r/AskReddit 29d ago

If we could set up a Truman Show scenario where Trump thinks he’s President again and the public send in scenarios for him to deal with, what would you suggest?

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u/Teh_Cactus 28d ago

Make the entire set on a slight angle and not install handrails.

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u/MinistryOfGeeks 28d ago

This brings to mind the video of that absolutely sloshed guy trying to buy beer, with 2001 space Odyssey music playing.

Here: https://youtu.be/wNlYA9UxNOo

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u/Arty0m_1nfosec 28d ago

Looks more like ketamine than alcohol.

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u/merrylittlecucumber 28d ago

Yeah that's gotta be a medication interaction or something, looks like ghb gives me the willies to see him looping like that.

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u/marmosetohmarmoset 28d ago

Agreed. it's funny to watch but I also kinda hope they called an ambulance for him? Something has gone very wrong.

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u/Sleepingguitarman 28d ago

I feel like if your that f'd off of ghb then you would only stumble around for about 2 minutes before going into a mini 2-3 hour coma, or begin the loop of him completely stop walking and just stand there with his eyes closed, swinging his arms until someone snapped him out of it, then start walking again only to stand still and start swinging his arms again, etc.

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE 28d ago

True story?

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u/Sleepingguitarman 28d ago

Yea i was a ghb addict who used daily for about 1-2 years. Glad i'm past that time in my life.

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u/YHFGMRBQ 28d ago

That could be an uncomfortable five minutes. I'd be afraid my self-consciousness would cause a feedback loop which would make that five minutes into ten.

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u/Information-Theory 22d ago

Yeah that's a textbook ketamine walk.

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u/BungleBungleBungle 28d ago

Wow, he was like a real life version of this sketch

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u/ghostsharkbear 28d ago

This was always my favourite Micallef sketch, when I was watching Inception all I could think of was this

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u/DrakonIL 28d ago

That woman's core strength is incredible to look so at-ease for so long.

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u/prodigalkal7 28d ago

That is definitely a funny sketch, but way too long imo. Went on for a solid minute or two more than it needed to

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u/JonathanDP81 28d ago

You go to the trouble of building a set at a 45° angle, you'll want to get your money's worth out of it. 😀

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u/HI_Handbasket 28d ago

So...36 seconds is your max attention span?

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u/dependaponomus 28d ago

It looks like he's being controlled by a child that hasn't figured out the buttons yet. Just mashing buttons in hopes of beating his older brother.

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u/ChillyBearGrylls 28d ago

QWOP

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u/Fafnir13 28d ago

If I could get into a sort of proposing kneel position, I could shuffle along for a pretty good distance. Something would almost always go wrong though.

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u/Frude 28d ago

Leonardo DiCpario said in an interview that he used this video as reference for the Quaalude scene when filming The Wolf of Wall Street.

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u/SeekretTheRPGAddict 28d ago

idk how that doesnt have more views thats the funniest shit ever

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u/MinistryOfGeeks 28d ago

This video is oooold, that's probably a reupload.

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u/mataoo 28d ago

It's ancient. I remember watching the original for the first time probably 12 years ago. It was probably the most I've ever laughed in my life.

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u/futurarmy 28d ago

I've seen it a bunch of times but I always laugh at the bit near the end where he's holding the bowl as he falls down as if it would help him stay standing up lol

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u/rockstar-raksh28 28d ago

It's five minutes of pure laughter. The music also fits this even more than it fit the movie.

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u/LonePaladin 28d ago

So?

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u/caspy7 28d ago

So they literally answered the question of why the view count would be lower than expected.

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u/Enkrptic 28d ago

So it has less views, hello?

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u/Fafnir13 28d ago

It’s not Reddit, so copying old stuff with a lot of views doesn’t almost guarantee a lot of views. Different algorithms.

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u/Notmykl 28d ago

It's only funny if the cops were waiting for him outside. If he drove or walked home in that condition he could've killed someone and/or himself.

