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A Meme For Monday

The launch of a new feature… featuring Drake!

Matt Bernius
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[Inigo Montoya: I don't think that Memes what you think it Memes.]

As many of you may have heard, last Friday (December 2nd) for those outside of the conservative media complex, Elon Musk and Matt Tabbi served up one of the most hyped nothing-burgers since Geraldo raided the lost vault of Al Capone. Very little, if any, new information was revealed.

As noted above, YMMV (your mileage may vary) with this based on your political alignment. For folks on the Right–or at least those in the Trump, Trump adjacent, the anti-anti-Trump camps, and the “it’s always already the Liberal Media’s fault” camps–it was a great demonstration of Government coercion to suppress information (notwithstanding the fact that one D. Trump was the head of the US Government at the time of Twitter’s actions).

As for those more left-aligned, well our Drake-based meme de jour comes from Defense Attorney Andrew Fleischman. Fleischman has some thoughts about what does and doesn’t constitute government coercion.

[Drake saying "no": Asking twitter to remove Hunter Biden Dick Pics Drake saying "yes": Conditioning aid to ukraine on announcing an investigation into Hunter Biden]

Here’s the full tweet:

All and all, a pretty solid meme, though given Fleischman’s politics and if he was going for irony (or pointing out potential hypocrisy on the “loyal” opposition’s side) I think the two text blocks probably should be flipped. Still, 10/10 for matching the concept to the meme.

BTW, if you are the type who enjoys a chaser with their shot, then Matt Yglesias has (for once) got what you are looking for:

Said collaboration, we now know, included multiple hosts from the Fox News Network literally advising the President and his staff up to and including the day of the January 6th Capital Riot.

I should add that up until recently, this was also true of the National Enquirer which had a catch and legally bury policy protecting the former president.

Personal Note: This has been an extremely busy fall for me professionally and as a result, I had to cut back on a number of activities, including writing here. My goal as this year ends and the next one begins is to slowly increase my writing output (hopefully while decreasing the amount of time it takes me to draft one of these articles). At a bare minimum, I’m planning to make “Monday Memes” a regular feature because the alliteration is too good to pass up. And as always feedback is definitely welcome (and, let’s face it, even if it wasn’t that wouldn’t stop any of you).

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6 responses to “A Meme For Monday”

  1. MarkedMan Avatar
    MarkedMan

    Oddly, on the OTB home page there is a meme involving Inigo Montoya at top of this article but not here. In any case, here’s another one I came across recently

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  2. Flat Earth Luddite Avatar
    Flat Earth Luddite

    Matt, this is a welcome addition to my busy schedule lurking and skulking around OTB.

    @MarkedMan:
    Always a useful reminder of the importance of proper introductions when networking!

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  3. mattbernius Avatar
    mattbernius

    @MarkedMan:
    That is the authors fault. I will fix that.

  4. Ken_L Avatar
    Ken_L

    Out of interest, I looked up the transcript of Trump’s final campaign speech in October, 2020. If the Hunter Biden Laptop Story™ was such a big deal that it would have changed the election result had it not been “suppressed”, Trump surely devoted a lot of his speech to telling everyone what the scandal was and why it was so critically important. I mean it was the ideal opportunity to break the shackles of Big Tech censorship and give the details straight to Americans.

    Here’s what he had to say about it, in a speech lasting one hour 20 minutes:

    “And how about big tech? How about the Biden scandal? And they’re not even covering it. They don’t want to talk about. And by the way, that’s a real scandal. And the press doesn’t want to write about it, except for the New York Post, the press won’t write about it and big tech won’t take it.”

    That was it. Former Sir was no more able than anyone in the subsequent two years to explain what the “real scandal” consisted of.

  5. Gustopher Avatar
    Gustopher

    Very little, if any, new information was revealed.

    I was not aware of how interested James Woods was in Hunter Biden’s wood. That was new information for me, at least.

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  6. Gavin Avatar
    Gavin

    Surely Elon Musk has no prior biases either for or against democracy.. after all, he’s rich and thus immediately both impartial and beneficent!
    Unless a country has a natural resource such as lithium, of course.

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