadly Id take him over this moron we have now.
Load More Replies...Dubya might have been a moron, but he did have conscience. Granted, took a while for his brain to link 2 thoughts, but his "understanding" (for lack of a better word) of what he did shows remorse. The UKs Tony Blair, however, was a smart man who, to this day, sees nothing wrong in his part. I would rather the remorseful idiot, than a smart c**tbasket. Both are still better options than the tangerine tw*twaffle
I knew deep in my gut that this would be a terrible, terrible idea. I sometimes hate it when I'm right.
German satirist Volker Pispers did a number on this in 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZezbtfvVfE (Part 1/5 on the topic. Sorry for the bad vid quality) He's very harsh, but quite on point.
Load More Replies...George W. made an emphatic point of never learning anything from his father.
Elizabeth Holmes
I was watching a long documentary on TikTok about Holmes and Theranos. It was so depressing to see all the comments defending her. “She didn’t do anything worse than Trump so why is she behind bars?” Like, excuse me?? 😂
The looney deep-voice clown. Man, those were some dumbfounding interviews.
It was a dumbfounding product! I remember thinking how cool it was that we had the technology to be able to shrink so many tests that they’d fit inside a container the size of a laser printer, my brain exploded. How cool! When I found out that Theranos had no such thing, that they’d merely tried shoving a buncha tests into a box in which they didn’t fit, I was dumbfounded that sooo many people were behind her and the product. And I’m no genius! I’m just an Average Jane (and maybe even slightly below average) and I could see it wouldnt work; why were much, *much*, MUCH smarter people than I convinced it would? What magic did she work on ‘em to convince ‘em the product was real? 🤯
Load More Replies...Found On A Youtube Video From 2006
"Nothing Can Keep It Out. The Tariff Issue Enters Every American Home." May 22, 1912, US
Wow This Was Impressive
1975: Anti-American Poster, "They're Having Problems With Their Economy Again" Ron Cobb, United States
Mmm - that's not anti-American. That's an American pointing out that bombing foreign farmers half way round the world doesn't solve problems in America. And - yeah, bombing foreign farmers doesn't do any good anyway. That's not anti-American - it's just pro-human.
But is it not what America has done previously? Rich shareholders in military companies need want more money = start a war. Military industry complex
Load More Replies...Tech Bros Have A Really Short Memory Span
Tesla Stock Went Down, Relevance Went Up
more like fake,absurd and wack job add 300 and multiply by the amount of people who voted for him
This Low Effort Meme I Made In The Fall Of 2020
Impressive considering Harris wasn’t the candidate until Biden dropped out in 2024 😅
Biden was never supposed to run for a second term. He said he was going to be a "caretaker" president and be a bridge to the next generation. And then what happened happened.
Load More Replies...Ratm Cover 29 Years Ago
How droll. One can be a variety of capitalist without being in the tank for billionaires, corporations, vulture capital firms, and the like.
Load More Replies...Elon's Behavior Could Certainly Be Explained By His Weird D**k. #elongate
This Joke From The Simpsons Is More Appropriate Than Ever
The two-party system has caused a lot of problems. But Musk's 3rd party definitely isn't the answer either.
It'll take away votes from the «Republic»ans, so that's a win, I guess?
Load More Replies...Does this mean both parties will soon be trampled by a runaway elephant?
No, a runaway aᛋᛋ. [For those who don't know: The elephant is the symbol of the Democratic Party, the donkey (аss) is the symbol of the Republican Party.]
Load More Replies...Remember This Super Funny Joke He Made On The Campaign Trail?
“I don’t care about you beyond what you can do to give me even more power”
Foreshadowing
These days you can wear whatever you want. Half my wardrobe is mens', half is womens', all are mine.
I remember seeing on the news that he transitioned. My first reaction was “oh, duh. He’s a guy. That makes so much sense.” 😂 it just seems so right.
Is your opinion a tasty Japanese mushroom? Because it's a shittake.
Load More Replies...Chinese Professor Accurately Predicted Trump Election, Netanyahu's Attack And Us Involvement In Iran In One Video Posted A Year Ago
He could be literally any historian. Nothing Trump has done was a surprise. NOTHING.
Load More Replies...Almost A Decade
He's not smart enough to be the villain...he's the bumbling side-kick.
Gamergate Did A Whole Lot Of Damage To The Youth!