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u/SeekretTheRPGAddict 28d ago

well i didnt think of that cause im dumb okay

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u/lacheur42 28d ago

Lol, that guy ain't drunk.

Well, he might be a little drunk on top of the all the K, I suppose.

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u/pow3llmorgan 28d ago

That's how I try to get up after falling down in a dream.

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u/Saint_Steady 28d ago

This exactly. Dream dizzies.

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u/jamiejo81 28d ago

I had NO IDEA that video was over 5 minutes long! I've seen little 20 second grabs of it over the years but WOW.

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u/Trent_Boyett 28d ago

if you look at the timestamp, the actual time he spent in the store was closer to 10 minutes, the video has half the time edited out.

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u/Fafnir13 28d ago

Do we need to start a petition for the Snyder cut of this?

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u/RxWest 28d ago

The only thing this guy kept upright was that case of beer...

Even after he fell. Undamaged and perfectly placed

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u/seffend 28d ago

I can't believe they didn't call the cops on this dude.

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u/ensalys 28d ago

Cops? That dude needs an ambulance.

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u/seffend 28d ago

For sure. I wonder how he even got there. It looked like broad daylight, too.

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u/Fafnir13 28d ago

Cops are often how you get guys like this onto an ambulance. They will say they are fine and don’t need help. You end up needing someone with arresting authority. Public intoxication is also a crime (misdemeanor? Something like that) in a lot of places. I can see why given the random damage he’s inflicting on the store and the real danger he poses to himself and others.

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u/hobbycollector 28d ago

I love how many people try to help him and then just give up. At some point I just give up and sleep it off on the spot.

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u/piltonpfizerwallace 28d ago

For some reason this video was painful for me to watch. Like I started to feel paralyzed just watching him.

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u/pm-me-mathproofs 28d ago

Same.. had to skip forward when he was on the ground for a full fucking minute trying to turtle himself to his feet

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u/Apocalypse_Right_Now 28d ago

A real triumph of the human spirit

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u/peachscissors 28d ago

Ah yes, one of the finest slapsticks of the silent era

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u/HeartyMiddlingQueen 28d ago

How have I not seen that before?!

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u/jcastells9 28d ago

thank you for sharing this

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u/calamarichris 28d ago

This diligent qwop scientist not only displays irrefutably that the Earth is a globe, but that it's also spinning at an astounding rate while hurtling through space at speeds that would make one's head spin.

Check. Mate, flat-Earthers.

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u/blahblahrasputan 28d ago

I've seen this in real life. Guy was super lanky. Was regular thing too. Walked like a 1930's disney character and "subtly" used the fridges to make his way along.

Working at a liquorstore was a weird time. About 50/50 fun and depressing.

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u/Namasiel 28d ago

I'd never seen the entire video before until now. Only the first part until he falls down the first time. That was fucking great!

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u/formallyhuman 28d ago

At 10:48 in the morning? Fucking hell.

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u/Eayauapa 28d ago

To be fair, at the start of lockdowns I was bored as hell after all my flatmates moved out so it wasn’t exactly uncommon for me to go for my third beer run of the night after the sun had come up

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u/celerysnap181 28d ago

This made my morning

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u/Chipimp 28d ago

Nijinskys heir apparent.

Thanks, that was gold, first time I saw it with music. Much enhanced.

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u/JustALittleNightcap 28d ago

Ah, riding the fine line between functional and non-functional alcoholic

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u/iph0ne 28d ago

I wish I could hear that old man lecturing him

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u/twelphknight 28d ago

Looks like he took some special k to me.

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u/texican1911 28d ago

I think we've all been there. Hopefully at home.

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u/loophole64 28d ago

Why didn’t they help the dude! Lol.

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u/thunder_thais 28d ago

Holy shit I can’t stop laughing 🤣

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u/ImDyxlesic- 28d ago

Lieutenant Dan, you got no legs!

