Posted on 11/01/2019 8:41:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An edited movie clip featuring Donald Trump killing representations of the press and his political enemies recently shocked social media. But violent memes are nothing new in the MAGA community.
Over the weekend of October 10 through 12, a group of about a thousand Donald Trump supporters convened in Miami for the American Priority Festival and Conference. The purpose was ostensibly to “support free speech” and “highlight American culture.” This would be accomplished, at least in part, through speeches by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Dinesh D’Souza, and Donald Trump Jr. It turned out to also involve watching garish depictions of the president stabbing, shooting, pistol-whipping, and choking his political enemies.
Sometime during the span of the conference (which, naturally, was held at a Trump property, the Miami Doral Hotel), a screen in a side room played a selection of video clips on a loop. One of these videos depicted President Trump in an edited version of a scene from the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service. In it, secret agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) travels to Kentucky to investigate a hate group that is being used as an unwitting test subject by a villainous tech billionaire. Using a subliminal signal, the villain “triggers” the entire church to go into a murderous frenzy. Harry, being armed and much more competent than the parishioners, kills them all to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” In the edited version which played at American Priority, Trump’s face is superimposed over Firth’s, and his victims are his various avowed nemeses, from a bobblehead labeled “Vice News” to a flattened photographic portrait of Mitt Romney. Notably, most of the enemies are news organizations or members of the press.
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Deniro and Rourke threatening to punch Trump; the Scalise shooting; Madonna wanting to blow up the WH; Trump dying “sooner the better”; I could go on, but it’s obvious these are not cartoon jokes.
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