15 Best Memes About J.D. Vance Wiping The Floor With Tim Walz In Vice Presidential Debate
From J.D. Vance's knowing glance at the camera to Tim Walz's professed friendships 'with school shooters,' the debate was instant meme fodder.From J.D. Vance's knowing glance at the camera to Tim Walz's professed friendships 'with school shooters,' the debate was instant meme fodder.With New California AI Law, Newsom Mounts Chilling Assault On Free Speech
California's governor celebrated Constitution Day by signing new legislation to 'crack down' on free speech through artificial intelligence.The 8 funniest memes about Haitian immigrants eating animals in Springfield, Ohio
The importation of 20,000 Haitian immigrants into the small rural area of Springfield, Ohio, has caused serious problems for the residents of the tight-knit community. It's a problem across the country; small towns that are already dealing with strained resources, decades of globalization outsourcing, inflation, and the opioid crisis are forced to absorb third-world invasions, subsidized with their own tax dollars. However serious this is for the residents experiencing the benefits of enforced diversity, the internet has responded with humorous takes on the unconfirmed reports from residents about missing pets and local wildlife. The power of memes shows that absurdist humor can tell a truth the media seeks to silence. Here are some of the funniest ones from X.
Blaze Media's own Logan Hall makes it clear that in the second Trump administration, voodoo sacrifices will not be tolerated.
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Peachy Keenan's tweet made the front of the Drudge Report and was shared by President Trump.
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Logan Hall makes an impassioned plea for where we would send the people making America Haiti.
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The indomitable Jack Posobiec makes it clear that Trump will not stand for this.
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Even Elon Musk couldn't resist jumping into the fray. RIP, Snowball I.
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Return managing editor Peter Gietl showed a cat with a simple message for November.
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Blaze editor in chief Matthew Peterson advocated building an American ark to save the animals.
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The Babylon Bee has been noticing some interesting culinary developments in the area.
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Fang Fang’s Boyfriend Eric Swalwell Loses His Mind Over Trump Cat Memes
As if having a romantic escapade with a Chinese spy wasn’t embarrassing enough, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., flushed what little dignity he had left down the toilet on Tuesday by throwing a tantrum over a meme of Donald Trump holding a duck and kitten. The incident occurred during a House Judiciary Committee hearing highlighting the […]New California law could censor memes that criticize politicians during elections
A bill from the California legislature could prevent the distribution of memes in election season because they could be deceptive or damage a political candidate's reputation.
The bill is called the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 and is ready for Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom's signature. The governor has until the end of September 2024 to sign it into law.
The bill's digest notes that existing law prohibits any person or entity from distributing deceptive audio or visual media about a candidate for elected office within 60 days of the election if it intends to "injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate. "
The new bill would require any "large online platform" to block content deemed deceptive during the periods before and after an election.
As such, social media platforms would be required to label content as "inauthentic, fake, or false" during these specified periods, which would be 120 days before an election and 60 days after an election, per Reclaim the Net.
Simply put, if any memes or images contain AI-generated material about a candidate or anything that would damage the candidate's reputation, they could be taken down in California.
Political ad campaigns would have to disclose if their ads contained content generated by artificial intelligence.
Platforms would also be required under the law to develop reporting procedures for California residents so that they can flag any content that "has not been blocked or labeled in compliance with the act."
If platforms do not comply, candidates, officials, elections officials, the attorney general, and district or city attorneys could sue the websites.
The bill said it would "exempt content that is satire or parody," but at whose discretion is still up in the air. Despite this caveat, Governor Newsom has already vocalized support for legislation banning parody.
After X owner Elon Musk reshared an obviously fake Kamala Harris campaign ad, Newsom called for similar content to be illegal.
"Manipulating a voice in an 'ad' like this one should be illegal," Newsom wrote on July 28. "I'll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is."
Musk retorted, "I checked with renowned world authority, Professor Suggon Deeznutz, and he said parody is legal in America."
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God bless the meme evangelists
Christianity will always be new. The meme evangelists agree with Billy Graham on why: Christ is alive.
Christianity has done a great job of adapting to digital tech. videos, gifs, clips, pictures, cartoons, apps. They all offer grace to millions of people.
He is alive and we are forgiven. And the Holy Spirit moves through Instagram Reels and TikToks and YouTube Shorts and X posts.
I admire the defiance of the meme evangelists. They use social media to spread the Gospel. They do it with the peaceful devotion of the original apostles. Only their tools are Adobe Premiere and Garageband.
They craft sleek videos. The music is always intense. If I had to choose one video to represent the meme evangelist movement, I would go with this one. And this one.
They like to slow songs down. The pitch drops. This has been a fashionable method ever since rappers in Houston chopped-and-screwed. This tempo lurk makes every note sound shadowy and cool. Only what the meme evangelists produce is a dark version of a genre called Chill Vaporwave.
Sometimes the video cuts are too fast to track. But this makes the footage more captivating.
“The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12).
Most of the meme evangelist accounts are Catholic or Orthodox. But Protestants are certainly not excluded. Browse the comments and you’ll find harmony among believers.
You will also encounter plenty of criticism of Catholics and Orthodox who have gone astray.
