Its loosely based on a real quote: President Hindenberg of Weimar Germany said that the only office Hitler was qualified for was Postmaster General, so he can lick me from behind
I work at the post office. I'm no longer a window clerk, but I would always crack up when one of his sycophants would tell me they wished he was on a stamp. I'd then have to tell them that USPS only puts dead people on their stamps: https://about.usps.com/publications/pub226/pub226_tech_005.htm
Last time I had a customer talk about a Trump stamp, I told them he hasn't qualified yet. On another occasion, I just told them "I hope we get one soon".
That one earned me a look from the other window clerk. 😂
Rush had quite the following, too, and know you never hear about him. Trump has achieved nothing except for the right wing to have an outlet for their hatred of everyone, not like them.
Idk. Criteria 9 on the list: The stamp program commemorates positive contributions to American life, history, culture, and environment; therefore, negative occurrences and disasters will not be commemorated on U.S. postage stamps or stationery.
Yeah, I remember those. Here in Norway, we just buy the stamp through an app and then get a code to write on the envelope or package. I think you can still buy actual stamps too, but I don't know anyone who uses them. Not that people use snail mail much anymore anyway. They're down to delivering only every other day here now since the volume has gotten so small.
Tap on the pic and it will pop up Then tap the little square at the bottom of the screen and an arrow will pop up. Tap the arrow to save it to your phone. You can then send it or embed it in a message.
If *every* eligible Californian, New Yorker, Coloradoan, New Mexican, Oregan, Washingtonian, Illinoisan, etc had turned out to vote for Kamala, we still would be in the exact same position we are now. That's what the electoral college does. It's a dumbass system that should be abolished, but it means that not everyone who stayed home voted for Trump. They voted for whoever their state voted for. (And in fact, even red state Kamala voters voted for Trump because of the EC. It's asinine.)
I get the point that you're making, and think the presidency should be a matter of popular vote, we should have ranked voting, and no electoral college.
Regardless, telling people that they voted for Trump in spite of actually voting for Kamala, because their state's electoral votes went to Trump, is rude bordering worse. A person who turned out to vote, voted for who they personally voted for.
You can say the stayed-homes cast a vote for their state's choice. Not the active voters, though.
It's demonstrably true, though, at least in gerrymandered cases. An elector's one job is to vote for who their elector district votes for. But most states (except Maine and Nebraska...?) have every elector vote for the same person regardless of district. Which means in 96% of states, even if your district votes one way, if your state, overall, votes the other, then you and your entire district's votes are cast for the other candidate - in *effect*, if not in name, you've voted for your opponent.
Although in most states the whole of their EC vote block goes to whoever "wins" the state, if an individual casts their own vote, they voted for who they voted for, at that time. The name they chose is who they voted for.
The fact the EC going the other way made their vote meaningless is a problem with the system, I agree with you in full.
I'm just making the point that it's *distasteful* to tell people they functionally, individually voted for Trump, when they did the opposite.
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
But for at least a third of the people the stamp should have worked correctly, as MAGAs wouldn't have a problem licking Trumps backside?
khaoselement
Fuck this is an old OLD ass joke.
Orionsdick
FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD: You'll never believe this! OMG so funny
myravenx
An old joke still very accurate
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Illgettoiteventually
I did this.
LeoGrun19401
Stamps have been self-adhesive for, like, a really long time
kewakl
A T R A M P S T A M P ?
TiaBarracini
Better in the original: https://x.com/SundaeDivine/status/1598772852768919552
ryti
I’d rather this stamp than 5000$ “gold” trunp dollar bill.
Mikep777200ER
A smarter man than me said:
The top %1 are protected by the law and not bounded by it, the other 99% are bounded by the law and not protected by it.
He's not wrong.
M4rv3
This joke is at least 100 years old and has featured at least 10 different dictators all over the world.
a1b3117
Its loosely based on a real quote: President Hindenberg of Weimar Germany said that the only office Hitler was qualified for was Postmaster General, so he can lick me from behind
hetnkik999
This is some real boomer humor. Haven't even seen a stamp you have to lick since I was 12, and I'm 40 now.
getoffmycloud
that’s an old soviet joke, we’ve come full circle
mooseablethenok
Good news is post office will never print a stamp of a person that is still alive.
HeyHeyDoubleA
Yet….
Mikep777200ER
People are spitting on the wrong side - LOL.
sh17picker69000420
You havent had to lick stamps for the last 10 years...
Mithi
I haven't use a stamp in the last 20 years. Joke is still good.
hydrocarbon82
You can't use it for First Class mail, it's only for no-class mail.
Mikep777200ER
This reminded me of that Seinfeld episode... Poor Susan.
FlintNorth44
You're thinking of envelopes...
LiillooDallasMultipass
friendsofsandwiches
"dude...what's up with yer hair?"
TheVampireDante
He hadn't fully tamed the wild hairstack critter at the time. It kept trying to escape.
Hopinclat
A liberal grandma appears
slightlybrokenegg
Cry more cuck
ConfederacyOfDunces
And it useless troll stands ready to make a valueless comment.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Re re re fwd fwd
ricbri695
Right? I think I saw this same joke for Clinton back when I was on dial up
TheSpindrifter
Carter era, via ditto machine
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Washington via semaphore
Mazzy94
You spit on your stamps?
Mithi
In the before-times the adhesive was gum arabic, which you had to wet to make it stick. Licking it was the usual approach for single use.
PostalHeathen
No, US postage stamps are self-adhesive. This is a very old joke recycled for the current administration.
DarkwingDuc
But even then, people licked them. Never heard of anyone spitting on them.
PostalHeathen
True, but that wouldn't work for the joke.
