Very professional and mature. This is what everyone expects from a government institution.
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This is not even a meme
She should sue for defamation.
the right can't meme
They generally don't have a language-based way of thinking, it's why they just say shit. Call them weird narcissists? Guess what they're going to be calling you next week. Say they're violent? Guess what they're going to be saying about the left tomorrow.
It's all reactionaries and grifters who enable those reactive attitudes by showing them how to ignore criticism.
I would be far more optimistic if we just had a stupid population with misguided, reactionary tendencies. We can work with that. You can fix stupid. You can't fix evil though, and the people leading our country's stupid are pure evil. And they know it, which is why the whole slew of podcasters, AM radio hosts, FOX pundits and cabinet members weasel and worm around accountability all day, every day.
It's not so much that they can't meme, it's that they have only one joke: "Look how I can make this person fear me".
If Democrats don't prosecute the FUCK out of themselves for being complicit with this administration as well as the scummy admin itself, then we are FUCKED because they'd just enable the next wave of fascists.
Fuck Trump and everyone who enabled him up to this point
Why people always talking like the Democrats need to fix this shit. They are controlled opposition. They're not going to be our saviors.
They always enable fascists because they prefer fascism to socialism. The American people are left with a choice, either revolution, or submission. Fascism is the inevitable end point of capitalism. Power and wealth concentrates at the top while the rest of society is starved of resources, and those at the top use those resources to get the working class to fight amongst themselves, by blaming their failures on minority groups.
I would argue that fascism is the ultimate tool for capitalism, for the reasons that you outline.
But I agree with your sentiment
Capitalism can never end any other way than with fascism. Human greed requires it.
What's the distinction? Genuinely curious, asking in good faith
I think they're saying it not an end point, its cyclical. As momentum for revolution builds, fascism kind of comes in and kills the momentum and rewrites the history. And then it ultimately crumbles on its own weight and we go back to regular old capitalism for a while.
We need to preserve our history and use the fascist momentum to fuel the fires of revolution.
They don't care. They will launder the reputation of Republicans and pardon many of them. Meanwhile any protesters against this will be shown no such mercy by the same democrats.
And all this will be in the name of 'healing'.
Spoiler: they won't!
"WhAt wE nEeD nOw iS uNiTy"
....and as a bonus, you know what else they won't do? They won't bother to roll back or repeal any of Trump's bullshit. Welcome to the new normal, where nothing is normal and your government is either fascists or the spineless cowards who pander to them
Every day I'm glad I don't have any Trump cultists in my circle. The everyone is 12 theory continues.
More like everyone is 92 because most kids today are smarter then this.
I bet if you showed this case, without political context to a class none would laugh and all would agree its wrong for officials to do this.
Lies on top on lies
The Memes will Continue.
The jolly old USSR was as half-assed as the Trump DOJ. There's a famous case of someone being airbrushed out of a group photo, but they couldn't be bothered to get rid of his shoes.
An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story... has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?
Most haven't, it's about money and connections not faith and community empowerment.
Fascism loves using religion to enforce it's will.
Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Just the Old Testament. Yahweh is bit of a dick in that half, from what I recall. Gaslighting some dude to sacrifice his child, I think?
YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.
The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.
The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible. It's more insightful and better-written than most of the canonical parts. I'd also throw in Dante's Inferno and Paradiso. I'm in two minds about adding Milton, though.
Well in that particular case he stopped him last second like 'oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don't gotta kill your kid.' But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed random people cause they didn't do what he said.
Why is "far left agitator" almost always depicted as a black person? 🧐
Bondi: "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON (our) PLACES OF WORSHIP.”
As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There's nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.
I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn't worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo... how small of a person do you have to be to think "I'm part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I'm going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation." I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the... everything. Just non-fucking-stop.
It's just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I'll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I'll look back fondly on how it was "only" so bad at the start of 2026.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.
It's almost like they don't understand how and why everyone likes memes. Memes are like a mycelium. Okay make up your own metaphor. Memes are like my gut flora.
Memes are not allowed to be poisonous disinformation.
Memes have contained dangerous misinformation for over a decade. The bigger thing is that this is government propaganda trying to pass itself off as bottom up relatable content.
I wonder how many judges will have the courage to sanction the government for this conduct... If POTUS lies or falsifies documents, throw the charges out already. We can't have a tainted jury.
And that won't stop Mr. Orange. But at least it will give some relief to people who are harassed by him.
The judicial system is stacked with Trump supporters.
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