• @whotookkarl
    79•1 month ago

    Alt: duck soup movie poster, in which a grifter con man fails upward to leading a country, makes a mockery of justice, appoints idiots spying for a foreign government, and ends up in a losing war and destruction.

    • @_stranger_
      44•1 month ago

      And it came out in 1933.

      Something about history rhyming and all that.

      • @whotookkarl
        21•1 month ago

        And some song lyrics from the first music number:

        The last man nearly ruined this place,

        He didn’t know what to do with it

        If you think this country’s bad enough now,

        Just wait till I get through with it. /

        The country’s taxes must be fixed,

        And I know what to do with it.

        If you think you’re paying too much now,

        Just wait till I get through with it. /

        I will not stand for anything

        That’s crooked or unfair.

        I’m strictly on the up and up,

        So everyone beware. /

        If anyone’s caught taking graft

        And I don’t get my share,

        We stand ‘em up against the wall…

        And pop goes the weasel!