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This clown, who I thought at one time, could transition into a Presidential figure for the sake of his children and grandchildren, gets more sad by the day.

With his appointment of the CEO of Carl's Jr. as Commerce Secretary, WE HAVE LITERALLY TURNED INTO IDIOCRACY!

Idiocracy, as it turns out, was A DOCUMENTARY predicting the times we now live in!

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"Donald Trump is playing us all for idiots.

In tapping burger CEO Andy Puzder — who runs Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s — as his labor secretary, the President-elect has again torn a chilling page from the 2006 film “Idiocracy,” in which government workers are “brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”

The Mike Judge flick, which follows an average Joe (Luke Wilson) who awakens from a 500-year hibernation to find he’s the smartest guy in a slow-witted and serially fertile society, was meant as satire. But 10 years later, it has more and more in common with Trump’s America than just its automated Carl’s Jr. kiosks. In fact, film co-writer Etan Cohen in February tweeted he’d “never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary.”

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Terry Crews stars as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Terry Crews stars as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. (20th Century Fox)

Let us count the ways:

Scott Pruitt is a stenographer for the oil and gas industry
1. The celeb president

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews) is an ex-pro wrestler and porn superstar who’s never not surrounded by an entourage of babes. He has an absurd, unnaturally hued mane (“So you’re smart, huh? I thought your hair would be bigger,” he tells Joe) and walks onstage to a fog machine and pump-up jam, which is exactly how Trump teed off his Republican National Convention speech.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Tuesday.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Tuesday. (Gerry Broome/AP)

Oh, and at one point, he utters the word “p---y” — though this leader of the free world makes no mention of grabbing it without permission.
2. The clown car cabinet

From retired neurosurgeon/pyramid expert Ben Carson as HUD secretary to a labor secretary who is anti-labor to an education secretary who fought to undermine public schools to a conspiracy-theory trafficker as national security adviser, the prospective Trump cabinet is packed with questionable picks.
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President Camacho’s cabinet is only a shade worse, featuring a dumb-as-rocks Secretary of Education unable to tear his eyes from a snow globe (“He’s kind of stupid, but he’s President Camacho’s stepbrother,” says a fellow cabinet member) and a tween who won his high position in a contest.

Trump taps former campaign rival Ben Carson as housing secretary

Like a reality show.
CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder (c.) departs Trump Tower on Wednesday.
CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder (c.) departs Trump Tower on Wednesday. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
3. Dumbed-down English

By the year 2505, language has “deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner-city slang and various grunts,” and coherent sentences are regarded “fag talk.” Had Twitter existed in the “Idiocracy” universe, you’d better believe its characters would be slinging e-missives like “Sad!” and “Cancel order!”

4. Women as objects

Starbucks, in addition to being featured on the U.S. currency in the film, is but a sleazy sex house offering “exotic coffee for men” (it’s $500 million for extra foam). Hot Naked Chicks and World Report, the “#1 news & chicks magazine,” promises “chicks, sex, naked, world, sex, hot, report, chicks.” Government goons only let Joe talk to his hibernation buddy, Rita (Maya Rudolph), under the assurance that she’ll “put out.” And in one scene, Frito (Dax Shepard) drools as Rita walks away in a snug-fitting skirt.
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Crews (l.) and Luke Wilson (r.) co-star in "Idiocracy."

“Yeah, back that thing up. Hey, you mind if I pound on that, Joe?” he says. That’s no way to talk about a woman — unless, that is, you’re a certain President-elect shooting the breeze with Billy Bush one year before the film was released.

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Perhaps Trump inspired Judge.
The "Idiocracy" cabinet assembles.
The "Idiocracy" cabinet assembles. (20th Century Fox)
5. A registry

If Trump continues his flirtation with an unconstitutional “Muslim registry,” he might glean some dos and don’ts from “Idiocracy”: Cops toss Joe in jail after discovering he doesn’t have the required “Identity Processing Program of America” bar-code tattoo, and when they finally force his arm into a machine, it malfunctions to interpret his offhand muttering — “Not Sure” — as a God-given name. He slips out of jail effortlessly.
6. The environment: Who needs it?

The movie’s “dust bowl,” smoky gray trash heaps and energy drinks as a water source may not be far off: Trump has found an EPA chief in climate-change denier Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General who’s made it his business to repeatedly sue the EPA. Good luck with that, Earth.
7. Non-traditional schooling

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What’s worth less than a degree from the formerly lawsuit-saddled Trump University, you ask? Maybe Frito’s law degree from Costco.

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Pretty bleak, isn’t it?

We’ll leave you with Joe’s rousing closing speech — a small sliver of hope that someone will make America read again.

“You know, there was a time in this country when smart people were considered cool. Well, maybe not cool, but smart people did things, like build ships and pyramids, and they even went to the moon.

“And there was a time when this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies — movies that had stories, so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting — and I believe that time can come again.”

#Sad