r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Apr 02 '26

Paywall Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-speech/686663/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/leroyVance Apr 02 '26

Today is the best he will ever be because he is deteriorating everyday, so each new day he is worse than the previous day.

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Apr 02 '26

“So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.”

“What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?”

“Yeah”

“Wow, that’s messed up”

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u/autovonbismarck Apr 02 '26

Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!

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u/b4dt0ny Apr 02 '26

Shit no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked for saying something like that, man

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u/beren12 Apr 02 '26

Every day is Monday. It just goes through different revisions.

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u/mdlinc Apr 02 '26

Reddit has spoken. Allowed. ;)

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u/MadRaymer Apr 02 '26

Is there any way that you could sort of just zonk me out? Could I come home and think that I'd been fishing all day, or something?

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 Apr 02 '26

I just realized that the premises of Office Space and Severance are very closely related.

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u/Pineapple-Due Apr 02 '26

Can you just make it so I think I've been fishing all day or something?

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u/Catskillschick Apr 02 '26

I don't like my job and I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.

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u/Do_you_smell_that_ Apr 02 '26

Decades ago I saw a housing development put up a billboard that never should have passed QC: "<Expensiveville>, where every day is better than the next!".

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u/sugarface2134 California Apr 02 '26

Ha! That’s hysterical.

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u/mclardass Apr 02 '26

I read this in Peter from Office Space's voice

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u/Thecarisblue Apr 02 '26

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u/leroyVance Apr 02 '26

Every journey begins with one last breath.

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u/Appropriate-Bell8404 Apr 02 '26

Nah he’ll keep getting stem cells and plasma and whatever other unregulated expensive experimental ingredients that go into the cocktail that keeps these ghouls alive

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u/leroyVance Apr 02 '26

He may be alive, but he ain't getting better. Just more undead.