1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes.— Richard Dawkins
2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media … the band encouraged fans to make memes to advertise the U.S. release of their EP …— William Gruger
The grumpy cat meme frowned its way onto the Internet in September 2012 and never turned its dissatisfied head back. Since then, the image of the cranky cat has grown more and more popular in direct proportion to appearing less and less impressed by fame.— Anastasia Thrift
Here are some memes that suite the mood and the times .
Be well my friends and be careful.
Always remember, the “woke folk”
are always on the lookout for new victims.
This is an open thread.
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September 9, 2020 at 11:35 am |
September 9, 2020 at 11:36 am |
Axelrod’s Antics
By Lloyd Billingsley
Obama narrator is now lead ventriloquist for leftists’ puppet Joe Biden.
“Give people light and they will find a way,” Joe Biden told the DNC. “I’ll be an ally of the light, not the darkness.” When the Delaware Democrat finally emerged from his basement isolation ward, he continued in the same style.
“The incumbent president is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of healing,” Biden proclaimed in Pennsylvania. “He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and he’s stoking violence in our cities.”
This from a man who called a college student a “dog-faced pony soldier,” told an auto worker he was “full of shit,” and who said he was running for the U.S. Senate, where he spent nearly half a century. In 2020, it would be hard to find anybody who believes Biden writes a single word of his speeches. Those come from his handlers and “Democrat strategist” David Axelrod provides evidence that he is Biden’s chief ventriloquist.
In May, Axelrod defended Biden against sexual assault accusations by Tara Reade. Back in 2008, Biden was the leading contender for vice president and the vetting process, Axelrod said, “certainly would have turned up any formal complaints filed against Biden during his 36-year career in the Senate. It did not.” And the name of Tara Reade “never came up.”
In 2019, Biden claimed that, as vice president, he pinned a Silver Star on a U.S. Navy captain in the Konar province of Afghanistan. Trouble was, as the Los Angeles Times noted, “there’s no military record of that specific ceremony,” and Biden traveled to Konar before he was vice president. The incident, would not “tip the scales,” Axelrod explained, and the story billed Biden as someone who “empathizes with those in pain.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/axelrods-antics-lloyd-billingsley/
September 9, 2020 at 12:07 pm |
September 9, 2020 at 12:08 pm |
America Can’t Breathe
By Daniel Greenfield
A nation spends a year holding its breath.
A Soviet citizen goes to the dentist. He lies back in the chair. The dentist tells him to open wide.
“But I’m afraid to open my mouth,” he replies.
The old joke has a new resonance in the age of lockdowns and masked pedestrians, cancel culture and self-criticism sessions when Americans are the ones fearful of opening their mouths. Fear is the common denominator. A nation has spent the year holding its breath. And waiting.
Americans used to laugh at Soviet anecdotes without really understanding them. Now Americans are too afraid to laugh because they are coming to understand them all too well.
Mobs stalk the streets of American cities loudly bellowing, “We can’t breathe!” Sometimes they shoot or stab someone who then actually can’t breathe. Or they set a building on fire and anyone breathing in the smoke quickly discovers what it’s like to really be unable to breathe.
When you actually can’t breathe, you can’t shout and you can’t tell anyone. The people who actually can’t breathe or speak are the victims of the ones shouting that they can’t breathe.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/america-cant-breathe-daniel-greenfield/
September 9, 2020 at 12:25 pm |
This morning I was pondering the “bait & switch” the Democrats have offered America for the upcoming Presidential race. I call it that because we all know that, should he win, it will not be Joe Biden making the decisions from the Oval Office. It will be Kamala Harris.
Can you ever remember a time when a Presidential candidate chose one of his/her primary challengers as a running mate? I can’t. They usually choose some governor or senator – someone the public has barely heard of. Yet Biden (supposedly) chose Harris. Why? Well, someone needs to be in charge, and Joe can’t even make coffee. Bernie is still too strident to be swallowed by most of the left, and “big chief” Warren has made herself too untrustworthy. Harris not only has the drive and grit to command, she can claim that much-coveted ‘minority’ status.
There are those who believe that the DNC will run the show if Biden wins, but I think they are wrong. Harris is unlikely to want to loosen her grip on the reins once she has them in her grip. And that grip is like iron, believe me. Just ask anyone who has worked under her.
There are those who warn that Joe will likely suffer a breakdown or a fateful stoke/heart attack not long after inauguration. I think not. I firmly believe that they will keep up the fiction of Joe as President as long as possible. Why not? The longer they can pull off the deception, the longer they – and Harris – stay in power. And after 4 – 8 years of Harris in power behind the scenes, she then steps forward to take charge for yet another 4- 8 years as President. Which gives us a full 16 years of Kamala Harris in charge of America … and isn’t THAT a fearful thought?
September 9, 2020 at 1:25 pm |
I suspect you may be right in the way that Kamala Harris and her cohorts are thinking. I would put nothing nefarious beyond them.
However I think there are more tentacles than Harris.
I suspect Jill Biden sees herself as the power behind the wounded man, ala Edith Wilson. Not gonna happen IMO. But she has dreams of power IMO or she would take her poor sick husband home and care for him gently.
I think Soros is in the mix along with Obama and Axlerod. And never count out the spider queen Valerie Jarret when it comes to destroying all we hold dear.
All in all just my opinion but I fear it hits close to the mark. The reins of power always attract some of the worst of humanity and this election is no different.
Trump is the best bet and 4 years ago I would have bit my tongue out before saying that.
September 9, 2020 at 1:28 pm |
September 9, 2020 at 1:55 pm |
We thought it was bad now, but we haven’t seen the worst of it. Batten down the hatches, folks, because a storm is coming.
Did I say ‘storm’? Sorry. I should have said ‘coup’.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/08/report-left-mobilizes-for-mass-public-unrest-political-apocalypse-expected-if-biden-loses/?fbclid=IwAR0MRYiJCrDz2ulyaDoh6K2tQ8g58pa60KTObRTtJc2s1C__5hhZUPByl30
September 9, 2020 at 2:59 pm |
I absolutely think that if Trump wins, and I expect that he will, the left will lose what remains of their minds.
They are being conditioned right now to rob, loot and kill. And far too many, being the recipients of a public school indoctrination, will respond as programmed.
The all encompassing hate the left has for Trump, with no good reason, has rotten their brains.
September 9, 2020 at 2:07 pm |
But there is a little good news in the air… Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/09/09/trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-n2575875
September 9, 2020 at 2:56 pm |
And unlike his predecessor, who was awarded the prize for being 1/2 black, Trump actually deserves it.
September 9, 2020 at 4:08 pm |
Such a great accumulation of memes you have collected for us today, Marge. Thanks so much!
Here’s a good one for you via Nikki Haley:
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/09/09/attention-all-rioters-nikki-haley-has-a-very-important-message-to-share-about-safety-in-the-time-of-covid19-photo/
September 9, 2020 at 5:25 pm |
That a good one! I literally did laugh out loud. Which meant Lou came running and he did too.
September 10, 2020 at 5:09 am |
Fantastic! Loved them!