One that might just be disarming enough to reopen the lines of communication. I can pretty much guarantee that there is a Bernie meme out there for them. Think of the times you saw an email or text from someone you vowed never to speak to again, and you furiously and immediately deleted it. Think of all the people you have avoided, shunned, unfriended and all but disowned because of their politics. But why don’t we think of this moment of silly hilarity as something more: a much-needed olive branch. No matter what anyone was wearing, singing or saying, sitting behind them was this unpretentious and completely authentic older gentleman exhibiting what everyone was probably thinking, “Hurry up! I’m freezing!”Ī meme is only a meme – I know. (The truth – something else we have missed.) And for all of the pomp and circumstance and talk of unity at the inauguration, it was Bernie Sanders, I would argue, who brought it home.
Great comedians and satirists understand that there is nothing funnier than the truth. Sanders, attending what is arguably the most watched fashion forward outdoor event of the next four years in a Burton jacket zipped to his ears and those mittens (handmade by a teacher from Vermont) – like he’s headed to the post office in Rutland – was everything this country needed. Great comedy often comes from being a fish out of water.
Bernie Gangnam stylin’, Bernie with Chewbacca, or playing chess in the Queen’s Gambit. Whatever political party you pledge allegiance to, whatever your socio-economic background, immigration status, language, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion…there is a Bernie meme for you. As soon as the world laid eyes on that image Wednesday, it exploded across photoshopping screens and then the internet.īernie Sanders – the long-serving, self-described democratic socialist, the scourge of economic inequality and now the powerful incoming chairman of the Senate Budget Committee – has inadvertently provided us with something we have been robbed of for the past four years, good old fashioned laughter. Bernie Sanders, socially distanced and a little cranky-faced on a folding chair on the Capitol steps in a drab GoreTex jacket and big, brown hippy mittens, arms and legs folded for warmth, glasses and paper mask askew at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. It started with a funny enough real picture of Vermont Sen. LOL, LMFAO, HA HA!! “Did you see this one?” I couldn’t wait to share it with my texting pod, re-tweet, put it in my Instagram story, rinse and repeat. I couldn’t wait to chuckle at the latest Bernie meme – Bernie Sanders in a chair waiting at the nail salon Bernie next to Churchill at Yalta Bernie on the park bench with Forrest Gump Bernie sitting on an I-beam with a 1930’s skyscraper crew suspended over New York City Bernie with the Golden Girls at someone’s kitchen table with a bottle of milk with Big Bird with Spiderman being painted by Bob Ross and on and on.
It was for a different FOMO (fear of missing out).
This morning I picked up my phone immediately, but it was not for news about Trump. Something terrible happened while I slept! WHAT DID HE DO? WHAT DID HE DO NOW!?!?! WHERE’S MY PHONE!” ID: “I have to look! Something big is happening, I can feel it. Don’t do it.”ĮGO: “Judy, there is nothing you can do about it.
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