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->''"I know that I, like many other Americans, have behaved like a total buffoon. But we Americans are England's children. I know we don't call as often as we should and we aren't as well-behaved as [[CanadaEh our goody two-shoes brother Canada]], who by the way has never had a girlfriend. I'm just saying."''

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->''"I know that I, like many other Americans, have behaved like a total buffoon. But we Americans are England's children. I know we don't call as often as we should and we aren't as well-behaved as [[CanadaEh [[CourteousCanadian our goody two-shoes brother Canada]], who by the way has never had a girlfriend. I'm just saying."''

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->''"There is an element of absurdity in American culture, of outrageousness. Of freedom-loving flag-humping eagle-hugging football-watching gun-toting beer-guzzling hamburger-stuffing patriotic fervor. There's an element of the ridiculous in American culture and the truth is we all love it. I remember my first time tailgating a college football game, and watching a bunch of fat middle-aged freaks getting piss-drunk on cheap beer, slurring along to John Denver's "Country Roads", waving both glitzy flags and drizzled wieners in each other's faces, shoving greasy grilled cheeseburgers and hot dogs down their choked throats, watching in odd astonishment and thinking to myself, 'What a god-dang country, god bless America.'"''

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->''"There is an element of absurdity in American culture, of outrageousness. Of freedom-loving flag-humping eagle-hugging football-watching gun-toting beer-guzzling hamburger-stuffing patriotic fervor. There's an element of the ridiculous in American culture and the truth is we all love it. I remember my first time tailgating a college football game, and watching a bunch of fat middle-aged freaks getting piss-drunk on cheap beer, slurring along to John Denver's "Country Roads", 'Country Roads', waving both glitzy flags and drizzled wieners in each other's faces, shoving greasy grilled cheeseburgers and hot dogs down their choked throats, watching in odd astonishment and thinking to myself, 'What a god-dang country, god bless America.'"'''''

->''"And that's [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Senator Armstrong]]. Despite being created by a [[Creator/KojimaProductions Japanese]] [[Creator/PlatinumGames company]], this guy is [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales quintessentially American]]. Senator Armstrong is the politician that every American male politician wishes they could be. Senator Armstrong is the [[RatedMForManly tough-guy muscle-man]] football-playing [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent action politician]] '''caricature''' that people who are obsessed with UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump '''think''' Donald Trump is. If Senator Armstrong was a real person, he would get votes. The American people would love this guy. Would love the grandstanding, the showboating, the self-aware absurdity, the machismo, the shameless outrageous hyper-nationalism, the open talk of warfare and the obsession with masculine strength. And they'd love Armstrong even more because behind all his rambling, long-winded speeches, beneath all the bluster and the goofiness and the cheesy lines, [[VillainHasAPoint there's a core of truth]]."''
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->''"Our parents came to this country, fleeing poverty, oppression, and hunger. Hunger! They were very, very hungry! And they dreamed of a land, filled with hamburger restaurants. And not just one type of hamburger, but hundreds of types, with different sizes, toppings, and condiments. That land was America. America, Harold! ''America.'' Now, this is about achieving what our parents set out for. This is about the pursuit of happiness. This night... is about The American Dream."''
-->-- '''Kumar Patel''', ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''
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->'''The Frog''': You think I'm just going to roll over for you hegemonic, MickeyMouse-loving Americans?\\

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->'''The Frog''': You think I'm just going to roll over for you hegemonic, MickeyMouse-loving WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-loving Americans?\\
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Joe McCarthy, Vietnam\\

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Joe McCarthy, [=McCarthy=], Vietnam\\
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->''I come from the land of Ben Franklin\\
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman\\
Otis Redding, Ellington,\\
The country that I love\\
But it's a land of the slaves and the Ku Klux Klan\\
Haymarket Riot and the Great Depression\\
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam\\
The sickest joke I know''
-->-- '''Music/{{Descendents}}''', "'Merican"
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->''"There is an element of absurdity in American culture, of outrageousness. Of freedom-loving flag-humping eagle-hugging football-watching gun-toting beer-guzzling hamburger-stuffing patriotic fervor. There's an element of the ridiculous in American culture and the truth is we all love it. I remember my first time tailgating a college football game, and watching a bunch of fat middle-aged freaks getting piss-drunk on cheap beer, slurring along to John Denver's "Country Roads", waving both glitzy flags and drizzled wieners in each other's faces, shoving greasy grilled cheeseburgers and hot dogs down their choked throats, watching in odd astonishment and thinking to myself, 'What a god-dang country, god bless America.'"''
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@fatbrett FatBrett]]''', [[https://youtu.be/-avJIDU_I1Y "Senator Armstrong - A Deconstruction of Villainy"]]

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