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u/mooshoopork4 28d ago

That’s exactly how I move when something is chasing me in a dream.

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u/Hartknockz 28d ago

I would really like to know how that dude even made it to the store?

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u/L4MB 28d ago

Slowly and falling down a lot I would assume.

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u/klsdniwoethn 28d ago

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u/HappilyAverage 28d ago

I have never seen that before. Thank you so much for posting that. Whoever put it to music is a genius

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u/enthalpy-burns 28d ago

That's quite a gem, surprising that it seems to be relatively undiscovered.

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u/NotRichorFamous 28d ago

i could watch that all day.

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u/Psychological_Lunch 28d ago

Is that the original youtube vid? How does it only have 12K views since 2012? I thought this vid was part of internet lore and would have millions of hits.

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u/Foggy_Prophet 28d ago

The internet was invented for stuff like this.

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u/thedoomdevice 28d ago

Mjolnirwiser beer, he was not worthy.

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u/SteevyT 28d ago

There used to be a version of that set to Java by Al Hirt.

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u/velociraptorbaby 28d ago

I went from hysterically laughing to just flat out feeling sad. Hope that guy is ok wherever he is.

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u/jmon25 28d ago

I'm crying I'm laughing so hard. This is amazing.

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u/snogard_dragons 28d ago

I’ve never seen this edit, it’s pure gold

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u/coldmans 28d ago

dude when he opened the fridge door I lost it

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u/whelpineedhelp 28d ago

No joke, this is what happens in my dreams. I get this weird inability to walk. It stress my dream-self out so much! I feel like I should hide it, so half of my dreams are me making excuses to people about why I'm running behind and will catch up with them later (so they won't see me struggling to walk).

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u/Nepenthes_sapiens 28d ago

"My god... it's full of beers."

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u/springbluesky 28d ago

Its better with lux aterna

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u/Hawkpelt94 28d ago

Me after the first song wraps up and I think the video is over, but another song starts up; "Wow, how long does this go on for, HOLY SHIT ITS OVER 5 MINUTES LONG. Poor guy..."

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u/alphawolfffff 28d ago

Reminds me of wal-e

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u/rockstar-raksh28 28d ago

Wow, that music gets stuck in my head quickly.

I watched that movie a month ago and it got stuck for a week. Thanks for the laughter though.

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u/Smpkfan2 28d ago

It looks like he is a mime trying to lift a very heavy box 😂

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u/Bowdensaft 21d ago

I've seen the footage before, but not with this music. Amazing.

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u/Anon203571 12d ago

Sitting on the toilet watching this was 5 minutes well spent 🤣

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u/Funkit 28d ago

Me and my three friends went to the Ripleys Believe it or Not museum after each eating 2 of 8 brownies that I made with like 2oz.

They had one room that was on a 10 degree angle. Just enough that it would really Fuck with you sober. You’re supposed to walk through the room and go “woah”, then continue to the next, but we stayed in that room for like an hour and my friends girlfriend sat in the corner and cried

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u/SufficientVariety 28d ago edited 20d ago

Fun fact: you were actually in that room for 7 minutes.

Edit: OMG! My first award thank you 🙏 😊

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Donner_Par_Tea_House 28d ago

"Know thy dose" - Socrates

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u/OOOH_WHATS_THIS 28d ago

"That Socrates guy really knew his shit" - Abraham Lincoln

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u/get_the_reference_ 28d ago

That man was Albert Einstein.

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u/OOOH_WHATS_THIS 28d ago

OMG I know that reference!

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u/Demp_Rock 28d ago

“The edibles will kick in as soon as you smoke a bowl” - Plato

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u/Hoovooloo42 28d ago

Or you gotta say the incantation "These Edibles Ain't Shit"

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u/CowsAreNotGamers 28d ago

"there are no accidents" - Master Oogway

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u/AdvancedMod 28d ago

“Craft thy buzz” - my boyfriend’s boss

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u/goldenboyphoto 28d ago edited 28d ago

Very similar situation at the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in the tunnel where the floor is perfectly still and straight but goes through a big tube that rocks back and forth giving the illusion that the floor is moving. Friend and I pretty much reenacted the casino scene in Fear in Loathing.

