• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    Many years ago, G.W.Bush was trolled by Rick Mercer, about Canadian prime-minister “Jean Putine”, when the ACTUAL PM was Jean Cretien.

    Putine’s a frenchfries+cheese-curds+gravy dish, popular in Quebec.

    He was banned from reentering the US, for that.

    With Trump, you could probably expect to be arrested, at-least deported, but maybe just “died in custody”, you know?

    Sometimes jokes are not worth doing.

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      He trolled all kinds of random Americans, but was criticized for seeking out ignorant Americans, so he went to Harvard Square, talked to Harvard Professors with the same results.

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        One of my favourite parts was when he got people to congratulate Canada on legalizing the stapler

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            Depends on which part you’re asking about. No, Canada didn’t need to legalize the stapler, yes Rick Mercer trolled Americans by asking them to congratulate Canada on it

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              Ha ha , that’s the thing, if I said the president just said they were launching an expedition to the sun to retaliate for solar flares, you couldn’t discount it without checking.

              The dumbest timeline. Many of us knew fascism would come in our lifetimes to seize power, I for one didn’t realize just how dumb our leaders would be in doing so. Like it’s embarrassing. We could do better no? Waited this long for a strong man, and this is who we go with? Jesus fucking Christ.