Posted on 11/04/2019 1:32:49 PM PST by TigerClaws
If you can't beat them – try to join them. That's one way to describe the relationship Democrats have had with the meme culture over the past couple of years.
They've gone from denouncing memes as a vile vehicle that helped propel Donald Trump to power, to attempting to embrace them, now that another presidential election looms large.
In the opposite corner is once again Trump, who, love him or hate him, is by now universally recognized as a social media force to be reckoned with.
His political opponents and media outlets behind them have for years tried to get the President off Twitter; the platform's decision last week to ban ads promoting “politics and issues” was enthusiastically welcomed by Democrats, who (quite possibly mistakenly) believe that this will chip away at the Trump campaign's social media mojo.
Aware of all this, one of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Elizabeth Warren, has decided to add some meme flare to her own campaign. It's a step in the right direction, but it's going to be an uphill battle to achieve success in this arena, observers are saying.
For one thing, it shouldn't be a battle at all. Successful memes and campaigns revolving around them are organic and natural – often as much about having fun by expressing an opinion or even just a sense of humor, as they are about marketing that opinion to others. This authenticity, rebellion, and effortlessness is what makes memes popular, and in the end, successful.
As if to prove their seemingly profound misunderstanding of memes, US mainstream media recently fact-checked as fun photo-edited image of Trump bestowing a medal on a dog who recently helped track down the ISIS leader, which Trump himself retweeted.
Ping.
“Do you even meme, bro?”
None.
They have no bill clinton around this time...a decent looking and somewhat likable (if you don’t know he’s a rapist) guy.
Even The Dark One was likable to independents.
But there is NO ONE in this group of dems that has ANYTHING going for them.
Oh but a 52 trillion dollar idea should help /s
The left can’t meme. Everybody knows that.
Memes are more effective if there is some underlying truth being conveyed with humor. The left is a stranger to truth and lacks a sense of humor.
That’s because you rise to power as a leftist by exploiting people’s envy and anger. It requires no sense of humor at all to peddle to the dark parts of people’s hearts.
Conservatives and especially Libertarians meme so well because they point out the obvious absurdity of things that are going on.
Here’s their twitter feed. The responses are entertaining. Their actual memes? Not so much.
https://twitter.com/WarrensMemeTeam
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Boo, hiss for the Sour Grape award of the week.
Good point.
The Left is also a culture of being perpetually offended and using the constant gripe mode to exploit the rest of us into giving them handouts or power.
Hence the non-stories of “twitter exploded” over something Trump said or did we see all the time.
If you’re offended all the time, you aren’t laughing. A sense of humor requires a sense of irony and self-awareness.
Odd because the American Left used to be all about using humor. National Lampoon, etc.
It might also have to do with the extremely high percentage of anti-psychotics that leftists are on these days. Doesn’t make for comedy.
Great pic!
Hello my baby,
Hello my darling,
Hello my ragtime gal . . .
Put a singing, dancing frog on stage with her
Even the name — meme team — is so cringe (as they say). Thanks for the link. Should be fun watching them humiliate themselves.
Libertarians?
Libs in sheep’s clothing
Libertarians?
Libs in sheep’s clothing
She looks like a female Jeb Bush.
Warren Should Have A Great sense of humor. She sees a great joke every time she looks in a mirror.
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