I was raised by a Gen X mum who was very much a rebel and one of the people who was always standing up for the “underdogs” and raging against “the machine.” She taught me to read lots of books, always be wary of politicians, and try to do the right thing, especially that which will help the most people. It really shaped me as a person today - I even remember being shocked the first time I heard blatant racism towards Black folks because I was taught that was wrong and not to be tolerated. Kind of weird getting into my teens and realizing not everyone was raised like that. My coworker was baffled when I was talking about voting for a politician with really good public school policies - “but you don’t even have kids, why do you care?” 😂🥲 because I want to live in a good society, geez
Well Well Well
Oh yeah, is that whole "we will take over Canada" thing still a thing, or has it joined the list of other outrageous claims that have proven such a useful distraction?
Just wait until the water shortage really hits the US. Trump will claim the right to divert ALL the water of the Great Lakes, "who's gonna stop me?"
Load More Replies...Old Meme
Boomers, too, plus the ones they lived through before millennials were born.
And the ones they created with their b******t selfish ways.
Load More Replies...9/11 happened when I was 9. Financial crisis/recession happened around when I graduated high school. Covid happened when I was 28. Now I’m 33 and it’s the rise of North American fascism.
Load More Replies...Still Playing Golf
"Charity". Right. Because we all know that guy has never used fake charities to rip people off, right?
“He’s saving us so much money!” If you believe that, you’re really, really dumb. If you go along with the lie, you’re a scúmbag.
Trump doesn’t need to be golfing. He has technically the most important job in the country, he can put the clubs down for a few years. Instead of spending all the money he’s “saving” by firing everyone on expensive golf trips that he INSISTS need to happen on golf courses he owns (coincidentally also the only golf courses he wins tournaments/gets good golf scores at too). He’s such a joke.
3 Years Ago
I really enjoyed that movie. And yeah, it was very obvious. Including the part where half the time his "genius" inventions are so poorly designed they explode, or crash immediately after being launched.
I loved it too. As soon as I noticed how well it was parodying reality it made it even more enjoyable 😂
Load More Replies...They Called It
I think it's also his trans child? Screwing with his need for everything to be in the order he wants it in?
Vivian? She’s an ICON 😂 I adore her, she’s so funny
Load More Replies...Can We Appreciate The Fact That This Screenshot From Superman vs. The Elite Is Still Relevant Even Now?
People Should’ve Listened To The Educated Black Woman!
There’s Something Musky About This
No for real 😂 we the people need to use the tools we have hahaha
1982 Cartoon By Bill Mauldin That Is Relevant Today
Do I Even Have To Say Anything?
No, we don’t. Just like we don’t need more Rittenhouse’s
Load More Replies...This Tumblr User Called It
Not Only Is It All True, He Staged A Coup In The Gop
People like Musk are fundamentally broken; they want us to feel their pain, and acutely so. They know nobody will ever really like them or love them so they seek to debase us as a means of control. They become treacherous in order to feel powerful. All to fill some void deep within their being.
15 Years Ago
Well Well Well
And really weird looking. Also f*****g evil for shooting her dog
Load More Replies...Whilst The OJ Simpson Parts Aged Like Milk. This Didn’t
Anonymous Called It 3 Days Ago. The Trump Regime Pumped And Dumped The Market Twice In Two Days!
After Hearing Trump Wanting More Prisons For "Home-Grown" Criminals
The US already has the highest incarceration rate on earth and surrounding galaxy.
Please show statistics for the rest of the Milky Way galaxy.
Load More Replies...“It Can Happen Here” is an excellent podcast FYI if yall like paying attention to the downfall of the USA
How About That
That Aged Quickly
Well..well..well…
No seriously. All these flat earth chemtrail bleach-injecting conspiracy theorists who support Trump don’t think something a lil fishy is going on? Never let JD forget this tweet. Never stop pointing out their hypocrisy. We can’t let what happened to 1930s Germany happen to the US. I say this as a non-American, too.
This Unpopular Opinion At The Time
My parents the other day were saying “I know musk is a really smart guy but-“ and I had to interrupt like “how? How is he smart? Because people keep telling you he’s smart? He’s not an engineer. He’s never designed any of his spacecraft or cars - except the cybertruck and we all know how well that went. He’s not a scientist. He started out with a lot of money and needed up with even more money, which isn’t hard to do when you start with money. He’s got some cool sci-fi ideas. But what else has he done that makes him smart or a genius?” And they just stared at me 😂 my mom was like “wait idk, besides ideas I guess he’s just a guy with an imagination and a lot of money.” Bingo!
This Toonhole Comic From 2014
This Random Take About Tucker Carson 6 Years Ago
Truly one of the most repulsive people I ever had the misfortune to hear on rare occasions.
From October 10, 2025: If You're Surprised You Weren't Paying Attention
Does This Count? Since It Was His Final Easter?
I had an Easter egg hunt for my work in April with those cheap lil foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. I keep finding the leftovers around the office. Just found another this morning 😂 think it’s still good to eat? (Jk)
I bet it is, if it didn't melt. Sugar barely spoils.
