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Memes in the time of Trump: April 2025

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  Memes are, depending on how you want to look at them, the pithiest form of journalism, the laziest form of journalism, acute commentary, not so cute commentary, dumb. Memes are graffiti with more legible font and not necessarily as exciting graphics. Memes are all of these things and perhaps less. Naw, memes are, at their best, pretty good snapshots of issues and the times in which they happen. One thing is for sure; the past three months have provided an ongoing meme-fest. I’ve been stockpiling memes I’ve come across on social media, principally Bluesky and Facebook, and loading them to my Google Drive. I had a vague notion to start a wholly different standalone gallery, of sorts, but decided I don’t want to maintain a third platform. My happy medium is to post a few (or a lot) here once a month. As anyone knows or can find out quickly, I do not like, approve, or in any way support the Regime. You may say - without hyperbole - that I stand very much opposed  to what I see a...