DonkeyGoat
I work at the post office. I'm no longer a window clerk, but I would always crack up when one of his sycophants would tell me they wished he was on a stamp. I'd then have to tell them that USPS only puts dead people on their stamps: https://about.usps.com/publications/pub226/pub226_tech_005.htm
PostalHeathen
Last time I had a customer talk about a Trump stamp, I told them he hasn't qualified yet. On another occasion, I just told them "I hope we get one soon".
That one earned me a look from the other window clerk. 😂
LupusMalevolens
And when he qualifies, I hope it's mispelled as a "tramp stamp"
Schoonbot
Ohhhh that's what I'll be calling them
fformulaa
He can be legally pronounced brain dead
SDgoldilocks
Can’t wait to put him on a stamp!
VividCaramel4534
So where's our Ronnie James Dio stamp then?
DukePhelan
'Yeah me too because that means his ass would be dead'.
His base won't care a wit about him once he is finally in hell where he belongs.
DonkeyGoat
Oh, they'll canonize him and build altars
DukePhelan
Rush had quite the following, too, and know you never hear about him. Trump has achieved nothing except for the right wing to have an outlet for their hatred of everyone, not like them.
marsilies
See how the GOP has worshipped Reagan for the last few decades.
BlueSkinnedBeast
I wish he was eligible to be put on a stamp…
SerialChickenLover
He was half an inch from eligibility last July
sometimesifeellikeanut
Idk. Criteria 9 on the list: The stamp program commemorates positive contributions to American life, history, culture, and environment; therefore, negative occurrences and disasters will not be commemorated on U.S. postage stamps or stationery.
BlueSkinnedBeast
I’d take him having a total personality transplant and becoming a human being…
marsilies
I'd take having Trump on a stamp if it meant he was dead.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
His death will be a positive contribution to history. Idk if it'd be *American* history, but it'll be history.
WhatSayYouCitizen
this is some boomer coded facebook spam shit
idontknowyoufromadam
BorkBorkasson
But at least it's boomers on the right side of things, so willing to give it a pass. The joke format is very dated though, yeah
HardlineThatSauce
Definitely bate for the Boomer crowd. It's been a long while since Forever stamps were lickable. We moved on to self adhesive stickers in the 90s.
BorkBorkasson
Yeah, I remember those. Here in Norway, we just buy the stamp through an app and then get a code to write on the envelope or package. I think you can still buy actual stamps too, but I don't know anyone who uses them. Not that people use snail mail much anymore anyway. They're down to delivering only every other day here now since the volume has gotten so small.
janeQdoe
I took a screenshot of this post so I could text it to my grandson!
WeekendWarriorMark
Hope you add a filter that makes it look like you photographed a CRT monitor displaying it.
ZeroMGeeste
That's hip.
CharlesTooke
Tap on the pic and it will pop up
Then tap the little square at the bottom of the screen and an arrow will pop up. Tap the arrow to save it to your phone. You can then send it or embed it in a message.
VinnieJonesDiary
So the joke just flew right past you, huh?
Felderburg
My computer monitor doesn't do anything when I tap on it.
CharlesTooke
If you are viewing Imgur on a Desktop or Laptop, right click on the image and it will pop up.
skipweasel
There doesn't seem to be any shortage of people willing to lick his backside, sadly.
historycat
Trump takes his cabinet out for dinner. The waiter comes along and asks him what he will be eating tonight.
Trump replies, 'I'll have the cheeseburger.'
The waiter then asks, 'What about the vegetables?'
To which Trump says, 'They'll have the same as me.'
skipweasel
I remember that joke being told about Margaret Thatcher in the early 80s!
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
What was the number 160 million? The ppl who voted for him and the ones who stayed at home?
Nebel01
20 million that actually voted for him, and a unknown numbers of peoples that got intimidated , tricked out of their vote or plain out rejected
NeurodivergenceMedley
If *every* eligible Californian, New Yorker, Coloradoan, New Mexican, Oregan, Washingtonian, Illinoisan, etc had turned out to vote for Kamala, we still would be in the exact same position we are now. That's what the electoral college does. It's a dumbass system that should be abolished, but it means that not everyone who stayed home voted for Trump. They voted for whoever their state voted for. (And in fact, even red state Kamala voters voted for Trump because of the EC. It's asinine.)
SirNinjaPirateBot
I get the point that you're making, and think the presidency should be a matter of popular vote, we should have ranked voting, and no electoral college.
Regardless, telling people that they voted for Trump in spite of actually voting for Kamala, because their state's electoral votes went to Trump, is rude bordering worse. A person who turned out to vote, voted for who they personally voted for.
You can say the stayed-homes cast a vote for their state's choice. Not the active voters, though.
NeurodivergenceMedley
It's demonstrably true, though, at least in gerrymandered cases. An elector's one job is to vote for who their elector district votes for. But most states (except Maine and Nebraska...?) have every elector vote for the same person regardless of district. Which means in 96% of states, even if your district votes one way, if your state, overall, votes the other, then you and your entire district's votes are cast for the other candidate - in *effect*, if not in name, you've voted for your opponent.
SirNinjaPirateBot
Although in most states the whole of their EC vote block goes to whoever "wins" the state, if an individual casts their own vote, they voted for who they voted for, at that time. The name they chose is who they voted for.
The fact the EC going the other way made their vote meaningless is a problem with the system, I agree with you in full.
I'm just making the point that it's *distasteful* to tell people they functionally, individually voted for Trump, when they did the opposite.
SirNinjaPirateBot
It's more accurate to say their vote was stolen from them, than to say that they "voted for the opponent (in effect)".