Some Democrats are donating money to fund the creation of a new cartoon fantasy in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden are time traveling heroes fighting Donald Trump and the Russians for control of the space-time continuum.
As described in an article at VICE: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xxe5p/this-kickstarter-wants-to-make-obama-and-biden-animated-time-travel-heroes-vgtrn
“At the beginning of August, filmmaker Adam Reid launched a Kickstarter, hoping to raise $100,000 to make the pilot for Barry & Joe—an animated series he dreamed up about Obama and Biden righting the wrongs of our world, fighting Trump, and dicking around with the space-time continuum. It’s basically Jonny Quest meets Quantum Leap if Jonny and Hadji were actually former Democratic leaders and the entire Hanna-Barbera writing staff was on mescaline during development. Oh, and an animated Neil deGrasse Tyson will serve as their time-travel guide.”
“These are the adventures of Barack Obama and Joe Biden bromancing the multiverse as they try and save us from ourselves,” Reid wrote in the Kickstarter description. “Moments after the inauguration of the forty-fifth president, Barack Obama and his best friend Joe Biden were escorted to a secret lab, run by a team of the world’s greatest scientists and occasionally Elon Musk.”
“…Isn’t this just leftist fan fiction meant to give solace to those who need some hope and healing?” the campaign’s FAQs asks. “Yes,” is Reid’s response. But he’ll have to raise another $30,000 before that hope and healing can begin.
The Barry & Joe Kickstarter runs until August 31. Watch the series pitch video, which spells out the entire batshit premise, above.
you can play the video here: https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2994612/video-802680-h264_high.mp4
I still think it’s more likely he’d come back as the Antichrist than as a Savior/hero – in a bad enough crisis I could seethe nation choosing a former president admired by half the nation over “the lowest rung on the ladder” as Keifer Sutherland’s character was described on “Designated Survivor,” in which: “Kirkman’s life changes, though, when he’s made the “designated survivor” during the President’s State of the Union address, which means he’s placed in a secure location while everyone important is busy in the Capitol. There, he kicks back with a beer to watch the speech on TV. But suddenly, the signal cuts out and Secret Service agents rush in. The news comes quickly: A huge explosion has destroyed the Capitol, wiping out everyone inside — and making Kirkman the new President by default.”
If the top ranking politicians were killed off at the same time, I don’t think they’d follow due process and inaugurate the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I think powerful forces (probably the same ones who secretly perpetrate the attack/crisis) would be happy to re-install President Obama. And I do not think he would be our savior.
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