These boomer's brains have been fundamentally broken by the internet....

Smith said that her family took the photo and then put it through ChatGPT to add the “Lake America” sweatshirts. “We never had actual sweatshirts. We never wore sweatshirts,” she told WJRT.

"I understand if I was someone in Halifax and I thought a poor group of people walked in wearing those sweatshirts, it is highly offensive and I would understand why they would be so angry,” Smith reflected.

They legitimately think that the Internet isn't real.

If they understand that the actual sweatshirts would piss people off, then the only reason they think it's ok to do it with AI, is they don't want the real life consequences of everyone knowing they support trump.

Like "the picture is AI" only works as an excuse, if you're not the one who added it with AI...

The only thing this excuse proves, is they really support him and likely have even more extremists views they're hiding.

I've noticed this with other right wingers too, they see trump and his admin "trolling" in real life, and think it's acceptable for them to do it. They never understand that "just a prank bro" hasn't worked in over a decade, and that when/if they say it, no one gives a fuck.

Whether or not it's a joke, doesn't matter.

Actually, if she legitimately did think plastering Trump's made-up name for Lake Ontario all over the Internet wasn't a political statement, then she probably doesn't have the awareness to be running a lemonade stand, much less a credit union.

For those who want to see the image without allowing 20 javascripts to run:

"We weren't trying to make a political statement," Smith told Michigan outlet. "However, we were kind of poking fun at the fact that one of the Great Lakes' names were getting changed."

Yeah, that's a political statement, you dolt. Turns out, doubling down on stupidity is bad for a CEO's career.

I was initially kind of torn on this one, since I don't think a job should be able to fire you for something you do outside of work, no matter how idiotic, unless it breaks the law. Then I remembered that Republicans got a whole bunch of people fired for things they said about what's-his-name, with the neck fountain.

So I'm ultimately coming down on the side of "fuck 'em, payback's a bitch".

"We weren't trying to make a political statement," Smith told Michigan outlet WJRT.

The fark you weren't.

When your employees tell you who they are, listen.

Stupid enough to offend 70% of your customers.

She said, "It wasn't political"

It's always not political when they do anything. But you have the wrong skin color as their neighbor and suddenly it's political? You love someone they don't like? It's political! You don't want to have children? It's political.

“We never had actual sweatshirts. We never wore sweatshirts,”

She still has no clue what she did wrong

What an idiot. Imagine wearing crap to purposefully piss people off when traveling.

Poking fun at one of the great lakes names getting changed? It didn't change. Is lake Ontario.

"It wasn't political" she said, politically.

I love this for her 🥰

She was wearing a JACKET with a MAGA Phrase on it! It's not like she was being BLACK or GAY or something POLITICAL!

We should quietly celebrate when MAGA gets hung up on the symbolic. Celebrate because they're not doing any actual harm, and quietly so as not to interrupt them.

I've got to assume this bank had a lot of Canadian customers who would rapidly be taking their business elsewhere if they did nothing.

Just a little light annexation humour

What assholes.

How can someone make a statement like that without it being political? They should also be permanently banned from Canada.

Fuck yes, this shit gets me hard

Explain to me how the humor of this joke works. Like what is the actual mechanism that makes this joke funny? Because the haha of this is right over my head.

So little brain cells in this picture

What a dogshit excuse.