A billionaire mad man destroyed the east wing of the white house and carved his name onto national monuments. His friend took food and medicine from starving children and is in a race with other obscenely rich people to build a secret base on the moon. Or mars. These people have blown up a school. They are now giving their select goons electroshock gloves, which let them incapacitate anyone in seconds.
This is comic book villain shit.
I don’t actually follow comic books all that much, but I think that Lex Luthor became president in the DC comics at some point. And you know what, he is a literal supervillain, but he at least wasn’t robbing the country WHILE supervillaining. He was already rich. He didn’t need it.
The real life version, apparently, has a deeper bottomless hole that needs money than Lex Luthor, though.
This is america.
(unrelated, but if you haven’t watched the old video of Donald Glover’s “This is America” video with other songs playing over it, you should. The way it matches up with “Call Me Maybe” is amazing.)
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