The move would appeal to Trump’s MAGA base.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/43965177

An ex-DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” could end up receiving the highest civilian honor in the United States, placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Somehow the dumbest timeline just upped the ante

    • paper_moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 days ago

      If we do live in a simulation, can I be taken out by a corrupt memory allocation, please?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 days ago

      Fascists were killed to fucking death 80 years ago. And I’ll remind us all, the men who fought were around 20 then. The youngest would be 100 now.

      The Smoot-Hawley Act was 95 years ago, exacerbated the Great Depression. Not to mention the stock market greed and lack of government controls that started it. Today no one remembers what that kind of poverty was like in America.

      Everyone who remembers is dead. This is simply history, we do this again and again. Our turn!

      • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        11 days ago

        Well if you don’t drop everything and singlehandedly bring it all to a screeching halt i won’t respect you and even if you try I’ll find other reasons to criticize you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
    16·
    11 days ago

    placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa

    One of these persons is not like the others…

  • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
    152·
    11 days ago

    holy shit nobody cares. stop being caught off guard by low effort outrage sideshows. next one drops in 12 hours or so, can we grow up enough to handle it?

  • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    11 days ago

    Why stop there? Shell out a purple heart! Hell, make it two! Make him look like one of these old officers from dictatorships!

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      Ughh, I mean we are just handing military rank over to Palantir employees, so why not?

      General Big Balls🎖️got his ass kicked by high schoolers while betraying his country.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    if someone were to shoot him will they give him a posthumous promotion? that would be cool

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      11 days ago

      Yeah. We’re armed to the fucking teeth and no one is challenging these fascists.

      MAGA neighbor came stomping down the street after I called him a fascist and his wife a fat fucking Nazi. Bring it.

      I calmly walked inside for my Colt .45, left the door and curtains open, awaited his arrival. He had the sense to turn the fuck around or his wife would be a widow and his daughter lacking a father. Stand your ground state!

      These people never get fucking challenged. Never. They’re in their echo chamber thinking everyone is on the same page. Fuck with them. Put violence on the table, make it personal.

      I’m a middle-aged white guy, easy for me to say, I know. And that privilege is exactly why I push back. I can fight the fight for those less privileged. And yes, I’ve made my peace with dying if it comes to that. That is not a new thought to me.

      Ban in 3, 2, 1…

      • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        You won’t get banned for exercising your legal right to self defense against Nazis. Nor for advocating other fight fascist violence using their legal rights.

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Anything Epstein’s best buddy hands out will be noted as a total farce and those receiving them should be ridiculed relentlessly. Cue South Park.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    While I typically frown on violence, it’d be a just world if after receiving said medal, BB got his ass beat on a weekly basis.