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Trump's New Motto: (Original Post) BamaRefugee Aug 2017 OP
That'll make him salivate excessively lunatica Aug 2017 #1
"There's a sucker born every minute." lpbk2713 Aug 2017 #2
This is potentially in bad taste Gothmog Aug 2017 #3
How so? It's called "gallows humor" BamaRefugee Aug 2017 #6
Oh it's in horrible taste, but we need to stop pretending the vomit we're being force fed is sweet ck4829 Aug 2017 #7
Can I steal that? Generic Other Aug 2017 #4
just give me a small credit somewhere BamaRefugee Aug 2017 #5
Credit comes with hazards Generic Other Aug 2017 #8
Skip the credit, now I get it. Oops, that rhymed. BamaRefugee Aug 2017 #9

ck4829

(35,037 posts)
7. Oh it's in horrible taste, but we need to stop pretending the vomit we're being force fed is sweet
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:29 PM
Aug 2017

We've had a joke of an "election" that has been used by media and politicians to say that if you want healthcare and education for all then you're unreasonable, but at the same time the alt/far righters, the Adam Lanza and Dylann Roof Wannabes, as well as the so-called three percenters who think "The Purge" is a how-to video are being normalized by this same sham.

There was nothing good tasting about trying to turn Obama wearing a tan suit or putting mustard on a hamburger, not to mention the whole birth certificate thing, into -gate scandals while Trump not wetting himself or not falling to the floor kicking and screaming like a toddler having a tantrum as signs he's the greatest President ever.

There's been nothing but bad taste for a while now. Maybe we need to spit it out as the OP is doing.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
8. Credit comes with hazards
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:11 PM
Aug 2017

where memes are concerned. Anonymity vs. being targeted. I go back and forth on that one.

On edit: I get that it is gallows humor, and I am willing to acknowledge that aint funny to all. We west coasters especially unnerved by the Trump bellicosity and bombast. But your meme is in the same vein as Dr. Strangelove which Kubrick made at the height of the cold war. I actually recall seeing it as a kid at a SAC (Strategic Air Command) base. The airmen were howling, falling over laughing, shouting out how real it was. And most times a film went two days at that post. That was one that went two weeks.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
9. Skip the credit, now I get it. Oops, that rhymed.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:45 PM
Aug 2017

Anyone who doesn't understand gallows humor should get with the program, the scolding stops COLD when the big boom happens!

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