It's weird how the Onion has basically turned to real life.
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CNN: The FBI just raided Mar-A-Lago
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It's weird how the Onion has basically turned to real life.
Yeah, this is a straight up trick he borrowed from Big Papa Putin.
I keep waffling on this, and I personally think its cringe as hell, but I think that people on the center-left to left side of things haven't had something...fun to actually run with that wasn't just crap about making fun of Trump for a long time. I think people getting into celebrating substantive victories of the Democratic party is a move in the right direction, yeah its pretty nakedly just group signalling, that's what memes are, but I think that the energy of "Look how awesome it is that real, important good stuff is happening" is actually fairly important from a morale perspective. I wish they'd picked a better meme for it, but I'll take what I can get
I really hope the Republicans don't win in November. They are NOT going to let this go. They are going to strike back and it's going to be miserable. They'll find some way to write Trump's immunity into law. Bunch of wackos.
This shit is so irresponsible especially w right wing opinion leaders boosting this kind of talk
heard one talking head comparing this rhetoric to the kind of sentiment heard in 1990's which eventually led to this:
Oklahoma City bombing - Wikipedia
so yeaaaa
I will say, the Dark Brandon stuff is a little cringe to me personally. That said, this is the first time I've seen Biden positively meme'd by a large swath of the left since that time he dragged some poor Ayn Rand fanboy up and down the VP Debate stage. Their name was...Tim Ryan, or something? I don't know her.
So while I don't engage in it much, if the Dark Brandon stuff gives stuff gives some people on the left the permission structure to talk positively about the Biden Administration's achievements, I won't hate on it.
So while I don't engage in it much, if the Dark Brandon stuff gives stuff gives some people on the left the permission structure to talk positively about the Biden Administration's achievements, I won't hate on it.
That's all these people are and ever were: a perpetual grift with a husk of a human being trailing behind it.
I too would listen to a former One America News host because she's clearly on the up and up. He's literally hiring people who praise him to defend him in court now.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXvb-LPUMNQ&ab_channel=OneAmericaNewsNetwork
She was never fired for this. She left of her own will, to personally work as Trump's lawyer. He has the same quality standards of fast food wrappings.
They're going to make us miserable regardless. Might as well make them nervous for a bit.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant. They deserve ridicule and spreading their fever dream bullshit will hopefully inoculate people against the nonsense they spew and/or make it harder for them to spin what they said later when it's no longer convenient
"Your mother just died" bitch, she got buried in a pauper's grave on a golf course for tax purposes.
FBI functions the same way secret police does in authoritarian regimes. They were involved in various assassinations over the years of civil rights leaders. Surveilled a large swath of population and set up entrapment. They can always do anything you mentioned. Theyre essentially the mukhabarat.
AFAIK, Dark Brandon actually started in some leftist circles (mostly folks who always hated Biden regardless) in order to mock him for being milquetoast and ineffectual. Like a "imagine if Biden actually did something, wouldn't that be nice" kind of thing. Nowadays it's been co-opted by the broader left as a way to reclaim the "Lets go Brandon" thing. I agree it's all a bit cringe now, but I'll take Dark Brandon any day over more "Orange man bad" style screaming into the void.
More on topic, still kind of nuts this raid actually happened and I genuinely hope it leads to actual consequences. The cope from all the right wing talking heads has been incredibly entertaining.
More on topic, still kind of nuts this raid actually happened and I genuinely hope it leads to actual consequences. The cope from all the right wing talking heads has been incredibly entertaining.
I mean, you just look at it another way: I remember watching an interview with a Christian married couple, probably middle aged, in 2016 talking about how Trump's divorces are technically a sin, but she's been divorced, husband's been divorced, so many people have that it's not a big deal. It's just like picking and choosing what sins you care about.
It also explains why so many Trump supporters I've argued with have mugshots.
