Liz Warren,"This? What does this even mean? I just don't get it."
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.
Liz Warren,"This? What does this even mean? I just don't get it."
libs suck at memes.
Angry, arrogant people confuse one sentence bromides with memes. Memes are proof of the use of irony.
Haha. It’s truly awful.
Please cheer.
>The left can[t do memes. The left cannot do satire or irony or nuance. The left is doltishly blinkered in its vision.
Schifty has that parody thing down.
sigh. when you argue with a straw man, you win every time.
That meme is so stupid it makes my head hurt to think about responding to it.
They have no sense of humor, or sense of how hypocritical they are.
Yep. The only way they can take away the Great Conservative Meme Machine is to start acting like normal humans. Good luck with that.
“Everybody do The Michigan Rag/ Jumpin’ bumpin’ thumpin’Michigan Rag’’.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!
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