The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[TB]

and... something... swept under the rug. Probably a dead body.

I couldn't tell if that was a lump or just the way they drew the oil.

 

[TexRex]

I think it's those beans he was promoting, Goya or something like that.

I think you hit the nail on the nose. The colors are right for Corona but something was off about it.

That's awesome. Who did that?

 

[Danoff]

Twitter on the phone

 

[jjaisli]

I like the phone on the ground with his Twitter account left open. Leaving that behind WOULD be a nice thought.

 

[TexRex]

I like the phone on the ground with his Twitter account left open. Leaving that behind WOULD be a nice thought.

Fat. Chance.

 

[TB]

Who did that?

I saw it on imgur but the original post had this link with it:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/morten-morland-times-cartoon-november-9-2020-vj2pzhwnt

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Is that lady liberty under the carpet?

 

[Joey D]

Is that lady liberty under the carpet?

Meliana-Bot 2020

 

[UKMikey]

I saw it on imgur but the original post had this link with it:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/morten-morland-times-cartoon-november-9-2020-vj2pzhwnt

I think it's also safe to say that Times owner Rupert Murdoch is still pissed about Trump screaming down the phone at him about Fox News.

 

[polysmut]

It looks a bit like the Republican elephant dead under the carpet. It's hard to tell though.

 

[TexRex]

I think it's safe to say that Times owner Rupert Murdoch is still pissed about Trump screaming down the phone at him about Fox News.

Or he doesn't have the control we assume he has over content in his--



I couldn't finish that.

Doubt it's Liberty under the rug. Either it's the head alone or the rest of the statue is out of frame. Maybe a suspected whistleblower under there? Or Rudy?

Edit: Good call on the elephant. I think it's deliberately ambiguous. It's more entertaining that way, frankly.

 

[BobK]

Did they? Be it sincere or hyperbole on the part of those individuals, I can't find any source that substantiates that claim. I even checked Fox News.

I gather Snoop Dogg, Whoopi Goldberg and Raven said they would, but there's no obvious reason anyone would confuse any of them for Oprah or Sam Jackson.

I stand corrected; it was Whoopi Goldberg not Oprah, and Jackson said "“If that 🤬 becomes president I will move my black ass to South Africa” not Canada. Sorry if my memory is a bit imperfect.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-who-threatened-to-leave-the-u-s-if-trump-was-elected/13/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...lee-country-trump-was-elected-are-they-945888

 

[Rage Racer]

Nobody said that Russia hacked the election or in any way tampered directly with the vote counts, only that they interfered via social media disinfo campaigns. But nice try.

Nobody?
I remember well that "hacking" was the initial allegiation.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parall...an-hacking-kerfuffle-what-we-do-and-dont-know
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html

I also remember an American journalist (Michael Bohm if I'm not mistaken) debating on a Russian political TV show in the end of 2016 repeatedly saying "You DID hack our elections!".

Don't you remember the "Russian hackers" were a meme back then?

I suppose they just didn't find the evidence (because the Russians hacked again and erased it, I guess) about election hacking so they changed their accusations to "disinformation".

Actually...I’m sure they still tried to do it in the same way as in 2016 (by spewing misinformation, not through actual ballots), just this time it was expected and some of it didn’t go through. I remember 2016 and all the Reddit posts that were upvoted by Russian bots. Didn’t see one this year.

Good luck to Putin btw. I hear he’s not doing too well.

According to those "anonymous sources" of various media outlets, Putin is "seriously sick" or even "near death" since 2012 at least.

I'm curious, how'd you know those bots were Russian? Their nicknames were like "Putin1461488" or "vodka228"?..

 

[TexRex]

I stand corrected; it was Whoopi Goldberg not Oprah, and Jackson said "“If that 🤬 becomes president I will move my black ass to South Africa” not Canada. Sorry if my memory is a bit imperfect.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-who-threatened-to-leave-the-u-s-if-trump-was-elected/13/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...lee-country-trump-was-elected-are-they-945888

Yeah, some people said they would leave. Some actually did.

