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Dear Leader Exalts Himself with a HUGE Banner ... [1]
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Date: 2025-05-25
This past week “Dear Leader” took the next step on the way to becoming a fascist dictator by unfurling a HUGE banner – of HIMSELF – at the Ministry of Truth USDA.
A colossal, brooding image of Donald Trump now looms over the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner is unmistakably authoritarian in both style and scale. It features a stone-faced Trump gazing down upon the capital like a watchful overlord.
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History has shown that such arrogant, pompous, narcissistic displays of self-exaltation do NOT bode well for keeping a healthy democratic republic. In fact, they herald quite the opposite.
But folks elected to take advantage of such pretentious chutzpah to have some fun …
And if the nascent fascist dictator’s banner wasn’t galling enough, salt was rubbed into the wound by displaying it alongside a banner of Pres. Lincoln. Lincoln’s banner was placed to celebrate an anniversary: It was Lincoln who founded the USDA in 1862 in order to ...
” … provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.”
But one Paulley Ticks took a bit of “artistic license” and saved the day with his pièce de résistance revision:
And he interestingly notes that the hand doing the flipping-off is his own, because he could NOT find a pinky-sided image of a “giving-the-finger” photo.
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