No chance it was an accident.
Even in the hours after the story came out, people were saying that the only copy of the image in the first several pages of google searches was in the article itself.
Now, I’m dead set against trolling*, but this was magnificent trolling.
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- A total lie. I control my trollish urges here, but IRL I use my deadpan demeanor to have some fun.
There’s a story…apocryphal or not…about how the adult in charge of playing a recording of the National Anthem at a high school swim meet deleted the file or similarly lost it somehow…and then how an internet savvy teen came to the rescue and downloaded the anthem from the internet…and played…you guessed it, Jimi Hendrix’s version from Woodstock. In his defense, the teen said, “Who is Jimi Hendrix?”
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I watched this clip from Maddow’s show and learned two new things:
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There was a big on-screen introduction montage for Trump that ended up with introducing him like at a college basketball game–screen flashing images and his name as he walks on stage…with all the dignity of a cheezy TV production, which I guess it was.
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On the parody seal, I knew about the golf clubs and cash in the talons of the two-headed Russian eagle, and the “45 is a puppet” banner, but apparently in the blue field at the top of the chest shield, instead of stars there are little hammer & sickles.
It’s obvious on the high res version of the seal.
I have been saying for months that the Seal of the President of the United States is not a seal but a toothless walrus.
I love that version too. Kudos to the person responsible.
Too bad they couldn’t have managed to slip in Swastikas somewhere.
there was a sporting event where they played the fake national anthem of Khazikstan from the movie Borat. They just found it online and thought it was real.
At a recent Blondie concert, Deborah Harry sang “From Russia with Love” with the fake seal projected behind her.
Anyone have a link to a good (if not great) image of the fake seal, an image without that POS conman in the picture? I’d love to use it as my screen-saver image.
Here’s a bigger version though it has a watermarked background.
Too cool! Thanks.
Love the little hammer-and-sickles on the shield.
What’s the white stuff at the bottom where the eagle’s tail feathers should be? I wanna say it reminds me of bird droppings, but that seems a little on the nose.
It’s just the tailfeathers from the original Russian 2-headed bird but they’ve been colored white.
You guys remember that web site called Hot or Not? Now we can have the Trump politics version, Hilarious or Nefarious.
Don’t laugh too much yet… one day, when things are so much worse, you’ll have treacly memories of the Treagle.
Worse, it may be posted on every door at American banks. Next to the new TDIC logo in orange and bronze colors.