It's not that difficult now after multiple decades of decay for media organizations caused by "this quarter is all that matters" business idiot administration.
One time there was a heat wave in my city, and I don't have air conditioning at home. The movie theater was playing apocalypse now, I think it was the directors cut. It was 3 hours long so I bought a ticket because I wanted 3 hours of air conditioning. I had no idea what a great movie I was stumbling into! It was about war and how horrific it is.
Going in neutral without expectations is the best way to enjoy a movie in my opinion, there's a indie theatre near my home that mostly plays older classics from US and around the world. I've had my mind blown by movies that came out decades ago, good movies age very well
We just got it on DVD. It's the "Redux" edition. 3 hours 22 mins. It's the 6th longest movie in our collection behind LoTR extendeds, Beh-Hur, and Lawrence of Arabia.
What about them ?
Jay "Chef" Hicks
Lance B. Johnson
Roxanne Sarrault
I asked the machine, here is what it said
Jay "Chef" Hicks Cowardice, instability, disloyalty, inability to cope with war.
Lance B. Johnson Emotional detachment, negligence, descent into madness.
Roxanne Sarrault Colonial arrogance, moral ambiguity, emotional manipulation.
I have a hard time calling them pieces of shit for that. Seems normal to me to refuse to play the game of war and recognizing military duty as the infectious spook that it is.
"Redux" is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. "The Final Cut" is basically the definitive extended version.
Great War movie by the way. That guy is a surfer fanatic and basically requested a famous surfer to surf in a hot zone. Dude was crazy just waking on beach with bullets landing around him.
I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn't- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.
The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I'd dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.
I understand you, and I feel the same. But let's be real. We both know it's true. It's outrageous, it's dumb, it's aggressive and hateful, that's exactly up his ally.
dude honestly thinks he is the shit. If there was ever a pit fight between world presidents, I would bet money on him losing his first fight in the first five seconds.
Also if historical heads of state are allowed I wanna see Robert the Bruce Vs Richard Lionheart and I also wanna see Charles the First hiding in a corner in the Foetal position rocking back and forth like a little bitch.
Oh, then it depends when you bring her back. She came to the throne when she was 26 and also served in the army as a mechanic. At the D-Day memorial one year she was the only leader there to have served in the Second World War. So she knows how to shoot a gun, knows how to repair a car, and can defo fuck someone up if she was brought back at her prime.
Two comments, and I know this is now old news: it's insane to see someone/somegroup get SO pissy for being hit with a soft, non-lethal projectile; and while I understand how he was likely carrying it, upon further review the clip above seems to show that this man is a sandwich-mancer and can summon subs from thin air.
I don't normally like to use the AI summary of a search, but this one was funny: Force of rubber bullet vs sandwich
I'm glad they failed to indict him, and I hope he finds success in another place.
Yeah, probably not a great idea on Chi-Raq. If anywhere were to put forth a united resistance it's the place with a history of running the police or if the city with armed force.
There will be an activity called an election. It won't be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed 'safe from insurrection' aka counties that voted for Trump.
All that's going to do is switch out him for his successor in the party. All of these things are things the party has been working for, such as declaring martial law and locking people up without habeas corpus, disappearing them, including citizens. Without addressing a lack of an opposition that can win in the face of election rigging 2028 won't change anything except perhaps a leader that is not quite so stupid about doing the exact same things.
There will be a big fight in the viper nest for it in any case, that is the maybe one chance to unseat the party before it is too rigged to overcome, but it would need to be a popular candidate running a reform campaign.
Newsom will not walk with presidency, he had his chance in 2024 when he could have won but waited his turn like a bitch.
But I digress. Idk who ends with supreme leader but it will make things worse not better, half as mean and twice as smart and the country will get sliced up by the megacorps and parasitical biz dickheads.
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?
Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don't do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I'm afraid you might be right.
The last time this obese imbecile was that slim was deep in the last fucking millennium. Which was also when it was the last time he could squat like that, useless cunt.
If he tried to squat like that today he'd shit himself 4 times on the way down and then roll over like a hog in even more shit.
Fuck sake, What type of bunch of fools could ever vote for this buffoon? Hang your head in shame.
