Speaking of “America’s Hitler”…

I said to my housemate the other day that I was impressed by the speed with which Mushroom Cock and his mob have wrecked the US, and I actually meant that unironically. I know that destruction is always easier and faster than creation, but I would never have thought that nearly 250 years of a republic could be brought down quite as quickly as it has been; I do think it’s impressive, in the same way that the Hiroshima bomb was impressive…

…And I’m similarly impressed in an appalled way by the speed with which he’s got down with actual Nazi symbolism (I took the above screenshot myself). Via Snopes:

On March 9, 2025, Trump posted — without comment — a link to an opinion piece by Army veteran Jeremy Hunt titled “Army recruitment ads look quite different under Trump.” It featured an illustration depicting the pink upside-down triangle and a “no” symbol. We reached out to the artist, Linas Garsys, and will update this story if we get a response.
Hunt’s article mentioned the presence of LGBTQ+ people in previous Army recruitment efforts. It compared Biden-era advertisements that showed, for example, an Army officer marching in a pride parade, with an ad from Trump’s administration that featured a soldier in the gym lifting weights and “declaring to the camera, ‘Stronger people are harder to kill.'” Hunt wrote: “This sea change in advertising style isn’t merely about aesthetics; it signals to the world that our military is serious and prepared to fight.”

Now, technically speaking, it’s not really Drumpf himself using the pink triangle, it’s the Washington Times which is the Moonie-owned newspaper that loves him; as Snopes observes, the pink triangle with “no” sign is the work of one Linas Garsys, whose Instagram header describes him thus:

…”Gay shit”? Linas Garsys is gay? A gay artist drawing the pink triangle with a “no” sign? Why would… OH! I’m so fucking dense. Of COURSE, he’s being IRONIC, it’s a PUNK STATEMENT, it’s SUBVERTING, the Washington Times is probably taking it out of context and maybe even without his permission…

…Oh. OK, so much for irony and punk, now I’m more confused…

Anyway, the Snopes article charitably asks whether Trump actually knew what he was doing in reposting this article with this particular image; did he even read it, or did he just reactively repost it because he can’t resist sycophancy? And does he know what the pink triangle means? That’s actually a fair question, given that he is a pig-ignorant idiot, but at the same time… yeah, I’d be surprised if he didn’t. Does Jeremy Hunt hunt know what it means? Did he have any idea this would be the accompanying graphic? Read both it and the article together, it looks like it’s saying the US military is indeed serious and prepared to fight, like Hunt says, but it’s mainly prepared to fight its own queer members of the corps. Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t enlist to begin with. Maybe Linas’ illustration was meant sarcastically or subversively after all. I don’t know any more. Fuck all these people.