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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.

Posted on 07/23/2024 4:17:19 PM PDT by 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
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To: roving

Not allowed a defense? Why did he take donations for all those lawyers then?


41 posted on 07/23/2024 6:51:40 PM PDT by intel154
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To: metmom

Feedback is a gift, ever onward


42 posted on 07/23/2024 6:52:05 PM PDT by intel154
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To: intel154; 2ndDivisionVet; 50mm; Arrowhead1952; Old Sarge; shibumi; .44 Special; 230FMJ; ...


*** H/T to metmom ***
(metmom really made IBTZ!@!@!@!)


some nutcase semi-noob that seems to dissappear until needed seems to have popped back up to throw more of its B.S. around to see what reactions it could have.

So, it found out... not welcome here with the topping of some ions.









*** click the name to check ***















































43 posted on 07/23/2024 7:06:01 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
NTY has achieved the triumph of post-modernist journalism:
now circulates as a symbol of the giddy high produced by her dizzy rise in a destabilized campaign

44 posted on 07/23/2024 7:08:21 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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To: intel154

Funny, she left the border wide open.
How is that tough on crime?


45 posted on 07/23/2024 7:15:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Bikkuri

THEY'RE BACK!!

46 posted on 07/23/2024 7:42:46 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: intel154; metmom; Bikkuri

Sure, Zippity Zot n00b.

Great catch, metmom.

Thanks for the ping, Bikk!


47 posted on 07/23/2024 8:19:43 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters was K as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: ransomnote

Too perfect.


48 posted on 07/23/2024 8:20:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters was K as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: intel154; Bikkuri
Well, we hardly knew ye, Democrat NeverTrumper


49 posted on 07/23/2024 9:01:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Bikkuri; Jane Long; metmom

Oh, sneaky lil’ Never-Trumper. Slipping in here in 2017, barely making a peep and then coming out with those true Kamalulula colors when the opportunity strikes.

Good catch, metmom!

Bye, lefty troll!


50 posted on 07/23/2024 9:48:14 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Bikkuri

Well, that didn’t take long.

A posting history that weird is a dead giveaway.


51 posted on 07/23/2024 9:57:33 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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52 posted on 07/24/2024 1:28:51 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: intel154; Bikkuri; metmom
ReddyByeBye

AZottedTroll

FR-Butt-Hurt-4

53 posted on 07/24/2024 7:59:16 AM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Crappola,
Bitch is unlikable


54 posted on 07/24/2024 8:36:13 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Col Freeper

That form never fails to crack me up!


55 posted on 07/24/2024 3:09:17 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: oldtech

Obama wasn’t presidential material. Neither was Biden. The irony? Both were worthless for the same reason. BO because he had done nothing and was a noob...Biden had done nothing and had been there for 50 years.

Both were unaccomplished in life. Trump was. Mitt was, too, at least as a businessman...but he got owned by the left too quickly.

Reagan was accomplished—he had a REAL career before politics, and he had been an executive at the state level before. Reagan never got owned by the left.

The Bush clan was a wholly different animal: somewhat political, somewhat business. But again, got pwned by the leftists.


56 posted on 07/25/2024 9:00:48 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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