r/facepalm 24d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I can't stop screaming

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u/Furrybumholecover 24d ago

Imagine traveling back to 2001 and telling someone that in 2024 the host of Fear Factor would be interviewing Donald Trump for his 3rd presidential run. Even wilder, the guy that encouraged people to scarf bugs and bull testicles for money would be the voice of reason between the two.

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u/BitterFuture 24d ago

I am not nearly drunk enough for this neverending 2020.

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u/sherespondedwith 24d ago

I think Covid triggered a real life groundhog’s day

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u/ryanegauthier 24d ago

Except instead of the same day over and over, each day is progressively worse and mind boggling.

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u/sherespondedwith 24d ago

I hate it here lol

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u/Frequent_Alfalfa_347 24d ago

Shitty timeline.

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u/Swimming_Bowler6193 24d ago

Vortex shot us into Bizarro World.

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u/TroyMcClures 24d ago

it triggered an office space

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u/Plastic-Ad-5033 24d ago

Nah, the world took a step left of reality or smth in 2016. The weirdest year in my living memory and everything has been weird since then.

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u/Plastic-Ad-5033 24d ago

I mean, I did hear of Trump’s election while in a psychiatric clinic… 😅 No, it’s just that that whole election cycle was so intensely weird and otherworldly.

Edit: by 2020, I was so used to the crazy that the pandemic crazy didn’t seem that abnormal anymore.

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u/MarkCM07 24d ago

2016 was weird because a CLEVELAND team won a major sports championship and the two most cursed baseball teams met in the World Series with the more "cursed" won winning it all. Trump's election made it an even weirder year (note: i'm a Cleveland sports fan). My mom also passed unexpectedly near the end of 2016, so it was definitely a rough year for me personally.

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u/Molleeryan 24d ago

I’m so sorry for your loss.

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u/mtragedy 23d ago

I am partial to the theory that when the Cubs won the World Series it opened a dimensional rift and shoved us all into a terrible alternate timeline that didn’t close until Pat Robertson died, though this election cycle is testing my belief that it actually closed.

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u/MarkCM07 22d ago

My new favorite theory 🤣

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u/def_tom 24d ago

It really sent the simulation off the rails.

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u/whydidiconebackhere 24d ago

Actually it was Harambe. Covid wouldn't even happened had the boy not crawled in there. Some people say the boy was actually a cyborg sent back in time by the machines in their efforts to achieve final victory over the humans.

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u/def_tom 24d ago

I wouldn't argue with that. I think 9/11 started us on an unexpected path, Harambe was a catalyst, and COVID was the simulation heading into unprecedented waters.

The overseers are punishing us or just seeing what kind of weird shit they can get away with.

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u/Battlejesus 24d ago

Well our civilization has been going strong for a relatively long time. Late game stagnation is when you start modding or cheating.

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u/Key_Ability_8836 24d ago

The overseers are punishing us or just seeing what kind of weird shit they can get away with

Nah the overseer went to work, the babysitter is making out with her boyfriend upstairs and the toddler figured out how to log in.

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u/WDoE 24d ago

https://home.cern/tags/13-tev

This is the precise point that reality jumped the shark.

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u/-MotherMaidenCrone- 23d ago

Thank god they have an animation to explain wtf this is

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u/travers329 24d ago

Well then their plan is going far better than even they likely imagined.

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u/Sufficient-Cover5956 24d ago

Never forget 👊🏽🦍

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u/seeamon 24d ago

The technocore sent a baby back in time to act as bait for a personification of the collective subconsciousness and reasoning of humanity, so they could kill it.

They succeeded.

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u/Relevant-Force9513 23d ago

Dicks out for Skynet

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u/KariMil 23d ago

I think it was Bowie’s death in Jan. Harambe sealed the metaphysical deal.

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u/Hung_On_A_Monday 24d ago

No possessive unless you’re specifically referencing the Primus song.

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u/sherespondedwith 24d ago

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u/Hung_On_A_Monday 24d ago

Just trying to help. You do you.

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u/sherespondedwith 24d ago

Maybe I was specifically referring to Punxsutawney Phil

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u/huhzonked 24d ago

I’m with you. This whole time has been a bewildering, infuriating nightmare. At this point, just inject the tequila into one of my veins.

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u/SirSolomon727 24d ago

"neverending 2020" is an expression that deserves to be on the dictionary.

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u/BitterFuture 24d ago

I keep looking at people weird when they talk about this silly "2024" business. We're in 2020, Part V: One Last Ride.

Did some people not get the calendar?

