Georiga Morans: Ad For Trump Event Containing Awkward Gaffes Gets A Twitter Roasting

[634-5789]

Pet MAGAts for Donald Trump faced ridicule Monday on Twitter after promoting a march to fight election results using a graphic containing two major blunders.

The name of the state, Georgia, was spelled “Georiga.” And the traditionally Republican red Southern state, which flipped blue in the 2020 presidential election for the first time in nearly two decades, was depicted in a color that the president might not find so appealing


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/march-for-trump-ad-typo-georgia_n_5fb3374ec5b6d878180a5acd

[hlthe2b]

1. "Pet" MAGATs?

[lkinwi]

3. Reminds me of a Tea Party bus that was traveling around Wisconsin during the Walker recall.

September was painted on and spelled incorrectly right on the side of the bus. It gave us counter protesters a good laugh.

[Historic NY]

4. He still has Russia on his mind...

Former (Soviet) Russian state

[Always Randy]

5. you got a typo there ---it is moron

[CottonBear]

7. Nope. Moran is a the correct spelling in the context of the OP:

[Always Randy]

19. OH YES---you got it---

I am very protective about my fellow DUers and their spelling and grammar----so you are right and I remember that sign ---

[Staph]

8. "Morans" is a meme from a 2003 protest.

A doofus proudly posing with a sign reading "get a brain, morans!" It's been used on DU for years as a backhanded insult.

I can't link to a picture right now, but if you search the interwebs for "get a brain morans", you'll find it easily.


ETA: Great minds think alike, Cotton Bear!

[CottonBear]

12. I know! Right? 😁

Get a Brain! Morans was an instant classic! DU is mentioned in the Spread paragraph of this Know Your Memes article:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans

About
Get a Brain! Morans is an exploitable photograph of a man seen at a protest outside a Boeing plant in St Charles, Missouri in 2003. The infamously misspelled sign came to embody the "proud to be ignorant" stereotype sometimes placed on midwestern or southern Americans.

Origin
Though the man's identity is unknown, the photo was taken on March 23rd, 2003 outside of St. Louis, Missouri.[1] On that day, approximately 350 pro-peace activists got together with civilian weapons inspectors at the Boeing missile factory, asking to investigate the weapons of mass destruction being produced there. When they were denied access, the protestors sat in front of the main gate in protest. Approximately 75 pro-war supporters came to the factory with signs discouraging the sit-in. One of these supporters held the "Get a Brain Morans" sign. The photo was initially shared on the St. Louis Indymedia Center[2] in 2003.

Spread
Memewatch[3] caught on to the photo quickly, posting the image to their site on March 31st, 2003. The phrase was added to Urban Dictionary[4] on June 29th, 2004. By November of that year, Relentlessly Optimistic[5] posted the image, saying it was "ubiquitous," linking to the Google image search page, alluding to the fact that it was already widely spread. On September 9th, 2005, the first YTMND[6] was posted, with the Price is Right losing horn playing. That month, the Moran appeared in a photoshop series at Democratic Underground[7] forum.

Over the years, the photo was used widely on blog posts as a reaction image to something a poster considers to be idiotic, like this example from April 10th, 2007 on Stampede Blue.[8] In 2008, he was seen on Cracked[9] and Gizmodo.[10] The photo is also the example on the TV Tropes "Humans are Morons" page.[11]

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[Always Randy]

20. you are all correct--I am missing part of the humor---

and I make this mistake being a fervent follower of DU---please correct me whenever you my stuff wrong----I really think DU will save our country and reunite it

[Always Randy]

21. oh I am so in the right place

a bunch of great ball busters ----please continue governor

[obamanut2012]

11. nope, spelled right

[Always Randy]

6. even in the states that we did not win --there was a BLUE WAVE

we came real close in Texas this time----and it will be BLUE next time ---I think Texas is a better target than Florida because it is a more stable population heading to blue---thank you for your post ----634-5789

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Correct spelling is an antifa plot! nt

[CottonBear]

13. ROFL!

[Celerity]

10. ...

