I though recent events bore resemblance to the backstory of a certain X-Men movie.
The Republican Primaries: Days of Future Past
GENOSHAN CIVIL WAR: BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS SPLINTER GROUP SEIZES CAPITAL, DECLARES MUTANT REPUBLIC
MUTANT REPUBLIC MAKES GAINS IN LIBYA, SYRIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MADAGASCAR
RUSSIAN SENTINELS INVADE KIEV: PUTIN VOWS TO CATCH MUTANT DISSIDENTS
MUTANT EL CHAPO ESCAPES FROM PRISON, MEXICO PLEADS FOR HELP AGAINST REBELS
- BBC NEWS
" We must defend our religious liberty from those who wish to force Christians to accept alternative lifestyles."
- Senator Graydon Creed speaking at the Friends of Humanity Convention at Liberty University
CREED APPEARS AT FRIENDS OF HUMANITY CONVENTION WITH “KILL THE MUTANTS” PASTOR
-Human Rights Campaign bulletin
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're MUTANTS!" - Norman Osborn declaring his candidacy for President
"BUILD THE ROBOTS AND MAKE THE X-MEN PAY FOR IT"
- Unofficial Osborn campaign slogan
" We have a problem in this country. It's called Mutants. You know our President is one. You know, he's not even American. Anyway, we have training camps growing in New York where they want to kill us. When can we get rid of them?"
- Attendee at an Osborn rally
FORMER SECRETARY HANK MCCOY BEATEN TO DEATH BY HUMAN MAJORITY PROTESTERS
- Daily Bugle headline
"My supporters are very passionate about this country"
-Norman Osborn
70% OF REPUBLICANS VIEW MUTATIONS UNFAVORABLY
- Reuters Poll
" The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And you look at the questions -- Norman Osborn, are you a comic book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don't you resign? Jeb Shrub, why have your numbers fallen? How about talking about the substantive issues?" - Graydon Creed at the CNBC Presidential Debate
PRESIDENT UNLEASHES NIMROD SENTINEL IN GENOSHA, DOZENS OF MUTANTS KILLED, CIVILIAN DEATHS SUSPECTED
- CNN
"Mr. President, what aren't you telling us about these killer robots?"
- Medea Benjamin before being pulled away
MUTANT REPUBLIC ATTACK IN PARIS: OVER 5,000 KILLED AT CONCERT BY MUTANT WITH SOUNDWAVE POWERS
- Daily Globe headline
"We need to ban all mutants until we figure out what's going on"
- Norman Osborn
“Today's attacks in Brussels underscores that this is a war. This is not an isolated incident. This is not a lone wolf. This is a war with mutant terrorism.”
- Graydon Creed
OSBORN: REGISTER ALL MUTANTS
- Daily Bugle headline
"Why won't these so-called moderate mutants come out and denounce terrorism?"
- Sean Hannity
SHRUB CALLS FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES TO BE TESTED FOR MUTATIONS
- New York Times headline
SENTINELS KILL EL CHAPO IN TIJUANA SHOWDOWN
ESCAPE AT SAN BERNARDINO MUTANT FACILITY KILLS DOZENS
-Los Angeles Times
"Let's see if organic diamond bodies glow in the dark."
-Graydon Creed
Over 80 percent of murders are committed by mutants
- Graphic retweeted by Norman Osborn
" Actually I think Osborn may be right about those mutants celebrating on 9/11 in Jersey City"
- New Jersey Governor Wilson Fisk
" Osborn has a point on mutants, but his unstable temperament makes him unfit to be President. He wants to ally with dictators like Kim Jong Un, Putin and Von Doom against the mutants. He's not a true Conservative."
- Glenn Beck
THE YEAR IN HATE: MASSIVE SPIKE IN ANTI-MUTANT HATE CRIMES
-Southern Poverty Law Center
EXCLUSIVE: XAVIER'S TIES TO MUTANT TERRORIST MAGNETO
- Breitbart headline
EVANGELICAL VOTE CARRIES CREED TO VICTORY IN IOWA
OSBORN SWEEPS SUPER TUESDAY STATES
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT IN TROUBLE: RUBIO LAGS BEHIND
- Daily Bugle Online
" Let's dispel with this fiction the President doesn't know what's he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing: he's mutating America."
- Marco Rubio
"David Duke? The Watchdogs? William Burnside?" I've never heard of them."
- Norman Osborn
" Is Norman Osborn on drugs? Because it seems he's intentionally sabotaging his own campaign."
- Stephen Colbert
"But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro- mutant, focus around money and the media."
- Graydon Creed at the 6th Republican Presidential Debate
OSBORN CAMPAIGN IMPLOSION: GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK
- Slate headline
" I’ll be voting for Creed this Tuesday #NEVEROSBORN"
- Mitt Romney's twitter account
KITTY PRYDE: OSBORN MAKES ME FEAR FOR MY FAMILY
- Huffington Post
" Is Graydon Creed even eligible to be President? He was born in Germany, wasn't he?"