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u/Geshman 28d ago

We had something like that in an old haunted house I used to work at. It was a bridge with surrounded by a cylinder that rotates called a vortex tunnel. Example.

It was very disorienting and very hard to walk through, but when I worked a full 8 hour shift I'd get used it it in about 10-20 minutes. My favorite thing to do would be sneak up behind people when they started crossing the tunnel and follow them. The person in back would notice me and start screaming for everyone to hurry up and cross but they couldn't because they were too disoriented. So you'd get situations where the whole group is desperately trying to escape but unable to because they're stumbling all over themselves

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u/Weird_Fiches 28d ago

Ages ago, Astroworld in Houston had an attraction called the "Wacky Shack" that was essentially just rooms at weird angles and teenaged hosts pointing out various oddities. As teens ourselves, my friends and I went through the attraction enough times one day that we had memorized the script and then went back and presented it slightly ahead of the hosts. It was so much fun. We were such assholes.

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u/God_of_Shenanagins 28d ago

You are both a cautionary tale and an inspiration, because I almost cried laughing at that image

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u/Petite_Tsunami 28d ago

I would be crying too

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u/soundecember 28d ago

Fuck I thought that said 2 to 8 brownies and was like “bruh”

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u/Durant78 28d ago

Awesome.

If there is video footage I'm all in to watch that.

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u/Classico42 28d ago

You want to experience true level? Do you?

Ugh, yes

my friends girlfriend sat in the corner and cried

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u/DogHammers 28d ago

Well I can't answer for OP but I did do that thing where you try to walk forwards through a spinning psychedelic tube thing which made me nearly fall over. Then I went back through it a few times and totally got the hang of it then nearly fell over when I stepped out the end of it after about the fifth go through.

Hope this helps.

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u/Funkit 28d ago

Time didn’t exist for me idk dude lol

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u/cajun_kick_ass 28d ago

Switch off the electrical outlet anytime he wants to charge his phone, keep it working for anything else.

I wanna see him stumble through the set of the white house, trying to solve the mystery of his phone not charging. Even when using different chargers.

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u/chizzo257 28d ago

i'd make huge handrails just to make his hands look even smaller

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u/Aimhere2k 28d ago

Ramps everywhere, with built-in misters to keep them just a tiny bit wet at all times.

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u/ICanShowYouPeru 28d ago

Mystery Spot, anyone?

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u/Vegemite_is_Awesome 28d ago

Ah, so like the slide show. I miss that show

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u/Mr_Abberation 28d ago

Simple gold 😂

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u/GlowUpper 28d ago

Calm down, Satan.

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u/lavamanthegreat_ 28d ago

Heinous 😂🤝

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u/Glum_Needleworker_41 28d ago

only person to fall up stairs, biden

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u/Shirlenator 28d ago

Seriously? I've done it. I guarantee you have done it at some point. Almost all of us have. Stop being blinded by your hatred for the other side.

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u/Glum_Needleworker_41 28d ago

stop with the handrail. i can hate the other side when the other side hates this country and is literally driving it into the ground.

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u/wayoverpaid 28d ago

Funny as it is to laugh at powerful guys flailing... the Only person?

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u/Glum_Needleworker_41 28d ago

didn’t slip, biden struggle everyday to walk and talk. the guys a worthless pedo that has 47 years of lying and plagiarizing. at least in 88 people had enough brains to see it.

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u/Wheatek 28d ago

Makes me think of our president. He is drunk most lf the time so it makes it a bit funny. Just go and search "Zeman falling down the stairs"

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u/CCC_037 28d ago

Not just one angle. Put the entire set on hydraulics and (very very slowly) change the angle over time.

None of the actors comment on it.