People have said and are still saying it this time as well. Whether it's said in sincerity, hyperbole or mockery is anyone's guess.

I'd never say I'm going to leave. I've actually spent quite a bit of time in Canada, and as beautiful as the country and its people are (yes, I'm generalizing there), I don't want to live there. I love my country even if I don't love everything about it. I would much rather stay and fight for it.

I get that you were compelled to defend Trump, but I'm honestly surprised you didn't address the validity of the response tweet. I can't find any indication that Biden actually published anything of the sort. His feed is much more tactful than that--it's really a breath of fresh air. It's much more truthful as well, apparently including when he said he was going to win.

 

[Lain]

Nobody?
I remember well that "hacking" was the initial allegiation.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parall...an-hacking-kerfuffle-what-we-do-and-dont-know
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html

I also remember an American journalist (Michael Bohm if I'm not mistaken) debating on a Russian political TV show in the end of 2016 repeatedly saying "You DID hack our elections!".

Don't you remember the "Russian hackers" were a meme back then?

I suppose they just didn't find the evidence (because the Russians hacked again and erased it, I guess) about election hacking so they changed their accusations to "disinformation".

Ok, memes aside (since those can be propagandistic), there probably was some hacking in addition to the disinfo... but it sounds more like it was directed at the DNC to dig up dirt and sabotage their campaign. My intended point stands that they didn’t hack “the election”, i.e. tampered directly with the vote count.

Some people on occasion might’ve said “the election” to refer to the entire process of electing a new president from start to finish, but that’s just a poor/misleading choice of words... it’d be better to say they hacked “the campaign”.

Russia didn’t do what Trump is accusing Biden of doing, and while I wouldn’t personally say that it’s “impossible” to tamper with election results, I do think that Trump’s baseless accusations are rather far-fetched and that Occam’s Razor dictates that he’s almost certainly just being an incredibly sore loser... which tracks with Trump’s general clownishness.

 

[TexRex]

 

[UKMikey]

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Are you saying that @biggestloser is no longer the biggest loser? Although I guess that counts as a kind of loss by itself.

 

[TexRex]

Are you saying that @biggestloser is no longer the biggest loser? Although I guess that counts as a kind of loss by itself.

As of two days ago, apparently. I just found out through Business Insider and I simply repeated the steps and took a screenshot. It seems to be similar to Google bombing, wherein search results can be manipulated by users en masse performing simple tasks. The word has been associated with him often enough that he comes up as a result--indeed the top result. First place, baby. It may even be a self-own in part, as we are all aware of his propensity to fling insults on the platform.

 

[Shaun]

That's what I want it to be, and I suppose I sort of see it.

It has to be doesn't it with those tiny hands?
That's how how see it anyway.

 

[McLaren]

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[TexRex]

It has to be doesn't it with those tiny hands?
That's how how see it anyway.

Yeah, but I'm still not certain what's going on in that bottom left panel of the window. It reminds me of those pre-Simpsons Matt Groening cartoons. Is that his mouth agape?

 

[Shaun]

Is that his mouth agape?

That's how I seen it but as soon as you mentioned Matt Groening I see Barney.

 

[McLaren]

 

[UKMikey]

Leave Russia alone!

From 22 April:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ence-senate-intelligence-report-a9476921.html

 

[TB]

 

[jjaisli]

 

[TB]

^ Disappointed there's no Putin in there somewhere.

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That is one heck of a trifecta.

 

[Joey D]

^ Disappointed there's no Putin in there somewhere.

 

[TexRex]

Club of one. No doubt he's been in lots of those.

Edit: I'm not sure what forum policy is on depictions of a particular gesture involving the middle finger, no matter how small it may be, but I'll go ahead and drop this behind a spoiler anyway.

Spoiler

 

[Danoff]

Edit:

Ah nevermind, should have read earlier posts. It was much more obvious in light of previous comments.