this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
364 points (93.8% liked)

Political Memes

5455 readers
2453 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That was back when they were joking about Trump being president, decades before he actually ran.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

He had a very brief campaign in 2000 that they were riffing on. Everyone forgot that it happened, so now Groening et al. get to look like prognosticators.

[–] johan@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that really true? That is amazing. What episode / season is this?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

of course it isn't. first of all, it was not decades before. it was in 2000. and second of all it was only because of this

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I know right? It's like a triple prediction, absolutely wild