One of their heroes is Cliffe Knechtle. Cliffe is truly a servant of God. His evangelization has led many people to redemption. He serves as senior pastor at Grace Community Church, which is either nondenominational or Reformed Baptist. But that doesn’t matter. The man is a warrior for Christ, full of love and defiance.
The meme evangelists also love Billy Graham.
Their duty is to spread the message of Christ. They encourage rejection of worldliness. They unmask the evil of the world and offer the only alternative: Christ is King of the universe.
He is alive and we are forgiven. And the Holy Spirit moves through Instagram Reels and TikToks and YouTube Shorts and X posts.
The meme evangelists structure their messaging in a specific order.
First, they pray. They look to God the Father and to Jesus Christ, His Son, our Lord. And pray, alone and with their families. And go to church, with their families and community.
Then they look to tradition and the Bible. “Tradition” here is open-ended. The meme evangelists know that Satan is a destroyer. He wants to ruin humanity and enslave what’s left of us. Tradition means saving human goodness.
Next, they look to their partners and their children. Then they pray some more. Then, they look to their friends. Then their neighbors. The goal is to carry love like water in a bucket through the blazes of modern life until they get to their enemy. If he’s on fire, they rescue him.
Love is the fulfillment of the law. But also sometimes love demands rejection. Jesus came bearing a sword designed to eradicate evil.
The meme evangelists decry our culture of excess and hysteria. They posit a better way. They seek monogamy and lift weights. They eat steaks and escape the ravages of broken cities. They make as many children as they can. They pray without ceasing.
Check out the song behind this video from Trad.Christian or this cut by Order of Christ.
Trad West is probably the biggest meme evangelist hub. It has 122K followers on X, 209K on Facebook, and 174K on Instagram. They live by the bottom text: “Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use memes.”
Templar Pilled offers intense edits usually over a sped-up instrumental.
Soldiers for Christ boast 329K followers on Instagram. They rely on apocalyptic imagery shoved into electronica. This one uses the beat from “Oblivion” by Grimes, a song about a sexual assault.
This is a clever disharmony. The meme evangelists take dark music and slow it down. This produces a kind of sacredness. Then they take this warped perfection and fuse it with a downpour of Christian imagery.
It signifies readiness: “I won’t let bullies box me out of my culture. I will never give in to their demands.”
The meme evangelists love Bishop Fulton Sheen. They also love Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was recently stabbed while giving a homily. This is a memeification of his response.
The point of these accounts is not division but cohesion. Improvement. Redemption. It’s Proverbs 27:17, "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.”
It’s how you get alive.
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The same people mocking 'An Appeal to Heaven' flag will never be satisfied so long as you view God and country as our Founding Fathers did.Navy torpedoes embarrassing post showing commanding officer firing rifle with backward and covered scope
The U.S. Navy shared an image to its official Instagram page Tuesday showing Commander Cameron Yaste, executive officer aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, firing a rifle.
The post was captioned, "From engaging in practice gun shoots, conducting maintenance, testing fuel purity and participating in sea and anchor details, the #USNavy is always ready to serve and protect."
Keen observers noticed something amiss about the photograph taken on March 24.
Some critics suggested the fore grip on the rifle could be mounted closer to the gun's center. A few had something to say about Yaste's stance or his ostensible choice to shoot on three-round burst. Most, however, noted that the scope on the rifle was backward, with its cap still on.
Mockery and memes swiftly followed, prompting the Navy to torpedo its post.
Keyboard comedians came out of the woodwork, creating a slew of memes. Other branches also joined in the fun, sharing images of service members firing rifles with properly mounted scopes.
The National Guard, for instance, posted an image Thursday of two guardsmen firing rifles with no comment besides a side-eyes emoji.
The U.S. Marine Corps did likewise, sharing an image of Marines assigned to Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducting a live-fire deck shoot aboard the U.S. Navy's USS Boxer on April 6. The Marines' post was captioned, "Clear Sight Picture."
The military comedy Instagram page, dearmomimdead, responded to the U.S. Navy's initial post with its own, captioned "HEY NAVY. I FIXED UR SH!T...," which was less charitable than the posts shared by the USMC and the National Guard.
While Task and Purpose made expressly clear that the U.S. Navy "is without equal on the open seas" and has no problem obliterating America's foes when playing to its strengths, it quipped, "If an engagement calls for rifles, Marines will be there to help them out." Task and Purpose then provided a visual indication on Instagram of how the scope ought to have been mounted.
Even lawmakers got in on the mockery.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) shared an image of a gun with the barrel pointed toward the would-be shooter, writing, "Navy's newly issued sidearm."
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While many evidently found the bungled photo op amusing, others interpreted the error as bad omen, with at least one user noting, "We're going to lose a major war."
An archived gallery of now-deleted images on the Department of Defense's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service shows that Yaste posed with the rifle on at least two other occasions with correction.
After deleting the post, the Navy noted, "Thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post. Picture has been removed until EMI [extra military instruction] is completed! #Readiness."
Stars and Stripes noted that EMI is defined by the Nay as "instruction in a phase of military duty in which an individual is deficient, and is intended for and directed towards the correction of that deficiency."
Commander Yaste previously served as division officer aboard the USS Bataan, as weapons and executive officer aboard Patrol Coastal crew HOTEL, and as combat systems and weapons officer aboard the USS Hopper.
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