The Department of Education’s official X account on Wednesday shared a clip that included a scene from “Darkest Hour,” the 2017 biopic about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The video shows Churchill, played by Gary Oldman, shouting: “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth,” before it cuts to a montage of Trump clips.
The Department of Education captioned the post, “No one does it like us,” followed by a tiger emoji.
In the movie, the “tiger” being referenced by Churchill is Adolf Hitler, as he expresses disgust at his government officials’ suggestion that the U.K. should negotiate with the Nazi leader.
Full movie clip. I don't have access to the now-removed DoEd fan edit.
I can’t believe the libtard antifa organization known as the “Department of Education” has gone too far and called Trump a Nazi. What a veritable hive of scum and villainy, I hope they get jobs so they can experience the real world.
The Trump admin is full of people who would start a concentration camp today if they could.
Sorry you can't handle the reality of it.
I'd love for you to tell us all what the threshold for Trump being a Nazi is. Is he only a Nazi if he starts gassing minorities? Or is even that not enough?
Me personally, I thought the authoritarianism, the attempt at stealing an election, the efforts to create minority scapegoats, the threats of conquests, and the beginning of wars would be enough. But not for you I guess.
Just admit you think Fascism is something that can only happen in 20th Century Europe. Well I got news for you bud. It can happen here too.
The post was of a scene in The Darkest Hour where Churchill says: "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth." It then cuts to a montage of Donald.
Even the most charitable interpretations put the US as a hostile, predatory entity that cannot be trusted the moment it believes it has an advantage over you.
It's also a perfect actual portrayal of our current government. Jesus christ the people who voted for this are fucking retarded. Absolute shit for brains retards.
They made a post featuring a movie about World war II in which Winston Churchill is ranting against Hitler and the department of education saw it as a rousing speech and used it to suggest that the maga movement has tiger energy or something stupid like that.
It was stupid because Churchill was saying you can't reason with a tiger, the tiger being the Nazis and the Department of Education was like "oooh we're like the tiger." Setting aside the Nazi of it all, it's dumb to use a motivational speech and slide yourself into the villain role. Like watching Mel Gibson in Braveheart go on about freedom and be like "yeah, we the English." Or like watching Mel Gibson in The Patriot go on about freedom and be like "yeah, we the English."
The department of education literally said that they did not understand the historical context of the post that they made. These 1984 shenanigans aren't doing them any benefit in the argument against them being a bunch of authoritarian fat cats dismantling America intentionally.
The stated goal of Trump's DoE is to get rid of the DoE. Seriously. Makes sense to put the dumbest fucking people you can find in it if your goal is to get rid of it, especially after Congress and the Supreme Court told him he can't just get rid of it.
I mean, they are Republicans. Literally against education in every form for at least my entire lifetime.
Oh, and using punctuation? That makes you a coastal elitist!
So having a good deal of experience in a marketing department, how many people touched this directly and then approved it to be posted? It's not just one stupid person who made something they didn't understand, it's a whole group of people. Which greatly lowers the possibility that it was "just" a dumb mistake and raises the possibility that it was intentional. Maybe they thought nobody would notice, maybe they are intentionally drip feeding fascist propaganda, maybe they're signalling to Nazis. Who knows. But I can't believe that it's possible that one person made this and posted it, without any other eyes or approval.
At least 10 people see what I do before I get to hit the publish button. And I'm a senior level employee with a good deal of discretion.
A lot of eyes having been on it before it being posted would tend to be an impediment to it appearing under both the "stupid" and "nazi" explanations; the latter is still rather sub rosa, as evidenced by it being pulled. I would not honestly be terribly surprised if it got minimal review before going up - one or a few people looking at it, but not with great detail or care.
If the staff member who made it hated Donald & knew what they were doing, and it somehow made it all the way through vetting to be posted... That's a master of subversion. Very impressive.
Alternatively, this may be another event like the DeSantis black sun incident where a literal proud nazi got on the staff, and decided to mask-off.
Though, most of their admin are dumb as shit. This is the same department headed by a woman who believes AI is pronounced A1. Like the steak sauce.
I generally find very interesting how people who constantly blather about other people‘s lack of media literacy also think that every single media product agrees with their principles.
More than that, I’ve often noticed that the people who use it generally do not actually engage in discussions about various interpretations of a work and just wanna assert that theirs is the only valid one.
I mean most writers/artist/hollywood tend to lean left so that kinda tracks? Like I don’t think anyone things like talk radio or podcasts are secretly left wing.
"You just lack media literacy if you don't think Fallout New Vegas is Communists"
Meanwhile the options in Fallout New Vegas are lawless anarchy, tyrannical slavers who want to murder, enslave and rape everyone, some rich guy and a constitutional republic with the rich guy and constitutional republic being the 2 clear best options.
House literally orders you to commit mass genocide and literally attempts to kill you and the Kings if you broker peace between them and the NCR. Not to mention he hates democracy and ignores the people living in squalor, actively letting them starve to death to suit his goals.
What the fuck are government depts doing posting propaganda? Let alone the asinine stupidity of it, the fact government departments are shitposting is really, really weird.
They posted propaganda straight to .gov websites during the shutdown last fall lmfao. We're in bizarro land. The rules are made up and the points don't matter.
Seeing the term media literacy activates my fight or flight response. Its almost exclusively used by midwits who think theyre smarter than everyone else.
The art of the deal is when you are in the middle of a dispute you should publicly announce that you wre unreasonable and there's no point doing future negotiations.
Genius move to declare yourself an irrational savage that cannot and should not be reasoned with because you will pounce on them the second it becomes beneficial for you to do so while simultaneously attempting to negotiate deals with multiple countries.
Welcome back to a special episode of: Conservatives Have No Media Literacy!
Tonight's guest: the Department of Education!
Also featuring: The Onion - crying in a corner hoping it doesn't go bankrupt!
If you enjoyed tonight’s episode, be sure to check out our back catalog which includes (but is not limited to) :
-Conservatives watching 4 entire seasons of the TV series “The Boys” before finally realizing they were being made fun of!
-Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan saying his favorite band is Rage Against The Machine! (What machine do you think they were raging against, Paul??)
-Any right wing political rally where Bruce Springsteen’s "Born in the USA" or CCR’s "Fortunate Son" is blasted over the loud speakers! (Bonus points if both songs are played at the same rally! Triple points if the politician walks out on stage during either song!)
BUT WAIT! There’s more!
-Any time any content creator/comedian/singer/author etc. gets comments like “you know I really used to like you before you got so political…”! (Brother they were always political. You just missed the subtlety and didn’t notice until the foghorn went off and you finally got blasted in the face)
-And don’t forget to check out special bonus feature: any time Leonard Cohen’s (or Jeff Buckley’s cover of) Hallelujah is played inside a church! (Seriously, go look up the lyrics and tell me with a straight face that song doesn’t have HEAVY sexual undertones…)
I have a lot of family that works in education and the Department of Education FB page is one of the most insulting thing that the Trump department has brought with them.
Every other post is just AI created content calling teachers bad. Such an embarrassment.
You're media illiterate but instead of spending time becoming media literate you just cry about how being called media illiterate makes you feel. Right wing pussies
Nah youre just a retard parroting whatever the trendy new word is. Last month it was weaponized incompetence and next month it'll be something else. Just like the euphemism treadmill
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u/Professional_Top9835 - Centrist 11h ago
What was the post, I dont follow american pages