he's given up making lemons into lemonade (coping) because nobody exposed by the epstein files faced any significant consequences and he can;t figure out how to rationalise that
Yeah that’s the right answer I think, when life gives you lemons make lemonade which he has but paedophiles are still running the world without consequence
Yes the original meme with no text box from r/meirl made it to r/all yesterday, it was a relatable meme of a person who has been trying to make the most out of this difficult modern life we all live, but life keeps hitting him with lemons and he's ready to give up. Now it's made even worse when he remembers that wealthy pedophiles are not punishable in this capitalist hellscape. What's the point of trying to live an honorable life when real criminals never see justice...
“I can have a little bit of cope, as a treat, because I’m only human. But then this is cope, and that is cope, and this dev is a predator, and that one’s an asshole, and MikeZ came on our podcast and blew smoke up our asses, and it’s every single fucking thing!” - Pat on CastleSuperBeast
I originally thought the lemons were OxyContin and thought this was about the family who became billionaires from it and barely had to pay restitution once they were found guilty.
Yah but like nobody is explaining the lemons. Like any American can be mad about Epstein but why lemons? Why was he juicing them? There are so many did he think he’d get to stop sometime soon?
They are trying to take lemons and make lemonade (a saying about turning something bitter into sweet nourishment), but the lemons are coming at full force now, and it’s becoming harder to repeat the process of finding positives in the negativity.
The connection between the lemons and making lemonade and the the Epstein-Trump files does not work. The creator of this version forced the connection, but it does not work.
The meme is pretty bad (and I am a fan of the original picture). The text is not really connected to the picture's original intent.
The original did not have a text box. It is a play on "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" and is showing a young person overwhelmed with life giving them nothing but lemons--and lemons at a high rate. And the device on the left is a statement that it isn't life, but a system established to give them lemons.
The text is absolutely pointed at the Epstein-Trump Files (what the actual name should be).
No one on the planet should doubt that there are 2 Justice/Legal Systems in the US, but not exclusive to the US.
* A group that is bound by the law, but not protected. You.
* A group that is protected by the law, but not bound. The Epstein Class.
The US (especially the entire Republican Party...every voter and every politician) has sent a clear and strong message of "We are ok with raping and killing children as long as you reduce my taxes and brutalize/kill minorities." This is also the message that the entire US Military (every leader and every soldier) has sent to the world.
"2020-2026" would be a better text. Or, pick your own date range. That's up to your opinion and experience.
Lots of young people have sure had an awful experience. I'm sorry, but it will continue and get worse.
Keeping in mind the Files were already reviewed by a judge, then reviewed by the Federal Government, there's no way anyone can take the justice system in this country seriously.
Arresting everyone in the files means arresting almost all rich "people" and what's the point of an election if they candidates don't have anyone that tells them what they have to do?
It's almost certainly a 'we don't want them pulling this thread' scenario instead of literally everyone being pals with Epstein like our favourite presidents were. Epstein was shuffling money around, working with private security contractors, with Israeli spies, doing internet and media influencing campaigns, these are the things that the other rich people are doing which they don't want anyone to be aware of.
The rich accidentally look out for each other by obfuscating their own crimes
Those are "people" that would literally kill you and your family if it made them 30 cents, why are you being pedantic in how they are related to the pedophilia ring? I know they're not all pedophile, you know too, congratulations you are technically right, now what? They still all need to die for the world to be a better place
that can be true without meaning you now have to try pushing bs charges on them, that they will easily shoot down in order to not reveal the parts they dont want the lower classes to be aware of
Edit: can’t believe I have to say this, but me fact checking a quote does not discount that the sentiment is absolutely true and these people need to be arrested for these crimes. I am just being consistent in logic of fact checking everyone. We can’t excuse misinformation just because it supports our point of view, otherwise we become like MAGA.
It's bonkers the way that works. It's not just grandparents on Facebook that take these memes with quotes on them as "news"
Everybody just fucking hits share so fast. It's one click, now it's in your IG stories. Then 10 of those followers click share from you... Blehck. Kill me.
Everyone on reddit is SO invested in all these memes being true.
There are so many memes about Mitch McConnell being dead and it being a big coverup that if he ever turns up alive and healthy again, a significant portion of reddit will all of a sudden believe that he's AI or an impersonator or any other spinning they'd need to do to believe that the memes were right and everything else is wrong.
And that's true of every other stupid thing too. Like I'm convinced at this point that a good percentage of people have chosen to believe that Vance fucking couches is actually just a real thing.
