Not doubting the message (great graphic, btw)....just curious where you came across MADuro’s weight gain stat.
:-)
The weight loss figures and food shortage figures for the newspaper headline are accurate, based on actual news reports.
But Maduro's weight gain "stat" as you call it, is not a factual number. I made the number up to emphasize my point in the meme.
I have no idea whether he's gained weight or lost weight as president. But I did make his jowls a little "fatter" to emphasize my point, as well.
And he didn't say, "When's brunch?". I made that up to to drive the point home even more.
It actually takes a lot of work to come up with a good political meme. I read the news reports and something will pop into my head. And then I have to go find all the parts on the internet to Photoshop them into an image in order to make clear to the viewer what my point is. The wording is critical too and I edit the text over an over until I get the right presentation.
A simple meme can take just 15 or 20 minutes to create if I'm lucky. Others, like this one took parts of two days while I slept on the look and wording to make sure it had the right look. But in today's fast moving news, if I wait too long tweaking it, then it is old news and not relevant anymore. I do these memes for fun and have done hundreds of them since I started about 10 years ago.
It's like a punch line for a joke. If I have to explain it, then you missed the point.
Happy New Year. :-)