The Triumphant Comeback of the Kamala Harris Meme

The New York Times ^ | July 23, 2024, 12:33 p.m. ET | Amanda Hess is a critic at large who writes about internet culture.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Kamala Harris is a highly memeable presidential candidate. She dances in a loose and enthusiastic manner. She has an idiosyncratic speaking style. She laughs easily, including at herself. This has not always worked in her favor.

When Harris said, in a May 2023 speech, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?,” a Republican YouTube channel snipped the clip from its context and tossed it to commentators, who used it to compare Harris to a daffy talk show host or to joke that she sounded high. Videos of Harris dancing at campaign events were labeled “cringe.” The stickiest anti-Kamala meme of the 2020 election — that the former prosecutor Harris “is a cop” — united leftists, Black Twitter and Republican trolls in an internet-wide project of framing Harris as either a reactionary or a hypocrite.

Now these images have been reversed. Since President Biden bowed out of the race and threw his support to Harris, the familiar old Kamala memes have risen again. It’s their interpretation that has changed.

In the hands of her online fans, Harris’s word salad has been replated as hypnotic internet speak. Her confounding coconut tree quote — “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” she went on to say — now circulates as a symbol of the giddy high produced by her dizzy rise in a destabilized campaign. Her dance moves have been set to Charli XCX songs and filtered through Charli’s lime-green “Brat”-era branding, bathing Harris in her chill hot-mess pop star glow. Even “Kamala Harris is a cop” has been reclaimed, with an exaggerated wink, by supporters eager to fashion...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: amandahess; cackles; california; coconuttree; kamalaharris

[Recovering_Democrat]

They’re trying to make a “Dark Brandon” redemption out of Kamal. She is a failure and everyone knows it. Dark Brandon didn’t work for Joe and “Brat Kamal” won’t work for the cackler.

[BenLurkin]

[escapefromboston]

How well did Kamala do the last time she tried to run for President ?

[Apparatchik]

Here’s one that’s out there:

[God luvs America]

the criminal liberal media have received their talking points....first van jones talking about what’s going on with tik tock and now this...

[Theodore R.]

She is doing a great imitation here of Fani Willis.

[JayGalt]

To old to get ahead by going down she is reduced to simpering.

[AndyJackson]

Thank you for the disclaimer, but they should be sued and charges for deceptive business practices claiming they are the newspaper of record when all they do is lie, slander and misrepresent the truth.

[RoosterRedux]

Even in short video clips like that, Kamala is just thoroughly dislikeable. It might be a smugness...or perhaps something less definable.

I just can't stand her (and I generally like most people).

She has a punchable face.

[SteveinSATX]

Seriously Times? Is that what it takes to govern the most powerful nation in the world, memes?

[Grampa Dave]

Black Lives Matter says Dems are ‘party of hypocrites’ for ‘installing’ Harris sans ‘public voting process’

FoxNews ^ | July 23, 2024 | Brianna Herlihy
Posted on 7/23/2024, 4:33:54 PM by Jess Kitting

The left-wing organization Black Lives Matter is resisting the installation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee and are calling on the Democratic National Convention “to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates.”

In a statement Tuesday, the group, which rose to prominence in 2020 for organizing nationwide protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, said that “a 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of.”

For weeks after his disastrous debate performance last month, internal party pressure mounted against President Joe Biden to drop out of the race — though he resisted those calls and insisted he was “in it to win it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

[Churchillspirit]

Hmm....perhaps they were hoping for Big Mike!

[The Fop]

She was up against the most motley collection of uncharismatic unattractive candidates. She was the only minority, and by far the most physically attractive of the lot, not including Tulsi, who they turned into a heretic for not following the script.

And she did so poorly in the debates that she flamed out before the first primary. Has anybody ever seen anyone wearing a Kamala shirt or hat? I live in New York City and ride the subways, and have yet to see a single one.

[Grampa Dave]

Hmm....perhaps they were hoping for Big Mike!

BOL!

[Liz]

Cong Andy Ogles wants to impeach Harris; he should
focus on the $2 million payroll scam she pulled.

An Open The Books’s investigation revealed $2 million plus discrepancy in Harris’ allocation of taxpayer dollars. OTB calculated that for VP Harris’s 28 staff listed in the Senate report, the 2021 salaries added up to $2,334,223. But the vice president’s office “got $5 million for 23 full time staff in 2021 and requested over $6 million for 27 full time staff in 2022.

Harris’ office reportedly refused to answer any questions from OTB regarding this inconsistency. OTB said Harris’ office is a “revolving door” where there’s a perpetual staff exodus of key aides heading for the exits.......that might correspond to the $2 million discrepancy in her tax-paid payroll.

Payroll fraud entails serious crimes.......falsifying govt documents, misappropriation of tax dollars, skimming, larceny, check tampering, check kiting, billing fraud, payroll fraud, reimbursement fraud, pension fraud, misuse of tax dollars, theft of tax dollars, ID fraud, Social Security swindles, IRS fraud.

Contact Cong Andy Ogles
Washington DC Office
151 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4311

Columbia, Tn District Office
22 Public Square Suite 5
Columbia, TN 38401
Phone: (931) 777-2140

[ransomnote]

[metmom]

The only thing more cringe than harris is this fawning, steaming pile of BS endorsement by the NYT.

[Liz]

Harris was forced out of her first presidential primary for zero lack of Democrat support....
Tulsi Gabbard outed her for incarcerating scores of young black men for smoking weed.

[intel154]

Well, she was on the winning ticket, unlike Trump