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Don’t Let the Bully Take Our Timeline

Your job is to stop the bully

Tucker Lieberman
6 min readAug 23, 2019
Biff, driving his car with the almanac flapping on the windshield, sneers at Marty.

Hey, I’m Tucker Lieberman, I’m an author, and I’m voting for Kamala Harris. This post is dated 2019, but I’ve skipped ahead to 2024.

Here, In 2019, I wrote about Back to the Future Part II, a prescient ’80s film about Donald Trump. My essay remains relevant in 2024, so I’ve freshened it up. You’re reading the updated version.

Let’s win this election for all of us.

Released 35 years ago in 1989, the film sequel to Back to the Future is about a dystopia set around what is essentially a Trump presidency. The screenwriter confirmed in 2015 that the character was based on Donald Trump.

Back to the Future Part II suggests not engaging in a tit-for-tat fight. That way lies destruction: car crash, fist fight, jail.

A real hero does something so radical it risks causing a tear in the space-time continuum.

Back to the Future II movie poster showing the characters Doc Brown and Marty McFly outside their time machine.
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Back to the Future Part II: The story

Marty, a teenager in 1985, receives a tip from the mad scientist Doc, and together they travel to a volatile scene in the year 2015…

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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