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.
This just proves that control freaks don’t have a sense of humor.
Oh man...it’s awful— check this out:
Wagons: Run Warren Wagons, our answer to Trump Trains, to increase network strength.
Wouldn’t she be attacking wagons being in’jun and all?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
It was said about Al Gore- the only thing worse than someone with no sense of humor, is someone with no sense of humor that pretends to have a sense of humor.
Socialist tries to control the means of Meme production. This should be entertaining...for us.
OMG, they hired some Indian... dot, not feather... programmers to run her meme war and the idiots flow charted out what a meme is... PRICELESS!!!
Going into a meme war with your troops riding tuktuks... This is going to be fun.
This is why the left can't meme...
The left can't truth.
That is hilarious!
Democrat recommended memes:
A dying Grandma, gives her Medicare-Not-For-Grandma, medical benefits to her foreign illegal land scaper, who buries her dead body in the garden.
The last one exiting California, the California forest bear displayed on their flag, must turn off the lights.
See Warren how simple it is, lol.
The left can[t do memes. The left cannot do satire or irony or nuance. The left is doltishly blinkered in its vision.
They have a “meme team”?!
The Warren Meme Team will be Counter Meme’d and ridiculed.
It’s coming.
An Indian call center dialing up Warren memes.
+1
More like “Me, Me”
In my long life I have met thousands of leftists—not _one_ had a decent sense of humor.
The reason—they are arrogant and self-righteous.
They were born to be mocked and trolled.
Three guesses why the EU passed the meme ban.
And why some ‘Rat Critter is attempting something similar over here.
The power is already off in Kalifornee.
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