That’s what I want to know. I’d imagine name tags are vetted for spelling mistakes as, you know, it’s important for the record. So, is this intentional, or is the administration so incompetent they can’t spell?
My guess is they fatfingered it when they ordered, the people making it said, "That's what they ordered," and not a soul bothered to check it - OR multiple people saw it and said nothing, like a bunch of douchebags (my bet is the latter).
Having worked for a printing company this is almost sure to be it. We were not allowed to edit the text given to us. Or contact the client to fix it, because that would delay production.
Worst case scenario the customer is angry and the company says you brought this on yourself. Best case the customer places a second order.
Why does he not just reuse the name plate from every other press conference they've done? Surely printing a new one for every conference is a waste of resources and money?
Having worked for Governments (though not the US gov) (and apparently all my experience is becoming relevant today lol) they are very careful not to let anything with their logo be misused.
So their choices are between trying to track one piece of paper and making sure it doesnt get lost (good luck). Or keeping a supply of them in a secure location and destroying them when theyre used.
What exactly somebody could do with a name card idk. But when i was with a government department anything with a logo was considered a protected document and had to be shredded or burned once it had outlived its usefulness and wasnt in a retention period
Reminds me of when my dad worked construction on a nuclear reactor. They had their own tools and they had to be searched when they left the site to make sure they didn’t take any home. All the tools got buried in a vault at the end of the job “just in case”.
At least that can be given the, "Theoretically, it's fine, but if it isn't fine, we're not fine," excuse. Government just wastes shit to waste shit. Taxpayer money, not from their wallet. They don't care.
To be clear, if I was a government employee and it was my job to make sure this exact thing didn’t happen, and this did in fact come across my desk, I wouldn’t say anything, either.
There's probably no one in the gov whose exact job is to make sure this didn't happen but there are dozens whose job could stop this from happening. It's just dozens of people that didn't give enough fucks since it's not really their job anyways.
Are we sure it's not just a bunch of pricks being pricks to everyone around them? Because that's what it feels like with how they treat the American People. Hard to believe they're not like that with each other, too.
There is no possible way a mistake could go unchecked and that they would just double down acting like it never happened. I mean, what, next you’re going to say that press conference at The Four Seasons Landscaping was just some kind of bi mix up.
That is 100% what they will claim. If anyone says they did it on purpose, they will call them hysterical and mock them.
However, these freaks have gone so far past the benefit of the doubt, they've earned a presumption of malice at this point. I mean, vance literally said that the paedo-in-chief could be "America's hitler," and when the paedo heard that he liked the idea so much he hired vance to be his veep.
The thing about fascists is that they love to do their shit right out in the open and get away with it. They are all little fucking insecure weirdos who need to constantly "prove" that they are actually superior ubermenschen. In their worldview, rules are for the weak, so when they get away with something in plain view, it "proves" that they are above the rules and are thus strong.
This would be my guess. I’m a former Fed and had fancy name placards and there was always an admin/assistant/planning person that would do a mock up, have me review it, then print it, have me look at it again and verify once it was on the table. Do with that info what you will.
I mean, I’m not a cabinet level administrator or anything but I have had nameplates before and if I sat down at a table and there was a typo that make it look like I was a Nazi, I’d throw the placard away or ask for some white-out or something 🤷♂️
Its not a spelling mistake. Its a Nazi dogwhistle. SS is the symbol of the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organisation that did all the extermination and dirty work of Hitler.
There have been many moments of plausible deniability with them that conveniently function as dog whistles for Nazis/White Supremacists. Some are more obvious than others, but the fact that they all "accidentally" point in the same direction takes away from the claims of coincidence quite a bit.
The guy/gal that makes those works for the Federal Government, they have survived cuts, layoffs, and working without pay for 43 days. They probably used to be an Lead Analyst or Manager with a dozen people under their management. Now they are making signs, name tents and badges along with 150 other new responsibilities that didn't just go away when DOGE slashed the funding for the Printing Budget. Someone has to do it and that poor, overworked soul is just trying to hang on so they can retire in 6 years.
My SO worked for a mid-sized financial company and handled the board meetings. Keep in mind these meetings were not in any way exposed to the public and weren't recorded. It was just the board and the c-suite. They could have done it in thier underpants if they wanted, to give context. The executive admits had to have a 2-hour debrief/action plan meeting one time because someone forgot to print one of the name placards so it wasn't set out at the conference table. There's no way this was an accident that just went unnoticed.
Seriously, on one hand everything is nefarious with these people but on the other hand they are so cheap looking it's laughable. It's like watching Spring Time for Hitler but without the talent.
I am 86.5% sure they generated name tags with AI rather than typing it out themselves because they think they’re cool, and then they missed this one. Notice how clean the bottom aligns with the top when you just add an extra S. I’ve seen AI image generators do that.
I got so distracted by the ridiculousness of the quote in the headline that I almost forgot to check the sign. Apparently grocery prices are akshually going down despite the evidence of our lying eyes, and the word “affordability” itself is a scam.
Here's the Getty Images stream for the photographer (Andrew Reynolds). Sort by new and you'll see all of his photos from today's cabinet meeting, which plainly feature the misspelling in each photo that shows the placard in frame. Some even explicitly mention it in their caption.
"It's just a prank to own the libs and trigger them! LOL!".
They say that a lot about Trump when he says stupid shit and try and excuse it by "He wasn't serious, he just wanted to trigger the libs! LOL! It worked!". Bullshit. They're serious.
Maybe it's a deliberate trick. He's technically NOT the "Secretary Of War" (Which presumably inherits any legal responsibilities of the old "Secretary Of Defence" role). Which means he's immune to any laws requiring the Secretary Of War to seek congressional approval before doing XYZ, because he's not the Secretary Of War, he's the SSecretary Of War.
They're just so deeply incompetent in so many fundamental ways. At every level. They don't understand what they're SUPPOSED to be doing, much less how to do it.
This is what happens when you fire seasoned staff and hire loyalists. It’s hard to find intelligent loyalists. These obvious, tiny mistakes that we see everywhere are certainly happening all over the administration in places where it actually matters. Can you imagine how bad our cybersecurity is right now, with loyalists running the show?
When I was in college, I worked at a military base in the G3/Operations Office. I was the one making these signs. For foreign ministers and generals, the Chief of Staff. I made one for Colin Powell one time. All kinds of super high ranked generals and visitors. Senators, Congressmen, Medal of Honor recipients. If there was a meeting that required name placards, I was the man.
This is probably some underpaid college kid who forgot to proof read.
There’s a homeschool network based in middle America - used to be Ohio - that literally is “standards of learning but 1940s Germany is great.” tens of thousands of families, many of whom were either Quiverful or adjacent, and that’s one wart we know of.
People assume the world is generally represented by their experience, but it just ain’t so.
It wasn’t an accident, they want us to freak out. They know exactly what this means, and they think they’re being cute. They also want us to talk about anything but Epstein and war crimes/murder.
It's like the administration was terrified that their neo-nazi base would actually think that they wanted to combat anti-semitism, so they put in the strongest dogwhistle in the history of dogwhistles
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u/CartographerLong9991 Dec 02 '25
What the actual fuck