No, we're good. I know some people from the U.S., who still think nothing is wrong with the government. So we got to let the dumpster fire burn out a bit more.
Probably several real reasons... and i think he just throws shit at the wall until he finds something that sticks but this one stuck because among his followers it ticks several boxes...
He already did a dry run in Los Angeles, literally chasing harmless day laborers through Home Depot parking lots. Newsom (Cali Gov) made it more difficult by trolling him on social media. (I realize how insane that sounds but he just has the temperament of a teenage boy). So he is probably thinking of something even more insane to do to us in Cali or at least knows he's playing with fire.
New York he is lowkey working on a deal with Cuomo (former mayor now running as a spoiler candidate to the socialist who beat him in the primary election).
Chicago is an easier target. The only other city I've heard him float is New Orleans (which is unlike any other city I've been to in the states for its amazing seafood, bars, walkable areas, music, eg culture... notably Black culture)
His mostly rural base loves it. Not only is it cities that they have been other-ing and blaming [insert South Park - They took 'er jobs meme] for their problems their whole lives. It is also abuse of minorities. So it is like saying "you know how you complain about cities and they happen to be brown and black. Im going to fix that problem and it just so happens to be by going after those people who don't look like you. wink wink, nudge nudge"
The Midwest has a weird relationship with Chicago. It's our city dammit, but it's thought of as a shithole because of a long history of it being a shithole and also because of a long history of it being used as a byword for dangerous urban areas. People who hadn't been there in a decade were calling it Chiraq so much that my phone recognized the word. As a teenager (late 00s and early 10s) the far right edgelords would joke about bombing it like they did about Tehran. But it's also a costal city with all the limp wristed elite dogwhistles and homophobia. Which is a little funny because Chicago gay culture is tough as fuck. But yeah and there's the racism which is huge and is an undercurrent of it all.
So yeah it's the Midwest's own Al Capone themed LA, but the sky is trying to kill you not fires and earthquakes.
Chicago is a major democratic leaning city infamous for its association with lawlessness and organized crime. Reality is that Chicago cleaned up with the other cities but it maintains a rambunctious similar to LA and Philadelphia. But it's still got a local culture of early 20th century gangsters like Al Capone and other Italian Americans with submachine guns.
The entire great lakes region that includes Chicago had a pretty rough time from the 70s-00s, with other cities in it including Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Toronto as well as tiny hellholes of deindustrialization like Gary.
Chicago is also notably a very black city, especially by Midwestern standards. During the great migration (when a bunch of black people left the rural southern areas their ancestors had been enslaved in and went to urban areas largely in the north and west), Chicago was one of the major destinations as there was a lot of work that didn't involve farm labor.
So yeah mocking Chicago sometimes will have racist implications (though this applies to any great lakes city when compared to the overwhelmingly white rural and suburban Midwest).
109 Comments
lime@feddit.nu · 179 pts · 353d
sooooo this is a military threat against the local populace, right?
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 353d
🌎👩🚀🔫👩🚀
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 353d
Yup. Shit's gonna get fucking wild as the gUStapo is born.
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 353d
ch00f@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 353d
I've never seen Apocalypse Now, but I get the feeling Trump has never seen Apocalypse Now.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 59 pts · 353d
Like pretty much every character in the film, the character Trump is cosplaying as has been driven insane by an insane war.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 38 pts · 353d
He tried to use Born in the USA as a campaign song. Media literacy isn’t MAGA’s strongest suit.
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 353d
This would be hilarious, weren't this all hell
NABDad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
Literacy isn't Trump's.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 353d
He plays the mainstream media like a fiddle.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 353d
It's not that difficult now after multiple decades of decay for media organizations caused by "this quarter is all that matters" business idiot administration.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 353d
I dunno, his government tracks so far with what I remember of the film.
robocall@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 353d
One time there was a heat wave in my city, and I don't have air conditioning at home. The movie theater was playing apocalypse now, I think it was the directors cut. It was 3 hours long so I bought a ticket because I wanted 3 hours of air conditioning. I had no idea what a great movie I was stumbling into! It was about war and how horrific it is.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 353d
That's an interesting way to discover that film. You must have gone on one hell of a ride that afternoon.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 352d
Going in neutral without expectations is the best way to enjoy a movie in my opinion, there's a indie theatre near my home that mostly plays older classics from US and around the world. I've had my mind blown by movies that came out decades ago, good movies age very well
ch00f@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
We just got it on DVD. It's the "Redux" edition. 3 hours 22 mins. It's the 6th longest movie in our collection behind LoTR extendeds, Beh-Hur, and Lawrence of Arabia.
onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d
I had the redux years ago. I've come around to the theatrical being the best though.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 12 pts · 353d
I could believe it, but my pessimistic interpretation is that whoever made this meme has seen it and doesn't think Kilgore is a monster.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 353d
Probably thinks Lt Col Kilgore is the protagonist.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
He was killing all those filthy evil Communists. Only a tankie would suggest he wasn't an epic super dude.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 353d
Every single character in that movie is a piece of shit. That one's a vainglorious piece of shit.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml · -10 pts · 353d
What about them ? Jay "Chef" Hicks
Lance B. Johnson
Roxanne Sarrault
I asked the machine, here is what it said
I have a hard time calling them pieces of shit for that. Seems normal to me to refuse to play the game of war and recognizing military duty as the infectious spook that it is.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 353d
See the directors cut or don’t bother
ch00f@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d
Is that "Redux?" We just picked it up, but haven't watched it.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 352d
"Redux" is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. "The Final Cut" is basically the definitive extended version.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
Trump can’t surf!
salty_chief@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
Great War movie by the way. That guy is a surfer fanatic and basically requested a famous surfer to surf in a hot zone. Dude was crazy just waking on beach with bullets landing around him.
astutemural@midwest.social · 64 pts · 353d
I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn't- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.
The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I'd dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.
unconsequential@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 353d
Rule number one. Don’t fuck with Mexicans. Viva Mexico cabrones!!!
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 353d
Not going to lie you had us in the first half.
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 353d
I refuse to look this up, it must remain potentially satire for the final thread of my sanity cannot take this being real
lena@gregtech.eu · 80 pts · 353d
It's real
Sorry for your sanity :3
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 353d
It was also retweeted (a screencap) on twitter by the official white house account....
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 16 pts · 353d
I understand you, and I feel the same. But let's be real. We both know it's true. It's outrageous, it's dumb, it's aggressive and hateful, that's exactly up his ally.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
It's fucking Cheungus making these things. Dude's like the incel m'lady in chief.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 353d
dude honestly thinks he is the shit. If there was ever a pit fight between world presidents, I would bet money on him losing his first fight in the first five seconds.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 353d
Him v Lincoln , the ex wrestler who fights till he's burger?
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 351d
... What!?
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 353d
Who'd win? Are we going by Heads of State or do constitutional monarchs sit this one out?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 353d
Lincoln or Roosevelt, or hell maybe George Washington. Trump out before they ring the bell.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 353d
They have royal pie takers who, according to the Magna Carta, have to stand in.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 352d
If historical figures allowed, monarchs definitely yes. I want to see Queen Elizabeth on a horse kicking assess.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 352d
Which one? One or Two?
Also if historical heads of state are allowed I wanna see Robert the Bruce Vs Richard Lionheart and I also wanna see Charles the First hiding in a corner in the Foetal position rocking back and forth like a little bitch.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 352d
II
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 352d
Oh, then it depends when you bring her back. She came to the throne when she was 26 and also served in the army as a mechanic. At the D-Day memorial one year she was the only leader there to have served in the Second World War. So she knows how to shoot a gun, knows how to repair a car, and can defo fuck someone up if she was brought back at her prime.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 352d
I want both versions, first exactly for the same reasons you mentioned and second to see this but jousting with a heavy umbrella towards Trump:
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 352d
The older one to the younger one: "Listen, Cabbage, we need to talk about this one kid you're going to have. His name is Andrew and..."
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 352d
He'd stumble on the entrance
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 353d
Drag ‘em through the garden
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 352d
Two comments, and I know this is now old news: it's insane to see someone/somegroup get SO pissy for being hit with a soft, non-lethal projectile; and while I understand how he was likely carrying it, upon further review the clip above seems to show that this man is a sandwich-mancer and can summon subs from thin air.
