Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.

I found the same image from April, 2024. A few articles about it from this week, but also a few here and there, including one post on 9Gag (wow, haven't heard that name in a looong time), from April 2024.

So, if it's real, it's not recent.

Yep.

They're acting like they're so concerned for the integrity of public libraries, but this is transparently an attempt to manufacture consent to defund public libraries.

It's so obvious if you pay any attention at all, they've been telegraphing this for months if not years...

More specifically, true information is communism. Don't you know history is what the white man says it is? Google has already updated their search results to reflect revisionist history. Once the libraries are gone, that's it.

Books?

I can’t read. I go to my library for free comic books, access to digital streaming services, and printing.

Wait, now you can use Libby and borrow books from libraries within hundreds of miles or you....for free? Better end that shit we don't want people learning anything. Statistically the higher your education level the more likely you are to be a Democrat atheist.

"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal system?"

That's probably why they are attaching them. Also libraries promote learning.

Wait until they find out you can do early voting at the Library.

You can rent movies and games from the library too! It's totally worth it.

When you join your local Friends of the Library chapter, make sure you upgrade to the Friends with Benefits tier.

Just make sure you return the condom using the reusable items dropbox.

Jesse the haunted puppet definitely has tiny little stick legs hidden behind those table legs

No homeless people jacking off to porno at your library? Must be nice.

It is as accurate as the rest of what is on screen.

That's just common courtesy!

My balls did not consent to being used as a gag

Think of the money they can save, and give tax cuts to the Sociopathic Oligarchs. No sense wasting knowledge on people who are only going to die in slave labor camps anyway.

They can’t be this stupid?

You know the answer to that question.

Decades of relentless gaslighting is an immensely powerful form of brainwashing.

When it's combined with a nearly perfectly closed bubble, very few escape with their sanity and capacity for critical thinking intact.

They're itching for a reason to hate on anyone that might have learned anything because it proves to them that clever=bad.

I mean just look at the high gas prices (which are still dirt cheap compared to germany) and people don't realize it is Trumps doing. Or how he slashes Medicaid. Things that are really perceivable in your everyday live and not abstract politics.

So yeah, totally believable that a lot of those people fall for this kinda news.

They absolutely do want to get rid of state and national parks, though. There's valuable minerals on some of that land, and other land that can be repurposed for grazing cattle. They're whittling it away as fast as they can already.

I'd really like to see the capitalist Fire Brigade, if only to see Terry Pratchett proven right once again.

Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.

― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Pretty sure the Trump admin has been making cuts to the national forest service, the supposed goal is to weaken oversight and boost resource extraction. I could easily see them thinking a forest burning down is a great thing - more room for data centers.

So yes, they probably would try to get rid of fire departments. Fortunately, though, most of them are locally funded - so they don't really get to make that decision on the federal level.

Ask yourself a simple question: What will make you more money?

Just the Presidential library.

I would definitely patronize the Sex Cauldron

Yeah I've seen a library that manages to mediate between its homeless polulation and other patrons, but i could see fox news trying to gin up a moral panoc about libraries rather than have compassion for the homeless.

That sounds like a moral and ethical failure than a institutional one. It should be rational that you'd want to copulate in a private environment, not where you are likely to be disturbed or outright attacked.