How did America fall, grandpa? Well, it all started with a rich South African not getting enough likes on his 420 and 69 jokes… - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

schooley.bsky.social • 34 days ago

How did America fall, grandpa?

Well, it all started with a rich South African not getting enough likes on his 420 and 69 jokes…

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angrymamabear.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think it all started when a debilitatingly insecure racist was the butt of a joke told by a black man at a black tie dinner...and the WHOLE WORLD LAUGHED.

That moment of injury to a malignant narcissist's psyche ignited a flame of retribution that only a sociopath would keep fanning to this day.

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•34 days ago

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ngamtnlivin.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sooner rather than later.

lenafromtenn.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sprinkle in "trickle down economics" and Citizens United, then add a pinch of Rush Limbaugh and Fox "News" and voila! The American experiment is over.

paulegriffithjr.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tell me more, grandpa!

Well….

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54321blastoff.bsky.social•34 days ago

I want to run a made up government dept and, and I want us to have badges!!

mrcathands.bsky.social•34 days ago

He then found a welcoming community with the 14 and 88 crowd.

donnahook.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or remember that Press Corps dinner where Barack Obama made fun of Donald? Coulda started there, too.

rhtorres.bsky.social•33 days ago

Well, see... John Lennon stepped out of his apartment building one day and... someone fired a gun...

t-antony.bsky.social•34 days ago

It started with a decision by some Federalist Society freaks in the Court of Koch, declaring corporations are people and money is free speech.
Those with the most money get the most speech.
Baby Jesus told them so.

cherfan75.bsky.social•34 days ago

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triplozero.bsky.social•34 days ago

Don’t forget to tell them about the 79% of American Christians who voted for the opposite-of-christ.

yeen125.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’d go a bit further and say it started after a company named General Motors built an electric car only to crush most of them…

hannibal-chau.bsky.social•33 days ago

Terrifyingly accurate

hobogue.bsky.social•34 days ago

C'mon, it was the Black president who served two successful terms making fun of the white supremacist rapist rich guy and you know it.

idgee.bsky.social•34 days ago

Ronald Reagan was born.

flowerrypott.bsky.social•34 days ago

honestly, of all the prominent people on the earth today, that guy is the *most* thoroughly pathetic

vanlighet.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or, did it start at a DC Press Correspondence Dinner back in the day, where TFG guy was verbally taken down, in the form of humor, by President Obama, Seth Meyers?

felonmuskovite.bsky.social•34 days ago

There are tales circulating the internet that state that the rich South African has a mangled penis as a result of botched surgery/ies. And yet no one has been threatened with legal action over the claims. Hmmm. 🤔

mntngroove.bsky.social•34 days ago

He is so pathetically fragile.

collodion1884.bsky.social•34 days ago

Well son, it started in 1996 with the founding of "Fox News"

ali-middleton.bsky.social•34 days ago

Was Faux Newz ever thus?

I kinda got the feels they went berserk with Obama.

chrislovespugs.bsky.social•34 days ago

Started with evil Murdoch who fucked up media at his home (Australia) then fucked UK media and finally, the USA.

He has soooo much blood on his hands. No person has brought about more lies, corruption and yes, death (esp Covid deaths) than that man.

oneconvergence.bsky.social•34 days ago

Actually it all started with a gorrilla

secretsquirre1.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’m just waiting for the Disney Hall of presidents explain this one

ihavesomething2say.bsky.social•34 days ago

Grandpa: Shhhhh! Kid, don’t let them hear you say that!!

coffeetest.bsky.social•34 days ago

I am going to give it to Reagan when he convinced people how giving more money to rich people would benefit them.

But maybe its when we allowed Nixon to rehabilitate himself into a "respected elder statesman"

I don't know, too many reasons that we basically all went along with.

satiricloki.bsky.social•34 days ago

No it started with that goddamn gorilla

justahousewife.bsky.social•34 days ago

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/danila-krasnov?r=2a0sg8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/fbi-whistleblower-musk-russia

https://www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/peter-thiel-is-betting-on-the-apocalypse?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

https://www.thenerdreich.com/carole-cadwalladr-warns-of-digital-coup-in-ted-talk/

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-05-21/unwinding-yen-carry-trade-could-crater-treasuries-drive-gold-prices-new

oldenglishsheepdog.bsky.social•34 days ago

I mean, he could've told her that America had corrupt people in important positions in our government and cowards who were to afraid to hold them accountable, they were Democrats the Cowards and Republicans (Now Reptilian gQp Cult), that I call them, the Corrupt.

reasonsvoice.bsky.social•34 days ago

Skibidi...

smartmax900.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yeah that’s the start of it.

direwolf54.bsky.social•34 days ago

And an Australian zillionaire creating Fox News

pamballard3.bsky.social•34 days ago

yes, poor little musKKK, didn't get enough love or hugs.

schooley.bsky.social•34 days ago

I love people responding to this joke seriously. As if we all don’t know full well the real answer to triggering our looming doom was when the Cubs won the World Series.

bribleck.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dang that post got numbers

bessinaboutburbank.com•34 days ago

David Bowie’s death cause a rip in the space time continuum and led us down the wrong path

jmidnight.bsky.social•34 days ago

Cmon man. It started much earlier with the tuck rule call.

mj2468.bsky.social•34 days ago

In Dec 2015 Steve Harvey announced the wrong Miss Universe-in Oct 2016 the Cubs won the World Series-in November 2016 Trump eked out a win-in Feb 2017 the Patriots came back from a 28-3 deficit to win the Superbowl-in Mar 2017 the wrong Best Picture winner was announced. We're in a broken timeline.

