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ICE impersonation has become a viral meme among MAGA fascists for months.
Some comedians went to conservative conference, CPAC, last month and here's how common ICE imperonsation has gotten in the US.
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Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms
A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/veterans-group-wants-to-make-elon-the-supervillain-of-midterms
"The #ads all feature the same roundtable of #veterans sharing their struggles after losing #employment because of #DOGE cuts...
it features #Musk throughout, incl the now infamous scene of him wielding a chainsaw on stage at #CPAC."
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What I Did Last Week: An Email to Elon Musk
I counted several Sieg Heils on the #CPAC stage, then did a number of things to purge that from my memory.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191989/email-elon-musk-cpac-salute
"Instead of federal employees answering hr@opm.gov—which I gather is an email account set up exclusively to transmit your petty harassment—I’d like to see ordinary citizens crash it with a tsunami of messages telling you how they spent their last week...That email address, again, is hr@opm.gov"
If they were consistent they would have said "Elon APPEARS to weild a chainsaw and Bannon APPEARS to give a Nazi salute" but they arent and it shows us a lot of things....
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List accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr72n1yyj30o
"US #government workers received an #email on Saturday afternoon... shortly after #Trump spoke at #CPAC...
employees were asked to explain their accomplishments from the past week in five bullet points... before midnight on Monday.
...Newly-confirmed #FBI director #KashPatel told his employees... that they should "pause any responses" to the #OPM memo." 
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This was the 15th time #Trump has addressed #CPAC…. When he was out of power, his freewheeling speeches could be dismissed as the ravings – or “weavings” – of a madman. Even during his first term, his #extremist rhetoric came w/some expectation that the democratic guardrails would hold.
But as America & the world have discovered during his first month back…, Trump is unbound, unhinged & looking for blood. He took the stage at CPAC brimming with confidence & basking in chants of: “USA! USA!”
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As the title of Michael Wolff’s new book puts it, last Nov’s election was All or Nothing. Defeat meant ruin, disgrace & prison. Victory meant what #Trump’s cheerleaders like to call the greatest comeback in political history. It also meant #vengeance against his perceived tormentors in the #DOJ, #Democratic party & #media. As the martyr of Mar-a-Lago put it at #CPAC two years ago: “I am your retribution.”
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#Trump’s appearance at #CPAC …began with country singer Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA & raucous cheers in a crowded ballroom that included #Jan6 #insurrectionists.
75 mins later, it concluded w/the #US president standing between 2 stars-and-stripes flags, pumping his fists & swaying to the Village People’s anthem YMCA.
Party of One, #Trump 75 min Speech at #CPAC Talking About Himself
God save the king. Drunk on power, Donald Trump spent Saturday afternoon before adoring fans, boasting of his victories, taunting his enemies & casting himself as America’s absolute monarch, supreme leader & divine emperor rolled into one.
#USpol #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/donald-trump-cpac-speech
The Guardian · Party of one: Donald Trump’s 75 minutes at CPAC talking about himself
Party of one: Donald Trump’s 75 minutes at CPAC talking about himself https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/donald-trump-cpac-speech #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #KristiNoem #Maryland #USnews #CPAC
The Guardian · Party of one: Donald Trump’s 75 minutes at CPAC talking about himself
Example #168 of "Why knowing history is important" -- Apparently they have no idea how this ended for Caesar...
At this years' CPAC conference, they plastered images of Trump as Julius Caesar all over the venue with the title "Third Term Project". #History #histodons #CPAC #uspol #uspolitics
Samstag, 22.3., ein Tag bis zur Wahl, noch nie in meinem Leben gab es einen medial so absurd aufgezogenen Wahlkampf. Gipfelnd in der Schlussrunde, "Sie hörten alle Parteien zur #BTW25, gleichzeitig." (Olli Welke) #inmeinertimeline letzte Demos vor u erste nach der Wahl. Eine Lehrerin beruhigt Kinder, die Angst vor Abschiebung haben 
u Bibliothekdienst am Samstag. #Maaßen bei der #cpac, ob er ordnungsgemäß grüßt? Ein Marienkäfer auf Finger, Krokusse u Kühe im Frühdunst. Bologneseaussicht. Moin
#Trump’s *special envoy* #RickGrenell said there will be strings attached to #California #wildfire #aid.
“As a Californian I’m all for it,” Grenell said during a conversation w/POLITICO’s Dasha Burns at #CPAC in Washington on Friday.
Grenell said the admin is talking about what the conditions will be. He floated the idea of targeting the #CaliforniaCoastalCommission, which he called “a disaster” & an unelected group of people who are “crazy woke left.”
#law #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/california-wildfire-aid-conditions-trump-administration-00205479
#SteveBannon, a fmr #Trump WH official & conservative podcast host, was wrapping up a speech to a right-wing audience at #CPAC on Thurs when he made a gesture that some observers, including a #FarRight French leader, likened to a #Nazi salute.
Ridiculous
#Trump took control of the #JFK Center for the #PerformingArts in DC only last week. But his admin is already making plans for reshaping the institution’s programming.
Chief among them: a celebration of Christ planned for December. #FauxNews’ #RickGrenell, whom Trump named as the #KennedyCenter’s new president, told #CPAC on Friday that the “big change” at the center would be that “we are doing a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas.”
The New York Times · Coming Soon to Trump’s Kennedy Center: A Celebration of Christ
When you're even turning off French Nazis!
French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech, calling out Steve Bannon's 'Nazi ideology' hand gesture
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/french-far-right-jordan-bardella-steve-bannon-nazi-ideology-gesture-rcna193195
NBC News · French far-right leader calls out Steve Bannon's 'Nazi ideology' hand gesture
...he ... got ...applauded.
#bannon #stevebannon #cpac #republicans #maga #breitbart #musk #elonmusk #trump #meme #mamema #memes
#ElonMusk with a chainsaw is a powerful image. The RW will love it.
We need to show that real people's livelihoods have been killed by DOGE cuts.
Trump voters, men, women & vets
need to see people like Chelsea Milburn, a disabled Navy vet, who was fired from her job because of sweeping cuts to federal agencies.
She needs to be on Fox "News" so people can connect Musk's cuts & the betrayal of vets to GOP senators who aren't helping her, but praising Musk.
Gee, do we think they're fascists or just being edgy?