Meme Madness

When I was a kid I was really interested in political cartoons. It was fascinating how a single-panel drawing could say as much as a thousand-word essay. With the advent of social media, memes have become the political cartoons of the age. Whereas I never did get into drawing political cartoons (I’ve done a few), I have developed a signature meme style. Recently I went back and consolidated all of the memes I’ve created and decided, “hey! why not post these on the Mad Sociologist for all to use. Please feel free to steal these memes and use them at your discretion.

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We have to face the facts. Fascism…if only a nascent fascism, is the dominant political ideology in the United States. Anti-fascists and non-fascists need to figure out how to find common ground…and pull in some folks who haven’t made their minds up yet.

I gotta tell ya, I’ve wanted to do a Columbo themed meme for quite some time now. After just a brief scroll through social media yesterday, I found my topic. The conspiracy theories are beyond absurd. And I am not excluding the left, so-called “BlueAnon” nonsense either. They are all garbage. Folks, it’s going to be a while before we know anything meaningful about the assassin’s motives…if we ever really know. Let’s try to use some reason, here.

Every issue, every pseudo scandal, every meme or headline created by the right is tactical. It has nothing to do with justice, or truth seeking. It is a calculated maneuver for driving attention, smearing opponents, and seeking power. Yes, both sides do it, but the right does not have a shame filter. Hypocrisy is not a deterrent for the right.

The Orange Don has changed the political landscape. The political parties always catered to the rich, but they at least had the decency to do so in back rooms. Now, the world’s richest man is literally dancing behind one of the major candidates. At least it’s out in the open!

Does it seem to you that Trump supporters are living in a different world than the rest of us? How depressing it must be to see American Carnage everywhere all the time!

The DeSantis method of dealing with climate change…delete it!

Kevin McCarthy deserves to be batted around. He is the smarmiest of the smarmy invertebrates in Congress. But if he thinks it’s bad just trying to become Speaker, what does he think it will be like AS Speaker? Just skip the humiliating middle process and go meet up with Paul Ryan and John Boehner in a bar somewhere.

What happens when the lib you like to “own” the most is sitting right next to you…and you need his help?

Aspiring authoritarian by day…human trafficker by night!

I’m reading Anthony Dimaggio’s *Rising Fascism in America*. It’s a necessary read today. In his intro, he lays out some indicators of fascism. I thought I would convert them into a checklist and provide some pictorial evidence from contemporary politics. I’ve always been averse to using the F-Word in political discourse, but we have reached a point where the influence of fascism is simply not something we can ignore or hide from any longer.

Come on! What do you suppose Mike Pence was thinking when he heard that Trump thought hanging him was the right idea? Be careful the carriage you hitch your pony to, Mike. Might get your neck caught in the reins!

I have a feeling that “Life in DeSantisland” will become a regular feature. God help us!

This may, in fact, be the first of the “DeSantisland” features. Conservatives have always hated Big Bird because he represents a public good in broadcasting. DeSantis is the first to take this approach with a private company.

And can we stop calling them “moderates?” People who vote against the stuff the overwhelming majority of the people, let alone the party, wants are not moderates. They are the extremists.

Just For Fun

Earlier Memes

Goodbye Obama!

I did these during President Obama’s lame duck. If you read the blog you’ll see that I was pretty critical of President Obama, but I was also critical of many of the apocalyptic prophecies pervading the Obama Era from the right. There were many legitimate things for which to criticize the Obama Administration, and our civil discourse would have been better for it. Unfortunately, the political opposition seemed to feel that it was better to just make stuff up and fear monger their base.