One thing we’ve learned over the past year is that memes can actually influence politics. Alas, we learned this lesson from the rise of the meme-obsessed neo-Nazi alt-right.
No, memes aren’t going to win over any hardcore Trump fans. But they may help to convince some less-committed Trump voters that they made a big mistake voting for the orange one. If nothing else, they’ll amuse other Trump Resisters, many of whom, like me, may be a little starved for amusement these days.
So make some memes! It’s easy as hell!
Turn old memes into anti-Trump (or anti-Republican) memes at Meme Generator and similar sites.
If you want to do more graphically, there are a ton of very useful free apps and sites to help you.
Paint.net — A handy free image editor for Windows, weirdly not located at Paint.net online.
Phixr — A basic all-around online editor that I use all the time.
Photomania — Good basic arty filters alongside some hokey effects.
Dreamscope — Great and often weird arty filters (including some creepy Deep Dream filters); used to be really slow but now much much quicker.
Lunapic — Some nice arty filters plus basic image editing tools.
And there are of course tons of mobile apps. Some of my favorite ones on Android include Prisma, Alter and Paintbrush (if you’re looking for weird arty filters). Try Fotor or PicsArt for more comprehensive editing tools.
Oh, and if you’re too lazy to carefully cut out Trump heads for your memes, other people have already done this for you! Go here for assorted exploitable Trump heads. Or just do an image search for “Trump head.”
Post your memes — or just some good ones you’ve found — in the comments below.
Then post them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, wherever.
PS: If any of you have found good repositories of anti-Trump memes, on Facebook or elsewhere, link them in the comments below for a future #ResistTrump post.
Gonna put his head on Tamatoa’s body and caption it ORANGE. Just as soon as I can keep my eyes open.
@Falconer What did Tamatoa do to deserve that? Yeah, I know he’s a gigantic cannibalistic coconut crab who has covered himself in gold and would also eat humans and demigods alike if he could all while sounding like Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, but does he really deserve to have Trump’s head photoshoped onto his body?
So jazzed that I am now an Interwebz artiste, just like the big kids! (With the exception of the haters. They’re not artists & they can go fuck themselves.)
Thanks, David, for the art instruction!
I’m a huge fan of Grumpy Cat:
Here’s one I made when Taibbi asked for images related to his new book “Insane Clown President”:
-robin
I don’t know how I can combine this with Troompa Loompa, but I just wanted to share it anyway after finding it on a random Google Image browse.
http://www.kuraoka.org/ox.gif
I don’t really understand memes, and my graphic design skills are limited to not going over the edges in colouring books, but here’s a moderately interesting article that people might be able to use as source material.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/trump-putin-alt-right-comintern/506015/
@BritterSweet
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lol-duck.gif
Not Trump related but still important:
https://mic.com/articles/164234/judge-rules-doctors-can-refuse-trans-patients-and-women-who-have-had-abortions#.heksUyiHg
This is my life now; cooking up forced memes to fight the highest office of the land.
I think though, that the people who voted for Trump won’t necessarily respond as you’d like to some of these; in fact, I can imagine a number of Trump supporters brandishing that “Unfit At Any Speed” macro with pride. There’s a lot of people for whom his incompetence is his appeal; he was a pure ‘spite’ vote.
Next time we get the working class economic anxiety argument, we can point to this: http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/4/14160956/trump-racism-sexism-economy-study
@Jesalin
It’s like having to patch a leaky roof. When one avenue of discriminating against trans and those who desire an abortion, they’ll try to drip through another way.
@banned
That would be the core of the core. They lose nothing in both status and wealth whether or not trump won.
Makroth, that is my new favourite gif.
@kupo: Thanks for the link! I’ll have to read that more carefully later.
@Jesalin: I have no words. This is just awful.
I had initially read that headline yesterday as ‘Doctors can refuse treatment to trans women who’ve had abortions’, which confused the hell out of me for several seconds. (“Are the doctors confused? Am I confused? Oh, there’s a ‘patients and’ in there. FUCK.”)
Doesn’t something like three thousand years of medical ethics contradict this?
@Podkayne
Segregation and unethical experiments in the us where african americans were treated worse than guinea pigs says otherwise.
@jesalin: does that mean I can refuse to treat skinheads and anyone who comes into my hospital wearing a Trump hat?
More seriously, that ruling is wrong on so many levels. Doctors are not supposed to make moral judgements about our patients. That’s one of the touchstones of medical ethics. Our patients have to feel like they can be open and honest with us if we’re going to do them any good at all, and you can’t be open with someone who is judging you. That’s first year ethics.
We’re in trouble.
@Podkayne, Ooglyboggles:
On top of that, there’s the whole ‘Catholic hospital’ standards where the hospital administration can be pretty much forbidden from performing abortions as long as there is still a detectable foetal heartbeat. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar .
Even better, see http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/issues_publications/catholics-for-choice-memorandum-on-the-ethical-and-religious-directives-for-catholic-health-care-services/ which lists some specific cases of hospitals and doctors being punished for going against The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Read that, and then think about how many regions in the U.S. don’t have service from anything other than Catholic hospitals these days…
@Jenora
Don’t heal the sick and deny them the options of seeking other people for help, just as jesus wanted /s
What other medical procedures can doctors discriminate against their patients for having? How about vasectomies, since every sperms is sacred? Wouldn’t want god to get irate with the doctor for treating such an evil, vile person.
So huh, turns out that “whatever the fuck happened to democracy” is one hell of a rabbit hole, and we ain’t even seen the end yet.
Ineligibility of 50 Electoral College voters
Go figure.
@Sinkable John
Holy shit.
@Jack
You know what would piss me off big time ? If he were “unpresidented” because of that. I mean, sure, I’ll take it. Hell yeah.
But there’s like a zillion good reasons to get rid of the guy, but instead of those, they decide he’s illegitimate because of Electoral College policies ? Meh.