Funny Friday

18 thoughts on “Funny Friday”

1. Well since the fun has left FUNNY friday, I would like to add my pedantic quibble to the fray…………..

   I’m deeply troubled that first meme displayed as it is clearly inaccurate. It’s been long proven Santa does not exist and is simple an urban myth perpetrated by conspiracy theorists. Furthermore, the image is an artist rendering and not an authentic photograph. Lastly, why would Santa even have a cell phone? There is no cell phone coverage at the North Pole. 🤦‍♂️

   I look forward to you trying to defend your ludicrous position that Santa really does exist. I’m bored with nothing to do but troll and “fact check” memes and this will give my day purpose.

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   1. 😆touché T23! We will get back on the fun track, apologies for the derailing! Just, don’t throw Santa under the bus, we have almost no heroes left.

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2. Hmm… that “history lesson” about executive order 6102 is false. The image is obvious AI, for starters, but it was never made illegal to own gold. The EO was specifically against gold *hoarding*. Nobody was forced to turn in their gold on threat of fine or imprisonment.

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   1. Looks pretty straightfoward when you resd it. Executive Order 6102 states:

      “By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled “An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes,” in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of this order: Section 1. For the purposes of this regulation, the term “hoarding” means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term “person” means any individual, partnership, association or corporation.
      Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:

      (a) Such amount of gold as may be required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession or art within a reasonable time, including gold prior to refining and stocks of gold in reasonable amounts for the usual trade requirements of owners mining and refining such gold.

      (b) Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100 belonging to any one person; and gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins.
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      Section 9. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or of these regulations or of any rule, regulation or license issued thereunder may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.”

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      1. So… like I said. It prohibited hoarding gold, in various forms. Hoarding. It did not prohibit owning gold and people were not required to turn over their gold, unless they were being all Scrooge McDuck about it.

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         1. Are you reading the same thing as I am? It says right there, ‘hoarding’ was $100 worth, only. Confiscation otherwise, just like the Soviets, you must go through official government/banking channels only, or else fines and imprisonment. The peasant and plebe shall not be able to accumulate intergenerational wealth. The public shall bail out the banks and the government.

            How is this not clearly right there in black and white?

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            1. $100 was a lot of money, back then. That was their definition of hoarding. The EO was also not permanent, and people could still accrue wealth in other forms. It applied only to gold, and no one had to stand in line with their identical bags of gold to hand over at a table in front of a bank, like the AI image shows. No, it’s not the same. Whether it was justified or not can be argued, but it is not at all like what the Soviets did.

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               1. Nonsense, $100 was hardly a fortune and the government should never have any say on what defines hoarding.

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               2. You’re quibbling. The meme says that the EO made it illegal for Americans to own gold coins or bullion, and that they were forced to turn all their gold in, or be fined/imprisoned, then used a fake AI image made to look like an old photograph of this happening. Agree with the EO or not, the meme is false. That is not what the EO said, and the image is fake.

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               3. no, you are quibbling. You can’t possibly believe newspaper ‘photos’ from then were any more ‘unstaged’ than AI generated images today!? The image is to carry the facts printed right there, the government decided what defined hoarding and required the citizenry to bail out the banks, pay for wars, and for the inflation that enslaves them and their posterity. You are not seeing the forest through the trees, same like all those conned to take the jabs. It’s the exact same play, and the exact same fools will continue to defend it.

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               4. I’m not defending anything. The image is quite obviously not from a newspaper from the time period, but really obviously an AI generated image, for starters. And the EO did not say that people could no longer own gold at all and had to turn it over.

                  And now you bring in the mass behavioral modification tactics surrounding the forced injections as some sort of equivalence?

                  I don’t see why it’s so hard to acknowledge that the meme is false, and still have a problem with what the EO actually said.

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               5. the meme has done precisely what memes are meant to do. Big picture impact in minimal space. that you are stuck in minutia is not about the meme

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               6. A meme is effective, only if it tells the truth. A lie is a lie is a lie, and that destroys credibility.

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               7. this is not a lie. take it up on your own blog, i’m tired of your bs

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               8. behavioral modification tactics are identical, fear-based patriotic programming.

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               9. you can not own more than $100 in gold, oh but, that doesn’t mean the people could no longer own gold. who is splitting hairs in favor of the enslavement of the people? $100 is enough for you peasants! Do you hear your own failed farm situation anywhere here? can you see your ancestors were set up for certain failure? and yet still you split hairs for your oppressors!

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               10. Wow. You’re projecting an awful lot into something, to defend a meme that is making a false statement.

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               11. wow you! seriously? this is how you interact in someone else’s space? its not a false statement, at all.

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