The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[UKMikey]

If the right-wing whackos would understand the First Amendment, I would be so happy.

Once they've got that down, maybe they could have a go at Popper's paradox of intolerance.

something something if we tolerate this, our tweets will be next *cough* section 230

 

[TexRex]

"Their platform."

Dumb**** actually acknowledges it in the POTUS account tweet that they deleted.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Joey D]

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The absolute best part of Hawley claiming that his book deal being nixed was Orwelling was that it's completely wrong. Orwell actually got published

 

[UKMikey]

 

[TexRex]

[Edit] A couple more from "More Tweets":

 

[Spacegoat]

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Lain]

Nah he’s probably googling how to use a nuclear football so he can nuke Twitter HQ.

 

[UKMikey]

When he breaks open the football to get the codes it's probably going to be a big piece of paper saying "NO" in bold font.

 

[VolkswagenX]

The Assad course is real.

 

[Dennisch]

 

[andrea]

 

[Liquid]

For anyone else fed up with the word Orwellian being used by those with a victim complex.

 

[TexRex]

 

[eran0004]

Wow, what could possibly go wrong with that.

 

[UKMikey]

Has America ever nationalised anything else for the purposes of political control? Maybe they just want to run it into the ground.

It could be worse. Imagine a nationalised Gab or Parler.

 

[TexRex]

Wow, what could possibly go wrong with that.

Yes.

...

 

[Liquid]

Has America ever nationalised anything else for the purposes of political control?

Telecomms? AT&T was a federal monopoly for a long time, I think.

 

[TexRex]

Telecomms? AT&T was a federal monopoly for a long time, I think.

Nationalization was short-lived and gave way to regulation. "Political control" would be difficult to pull from that anyway.

[Edit] Related:

 

[eran0004]

Has America ever nationalised anything else for the purposes of political control? Maybe they just want to run it into the ground.

It could be worse. Imagine a nationalised Gab or Parler.

I imagine it would be pretty bad, because a takeover of Twitter and Facebook would only be effective if they also banned anyone other than the government from running social media platforms.

But the Republicans would probably find themselves disappointed, because some categories of speech are not protected by the constitution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions

...speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats...

So Trump would probably have been banned even if freedom of speech applied to Facebook and Twitter.

 

[Dennisch]

 

[Roo]

Please please please let this be real.

Edit: not the pardoning part. The honeypot part.

 

[UKMikey]

Roger Stone is calling out The Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens and other non-Trumpist Republicans on Parler.

Spoiler: offensive garbage

 

[Liquid]

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Liquid]

This one for @TexRex

Is Ben Garrison Consistent?

 

[TexRex]

Is Ben Garrison Consistent?

He's delusional!



To be fair, he is consistent as a Trumpkin.

Lady Liberty looks suspiciously like Melania in the bottom one, and why is Armed Freedom talking?

 

[andrea]

 

[VolkswagenX]