What is this trend of pasting social media screenshots over random stock photos?
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Probably for tracking purposes. Choosing this as a background image doesn't feel organic.
This is pure speculation though.
They're Instagram memes.
Trump is to Bush what Hitler was to Kaiser Wilhelm.
Eh, Trump is using a bunch of laws and agencies Bush created where the Nazis had to undo a bunch of the Weimar Republic to take their country to hell. I think it's more like Trump is to Bush what Stalin was to Lenin.
Pretty sure Kaiser Wilhelm was very much not in charge of the Weimar Republic...
Exactly, there was an interruption in government and policies there that the 21st century US didn't have. Trump is a continuation of Bush (e.g. the president who founded ICE) where Hitler was a reaction to the reaction to Wilhelm.
and the DHS.
Yes, different governments (forms of), but still some parallels like militarism or choice of allies and enemies during their respective world wars.
Maybe a better analogy than the German emperor would have been the last president of the Weimar republic before Hitler: Paul von Hindenburg
Trump couldn't make a drive or dodge a shoe like Bush. But just in case I'm wrong, more shoes should be thrown at Trump to confirm.
Wierd looking back at Bush now, ridiculed the world over, but who somehow was a less shit president.
That’s how far we’ve fallen. Bush was a god awful president responsible for the financial crash and countless deaths in the Middle East.
But he at least had some redeeming qualities. His PEPFAR program (canceled by Trump) has also saved tens of millions of lives from HIV/AIDS in Africa. He also established the worlds largest marine protected area, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
Trump has no real redeeming qualities.
Hey now. Under Trump, we saw the end of penny minting. And also under Trump, might see the death of daylight saving!
That's TWO things!
Well, not quite... See they're trying to keep daylight savings time permanently instead of staying with normal time permanently
This has been attempted before, and it didn't last through the winter. It's apparently pretty brutal on people when the sun doesn't rise until 9 or 10, and experts say it's possibly the worst option for public health
he was also scared into making a pandemic team, i believe.
That was Obama actually. With swine flu in 2009.
There wasn’t any protocol to deal with pandemics when swine flu rolled around. The Obama admin was caught completely off guard and recognized that the office wasn’t equipped to handle something like that. Luckily swine flu ended up being extremely minor, but they took it to heart and put together a team and playbook for dealing with a pandemic.
Trump trashed that as soon as he entered office.
Bush's first pitch after 9/11 was perfect. Trump could never.
If someone threw a shoe at Trump they'd be shot dead, labeled a terrorist who tried to assassinate the president, someone on the secret service would be fired, and trump would use it to justify building a ballroom.
And redhats would refuse to wear shoes or something.
They'd wear maxi pads over their feet
If you don't celebrate when George W dies you're a bad person or ignorant of what a monster he was
Trump's death will be celebrated more, and I see no problem with that. Who was actually technically worse doesn't always matter to emotional creatures which is what we are. Plus we don't know/remember everything. We have had it drilled into our skulls by trump for a decade now that he is a huge piece of shit who deserves to die. Don't be mad or surprised when those drills pay off for him
I absolutely agree with this. The upsetting thing is that if you asked me today I'd gladly give W another two terms if it meant Trump was gone tomorrow. Bush may have been a shining example of everything wrong with the US, but that shine is hard to see under the bigger, blindingly shiny example that's also constantly shitting that they installed next to him.
I have had a bottle of 2006 Piper Heidseck vintner's reserve champagne in my cellar for many years now, hoping to enjoy Trump's death
I did. Fuck that war criminal.
Right? I feel like this was made by a goldfish with no memory.
We all had champagne on ice.
I didn't only because I knew that Cheney would be as awful a president. We needed an event to go badly where everyone was in attendance.
(If the thinkable happened, J. D. Vance would try to be a worse president than Trump, but his unrizz will not sway the MAGA base, and I even think Republican congress-critters will turn on him.)
What we need is a revised US Constitution at the ready that has been ironclad so it doesn't depend on political norms. What we need is an omnibus ready to restore national institutions that were meant to keep us safe. What we need is a massive reformation of SCOTUS (to keep them from vetoing everything and installing a king) and the federal election system that stops cold gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter caging and election tampering, so that we can finally have elections that are actually free and fair.
These things might not immediately pass into law / ratification right when Trump's triumpal arch is toppled but they should be ready as soon as there is the will to pass them through.
And we need it soon, before the world devolves into world war, and we're stuck with this administration until Chinese bombers are blotting out the sun over Washington.
That piece of shit was too young and healthy to have that particular hope.
This assume politics is a game where people take sides, sometimes win and sometimes lose, but we all appreciate the game.
This is so not where the world is at anymore.
Its fair to celebrate the death of someone when it means they're not actively causing harm, and death, to others.
Yeah, Dubya was actively killing people on other countries only.
George was the village idiot and pawn of Colonel Powell's and probably didn't rape anyone. He was a stupid fuck, none the less but the pedophile orange pile of shit is far worse and knows exactly what he's doing and rapes women and children.
George was the village idiot and pawn of Colonel Powell’s
A pawn of Colin Powell?
I mean, maybe of Cheney and/or Rumsfeld... But Powell? Didn't he quit the administration after the first term? He may have even quit the Republican party, I forget.
Shit, you're right, rumsfeld. That's the slimy figure I meant, instead of powell.
and barely did anything for hurricane katrina, the picture of him staring out of the gulfstream jet at the devestated state.