The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[awty]

I don't know what Melanoma's deal is with great big hats pulled down to her upper lip but this picture is absolutely frightening....Trump is obviously dead and Melanoma got dressed in the damn dark.  

[Paraselene]

Fashion for the damned.

[Rev. Rye]

That only applies to men.

Boru

And, only if we have spare fucks to give about hat etiquette.

And I avoid places that actually give a shit about hat etiquette like the plague. It’s bad enough that I find myself actually thinking that next time I go to a places that does, I’ll shave swastika into my scalp just so I can get the people there to beg me to cover it up. Why? Because over a decade of going to schools that forbid hats and giving no better reason than “Befehl ist Befehl” has ossified me in the other direction.

[Rev. Rye]

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization

President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.

It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/...tion-trump

[Deesse23]

Jimmy Kimmel canceled by ABC
USA does not need infringement of free speech by government. The public sphere is completely able to censor itself.
You know how to boil a frog in a fascist pot?

[Belacqua]

Jimmy Kimmel canceled by ABC
USA does not need infringement of free speech by government. The public sphere is completely able to censor itself.
You know how to boil a frog in a fascist pot?

ABC isn't public, though. It isn't in "the public sphere." 

It's a private for-profit company owned by Nexstar. The directors of Nexstar are obligated to turn a profit for their shareholders. 

Nexstar has agreed to buy a rival conglomerate, Tegna, for billions of dollars. The deal requires FCC approval, because it would violate current regulations on how many TV stations one company can own in any given market. If Brendan Carr is mad at Nexstar it could endanger the deal. 

Trump's FCC has generally been in favor of loosening regulations on media companies like this. Not for free speech reasons, obviously, but to help rich people get richer. 

Legacy media is losing viewers fast. A lot of people voted for Trump. If a significant number of those people decide to stop watching Nexstar stations or going to Disney attractions, some rich people won't make as much money as they could. 

For-profit media can't be trusted to censor itself. It doesn't exist to tell the truth.

You seem to be expecting some kind of Hitler-like fascism, but what we've got is corporate totalitarianism. It's too late to stop that. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And, only if we have spare fucks to give about hat etiquette.

And I avoid places that actually give a shit about hat etiquette like the plague. It’s bad enough that I find myself actually thinking that next time I go to a places that does, I’ll shave swastika into my scalp just so I can get the people there to beg me to cover it up. Why? Because over a decade of going to schools that forbid hats and giving no better reason than “Befehl ist Befehl” has ossified me in the other direction.

Boru

[zebo-the-fat]

And I avoid places that actually give a shit about hat etiquette like the plague. It’s bad enough that I find myself actually thinking that next time I go to a places that does, I’ll shave swastika into my scalp just so I can get the people there to beg me to cover it up. Why? Because over a decade of going to schools that forbid hats and giving no better reason than “Befehl ist Befehl” has ossified me in the other direction.

Boru

I don't even own a hat!

[Angrboda]

"Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve.”

Trump, on his first day in office in January, signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.”

[Rev. Rye]

And I avoid places that actually give a shit about hat etiquette like the plague. It’s bad enough that I find myself actually thinking that next time I go to a places that does, I’ll shave swastika into my scalp just so I can get the people there to beg me to cover it up. Why? Because over a decade of going to schools that forbid hats and giving no better reason than “Befehl ist Befehl” has ossified me in the other direction.

Boru

You know, even under that scenario, I probably would have done at least an “I’m never eating at this place again.”

Never underestimate how dedicated an autistic man can be about this sort of thing.