Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
1) Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
2) No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
3) Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
4) No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
5) No AI generated content.
Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images
The news has won, I've been broken. I no longer give a fuck what happens to the USA. We voted for this shit.
I'll still vote, but I can no longer engage in this Outrage of the Day journalism. If you didn't vote in 2024 or voted for the orange pedo, fuck you so much. Which is most of the country. Fuck you all.
Also. Civilian presidents aren't supposed to solute. Only presidents who served in the military are supposed to solute. Reagan and this idiot are the only ones who do it. The virtue signaling is part of their cult control
This is constructed as though it would be morally good to honour US troops who just willfully invaded another country for nothing.
When I've watched news from the USA, even the left wing ones, all they care about is the "six servicemen who were killed." Americans are truely the most exceptional people. Even on the left other countries are populated by subhumans.
Idk what left wing news you're watching but I've seen almost exclusively bitching about the dead school girls as well as the mainstream media (which I'm pretty sure is actually what you watched) ignoring the dead Iranian civilians in favor of only talking about the soldiers
So the folks killing children in Iran didn't get a proper salute. So what?
That's not the point here. They're acting like they support the actual servicemen and women, when in reality it's fake to appease the cult. Act like you give a shit so you can use them and the followers will keep licking the boot. He's a fucking draft dodger too. Just trying to use armed services as his personal army.
Same with how Republicans are all "law and order" and elected a convicted felon. Or how they'll say if you just do what they say, you won't get hurt (by police) completely ignoring the fact that being white is the more accurate reason the police let them go or didn't fuck them up for the same crime a black or brown person would go straight to jail or catch a beating for. ACAB.
salute with hat on, hand over heart when without hat
Its not 6, its close to 100
Don't they mean 'cap'?
President Pedo rapes little girls. Whatever else he does short of starting a global themonuclear war will be small potatoes.
He raped little kids. I dont give a shit about the hat. And he sacrificed those soldiers because he was told to. He dont give a fuck about us knowing he is a rapist.
He took off his hat to salute a North Korean general though!
.Trump saluting a North Korean general. Kim jong-un looks flabbergasted in the background.
And also reservists who shouldn't have even been there.
The president isn't military, he's not even supposed to salute. I know it's become expected, but he is a civilian. Ignoring that, the only disrespectful is the type of hat he is wearing. You're actually supposed to wear your cover outdoors, look at the actual military members in the photo. There are so many legit reasons to hate Trump we don't need to make ones up.
Correct, and as he's not military the preferred sign of respect is to remove his hat and put his hand over his heart. Like all prior presidents (whom have not served) do, and as other civilians in this photo are doing.
Trump has a long history of giving zero shit about signs of respect to the military though, so I'd say it's always worth pointing them out for the crayon eaters that still vote for him in droves.
Example of a different enfeebled elderly president that actually respects the military signalling his respect to the fallen:
Isn't the commander in chief technically military?
Not technically. Yes, they're the Commander in Chief, but they maintain civilian status. They oversee the military, but are not actually a member of the military. This is also why they cannot be prosecuted under military law or court martialed.
Can't find current link on Defense website, but here's an older one: https://web.archive.org/web/20170512070110/https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45870
My question too. At the very least he seems like a singular case where it’s unclear.
Also just to further snub Trump but Biden looks pretty good in his suit, well tailored and fitted to him. Unlike Trump who somehow wears clothes more I'll fitting than mine, difference is I can't get my clothes tailored and have a weird as build.
There is no way you would want to see Trump in a suit fitted to him.
To add to what you said, the origin of the salute is related to headgear.
One potential origin of the salute is knights raising their faceguards, which obviously requires you to be wearing one. Another potential origin of the salute is the courtesy of removing your hat in the presence of a superior officer. You still see this (though mostly in period historical dramas) with the hat tip.
The military still retains that link, you're not supposed to salute while wearing your hat. For civilians, the equivalent respectful move is to remove your hat in certain situations. These days you mostly encounter that at a sporting event where people sometimes remove their hats during the national anthem.
So, for a president who isn't part of the military, the official protocol is probably to stand at attention while not wearing a hat. An acceptable modern alternative is to salute, and since hats are uncommon these days it's mostly to salute while not wearing a hat. Saluting while wearing a hat is probably a reasonable variation on that. A disrespectful move would be to wear a hat and not salute. Of course, the fact it's a MAGA campaign merch hat is disrespectful in itself.
Isn’t the president commander in chief?
I’m not American, this is a real question
Yes. That's not a military position, that's a civilian position. The ironic part is, the military is commanded by a civilian to keep the military in check...
Fascists have this weird tendency to appear as if they are soldiers. Attire, manner, etc. Hitler used to do this too.
I mean to be fair, we were told it was a low effort meme.
Otherwise how he can promote his merch? Every occasion is the right moment to shill some shit
He clearly needs to release another Donald J. Shitcoin as well.
Oh sweet, looks like the US is getting it's own "Kim Jong-Un looking at things" style photo blog sometime soon.
~~fucked~~ raped ✅
Yeah. He did that too. Then he also murdered and ate them.
Doesn't want a breeze to come along and make him look like
People saluting without a hat on
They all look like it's their first time
Everyone is looking in a different direction. Is it like the cycling fan that just rotates to get the whole room and they're out of sync?
The nasty thing was probably mad that he was forced to go and pretend to care about "suckers and losers"...
Not sure why Melanianus is holding her tit. That's not where the heart is located.
Ahh that's his dress trucker hat.
So far. The 6 that he's sacrificed so far.
Apparently he sells that hat on his website and was promoting it.
Dumb shit Vance isn't even using an American salute.
so i'm not up on the uniform code recently, but since disphit here isn't in uniform shouldn't his hand be over his heart?
