She should sue for defamation.
Now, I am not an expert of US law, but if American news has taught me anything, the only possible outcome of going through the courts is the following:
Court decides against the govt
Govt appeals to a higher courtHigher court decides against the govt
Govt appeals to a higher courtSupreme court decides Trump is God and all is well
The end.
Billions of dollars.
That’s not a meme, that’s Propaganda.
It’s also libel made with actual malice.
right? it is literally the definition of libel…
Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.
You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.
If we flip the house and senate I’m gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president’s estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.
You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.
? The boss of an organization is always responsible for what happens in said organization. So, no. They wouldn’t.
Gestures broadly at basically every CEO avoiding punishment for the illegal shit their companies do daily
Just because they avoid it doesn’t mean that the express purpose of a CEO isn’t to take that fall…
That’s the entire point of the role and excuse for the compensation, is it not?
Law? In this economy? In this part of the world? Localised entirely within our judicial system?
And actually published by the government.
Its a lie. They lie so often that they think its truth.
their truth is the worst lie
You’re not going to believe this, but…
the right can’t meme
It’s not so much that they can’t meme, it’s that they have only one joke: “Look how I can make this person fear me”.
They generally don’t have a language-based way of thinking, it’s why they just say shit. Call them weird narcissists? Guess what they’re going to be calling you next week. Say they’re violent? Guess what they’re going to be saying about the left tomorrow.
It’s all reactionaries and grifters who enable those reactive attitudes by showing them how to ignore criticism.
I would be far more optimistic if we just had a stupid population with misguided, reactionary tendencies. We can work with that. You can fix stupid. You can’t fix evil though, and the people leading our country’s stupid are pure evil. And they know it, which is why the whole slew of podcasters, AM radio hosts, FOX pundits and cabinet members weasel and worm around accountability all day, every day.
Very professional and mature. This is what everyone expects from a government institution.
Defamation.
Also, nice racist bias on that model (making her fatter).
I dunno about fatter, but it definitely made her darker. Oof.
What should we do? Can we get another maga guy to take a shot?
Honestly both might be a difference in when the shot was taken.
Its the same picture. One is edited.
That’s the entire subject of this post.
Cool. They look like slightly different angles.
Its cropped and edited… Feel free to read the article which covers this in its entirety.
Even just the headline should have been enough
I mean… One would hope, but clearly it wasn’t enough for some.
Yeah, it’s literally the opening words of the title.
Ohhh i see it now. The officer’s arm has the same shilloete on the window. Wow the model really edited the lady. Must have been a bias of the training data to put her more forward/in focus.
And darker.
This is not even a meme
The Memes will Continue.
The jolly old USSR was as half-assed as the Trump DOJ. There’s a famous case of someone being airbrushed out of a group photo, but they couldn’t be bothered to get rid of his shoes.
Dystopian fiction: The regime alters photos to make people look happy and smiling, to hide their cruelty.
Dystopian reality: The regime alters photos to make people look sad and pained, to brag about their cruelty.
An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story… has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?
Fascism loves using religion to enforce it’s will.
Most religious institutions are authoritarian by nature. So no surprise there.
Most haven’t, it’s about money and connections not faith and community empowerment.
Just the Old Testament. Yahweh is bit of a dick in that half, from what I recall. Gaslighting some dude to sacrifice his child, I think?
The original “just testing if you love me” trashy girl
Well in that particular case he stopped him last second like ‘oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don’t gotta kill your kid.’ But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed random people cause they didn’t do what he said.
YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.
The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.
The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible. It’s more insightful and better-written than most of the canonical parts. I’d also throw in Dante’s Inferno and Paradiso. I’m in two minds about adding Milton, though.
They are more on the exploiting side of religion.
Nineteen Eighty-Four?
I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?
Yes. But it’s so much easier to be a child and have that get out to the masses. It would take a lot of effort to doctor a photo and get it published 100 years ago.
Hitler was actually extremely childish as was his entire regime. The similarities are remarkable.
Henry VIII of England was basically what would happen if a pro American football player was a powerful king. He’s suspected to have had CTE.
Versailles was basically a cruel experiment on the mental health of trapped nobility and rulers, that involved basically nothing but petty social games for power and prestige, but no options to use them.
