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In light of the latest revelations about Russian interference in the presidential elections, I made some more memes you might want to post around this internet of ours.
Well, they’re basically all the same meme, with slight variations. And only two of them are usable. But I’ll be making more!
Here’s the meme with standard white meme-y text:
Here’s a weird and unusable variation:
And another even weirder and even more unusable version:
Here’s a song about a much cooler secret agent:
Feel free to make and post memes of your own!
EDIT:
By request, here’s one with no text:
SFHC, yeah, I’ll add it to the post.
And of course, also from Canada (aka Ezra Levant is at it again):
A Calgary Rebel Media rally takes another nasty turn as death threats are made
OT, but I guess slightly tangential to user-created content: I took some of the lyrics Troubelle posted recently and made it into a song: https://clyp.it/pmw0r0un
I’m still figuring out how to best work my recording setup for single track recording (mucked up the gain on the mic, so, sorry about vocal clipping!) but I think it has some promise.
@Troubelle, if/when you see this: I did some minor word changes to help with timing, and added a few line repeats to make a “chorus-y” bit. My style is really not particularly folk-y so it might be something different from what you were thinking, but I’m open to feedback if you have any!
Thanks for sharing rabble.ca, @Fishy Goat! I didn’t know about that one. Looks … well, some of the people there seem a little questionable, but they have a pretty big name in Parliament, and it looks like he’s going to be a great source for federal news.
Friend of mine is falling down the right-wing hole recently, and it really worries me. He’s been citing Rebel Media as an appropriate source, and… well, I’ve never really watched or read much Rebel Media, but wow. Exactly as right-wing biased as I expected it to be. I watched a few videos, and only one of them had any citations at all – the others were purely emotional pieces. The one with actual content was pretty clearly cherry picking and leading the audience.
Poor Rachel Notley. Something more really needs to be done. Thanks again for the link.
http://i.imgur.com/Hd8BE1l.jpg
Theeere we go.
@SHFC – 🙂
@dlouwe – Hey, sounds good! It’s a rousing song, with a nice pairing of lyrics and tune. I like the major-to-minor switches.
@Scildfreja – That reminds me of when I was in Toronto this summer, walking past Eaton’s Centre on Bay Street on the way to the train station, and I saw a man holding up a sign saying “Trump for PM too!” He was also promoting something about a right-wing news station – if not Rebel Media then something like it.
My thoughts on the sign: “Hell no” and “Good thing that’s not especially likely,” but I guess a Trump-like character taking office was the intent 🙁
@dlouwe
….holy butts.
The track could use some rebalancing, but yOU DID A GOOD. You should be proud.
@Scildfreja No problem! Yeah, rabble.ca can veer into the ridic occasionally, but I did see this item on other news sites so hopefully there’s a higher probability that it’s accurate.
@Troubelle
Thanks, I’m glad you like it! Agree that the recording itself could use some work; I wanted to get your ear on it before putting a ton of time in. I’ll very likely put together a more polished version… eventually. (I’ve got a small queue of my own songs that I keep putting off recording, hah.)
You can shoot me an email to let me know how you want to be credited and so I can send you any future recordings; it’s my username at gmail.com.