The Wall Street Journal reports:

Uncle Sam. Miami Vice. When it comes to recruiting new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the Trump administration is getting creative.

A social-media campaign launched late last month touted immigration enforcement as an opportunity for father-son bonding and to “deport illegals with your absolute boys,” a slang term for close friends.

The WSJ probably isn’t the most reliable source when it comes to definitions of slang terms. The Urban Dictionary, on the other hand, offers definitions by users and the meaning of language, slang or otherwise, always comes down to usage. This is the definition provided by Dirtbag6969:

The term “absolute boy” is often used as a slang expression to describe someone who is admired for their savagery or celebrated for their aggressive actions, dirtbag personality, or general degenerate vibe.

Wired reports:

The Trump administration has a new propaganda strategy: turning deportations into one big meme.

The catchy jingle advertising low-cost holidays on Jet2, a budget British airline, has been the viral meme of summer 2025. Its ubiquity was clearly not lost on the Department of Homeland Security’s communications team. Late last month, DHS published a video to its social accounts that incorporated the “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” tune alongside footage of ICE detainees in handcuffs boarding a deportation plane. The post was captioned: “When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!”

To many of the administration’s supporters, who responded to the Jet2 holiday post with crying-laughing emojis and American flags, the video was hilarious. One commenter wrote, “I thought this was a meme account at first!”

In recent months, official government social media accounts—primarily for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and the White House—have resembled parodies of themselves. But experts say it’s intentional: The memes these accounts share are core to the Trump administration’s propaganda strategy. Through them, with attempts at Gen Z humor as the gateway, the administration reinforces an “us vs. them” mindset. Along with normalizing mass deportation, they also tap into Christian nationalist narratives and reach young men via callous jokes that have been recycled through the far-right online ecosystem. [Continue reading…]