bbaxter8.bsky.social•34 days ago

Clevelander here 😭

brycenbeck.bsky.social•34 days ago

David Bowie died, then Prince, then the Cubs win, then Trump was elected. 2016 is when the world ended.

bebe4real.bsky.social•33 days ago

George Michael and Merle Haggard too.

incompetusrex.bsky.social•34 days ago

It turns out that billy goat curse was keeping untold evil at bay.

tj-stiles.bsky.social•34 days ago

Before my grandmother died at 95 she said her biggest regret was never seeing the Cubs win the World Series. “But that was as it should be, Grandma,” I said. “As it should be.”

marcmcd.bsky.social•34 days ago

I thought the apocalypse began with the death of jim henson and ended with the death of david bowie, and we’ve all been in hell ever since.

nmcarlito.bsky.social•34 days ago

LOL

eveexamines.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yep, that's when reality cracked open. And now look! Chicago Pope. It's a sign.

cromalsocrom.bsky.social•34 days ago

Fucking monkey's paw.

napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social•34 days ago

My Indians let us all down.

thomasjay.bsky.social•34 days ago

They broke the timeline with that one.

roanna.bsky.social•34 days ago

wontgetfooledagain.bsky.social•34 days ago

Best day EVER when our beloved Cubbies won the World Series!

mweinglass.bsky.social•34 days ago

So we need the Knicks to win to pull us out of this tailspin?

Oh boy…

teslatakedownsm.bsky.social•34 days ago

We’re gonna go shout at him tomorrow if anyone wants to come https://bsky.app/profile/teslatakedownsm.bsky.social/post/3lpriqgs43c26

coalj.bsky.social•34 days ago

More like "his 1488 posts".

jannymp.bsky.social•34 days ago

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graysonmendenhall.bsky.social•34 days ago

“There once was a man who was too rich, too cringe, and too desperate for attention…”

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•34 days ago

that's like blaming the wolf instead of the person who invited the wolf into the house.

evangeline63.bsky.social•34 days ago

IT IS OBSCENE. THESE BILLIONAIRES CAN NEVER SPEND WHAT THE HAVE BUT THEY NEED MORE AS THE WORLD BURNS. FOR WHAT? A PENIS ROCKET TO NOWHERE? WHILE CHILDREN DIE? IT'S FUCKINGGGG SICK.

amuseme65.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’m glad you still have hope that you will have grandchildren to survive this, no sarcasm. I have lost that hope for my children to survive this.

erickrees.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s because America chose racism over a Black woman.

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's because americans are the epitome of idiocy.

tedhoffman.bsky.social•34 days ago

A racist faux-rich guy got insulted by a black President at a gathering and decided he needed revenge.

proudheathen.bsky.social•34 days ago

That's to funny.......

chowdaddy.bsky.social•34 days ago

And, feeling so inadequate as a man that he was desperate to spread his sperm far and wide.

davehuntsman.bsky.social•34 days ago

No. Started b/c he was put into office in 2017 (w/o which he never would be in office again now), in spite of American ppl selecting someone else by Millions of votes. Our antique Constitution, which should have been updated in 20thC to reflect ppl’s will, never was; & now too often a minority…

davehuntsman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Controls…especially with Senate, which is so far out of whack population wise- many times worse than even at Founding-that voting power is 70x greater for some votes than others; & those are supporting a Putin-supporting, corrupt Prez, whom the Constitution forbid from even holding office again.

martimirth.bsky.social•33 days ago

It’s deeper than that also. It started because of the way it began—kind of like the minister who was filling out a death certificate and where it asked for the cause of death, he wanted to put ‘birth’.

victorn86976916.bsky.social•34 days ago

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victorn86976916.bsky.social•34 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

bullmastiffla.bsky.social•34 days ago

It started with a nation built on slavery and bigotry…

amuseme65.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yes, this is the brutal truth.

socalbookish.bsky.social•34 days ago

Nah it started with a man-baby getting roasted by a Black man

bravetraveler327.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is the truth.

ramblon.bsky.social•34 days ago

Isn't that always the way?

modernnonna.bsky.social•34 days ago

America didn’t have far to go with that fall #IJS

2manystripes.bsky.social•34 days ago

Painfully accurate

systemevolution.bsky.social•34 days ago

"Well it all started with the founding fathers thinking that political democracy was compatible with a new type of economic feudalism, called capitalism, which was inherently unstable, inequitable, and exploitative by design, giving rise to a warped, profit-first social value system..."

waterdog87.bsky.social•34 days ago

It started when networks wanted to save money on producing scripted entertainment and decided "reality" TV was a good way to be cheap. Americans didn't understand "reality" TV wasn't actually real.

bebe4real.bsky.social•33 days ago

Who hooked up with a
loud mouth, orange racist.

mylastchancesaloon.bsky.social•34 days ago

He is not South African by his own definition, he is a second generation immigrant from South Africa

mariusloots.bsky.social•34 days ago

Unfortunately for us, South African version of Supreme Court held that South Africans can't loose their citizenship.

bumpinfresh.bsky.social•34 days ago

“It all started because a bunch of white comedians were mad that they couldn’t say the n-word without public backlash…”

hernandez888.bsky.social•34 days ago

Get your guns, organize the militias, it's time to fight, or lose our country forever.
We're free men. Nothing can take that from us but our own cowardice & failure to act.
It's our duty to protect the Republic from all enemies, foreign & domestic.
We the People are the front & last line of defense

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myfiona.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sure. More violence and murder are always the answer. Glad you are “free MEN.”

hernandez888.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is America sweetie. We don't have to get violent, but We ain't gonna walk into a gun fight unarmed against these killers, murderers, and genociders.
That's just plain good ol fashioned American common sense.

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myfiona.bsky.social•33 days ago

I am not your “sweetie.”’