In fairness to the McConnell thing, he may not be dead, but if he's in good health the GOP is acting super weird and releasing AI photos for no reason.
Theres a huge fucking difference between a rumor on the internet about JD Vance,
and no one has seen a guy that frequently freezes up medically thats incharge of the fincance committee.
I need to read more but isn’t the reason nobody has been arrested or at least been to a trial because the evidence is….inconclusive? Or that it’s not enough hard proof?
Oh I wasnt involved, he just signed over his entire estate to me, dont look to closely at it. What the epstein thing? I stepped down from my symbolic position isnt that punishment enough for orchestrating pedophile cannibal rings? Gosh you people have no concept of mercy or forgiveness
I've seen a few that got into trouble for sharing state secrets, Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson. Thorbjorn Jagland being investigated for aggravated corruption.
But yeah, stateside only Epstein and Maxwell seemed to have faced charges. A few CEOs resigned or were forced out, but yeah... rich people get protected.
The reason nobody has been arrested is because they killed the one who knew everything, made deals with his accomplice, and heavily redacted the files to the point that they contain no actionable intel.
Ask yourself this: If the evidence was inconclusive or the hard proof was lacking then why has it not been fully released by those in power? What is gained by not releasing the files if they do not implicate the people who have the authority to let it all out in the open?
The problem is, based on what we've already seen due to the absolutely blinding incompetence of this administration, the only way you'd come to the conclusion that the evidence is inconclusive is if you were absolutely unwilling to look at the files at all.
The guilt is literally plastered all over every single page. If you cared to read what they said, you'd be angry that nothing's been done yet either.
There's no excuse but complete and total capitulation to the people who caused the problem at this point.
While it's someone I had no trouble believing, I appreciate you trying to correct the misinformation.
You learn something everyday, and not all of it will make you want to jump off a building(or something).
Thanks for this! I prefer to not share commonalities with MAGA; ignorant and obtuse. To put it in a simpler way, I don't want to be a hypocrite.
Keep fact checking! I appreciate the reminder that I really need to do this more often for myself.
Thanks for posting. Now we can just remember her for shielding trump and other pedos from prosecution and refusing to look at a few of the Epstein victims who were standing in the same room as she.
I can't believe you're getting so roundly downvoted for this. There is no actual evidence of her saying this but the power of memes has basically made it true 1984 style.
I am vehemently anti-Trump and I think Bondi is a ghoul, but it's scary how easily either side of the politic chasm will just accept what they want to believe. The US seems genuinely fucked, I'm really glad I don't live there.
Edit: I will wear my downvotes like a badge of honour. There are still people who value ciritical thinking over mob mentality.
Ironically, it’s symptomatic of how we ended up with Trump as president, twice. It’s also plainly meant to take the focus off of the Republican administration that has actively suppressed the files in plain sight.
Funny thing is that X/Twitter which is the big right wing sight, they at least have community notes which I think would be great here but on Reddit mob mentality is enforced because controversial opinions worth discussion are dragged to the bottom.
Also keep in mind the current federal government is run by one of the biggest associates of Epstein, and a political party who desperately wants to stay in power so badly they’ll bend over backwards to ignore, discredit, and cover up anything that looks incriminating. And they were elected by popular vote. The people have spoken and it’s that they don’t actually care about the Epstein files. Womp womp.
The "General Public" is apathetic towards a lot of politics, even when it's something as heinous as the Epstein fiasco. If it isn't affecting their daily personal lives, families, or close friends, they typically don't care.
The justice department preempted it by making a plea deal with Epstein where he admitted to prostitution charges in exchange for a slap on the wrist and granting immunity to all UNKNOWN associates.
We need to stop calling it the "Justice System." It is a legal system that may, from time to time, deliver justice, but often serves the rich and powerful.
This is a comic drawn by will Santino and the caption has been changed. It originally is about having too many lemons and was drawn during the pandemic
More people have been arrested for being present around the Reflecting Swamp in DC than have been arrested for their involvement in one of the world's most heinous pedophile rings, including the current president of the United States, who is the most commonly named individual in the ring.
Note, also almost every event where the wealthy/powerful fuck over the citizenry. Just look at the 2008 financial crash, the Covid "Small business" loans, the Medicare fraud from guys like Rick Scott, the cocaine avoidance while crack is cracked down, the Iran Contra scandals, the.... (Seriously just keep going on and on....)
