The Department of Homeland Security has sparked a Pokémon backlash after using the kids’ game to promote ICE deportation raids.
The DHS social media team posted a video to X on Monday of dramatic immigration raids—including one that was bungled yet still posted online by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—spliced with animé imagery from the popular Japanese cartoon and collectibles game, which is part owned by Nintendo.
... and then they came for the weebs, the boogaloos, and the uwu's and lulz all gave way to [moral hazard/plausible deniability/redacted]
Even the Pepe Kekkistani chucklefucks know you don't mess with the pokemons.