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It's gonna be named Trumpball isn't it?

As a "soccer" fan, I'm glad we get football back.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 57 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is this all because that guy gave him a fake peace prize?

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

We should give him a fake peace prize

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

And let him keep the gold trophy he stole. And licked his poo hole real good. Yeah.

That's how politics works man!

. . . wait.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago

Trump is a FIFA asset

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Focusing on the real problems.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

He wants his own Super Bowl trophy for his personal collection.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

The rest of the world couldn't give a shit. Football always was football. No one gives a shit what you call your national sport that no other country in the world partakes in.

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

Seems like you have a pretty strong opinion for someone who doesn't give a shit 😂

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

that no other country in the world partakes in.

Well there's rugby.

Maybe they should call it American rugby.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Too much body armour to be called rugby.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 8 hours ago

Also far too many clock stoppages.

Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.

Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.

Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 points 14 hours ago

in Ireland it often will get called soccer a lot of the time because football means Gaelic Football (depending on some context), but then sometimes they definitely say football for english football and gaelic for gaelic

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

*angry metric noises*

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I want FIFA to go all in on nonsensical awards. Need a FIFA Chef of the Year award, FIFA’s best new artist, or FIFA Best Original Screenplay

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They have a World Cup coming up and not enough time to switch to a sane country. Fake trophy is a cheap bribe to keep that going

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Whatever it take to distract from the Epstein files sir!

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It's called gridiron, it's always been called gridiron, no need to change its name, just stop calling it football. 🤷‍♂️

Gridiron: a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.

I always suspected that under all that padded costume these guys were really theatre geeks.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago

What a metal name! I wonder how that mixup even started. That one just sounds cooler...

[–] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 8 points 16 hours ago

Succer Trump wants some balls, huh? It doesn't make sense.

[–] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm probably just dumb but I thought the technical name was Gridiron Football, doesn't that count?

[–] human@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yep.

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football.[1] These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes".

And though the jokes about gridiron not actually using your feet much are understandable, kicking the ball might not be the reason any of these sports are called "football". It's actually possible it's because they are played on foot, to distinguish them from horseback sports like polo, which were more of a thing at the time they were named.

There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word "football". It is widely assumed that the word "football" (or the phrase "foot ball") refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball.[13] There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot.[14] There is little conclusive evidence for either explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

There is no fucking way in hell I am clicking a Fox News link. It’s like dipping my phone in raw shit.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

'soccer' is Oxford slang anyways. Funny that it caught on in the US.

[–] OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago

He's still sore about the XFL, isn't he.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 9 hours ago

He's finally making sense. Things will get better now.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are we talking about what the dementia patient says again!?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"Dementia patient" makes it sound like he's being treated.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

He's being managed. Apparently, his brand of dementia can't be treated, only slowed. A big symptom is him losing his circadian rhythm, and sleep deprivation hastens the disease. I've heard he's only got a few months before the big dirtnap. Then we'll have President Vance.

[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

it makes sense he hates America, when the maggots realize that they still don't care, all are treasonous and need to hang from nooses

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Of all the things to adopt from the damn Euroids...

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Name idea: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Ball
Edit: NFL < NCTEBL

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 4 points 2 hours ago

I always liked “American Armored Handegg”

[–] rezad@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Is it bad that I agree?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago

He's tackling the big issues first.

[–] andMoonsValue@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes ago

How bout them Epstein files?...

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 48 minutes ago

Trump is such a tool

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They can call it Extreme Football or Gladiatorial Football to differentiate it from the slow-moving low-impact variety

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Concussion prolate spheroid sport

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

Eggball. Handball. Padded Big Strong Man Ball.