People Are Already Getting Disappointed In The Year 2021, And Here’s 50 Of The Funniest Jokes They Made
Just because we get a new calendar and the date changes on our phones, it doesn’t magically give us a pine-fresh brand new start and solve all of society’s problems. However, even knowing this and after the humbling year that was 2020, some people had hoped that 2021 would be better. While the year isn’t necessarily doomed yet, some already feel that it is because the first week of the new year has been terrifying, surreal, and exhausting.
The entire world was glued to their screens watching the events happening in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 6. Riled up by President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the election had been ‘unfair’ and ‘stolen,’ his supporters, who had been protesting nearby, violently stormed the US Capitol building. A lot of these rioters, whom some are calling ‘domestic terrorists’ and ‘traitors,’ firmly believe in the QAnon and voter fraud conspiracy theories.
Like after other scary and difficult moments, many people reacted to the situation the only way they knew how—with dark humor and memes. Many of them focused on how 2021 is just a continuation of the previous year. Bored Panda has collected some of the most popular comedic responses to the year so far, so have a look at the internet’s reaction below and let us know what you think of the events in the US, dear Readers.
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The storming of the Capitol left at least 5 people dead. The police shot a woman, 35-year-old US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, dead. Three people died from medical emergencies. And it was confirmed on Thursday night that police officer Brian Sicknick died in hospital after he was injured. Fourteen officers in total had been injured. So far, at least 68 people have been arrested while the FBI is aiming to identify everyone who took part in the events. Meanwhile, there are growing demands for Trump to resign. Many believe he’s to blame for the events because of his claims about voter fraud and other unfounded theories.
To get to understand people's belief in conspiracy theories better and what leads to their spread, Bored Panda reached out to Joseph M. Pierre, a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. It might sometimes seem like more people are vulnerable to conspiracy theories than at any other point in history, and there’s evidence both in support and against this. The internet may have a lot to blame for the rise and proliferation of a lot of conspiracies like the QAnon theory, but the other half of the equation is the lack of trust in authorities.
According to Professor Pierre, researchers like conspiracy theory expert Joe Uscinski would say that there’s little evidence that would suggest that more people believe in conspiracies now than back in the past. Meanwhile, Pierre’s own ‘mistrust and misinformation’ model shows that there is some evidence to support “an ebb and flow in belief in misinformation including conspiracy theories over time that tracks with new informational technologies” like the internet, TV, radio, and newspapers. Similarly, the professor said that there are ebbs and flows in (mis)trust of institutions of authority for a variety of reasons.
Pierre’s model of conspiracy theory belief is a two-component model that consists of “mistrust in authoritative sources of information leading to vulnerability to misinformation and disinformation.” So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re trying to change a conspiracy theorist’s mind, the professor suggests talking to them about trusted sources of information. “Until you can find some common ground there, meaningful debate will probably be elusive,” he said.
“I think we can put some blame on the internet for the popularity of conspiracy theories today,” Pierre said. “Without YouTube, conspiracy theories might very well be less popular. But the other part of the blame pie can be attributed to a decline in trust, whether in government or in scientists, over the past half-century. We’re also living in a time unprecedented in our lifetimes in which American politicians have endorsed and exploited conspiracy theories as propaganda to this degree.”
Yes! The simpsons! “Awww... dad, this is the worst day of my life.” “It’s the worst day of you life so far, Bart.”
This is the truest one of them all. The whole Capitol storm was just a blip on the radar compared to these issues.
Hopefully it won't be a show that ends up having 20 or more seasons...
We figure that since it was so easy to storm the Capitol, we may as well storm Area 51.
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Storming Area-51 is easy, just need to convince trumptards that's where they hid stolen ballots.
Picked a wrong time to announce their divorce I guess
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Area 51 again??!? Wow, and seriously are Kim and Kanye really getting divorced??
That dude is crazy. They all are. Idk why people can't be peaceful. Idk why the leader of a country would ask for violence in the country. Idk why he wants the cake and wants to eat it at the same time like do you want peace or a riot? Saying he's the best president my ass. And idk why he posted a video that sounded like a parent forcing a toddler to apologize and that wasn't even a real one!
It actually is looking up for the rest of us... especially if you live in a 3rd world country, we were sheep and wore masks. we also had elections be decided by the popular vote and not whatever you people have
Ah well it’s a ( tiny) step up from last year when world war three was trending on the third day
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2021 wasn't going to be any different, yes it's a different year but that hasn't changed anything that was happening last year. Hopefully though, things will get better
I mean what do people expect? It's just another day nothing is going to change... sure you might change a number and it feels good. But honestly I'd rather go back to 2020 because the way our planet is going no one will be here much longer.
How can it not be any different? Every day and second that goes by, things change. It’s exactly wrong to say things won’t be different. That’s impossible. People might have been expecting things to be BETTER. Overall things seem like they’ll clearly be better this year. You guys are looking at the first week of 2021 and wrapping it up when you have 51 left. That makes no sense. Any country that has a dramatic change of power at the start of the year like the US is going to see some differences once the year actually starts.
Sorry if i was unclear, i meant at the moment.
Mine first week hasn’t been bad. We got a dog!
