The move would appeal to Trump’s MAGA base.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/43965177

An ex-DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” could end up receiving the highest civilian honor in the United States, placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Somehow the dumbest timeline just upped the ante

  • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Why stop there? Shell out a purple heart! Hell, make it two! Make him look like one of these old officers from dictatorships!

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Ughh, I mean we are just handing military rank over to Palantir employees, so why not?

      General Big Balls🎖️got his ass kicked by high schoolers while betraying his country.

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Anything Epstein’s best buddy hands out will be noted as a total farce and those receiving them should be ridiculed relentlessly. Cue South Park.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    if someone were to shoot him will they give him a posthumous promotion? that would be cool

    • paper_moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      21 hours ago

      If we do live in a simulation, can I be taken out by a corrupt memory allocation, please?

    • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      17 hours ago

      It’s just them feeding the constant news cycle with bullshit and nonsense. I say JUST but…idk I’m getting to the point where the psy-op has worked and I don’t want to pay attention to the news anymore. I might make myself a old RSS style feed for like Reuters or something but getting my news from social media has been nothing but devastating. It’s gotta be somewhat intentional. Not that it’s not happening, but that it’s always some new stupid thing that is just the right amount of outrageous that it diluted the important stuff. I don’t care about some kid called big balls. That’s just a symptom. The keys they jingle to keep it so the doctor with the needle is half-forgotten. Maybe they won but at least I’ll be happier.

      I kinda get why the guy at the end of 1984 didn’t give a shit anymore by the end.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      17 hours ago

      Fascists were killed to fucking death 80 years ago. And I’ll remind us all, the men who fought were around 20 then. The youngest would be 100 now.

      The Smoot-Hawley Act was 95 years ago, exacerbated the Great Depression. Not to mention the stock market greed and lack of government controls that started it. Today no one remembers what that kind of poverty was like in America.

      Everyone who remembers is dead. This is simply history, we do this again and again. Our turn!

      • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        15 hours ago

        Well if you don’t drop everything and singlehandedly bring it all to a screeching halt i won’t respect you and even if you try I’ll find other reasons to criticize you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
    152·
    16 hours ago

    holy shit nobody cares. stop being caught off guard by low effort outrage sideshows. next one drops in 12 hours or so, can we grow up enough to handle it?

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
    42·
    20 hours ago

    placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa

    One of these persons is not like the others…

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah. We’re armed to the fucking teeth and no one is challenging these fascists.

      MAGA neighbor came stomping down the street after I called him a fascist and his wife a fat fucking Nazi. Bring it.

      I calmly walked inside for my Colt .45, left the door and curtains open, awaited his arrival. He had the sense to turn the fuck around or his wife would be a widow and his daughter lacking a father. Stand your ground state!

      These people never get fucking challenged. Never. They’re in their echo chamber thinking everyone is on the same page. Fuck with them. Put violence on the table, make it personal.

      I’m a middle-aged white guy, easy for me to say, I know. And that privilege is exactly why I push back. I can fight the fight for those less privileged. And yes, I’ve made my peace with dying if it comes to that. That is not a new thought to me.

      Ban in 3, 2, 1…

      • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        You won’t get banned for exercising your legal right to self defense against Nazis. Nor for advocating other fight fascist violence using their legal rights.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    While I typically frown on violence, it’d be a just world if after receiving said medal, BB got his ass beat on a weekly basis.