A demented racist old grandfather nearing 80 and in failing physical and mental health on Wednesday retreated to the world of social media to share a number of low-effort, low-quality memes to escape from the misery of living in a constant state of confusion and anger. The memes, some of which were created by his social media friends or their Photoshop-savvy grandchildren as much as six or seven years ago, served as an affirmation of the old man’s political preferences.

Yeah, not going to bother linking them, even if that might not quell the “SPARTAN! STOP GIVING HIM OXYGEN!” take. In this case that argument has some merit given the obvious usual provocation here, but see it from the other side too: The fat fuck is at least theoretically empowered to order his enemies arrested and yet… He’s fucking reposting memes calling for his enemies to be arrested rather than actually taking any publicly visible concrete steps to have those arrests are effected.

Do Putin or Xi spend their mornings jerking off on the internet like this? No, they just send their goons to arrest or often summarily execute their domestic enemies, real and perceived. Their public images as murderous dictators mostly stems from their actually being murderous dictators. They don’t need to retreat into a fantasy world to escape the constant nagging from the media over whether they knew about a sex trafficking ring that victimized teen girls in the 1990s and 2000s.