Rome had plenty of emperors like this including Caligula and Nero. Nero had a neck beard and unhealthy attachment to his mother. Meanwhile if half of what was written about Elagabulus is true then we have proof of how bad of an idea it is to give absolute power to a horny teenager with neither qualifications nor training.
Speaking of weird mommy issues, Wilhelm I of Prussia/Germany was a weird childish man whose family spat was the first world war. On the other side was Nicolas of Russia who wasn’t much better.
Also Ghaddafi was nuts, like in funny and horrifying ways, but definitely never matured after taking power young.
So yeah, I’m conflating kings, emperors, and dictators as all more or less the same, because they kinda are. Julius Caesar took the title of dictator, was assassinated to prevent him from being a king, and was invoked by the emperors. We have a modern tendency to think of dictators as people who came to power through coups or the military, which can lead towards more mature and sane figures, but we still use the term for the hereditary absolute ruler of North Korea (it’s a socialism themed monarchy) and we don’t use it to describe the huge portion of roman emperors who were generals installed by coup. Additionally, history indicates (to me at least) that you likely have to be a bit nuts and immature to overthrow an established republic, because of the behavior shown by citizens in a destabilizing republic.
I understand the urge to treat this administration as a freak of history, but they’re just too similar to the third reich to do so responsibly. And yeah those similarities include immaturity. It seems that a destabilizing republic is best hijacked by the narcissistic, and narcissists who are leaning into their disorder tend towards immaturity because growth often requires painful self reflection.
I don’t know about childish but the Khmer Rouge was batshit insane, their way of “governing” was completely unsustainable.
This is actually really scary. They’re modifying photos to manipulate and control people.
I mean, they’re also abducting children and murdering dissenters to control people…
The little things are more insidious.
What a joke of a country.
Feels bad, man
Really bad
Just a very unfunny one.
The altering of a photo is meant to distract you from the fact that they are arresting ordinary citizens who don’t have the financial means to legally protect themselves. It may seem like an irrelevant distinction based on everything else they do but this is an escalation.
As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There’s nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.
I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn’t worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo… how small of a person do you have to be to think “I’m part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I’m going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation.” I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the… everything. Just non-fucking-stop.
It’s just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I’ll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I’ll look back fondly on how it was “only” so bad at the start of 2026.
Sorry for the rant, I’m just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.
Ignoring the fakery, I don’t see how the alteration makes her less sympathetic. I would also be distressed if being frog-marched by facists for the crime of being born autistic.
All this propaganda does, is cement my decision to fight. The Trump Regime and Dogey Americans, are enemies of any decent human being, and must be destroyed.
They think they are portraying the subject as ‘weak’. It’s for their racist base to feel like ‘right on, we made a weak black leftist woman cry, like they all deserve’'.
It was never about making her less sympathetic, but a celebration of hurting the ‘correct’ people to get hurt.
It’s not JUST for thier base.
For anyone pondering joining such actions, these would be leaders.
If you’re thinking of joining, and the leaders look “weak”, it might not inspire much faith. You might decide to hold back.
The truth is, she looked calm and collected, confident in her decisions and actions. She looks like a leader. She looks like someone worth following. That type of imagery is dangerous if you’re trying to suppress action.
So, in short, it’s an attempt at active suppression, not just a “treat” for thier own. It’s the modern equivalent of going on about how short Napoleon is. It’s an attempt to diminish those they’re afraid of to try and keep others from following them.
This comment deserves to be its own post.
It’s also meant to say “look see we can make them regret it” as well as to draw into the paternal metaphor they keep using. Those weird comments they keep making about “daddy” being home to punish dissenters, feels very in line with this. The idea being that they’re trying to depict themselves as tough but necessary, and opposition as the same as a child misbehaving because of unenforced boundaries. In this regard they’re depicting her as crying to treat her like a child who has been spanked, and as such (in their eyes) one who will in the future respect their authority and eventually thank them for it.
They need to maintain the narrative that the protesters to contain both hardened rebels, and primarily be ordinary people who just don’t understand discipline and the need to enforce the rules.
Now he’s hurting the people he needs to be hurting! I still cannot afford jack squat, and don’t have a job or health care, but at least he’s punching down, thank goodness!
It’s not meant for you. They actually don’t care how it makes you feel. It’s for their racist, fascist loving voters. They love this.
