This is why last October Baroness Anelay, minister of state of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, could, with a straight face, declare: "We do not support planned search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
In one meme, Trump is declaring: "We don't do deals with Mexico, they rip off the United States" when Birdman, the hero from Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar winning film, slaps him in the face declaring "shut up, imbecile".
Then she pointed at Sara and me with equally satisfied looks on her face, declaring, "Bitch.
Self-determination is the guiding principle already and, given the suspicion and hostility visibly trans people can face, declaring oneself to be a gender at odds with your sex at birth is not a "whim".
Young donors received badges bearing gap-toothed cartoon faces declaring, "I gave my tooth to science".
Now the big vendors have done an about-face, declaring that companies can offload many of their non-critical, non-defining applications and servers.
Practice partner and former champion Peter Ebdon was almost fawning in his praise, while Allen, not always a fan of O'Sullivan, performed a dramatic about-face, declaring that the "sorry state" of snooker meant his return was crucial for the game's future.
Two-Face declares that they will kill Batman if the coin lands scratched side up, but let him go if the unscarred side appears.
Instead, we have decided to sacrifice some of our most psychologically and physically frail members as politicians cynically (yet with straight faces) declare that by "humiliating the many, we will find the needle in the haystack".
"In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face," they declared.
