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This series is monthly, which means the next one was scheduled to drop on October 1. But the first 19 days of September have produced so much absurdity that we have to go a little early this time around to avoid being swamped.
Let’s start with a tip o’ the hat to those alarmists who thought open borders would destabilize society. They may be right after all.
To take just one of many related examples, in Springfield, Ohio, rumors started circulating about immigrants eating their neighbors’ pets. For our purposes, the veracity of these claims is less important than what the meme community did with them:
Then the Israelis blew up all those pagers, creating a rare opportunity for hybrid “pet-eating/pager-exploding” memes:
And then Trump assassination attempts became a weekly event, inspiring hybrid “assassination/immigration” satire:
(Babylon Bee) – Sources within several major media and news networks recently confirmed that most legacy mainstream media head editors are now “pretty worried” that the news of the latest Trump assassination attempt might distract from the plight of illegal immigrants around the country.
According to sources at the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post, and the Economist, newspaper higher-ups are absolutely terrified that giving space to covering something as routine and commonplace as the Trump assassination might distract from how terrible life for illegal immigrants in the US is.
“Quite frankly, this is really concerning,” said CNN host Jake Tapper. “Just think — if people start reading about how there was yet another ordinary assassination attempt on Donald Trump, they’ll forget about all of the hoopla and racist bigotry that illegal immigrants have to endure day after day! I mean, did you know that it takes an illegal immigrant as much as an hour and a half to get a driver’s license and registration to vote in American elections at the DMV? It’s absolutely disgraceful — it’s only a third as long as legal US citizens’ wait times!”
Come to think of it, even regular assassination jokes are pretty rare:
All of that was in addition to the usual outpouring of anti-Aristocracy ridicule:
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