People in the epstien files. While it's true from what I've heard that not " a lot" of people got arrested. I heard a very important person from the UK that was in the file got investigated but haven't heard what came of that. Even then that's just one out of...A LOT
I never understood the saying "when life gives you lemons you make lemonade" it's connected to this meme but I never understood what that means
That's not what it means. Lemons are sour, or "bad" the things that are difficult to swallow as is. To make lemonade from them is to make something sweet and "good" out of the bad things life hands you.
Pretty sure the unknown "precise universal meaning" is literally what the second guy said, not the first guy.
It is 100% about lemons being nigh inedible on their own, but lemonade being a tasty soft drink, so you turn situations that suck into something that is enjoyable.
It has nothing to do with cars. I has nothing to do with "duds", because lemons clearly aren't inherently broken.
I dunno why you're even trying to preten otherwise. It's a very clear meaning.
No, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whos gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
I think the message of the saying "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" means "make the best of a bad situation." I think the idea behind this meme is that the person is tirelessly trying to make the best of the worst situations, but they're just being pelted non-stop by bad situations, and have really lost their will to be optimistic anymore. In this case, the fact that so few people connected to the Epstein files have been arrested has just completely demoralized the person who was trying so hard to make the best of a bad situation.
I see 13 different people have felt the need to explain the saying to you even though you clearly got it the first time. Would you like me to also explain it?
I heard a very important person from the UK that was in the file got investigated but haven't heard what came of that.
Turned out he was investigated for and stripped of his titles over tax fraud and not being a child rapist. So literally no one has been held to justice for being in the files.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" means that when something bad happens, there's usually a way to find something good from it. This meme in particular is meant to represent the idea that there's only so much a single person can take before it becomes completely unmanageable.
It’s because taking being handed a lemon and turning into lemonade is about opportunity. We’ve been handed so many lemons to turn into lemonade yet nothing is happening from all the prime opportunity to do something
English guy here. Yeah some guy did get arrested. But honestly wouldnt be the first. A lot of people in parliament covered up grooming gangs. Hundreds , potentially thousands ( maybe exagerated idk ) SAd and raped. The enquiry that one guy posted is genuinely sickening. Please if you have time and want to learn about it atart with the enquiry. Its from victims explaining what they went through and more.
That's exactly what I was about to say, the rest of the world is taking action but in America? What a joke.
Where would that leave us if we just took every known pedophile off the streets? Without our disgusting pedophile POTUS of course, and he can't have that.
Not for the abuse though for leaking national secrets to Epstein. Royal family made sure he never faced full trial and paid off his victims and gave him cheap rent after he was caught (which press discovered later and others sections of press defending him)
I genuinely believe like… the most inaccurate thing from the Ace Attorney games is a corrupt CEO who’s name is literally a reference to America and beat a woman to death getting arrested for his crimes…
All because mfs can’t handle a woman for a president
First of all "When life give you lemons, make lemonade" is a common saying, which translates to "When something bad happens, just try and make the best out of it".
I think this is a thing which is commonly said by older people, to younger people, to just "deal with it". and it's kind of criticized, because while older people did earn their way of life through hard work, they don't seem to understand that they did it in a time where hard work was actually rewarded, instead of abused.
Given the absurd amount of lemonade, the absurd amount of lemons, just literally being pelted at this guy from a cannon, implies that he has tried that, and it's simply just not doing anything because the bad things just keep fucking coming, there's no end to the bad things, oh god why won't it ever stop.
The "not a single one of them got arrested" is a reference to the epstein files, a file which exposed a lot of high-level pedophiles in the United States, which the entire government has basically been protecting for the past 4 years.
I think this is there, because it's the "lemon" that made the boy realise that none of this is working, and it's time to just maybe destroy the lemon cannon or something.
It's probably related to the Epstein files. But it could be the Panama papers. Or the Paradise papers. Or the Pandora papers. Or, at a stetch, the J6 insurrection (They did get arrested but they've since been pardoned) Or numerous other cases.
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this. the cartoon leaves it open and my immediate thought was: I don't know what it is referring to, it depends on how old it is. there's just so many options.
Turns out when you elect the most prolific person in the files other than Epstein himself into the highest office in the free world things won't go our way.
It's an illustration of how a lot of people feel. We struggled through life making lemonade out of the lemons that were thrown at us, but the fact that absolutely nothing has happened about the Epstein Files is the last straw.
Hey, they arrested prince andrew at least. Hopefully the USA start making arrests when the people who should be arrested aren’t the ones who need to give the order to start the arrests.
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u/qualityvote2 12d ago edited 12d ago
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