As we all know, California is an arid moonscape where nothing grows, except for Nancy Pelosi’s pique at the real Americans in the heartland who are forced to harvest her food for her. Unless you want to nourish your larval pre-transhumanist corpus entirely on Soylent Green and Ms. Hillary’s 100% Adrenochrome Dyspepsia and Rheumatism Tonic, you need the nation’s breadbasket. After all, the only things people on the coasts grow are weed, magic mushrooms, and insensate clones of themselves for eventual organ harvesting.
That’s the argument, anyway. And, like most Republican arguments, it’s nonsense. For a lot of reasons. For one thing, as anyone with access to the Google can tell you, California is—oh my, this is inconvenient—the nation’s top agricultural state by total cash receipts.
But Republicans are still certain of something-something as it pertains to such-and-such, and they have the random online photos to prove it!
Take it away, official GOP Twitter account!
Oh, burn! There’s no recovering from that one: a photo of verdant American farm fields to remind those ivory tower coastal elites that they’re nothing but a feckless herd of cow-eyed, pud-twiddling navel-gazers.
Except, uh—that’s California, dude.
Good idea! Here’s a screen shot for later—after the GOP’s social media manager gets home from band practice and decides to delete this:
Sure enough, that photo of the wholesome heartland is actually of California. (Unfortunately, those farms aren’t in Nancy Pelosi’s district. Then again, if they were, this story would have been posted hours later, and possibly from the ER. There’s only so much laughter the human body can take. That said, the locale is pretty darn close to the reviled coast—and the Bay Area in particular.)
Needless to say, Twitter was unforgiving.
Of course, this isn’t the first time lazy conservatives have used the wrong image at the wrong time to make a completely misleading point.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump’s team put together an ad vowing to protect our nation’s most beloved monuments from the unnecessarily capitalized “Radical Left.” Apparently, the fact that they were mostly protecting statues of anti-U.S. rebels who spilled American blood in order to preserve chattel slavery was a bad look, so they used a picture of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil.
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Then there was the time the Trump campaign tried to prove how unruly our southern border was by using footage from Morocco. And, more recently, the GOP released an inspiring “Commitment to America” video with stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.
It’s been said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration—much like Trump himself. Unfortunately, the GOP appears to have flipped that script. You’d think it would be pretty easy to find a photo of farmland in Iowa, but Republicans are apparently too busy these days searching high and low for shiny objects to distract Americans with.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if the shiny objects are real—or where they actually come from—as long as they appear genuine enough to fool Republicans. And we all know how easy that is.
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