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Reality continues its convergence with The Onion.

The photo op of the US president signing the country out of the Paris Agreement in 2025, in public, to a cheering crowd is also a great fit for a Mad Max backstory intro montage.

Max stands on a tall wall made of scrap, inside a compound protecting him from the mad man with a bullhorn and his cronies below. The broad chested mad man on the ground belows:

- I know words, I know the best words for I am the most stable genius.

It was surreal seeing Fox News have polymarket bets being taken on what Trump would say side by side with him speaking.

And I don’t even know what to say about the president and First Lady releasing official meme coins…

> I don’t even know what to say about the president and First Lady releasing official meme coins…

wait, this actually happened?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/21/trump-a...

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-meme-coin-crypto

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