Question: are you LGBTQ or black/Hispanic? Only reason I ask is because I have a few friends who consider the Dark Brandon memes reappropriating fascist stuff and don't find it funny, and a few are my black friends who feel a lot of people doing it are well-intentioned white liberals. I just think it's hilarious that Joe Biden of all people is basically Emperor Palpatine, along with Terminator 1 lines edited into that infamous meme video, but I'm not my friends and don't view it the same way. Taking over Brandon is okay with them, but the #DARKMAGA stuff is really gross, so they're just kind of turned off. What say you?
Also one of the rare moments we managed to wrangle some of their own messaging into a positive. I think it's harmless and should be encouraged more to neuter their total grasp on marketing ignorance.
"TRUMP GOT SO MANY VOTES THAT THE EVIL ALGORITHIM OF THE DEMOCRATS' PLAN BLEW UP!"
Lolololol
What really pisses me off is moments like Jordan, in the second part of that...let's say montage. That exploitation of people's awareness for the wider context, asking 'Oh why didn't you just talk to Trump and ask for the info', when... by all accounts, they did. Since January. Went there and asked for it in June.
Stripping away that context to make it seem an unreasonable escalation, rather than the result of Trump and his cronies dragging their heels
Grifters gotta grift.
Can't miss an opportunity to hock their bullshit.
Interesting. So basically:
- There's nothing for the FBI to find.
- But if there is something there, maybe the FBI put it there because I wasn't allowed to watch the search.
- But I'm not saying they planted evidence, the FBI would probably just lie about what they found.
- But there's nothing there for them to find.
Yeah, something is definitely up. If everything was above board, you would just say, "there's nothing improper to find and we're cooperating fully. Done.". You don't start adding qualifiers about if something nefarious is found.
And the drumbeat should get louder for Trump to just show the search warrant if the right wants to claim this is a political hit-job with literally no proof. If this was just a simple search warrant to, "Please return the Kim Jong love letters, pleez" then Trump would have already released the warrant to the public. But I'm guessing what's written in the search warrant is not a nothing burger.
I think Trump right now is just trying to build up as much GOP public support as possible, so when the gritty details are released, he would have already conditioned 30-40% of the country that the entire thing is a shame and fabricated, and not to trust any evidence from it.
YES, fucking A.
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I don't think they've improved much, either.
The irony when they continue to bring up Hunter Biden and Hillary.
View: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1557119450104700928?s=20&t=fttEJP-1oAs9ooIHSWS0NA
View: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1557119450104700928?s=20&t=fttEJP-1oAs9ooIHSWS0NA
The funny thing?
This is probably the best thing that could have happened to Trump (assuming he'd be in the same trouble regardless). Fox and the wider Republican world were priming the pump to finally jump the sinking ship and now they have to climb back on.
This is probably the best thing that could have happened to Trump (assuming he'd be in the same trouble regardless). Fox and the wider Republican world were priming the pump to finally jump the sinking ship and now they have to climb back on.
It's funny how they break down when the "left" goes on the offensive and they're forced to play defense.
There isn't a page for that in their handbook, is there?
There isn't a page for that in their handbook, is there?
Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the grift is made!
As important as this is, I have to agree with the folks saying that this will likely lead to further right-wing violence. Believe them when they say they will fight. That's how this started in the first place.
Let them have another insurrection. Biden isn't gonna sit around and let them go nuts for hours.
As if that isn't already an issue? Did people already forget January 6th? And that was over people voting.
Okay, so you're saying we should just ignore the corrupt shit because trumpers might feel violated?
Better to rip the band-aid off now while Dems still have some power.
I just fucking love now that something's happening, the Doom Poster narrative has switched now to "we should just let Trump commit crimes to not enrage his base"
The internet is so fucking amazing because if you say something, people will literally invent whatever thing they want to be mad about and say that you said it.
My point wasn't that it shouldn't be done, and I made that pretty damn clear within the first 5 words of my post.
I'm not mad, I just don't understand your point. "The GOP will fight this next election"......ya? Did we expect otherwise?
There is literally no course of events that doesn't lead to further right wing violence. They don't need an actual reason, they'll just use the cause du jour as justification.
"if we don't let our kid eat cake and drink mountain dew for dinner every night we have to fight to get them to sleep"