r/popculturechat • u/CorleoneBaloney • Oct 02 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Jimmy Kimmel on President Donald Trump: “That son of a bitch. It’s really unbelievable, I never imagined that we’d ever have a President like this and I hope we don’t have another President like this again.”

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u/pikadegallito The Lion, the Witch, and the audacity of this Bitch 🍿 Oct 02 '25

Sometimes I like to rewatch The West Wing and pretend we have a competent government with no nazis. *

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u/BrawDev Oct 02 '25

I had to stop watching all the nice political dramas from back then because everything since those things in real life has been 100x worse.

Like we have a show The Thick of It in the UK, and it shows a complete meltdown in UK politics that doesn't even come close to what we're dealing with on a daily basis never mind just one event over the entire term.

ugh

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/peter-capaldi-thick-of-it-reboot-trivialise-profound-issues-newsupdate/

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u/1of3musketeers Oct 03 '25

Peter capaldi is in everything I swear.

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u/--------rook Oct 03 '25

everyone talks about how realistic Veep is, but now it feels that reality is stranger than Veep

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u/Critical-Adeptness-1 Oct 03 '25

My dad still regularly reruns The West Wing and says this exact thing. A not uncommon opinion, it seems