Awwwwww what breed?
Yay that's better news to hear :) I'm sure you will love having a new member of the family
just a hamilfan (hufflepuff) easy
Look twice,that sounds too good!
we dont want 2022. then it'll be like 2020 too
Hopefully by the end of 2022 we'll be 2020 free :)
Lol, that's sounds optimistic. I mean rly Sounds!
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Botox Good response!
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dragonwarrior259 -
ye prolly true, and wishing on the alians wont help
Thanks for the nightmare fuel!
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Fred and George Weasley what
Most of us would do anything to save someone else’s life regardless of politics or race, like when there’s a disaster and most of us donate or volunteer. We have to go back to that mentality if we want to survive this as the great nation we are. We really have to leave the “but” behind and start healing from within and not expect politicians to do it for us. They don’t want healing because it will take the power away from them. They need division to win.
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JenJen good
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tgchan lol
Literally nothing has changed since last year because pandemics and the global political situation are not bound by the concept of the calendar year
nope, but if idiots started to wear masks and actually isolated properly, then the pandemic would be over by now!!!
How to make 2021 better than 2020: 1) wear a mask. 2) wash/ sanitise your hands 3) be kind and respectful of others 4) remember happiness is a much better thing to spread 5) if you get an urge to be violent/start a coup/ sexually assault someone/ say something nasty- don't.
Yesterday I visited my sister and she was drinking from a trump mug. I didnt bring up the riots. I dont want a civil war within my own family.
I hear you, BusLady. This is frightening :(
Unless people change and the way we all do things changes. Nothing is going to change. I have a suspicious feeling that people are under the impression that they have to put no effort into it at all. That things will just miraculously get better on their own. If you aren't willing to put in the work as a person. Things just won't change. That goes for me, you, and everyone.
I knew this year wasn't gonna be great the moment I examined red days on the calendar... I mean, Christmas falls on a Saturday. Here in Korea, so many red Saturdays this year.... u.u
Why don't people stop fighting amongst each other and wake up! Unless we work together to repair this world there won't be anything to wrangle over. 2021 will see CO2 emissions, for the first time, 50%higher than they were pre industrial revolution (Met Office statistics). Read it and weep people, me included. Wake up, grow up and smell the roses. Before they are all dead. 😓
The roses aalready got trampled by som influencer for a photosession 🥀
Wait there is still hope, last year we thought WW 3 was on the horizon, maybe this’ll be the same, just hopefully another pandemic doesn’t spawn around March.
2020 is like a Dragon Bal Z villain, 2021 is just his new, more powerful form.
MagNat what
I just hope it's his final form!
Maybe we should switch to the lunar calendar and try again in February.
What if it's not 2020 that's bad, but the 2020's? (P.S. yes I know the numbers are meaningless, it's just a joke in the vein of this thread).
Murphy's Law was broken in 2020. Now Murphy has control of 2021. We're screwed but hopefully some of us will survive.
I love all those posts where Americans think they're the whole world.
The trumpers are insane… I live in Washington D.C, 3 blocks away from the capitol, and I COULD HEAR THE PHSYCOS FROM INSIDE OF MY HOUSE… Insane… No need to watch the news when you are busy barricading your door in case they come any closer…
Happy 2022 to everybody! :)
Oh gosh. 😩
You would think that with all the practice America has had with bad years (in modern times) War, Prohibition, Depression, war, nuclear power, war, war, civil rights, that we would know better. Maybe the pandemic is a different fight but electing a demagogue was deliberate. We should know better by now. The joke seems to be on us.
The thing about 2021 is 2+0+2+1+5, which is exactly the number of nipples Hitler had if he had three more nipples.
In some parts of England, A fart is called a Trump as in the donald kind also i would call trump trash but that would be an insult~to trash. >:D
In 3 days, it will be exactly 1 year since the first known and reported covid-19 death. In 1 year, roughly 1.9 million lives were lost due to covid-19 (a small amount not due to, but with).
the s**t is hitting the fan so far. Let's hibernate 2021!
GOKU! We really REALLY need all the Dragon Balls about now......
2020 was like; i love this series but I'm not to sure about this new season. however i must power through because i believe the rights will do better soon 2021;... i... this is not OK... i just, i just cant... why writers why?! 2022 trailer; lol it gets worse.
I hate it when people complain about 2020 and 2021 being horrible years, while they do nothing to try and make them better
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;-; 2021= Year of Ox. Yup. Mhm. The year's things are just gonna be charging at us like an ox and then it's barely March and we're tired of it all already.
It's like a cartoon. Character trips and gets an anvil dropped on their head. "This can't get any worse". And then the other character starts cutting out the floor from under them.
Baking Cactus +
Baking Cactus easy
Hahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahha
Mark Reymund Arguelles yes
I have literally aged two years this last year :I
WAKE UP PEOPLE. This was only the beginning. Agenda 2021 anyone? Agenda 2030? Trust me, you'll be longing for the year 2020: the last year we still had shreds of our normal lives.
Thinking you’re privy to some secret information and everyone else is too stupid to understand is like a huge red flag for online brainwashing. That’s how we ended up here.
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