I don't normally like to use the AI summary of a search, but this one was funny: Force of rubber bullet vs sandwich
I'm glad they failed to indict him, and I hope he finds success in another place.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 352d
Trump declared war on Chicago?
Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 352d
Russian asset, Agent Krasnov, declares war on a major American city.
plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
Billionaires would push an impeachment. The call is coming from inside the house.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 352d
Yeah, probably not a great idea on Chi-Raq. If anywhere were to put forth a united resistance it's the place with a history of running the police or if the city with armed force.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 352d
War on Chicago style pizza
ValarieLenin@midwest.social · 38 pts · 353d
Why is he trying so hard to fuck around and find out....
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 353d
Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.
ValarieLenin@midwest.social · 11 pts · 353d
The right answer unfortunately....
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 352d
This is simply not true. The constitution has no provisions for suspending elections.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 352d
There will be an activity called an election. It won't be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed 'safe from insurrection' aka counties that voted for Trump.
4grams@awful.systems · 2 pts · 352d
I wish more people would see it.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 353d
Who won that war again?
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 353d
This looks like treason. Treason is fun because there are both federal and state versions of it.
dumbass@leminal.space · 34 pts · 353d
tungsten5@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 352d
He is such an embarassing president. 2028 needs to come faster
Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 352d
You still think there's going to be elections?
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 352d
It's only going to get worse. The right would rather elect trumps lifeless corpse than someone with any decency
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 352d
To see how much more they can fuck up this time?
hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 352d
All that's going to do is switch out him for his successor in the party. All of these things are things the party has been working for, such as declaring martial law and locking people up without habeas corpus, disappearing them, including citizens. Without addressing a lack of an opposition that can win in the face of election rigging 2028 won't change anything except perhaps a leader that is not quite so stupid about doing the exact same things.
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 352d
DJT Jr 2028-2036
Ivanka 2036-2044
Baron 2044-Apoclypse
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 351d
Bold of you to assume there’s so much time before the apocalypse
Tja@programming.dev · 5 pts · 352d
He was just as bad the first time. People still voted for him. Junior or eric will win in 2032 probably.
TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 352d
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 352d
King DeSantis will have his coronation.
hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 352d
Neither desantis nor vance will get it ultimately. I do not think, especially not desantis.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 352d
I really want you to be right…but…
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 351d
There will be a big fight in the viper nest for it in any case, that is the maybe one chance to unseat the party before it is too rigged to overcome, but it would need to be a popular candidate running a reform campaign.
Newsom will not walk with presidency, he had his chance in 2024 when he could have won but waited his turn like a bitch.
But I digress. Idk who ends with supreme leader but it will make things worse not better, half as mean and twice as smart and the country will get sliced up by the megacorps and parasitical biz dickheads.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
Next US presidential elections.
j_overgrens@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 351d
That's really not going to happen at this rate.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?
Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don't do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I'm afraid you might be right.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 351d
Come faster for what exactly? The majority to vote in whatever lackey he backs next?
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 352d
The last time this obese imbecile was that slim was deep in the last fucking millennium. Which was also when it was the last time he could squat like that, useless cunt.
If he tried to squat like that today he'd shit himself 4 times on the way down and then roll over like a hog in even more shit.
Fuck sake, What type of bunch of fools could ever vote for this buffoon? Hang your head in shame.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 353d
To the world: someone please come liberate us from us.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 353d
No, we're good. I know some people from the U.S., who still think nothing is wrong with the government. So we got to let the dumpster fire burn out a bit more.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 352d
We have enough corn, thanks.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 353d
I love the smell of a massive stroke in the morning. It smells like, victory.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 353d
::: spoiler spoiler
It's real
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/06/ice-raids-chicago-immigration-saturday-trump :::
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 19 pts · 352d
Is this real? Did he really post that shit?
Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
They are considering deploying a national guard or something there. I believe this meme is purely humoristic.
zarathustra0@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 353d
Chipocalypse Now with fire shooting out the back.
Surely he is confusing Chicago with chipotle?
jonesey71@lemmus.org · 13 pts · 352d
Where are all the soldiers and assorted politicians who swore an oath to protect the USA from all threat foreign and domestic?
salty_chief@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 352d
Following orders like they are sworn to do.
meliante@lemmy.pt · 12 pts · 353d
Why Chicago? Not American but curious.
derry@midwest.social · 31 pts · 353d
Because it's a big democrat stronghold. And he's racist.