[CottonBear]

14. Deep Blue Atlanta is shown with a red star!

Those Morans can’t get much right. I’m surprised that they spelled capitol correctly. Of course, they had a 50-50 chance with spell check!

[Celerity]

15. I still don't understand why (I know the history of what actually happened) the US (quelle surprise)

yet again went against most of the rest of the advanced world and well, well over a century of colour systems and chose Blue for the Left Party and Red for the RW one. I have lived my almost all of my life as a red girl (Labour in the UK, Social Democrats in Sweden) politically, save for when I deal with the US. Same for the term liberal, which mostly means centre right wing, except for the US.

I must say, it is, and has been, for me, quite irritating, especial the liberal label, which I cannot bring myself to self-label as. Simply 'Democrat' works for me in the US environs.

[CottonBear]

16. It must be frustrating to watch the US and follow our politics from abroad.

I hadn’t considered that red was linked with Labour and Social Democrats abroad.

I am so often frustrated with right wingers who throw about words like socialism, socialist, and communist, but who have no idea what those words actually mean.

Unfortunately, our educational system has been so dumbed down, so many people watch Fox News and listen to RW talk radio, and so many have never traveled abroad, and in many cases, outside of their state or region.

They have no knowledge of politics and history, and no perspective on the US as viewed from abroad.

[Celerity]

17. I go absolutely batshit when Bernie et. al call us (Sweden) socialist (and also when they falsely

self-label as democratic socialists when they are just bog standard social democrats.)

I have been posting on this since I joined the board back in summer 2018.

here is an example of me in another thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14565229

you can, if you care to, go to that link and pick up what I was saying through a series of replies

[CottonBear]

18. I really appreciate your perspective from Sweden and your informed comments.

I have traveled in Europe several times, but did not get to visit the Sweden or the other Nordic countries. Maybe in the future!

I have a good friend who lives in Munich, Germany. My son and I have plans to visit her in the future after the pandemic. We’re also going to visit my son’s cousins in England. My son loves history and geography. I want him to have the experience of traveling abroad.

[Celerity]

22. I was born in Los Angeles, moved with my parents at less than 2 years old to London, where I was

raised, mostly. I am half Swedish (father) and half Bajan (Barbados, mummy). I did live (again in the LA area) for a couple years whilst I read for my MBA at UCLA. I love Germany, especially Berlin and Hamburg. So glad I have multiple citizenships, due to Brexit (grrr, don't get me started, lolol).

I have always had an extraordinary amount of wanderlust (as does my wife), we live to travel the globe, so COVID-19 is really tossing a spanner into the works for us in that regard. That is an very small price to pay compared to burdens borne by tens of millions of others though.

[CottonBear]

23. You are so fortunate! It must be very interesting to be Swedish-Barbadian-American!

I love to travel, but haven’t been able to in recent years. I’m looking forward to future trips, but for now I shall travel via books, films, TV, and the internet!

I have a very close Grenadian friend, who I met here in the US while they were living here. They’ve since moved back home to Grenada. I hope that my son and I can travel there in the list-pandemic future. Maybe we’ll be able to visit Barbados too!

I know how to make real Grenadian/Barbadian rum punch with Mount Gay Rum!
“One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak”

I lived in Germany as a very small child, when my dad was in the army. We lived in a village and not on a base. I met the family from whom we rented our apartment, and also my former babysitter, when I traveled to Germany in the early 1990s. They all lived in the same houses that they lived in when we were there!

[Celerity]

24. Near Wiesbaden?

I lived in Germany as a very small child, when my dad was in the army. We lived in a village and not on a base.

[CottonBear]

25. Yes.

[Celerity]

26. When I hear US military and Germany that is the first place I always think of, along with EUCOM in

Stuttgart.