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 DSouza, 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 Skynyrds Free Bird. In the edited version which played at American Priority, Trumps face is superimposed over Firths, 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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They have no sense of humour.............
Democrat scum are looking for ways to criminalize memes, just as they crave the oppression of all conservative speech.
The humor of the meme is an effective tool for conservatives and violent, humorless Democrats are unable to compete.
OK, I'll be your huckleberry.
Unless it’s a D list actress decapitating Trump.
Then it’s hysterical.
They like memes when used to ridicule conservatives, but not when it skewers them.
And yet the same “outraged” clowns here have been utter silent about REAL violence by deranged Democrat Fascists committed on Trump Supporters.
Well there’s that picture of a “comedian” holding an effigy of the President’s bloody severed head, or the dramatic play in a park featuring his assasination, or the both depiction of him being decapitated on a storefront window or those online pining for his death...
bttt
And cricket from these same “outrage” clowns from the ad in Time Square showing Trump being assaulted and hog tied.
And I can't find the video anywhere now.
Hey Kathryn Watson, at least we do it in jest where no one is actually hurt. The same cannot be said of your loyal minions, Antifa.
Let ‘em try. Every policeman and soldier on Earth couldn’t disarm Pomona, California.
Remember when the liberal facade of “intelligence” actually had a chance of being believed?
Thanks to our press, no chance of that now.
It’s no surprise lefties are attacking memes. First, they are an effective means of communication (a picture is worth a thousand words); memes bypass normal brain pathways which process information from the written or spoken word; second, the tech companies have not yet come up with algorithms which can distinguish between memes they like and those they don’t; And third, conservatives are far, far better at memes than lefties...and they know it.
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