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe · 17 pts · 353d
Probably several real reasons... and i think he just throws shit at the wall until he finds something that sticks but this one stuck because among his followers it ticks several boxes...
He already did a dry run in Los Angeles, literally chasing harmless day laborers through Home Depot parking lots. Newsom (Cali Gov) made it more difficult by trolling him on social media. (I realize how insane that sounds but he just has the temperament of a teenage boy). So he is probably thinking of something even more insane to do to us in Cali or at least knows he's playing with fire.
New York he is lowkey working on a deal with Cuomo (former mayor now running as a spoiler candidate to the socialist who beat him in the primary election).
Chicago is an easier target. The only other city I've heard him float is New Orleans (which is unlike any other city I've been to in the states for its amazing seafood, bars, walkable areas, music, eg culture... notably Black culture)
His mostly rural base loves it. Not only is it cities that they have been other-ing and blaming [insert South Park - They took 'er jobs meme] for their problems their whole lives. It is also abuse of minorities. So it is like saying "you know how you complain about cities and they happen to be brown and black. Im going to fix that problem and it just so happens to be by going after those people who don't look like you. wink wink, nudge nudge"
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 353d
The Midwest has a weird relationship with Chicago. It's our city dammit, but it's thought of as a shithole because of a long history of it being a shithole and also because of a long history of it being used as a byword for dangerous urban areas. People who hadn't been there in a decade were calling it Chiraq so much that my phone recognized the word. As a teenager (late 00s and early 10s) the far right edgelords would joke about bombing it like they did about Tehran. But it's also a costal city with all the limp wristed elite dogwhistles and homophobia. Which is a little funny because Chicago gay culture is tough as fuck. But yeah and there's the racism which is huge and is an undercurrent of it all.
So yeah it's the Midwest's own Al Capone themed LA, but the sky is trying to kill you not fires and earthquakes.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 352d
The Sky is trying to kill you?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 352d
Tornadoes, wind storms, idk if Chicago still gets blizzards but they used to…
Hope@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 353d
Chicago is the next city ICE is set up to ramp up operations in. Chosen probably because it is a liberal city with a diverse population.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 353d
Chicago is a major democratic leaning city infamous for its association with lawlessness and organized crime. Reality is that Chicago cleaned up with the other cities but it maintains a rambunctious similar to LA and Philadelphia. But it's still got a local culture of early 20th century gangsters like Al Capone and other Italian Americans with submachine guns.
The entire great lakes region that includes Chicago had a pretty rough time from the 70s-00s, with other cities in it including Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Toronto as well as tiny hellholes of deindustrialization like Gary.
Chicago is also notably a very black city, especially by Midwestern standards. During the great migration (when a bunch of black people left the rural southern areas their ancestors had been enslaved in and went to urban areas largely in the north and west), Chicago was one of the major destinations as there was a lot of work that didn't involve farm labor.
So yeah mocking Chicago sometimes will have racist implications (though this applies to any great lakes city when compared to the overwhelmingly white rural and suburban Midwest).
Deathgl0be@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 353d
I’d like to actually see trump squat like this comfortably. I bet he would Taco.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 352d
We're finally aware of the joke the rest of the world has always thought we were
Chiarottide@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 353d
Let's look at the positive side, in case of a trial they wouldn't have plausible deniability
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 353d
Captain bonespurs diaper would have to be changed if he tried to kneel down like that
Mist101@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 353d
Well, from the picture he's already had a blow-out. Hope JD packed an extra change of clothes.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 352d
Oh no! Chipocalypse now! Where will Taco Don™ get his chips for the salsa that came with his taco!
/s
RockBottom@feddit.org · 5 pts · 353d
Department of WAR = honesty in politics
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 351d
Sure sure, Release the Epstein Files. Stop trying to distract us.
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 351d
This is very similar to his playing of fortunate son.
He watched the movie and though the fire-murder guy was a badass.(Or more likely, he never watched the movie).I just realised he doesn't make these himself (or come up with them). But still. Asshole.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 351d
This imbecile knows the US lost the war in Vietnam, right?