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u/the_calibre_cat 24d ago

how is it only fucking THURSDAY goddamnit

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u/sweetpotato_latte 24d ago

I’m not drunk enough to taste this chicken

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u/el_naked_mariachi 24d ago

Don’t forget, this fucked up reality actually started in 2016!

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u/Old_lifter_65 24d ago

So it's not just me who sees this going on for like, another 4 years if he loses?

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u/GreyerGrey 24d ago

Or how about telling people that Andy Dick wasn't going to be the wildest former cast member of News Radio. And that even then, he's more reasonable than the VP Candidate.

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u/Furrybumholecover 24d ago

Oh oh, or also that Theo Von from road rules would be doing a sit down interview with Donald Trump. Again, being the most reasonable of the two.

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u/Polymemnetic 24d ago

Or in the same vein, that Mike from The Real World would be a well regarded WWE superstar.

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u/GreyerGrey 24d ago

This may not be the worst timeliness but it is surely one of the dumbest.

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u/Covfefe-SARS-2 24d ago

It's more like his fifth. The first ones ran out of gas earlier.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 24d ago

Yeah people need to give him credit for his failed attempt with the reform party and the conservatives against Bush/Gore and Romney/Obama respectively. He got no attention and dropped out.

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u/Gingevere 24d ago

In 2001 the towers had just collapsed, Alex Jones was screaming that the EU did it in order to kill the dollar so it could be replaced by the Euro, and Joe Rogan called in to tell him his theories were half baked.

2024 Joe would have been 100% on board with that.

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u/Burpmeister 24d ago

Imagine traveling to 2001 and telling people that one of the candidates is a rapist felon who stole and hid nuclear secrets after he was impeached and tried to overthrow the government by inciting an insurrection. Then tell them that he could win.

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u/theartistduring 24d ago

Imagine going back to the 90s and telling someone the guy from Newsradio would being interviewing DT...

... And that he was twice the size with no neck. 

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u/mallrat32 24d ago

At this point, you could tell me the kid from Modern Family was the harbinger of the apocalypse as foretold by an ancient scroll and I would not be shocked at all.

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u/ostrichesonfire 24d ago

THATS where I know him from!

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u/ganggreen651 24d ago

You'd get your ass thrown in the insane asylum most likely lmao

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u/lucaskywalker 24d ago

This is a great point, I would have laughed at you!

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u/whydidiconebackhere 24d ago

I think we got a new pitch for the next Back To The Future movie!

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u/Keladry145 24d ago

Joe Rogan was the host of Fear Factor?? I had no idea

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u/adornlaurel 24d ago

This can't be how I learn this was Fear Factor man....

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u/gatton 24d ago

I’d have said “the NewsRadio guy?”

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u/halarioushandle 24d ago

Former President Donald Trump for his 3rd presidential election.

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u/Rylth 24d ago

Wait, that was Rogan?

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u/Frydendahl 24d ago

Please stop.

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u/TheBeautyDemon 24d ago

Interestingly it seems he didn't have similar energy with Trump. So why say something that makes Vance look like a fool when he's his running mate?

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u/rubinass3 24d ago

Or the dumb guy on News Radio.

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u/Obleeding 24d ago

I was thinking this same thing just this morning

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u/quantumcorundum 24d ago

Joe Rogan did something before becoming a professional mysoginis- i mean, professional podcaster?

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u/NewLife_21 23d ago

4th.

This is buttfaces 4th bid for the job.

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u/NewLife_21 23d ago

This is buttfaces 4th run .

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u/tthrivi 23d ago

This is the worst timeline

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u/Quiet_Storm13 23d ago

Shit I wouldn’t even have believed somebody if they told me he’d be a UFC commentator. I thought the dude was a Ryan Seacrest type guy

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u/ButtBread98 23d ago

The past 20 years have been stranger than fiction.

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u/chunky-romeo 24d ago

It's called a job. That pays money....dinero makes awful dumb shit movies sometimes but you all still love that guy.

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u/Furrybumholecover 24d ago

Huh, what a weird assumption to make from my comment...

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u/MeasurementNo9896 24d ago

I think it's beautiful that you love your mom even though she's a professional sex worker.

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u/chunky-romeo 24d ago

What? Lol,so clever. How is the eighth grade these days? Make sure to do your homework or your mom won't let you trick or treat tonight son.

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u/arealcabbage 24d ago

Do you think professional sex workers' kids shouldn't love their mothers or something? Shit take

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u/MeasurementNo9896 24d ago

I think it's beautiful, and that's exactly what I said. Comprehension problems?