While Dems Troll With Weak Memes, Japan Makes Trump Look Like A Rock Star
How can the crowd who had a hammerlock Hollywood be so very BAD at this?
Dems have never quite recovered from getting curb-stomped in the Meme Wars in Trump’s first term. That explains why they leaned on Silicon Valley censorship. Years later, they’re still no better at meming.
Trump casually trolled the Dems with an AI variant of Hakeem ‘Jefe’ Jefferies and Chucky Schumer backed by a mariachi band. He used his classic technique (dubbed by ClashDaily the ‘lightning rod effect’). There’s no danger in explaining the technique’s psychology, because Dems and their media enablers fall for it every time. It goes like this: Trump has an idea or message or possibly even a visual that he wants to introduce to the public. He takes that idea (in this case the speech by AISchumer about the Dems being lying sacks of crap who have lost the support of their own base and are pandering to illegals by offering free health care) and wraps it in something his critics can’t help but get worked up about. (The Sombrero and mustache.)
That’s what Trump posted, not just on TruthSocial, where he pretty much throws his stream-of-consciousness interactions with the whole world and especially his supoprters, but he published it on Twitter, too.
Twitter is accessable to everyone, and he picks his moments on when to even post on Twitter. It had been two weeks since his last post. But during the shutdown, when all eyes on are already on the drama playing out in DC, he has an audience. He broke 2 weeks of silence with the sombrero video… (the previous one being a troll of Letitia James, where he posted her boyfriend, the prosecutor).
There has been a burst of activity since then, celebrating a wedding, rubbing Google’s nose in a $24.5M settlement they gave him, a Ryders’ Cup mention, photos of him meeting with King Charles and Camilla,.. and the pinned tweet? Jeffe. whining to Lawrence ‘Stop the Hammering’ McDonnell about the racist-y meme, amplifying the meme exactly as our lightning rod theory suggests.
They played themselves.
Dems struck back by *checks notes* dressing Trump and a placeholder Democrat up adorable kitties as they tried to a dishonest explainer video showing why the memes weren’t Democrat’s fault (even though several Dems have now admitted the shutdown was because Dems blocked the 60 vote threshold needed to keep the government open.)
Gavin Newsom, whose social media crew couldn’t meme their way out of a wet paper bag tried to mock the Veep with a tamer version of the same silly round bearded face that (and I swear I’m not making this up) JD himself sometimes uses to laugh at himself.
They’re so wrapped up in rage and being perpetually offended that they assume a little mockery is going to offend us. If it’s funny enough, we’ll laugh along with you Too bad you’ve pushed all your chips in with angry and have forgotten what funny looks like.
Fortunately, Japan still has their sense of humor, and they made a hilarious meme video that does not have they cynical ill-will of Democrat rage tweet attempts at ‘humor’. In fact, it’s so much fun and created with such a light touch that fans could take it as praise, and critics could take it as lampooning.
A query of Grok indicates it was made by Shiro AI, and when asked if that piece (some of which is untranslated, in Japanese) was friendly, neutral, or hostile to Trump, it suggested friendly.
Both I and Grok could be totally misreading the cultural context, but it looks positive to me. Judge for yourself. And enjoy!
(H/t @RobProvince)
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