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    6 days ago

    We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

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      6 days ago

      Bill Pullman is best president

      Also I dunno why I always get chills when I hear this obviously cheesy line. He sold it.

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        Easily one of the best movie speeches of all time. I remember seeing it in a theater in NYC when it was first released, and the entire auditorium went apeshit.

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          Also kinda wild that USA wants to share something with the world, as close to it as 4th of July.

          What would the equivalent speech be today?

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    Anyone. Literally any movie president would be better than what we have. I’d take Bill Pullman, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson from Mars attacks, anyone.

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        I’d like to see the House of representin be making some stupid votes with Terry Crews standing there flexing his pecs and glaring all angry at em.

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        I’d be fine with that. He eventually found the smartest person in the world and put him in charge. Trump just appointss sycophants that are the most vile, evil people on the planet.

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    Film: Dave (1993).

    Everyone should watch this movie at least once.

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    The versions of historical american presidents seen in the american mythology. The world could use a president as great as the George Washington patriotic Americans think he was.

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      he was a good man - but he gave up the presidency temporarily after lying about having MS, frequently engaged in black ops in other countries, shut down the government like Trump, and knowingly employed an alcoholic who was constantly relapsing during the campaign trail as his chief of staff. Also his communications director leaked military secrets, his press secretary was in a suspicious relationship with a journalist, his wife committed medical fraud and due to knock on affects of his security protocol he and his speech writer are shot, he and his senior staff are exposed to a potential chemical weapon and quarantined, several secret service agents are killed during active service protecting the first family, and during some of these killings his daughter is kidnapped.

      His administration was a mess lol

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        beethoven stopped a girl from drowning, helped a kid stand up to bullies, helped a girl get a date, and stood up to sleezy business people stopping someone from making a bad deal. president beethoven would be a blessing.

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    The Federation president is probably passable. Though Star Trek really doesn’t show how the Federation government is structured probably because they don’t want to lean too much into the socialist undertones in case they get canceled (like actually canceled) for it.