- Norman Osborn
GRAYDON CREED'S MOM KILLED JFK
- National Enquirer
HYPOCRITE: REVELATIONS SHOW CREED OFFSPRING OF MAGNETO ASSOCIATES SABRETOOTH AND MYSTIQUE
- Ben Urich, Salon.com
" Osborn is a pathological liar. The man is utterly amoral."
- Graydon Creed
OSBORN PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE AFTER CREED AND KASICH DROP OUT IN INDIANA
- CNN
ATTACK ON MUTANT NIGHTCLUB IN ORLANDO: 50 DEAD
ORLANDO ATTACKER MAY HAVE BEEN MUTANT, SAY POLICE
- Daily Bugle
" The killings need to stop. We aren't moving from the House floor until the Speaker agrees to take up our bill on the mutant cure."
- Representative John Lewis
" Gonzalo Curiel's biased. He's a mutant, I want to build an army of sentinels."
- Norman Osborn
@realnormanosborn That SJW totally deserved to get thrown off a bridge. Americans sick of PC, agree with ur actions.
- Milo Yiannopoulos's twitter account
" I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and I still wouldn't lose voters. "
- Norman Osborn
MUTANT LIVES MATTER PROTESTS IN BATON ROUGE, FALCON HEIGHTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGS
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT TOTALLY DESTROYED IN FIRE
MUTANT SUSPECT KILLED BY SENTINEL IN DALLAS
SECOND ATTACK IN BATON ROUGE BY MUTANT: 143 DEAD
X-MEN: LEBEAU WAS ACTING IN SELF DEFENSE
PRESIDENT DECLARES MARTIAL LAW, SENDS MARK X SENTINELS TO POLICE PROTESTS
- Daily Globe
" Brexit means we can control our own borders, defend ourselves from the foreign mutants who are taking over Europe. Given Theresa May's policies as Home Secretary, I'm confident she'll adapt the Sentinel program."
- Nigel Farage
" I think Norman Osborn is some kind of goblin person from another solar system. He's using telepathy to brainwash people."
- David Icke
SAUDI ARABIA DECLARES JIHAD ON "DEMONS" AFTER DESTRUCTION OF MEDINA HOLY SITE: UNLEASHES AMERICAN MADE SENTINELS
SPECIAL MEETING OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO DEAL WITH MUTANT THREAT
HORROR IN NICE: OVER 300,000 DEAD IN SUSPECTED MUTANT REPUBLIC ATTACK
LE PEN TO HEAD SIXTH REPUBLIC, CALLS FOR SPECIAL CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS
FAILED COUP IN TURKEY LEAVES THOUSANDS DEAD, LIGHTNING ATTACKS SUSPECTED WORK OF TURKISH ARMY MUTANT
ERDOGAN ARRESTS 50,000 SUSPECTED MUTANTS, BEGINS CONSTRUCTION ON MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON
ERDOGAN TO U.S: EXTRADITE ORORO MUNROE OR FACE DISSOLUTION OF NATO
- Washington Post headlines
"Are you prepared to authorize a sentinel strike that could kill hundreds of thousands of mutants?"
"Yes"
- Prime Minister Theresa May
#NEVEROSBORN TO STAGE CONVENTION COUP AFTER DEATH OF GWEN STACY
PAUL RYAN TO #NEVEROSBORN: RESPECT THE WILL OF THE VOTERS
WILSON FISK: HILLARY FOR PRISON
- Daily Bugle
“LOCK THEM UP!”
- Friends of Humanity and Purifier chant at Republican National Convention
So Melania Osborn's speech bears a striking resemblance to a speech given by the late Senator Kelly. #RNCinCle
Wait.. is Melania quoting Mein Kampf? 2016 can't get any crazier.
Melania transformed into Robert Kelly. Now's she's literally turned into Hitler. Interesting. #RNCinCle
- Ezra Klein's twitter
"What, you thought I was seriously running for the Presidency? I was sent here to sabotage the Republican Party, show you for the fascist fools you really are. I mean really: deporting millions of people, committing war crimes, racial profiling, praising dictatorship, the weapons of mass destruction, blatant racism, contempt for freedom of the press, the petty personal attacks? You guys are behaving EXACTLY like the Nazis. Just ask Magneto. You should all go home and rethink your lives. I hereby declare the Republican Party dissolved. And for God's sake, treat mutants like people. Just because they have different genes doesn't mean their lives matter any less than yours." - Norman Osborn's acceptance speech before revealing himself as a Skrull
So... Mystique killed Osborn and hired an alien to sabotage her own son's presidential campaign? I think 2016 just hit peak insanity.
Harry Osborn doesn't seem to be taking this very well.
Darkholme just surrendered herself to the Secret Service. #RNCinCle
- Ezra Klein's twitter
" Well, that makes my plan to mind control the delegates into voting for David French completely unnecessary. Let's go home now, Moira."
- Charles Xavier
KILL THEM ALL: CREED PROMISES TO DESTROY ALL MUTANTS IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AS CROWD CALLS FOR BLOOD
- Guardian headline