Sure, Let’s Run Kamala Harris, the Memes Are Good
What if the solution to Donald Trump’s chaos and strange rhetorical mastery is simply more chaos and more weird words? What if there was a Riddler to his Joker? (Or is it the other way around?) What if Kamala Harris was simply biding her time all along, doing her three-drinks-in aunt shtick while waiting for everyone to wake up and notice the obvious solution? Can you smell the coconuts?
Do you remember anything Biden has said in the last month? Nope! Yet everyone is talking about the wild stuff she’s said.
you take the day off from the internet to sail and you come back and your entire feed is a word salad of coconuts and existing in contexts and being unburdened
— Maria (@mlstrat) July 3, 2024
In case you also have no idea what’s going on, that’s because her speeches are replicating, and her wild takes on philosophy (“You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”) and the wisdom of her mother (“I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”) are spreading everywhere. (Fun fact: Those two memes were from the same speech, and were even sequential.)
Let’s be honest, we were all sick of Joe Biden, even as he was basically doing what he was supposed to be doing (making the economy work for big business, keeping hegemony as usual around the world). We’re fickle. The memes have moved on. Literally no one under 40 is going to vote for Biden. Even the socialists are turning.
Now, as the Biden campaign is going through deep struggles around its candidate’s regular daily sleepiness and incoherence, it feels great to say: Hey, let’s put the weird, unpredictable, unknown quantity up front and take some chances.
She does bits.
She does bits? Ok I'm on board for real https://t.co/FWGKcRTrHP
— Political science B.A. (@InternetHippo) July 2, 2024
“At least she’s not a felon.”
I’m all in on President Kamala. We need a Gemini Rising woman President from California who is on pills+wine, is campy, and didn’t get married until she was middle aged because she was too busy being a 365 party girlboss. Who cares if she’s weird? At least she’s not a felon or 80
— superfun site (@chickenstrip007) July 2, 2024
It would probably destroy Hillary.
one pro in the kamala argument is imagine hilary clinton living to see a woman president and its not her
— anna livia ???? (@not_a_heather) July 2, 2024
We had meme stocks, we had meme box office, let’s just have a meme candidacy. We can keep it going until November.
feels like the kamala shitposts are the political version of when people tricked sony into putting morbius back in theaters
— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) July 2, 2024
Plus, she’s conservative enough for America. She would absolutely kill tons of people with drones, just like Obama. And, just like Trump, she could lock anyone up — she already has, Lord knows. But there’s so much more to a Kamala Harris ticket. What qualifications does anyone else have, compared to this? An old man who loves ice cream? Let’s do it! Who cares! ROLL THEM DICE.
[DISCLAIMER: I am well-off enough to simply depart the American experiment when it all goes wrong in November and old enough to not care about the end of democracy and “the climate” and WWIII and stuff. Absolutely do not listen to me and maybe do not do this. But maybe do?]