Load More Replies...Gumbyverse
Please, you can't milk LotR any further. Let Tolkien have peace for fcks sake.
Bruce Indeed Defeated The Leader Of The Conservative Party Of Canada, Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre Had Held That Seat For Two Decades
Our conservative MP, who had a scandal about some racist Facebook posts about First Nations folks but somehow was still recently elected in this same election, was recently trying to come up for a local event. He called my workplace to ask to borrow one of our vehicles - it’s my job to handle that, and without even asking my boss or hesitating at all I said no. 🥰 he didn’t even end up showing up to the event either. I think he was too embarrassed as we have a large First Nations population. F u buddy.
For context, it’s a car dealership and he wanted to borrow a cool car to drive in a parade. No sir!
Load More Replies...Aged Like Wine (WB Is Copyright Claiming McCSongs Now)
It Only Took 18 Hours Before Charlie Cancelled Season 2
It Wuz About Ethics!
This Is How The Media Always Viewed A Peaceful Protest!
Well, violence did follow MLK around. It's just the he and his people weren't the perpetrators - they were on the receiving end.
Yep, just like the BLM 'peaceful' protests. (Although I am a great admirer of MLK...and you're generally right. I just couldn't resist pointing out the obvious.)
Load More Replies...Thank you, BP. I enjoyed this. Looks like the truth hurts some people.
Good to know who the MAGA pandas are eh hahaha, you had some great comments here
Load More Replies...This was cathartic 🥰 to my American pandas - stay strong. The world stands with you, not Trump or MAGA, and we’ll do everything we can to fight fascism alongside you. Stay strong 💪 and don’t give up!
This is good to know. I'm surprised the world doesn't hate each and every one of us by now. I myself have given up.
Load More Replies...Just saying that The terms "1st World" and "3rd World" originated during the Cold War to categorize nations based on their political alignment, not necessarily their economic status. The "1st World" countries were those aligned with the Western Bloc, primarily the United States and its allies, while the "3rd World" encompassed nations that were not aligned with either the US or the Soviet Union. Today, the term "3rd World" is often used interchangeably with "developing nations" and is associated with lower levels of economic development and social well-being.
Hmmmm.... a bazillion ones on Trump, how evil he is, etc etc... yet crickets about our revered, always-with-it previous President. Who needed photo cue cards, so he could remember who was who. Could there be a little bias showing here?
How to tell kf BP us extreme left wing?? Just read these postd! 😠
P.S. You KNOW that you are under no moral or spiritual obligation to read every single article here, yes?
Load More Replies...Title is misleading. A collection of Trump is bad and and life in the US is miserable, i did not bother to read trough all of this when it kept repeating the same topic again and again. Might be relevant for US people, for me it was just dissapointing since there was nothing really new or remotely interresting. Wish the title would be more to the point then in would just not open it.
The same kind of populism coupled with oligarchy is gaining popularity in many now nominally democratic countries around the world. These are lessons on how it's done.
Load More Replies...Thank you, BP. I enjoyed this. Looks like the truth hurts some people.
Good to know who the MAGA pandas are eh hahaha, you had some great comments here
Load More Replies...This was cathartic 🥰 to my American pandas - stay strong. The world stands with you, not Trump or MAGA, and we’ll do everything we can to fight fascism alongside you. Stay strong 💪 and don’t give up!
This is good to know. I'm surprised the world doesn't hate each and every one of us by now. I myself have given up.
Load More Replies...Just saying that The terms "1st World" and "3rd World" originated during the Cold War to categorize nations based on their political alignment, not necessarily their economic status. The "1st World" countries were those aligned with the Western Bloc, primarily the United States and its allies, while the "3rd World" encompassed nations that were not aligned with either the US or the Soviet Union. Today, the term "3rd World" is often used interchangeably with "developing nations" and is associated with lower levels of economic development and social well-being.
Hmmmm.... a bazillion ones on Trump, how evil he is, etc etc... yet crickets about our revered, always-with-it previous President. Who needed photo cue cards, so he could remember who was who. Could there be a little bias showing here?
How to tell kf BP us extreme left wing?? Just read these postd! 😠
P.S. You KNOW that you are under no moral or spiritual obligation to read every single article here, yes?
Load More Replies...Title is misleading. A collection of Trump is bad and and life in the US is miserable, i did not bother to read trough all of this when it kept repeating the same topic again and again. Might be relevant for US people, for me it was just dissapointing since there was nothing really new or remotely interresting. Wish the title would be more to the point then in would just not open it.
The same kind of populism coupled with oligarchy is gaining popularity in many now nominally democratic countries around the world. These are lessons on how it's done.
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