Since humour is not unknown in Atlantic Canada, it was inevitable that we would soon join the fray. So, one moment, the 79-year-old senator from Vermont crashed a photo shoot for the Rose family of Schitt’s Creek fame, while in the next, a miniature Sanders seems about to look “waaay up” from the set of The Friendly Giant, and in a third still, he sits in a chair, surf frothing around their feet, next to the environmentalist David Suzuki. He’s Waiting for Godot in one meme, and for a cup of coffee at the counter with the rest of Edward Hopper’s Night Owls.īest fried chicken in Cape Breton.have a lick Bernie! #LickaChick /m0WO9QnvqlĮverybody, as the week closed, seemed to want to “feel the bern,” whether it was Jennifer Aniston positioning Bernie on the famous couch from Friends or Jamie Lee Curtis putting him in the corner of a dark hotel room while she performed a dance in True Lies.Ĭanadians, of course, got in on the fun. Zelig-like, he sat inside the ring with Ali and Liston, and on the stage at Woodstock with Richie Havens.Īs the Righteous Brothers crooned in the background, Sanders’ mittened hands caressed Demi Moore’s in the pottery scene from Ghost. My Canadian friends will get this! /6NBny0H1Ye Some saw their uncles and fathers in his choice to put warmth over style.A post shared by Demi Moore thanks to the wonders of the virtual world, there was Bernie - mask worn responsibly high, legs crossed, cradling a manila envelope, as if just making a stop on his “honey do” list - seated far left at The Last Supper, posing at a bowling alley next to Jeff “the Dude” Lebowski, beside Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference, watching, from a distance, the Beatles cross Abbey Road.Īs the Bernie memes spread, he could be glimpsed riding ET-style past a full moon, getting ready to hit warp speed with Han Solo and Chewbacca, seated with the other members of the Justice League of America, under a shady tree in George Seurat's painting Study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, even in the dark corner of the Hobbit's Shire. Sanders, the incoming chair of the Senate Budget Committee, who seemed far the favorite.Įarly posts about him started with simple reviews of his practical, relatively unglamorous outfit. Biden’s nominee for Treasury secretary, dressed just as warmly, it was Mr. It wasn’t the only meme inspired by Inauguration Day: Others touched on the former first lady Michelle Obama’s outfit and on Lady Gaga, who sang the national anthem dressed not entirely unlike a character from the “Hunger Games.” But even with Janet Yellen, Mr. ![]() Sanders’s supporters few reasons to be in a good mood. Biden, the meme served as an amusing sideshow, a bit of fun and levity after four years in which presidential politics brought Mr. ![]() Instead of using his image to make an argument, he was simply placed into new contexts, with his pose, outfit and expression themselves serving as the joke. Sanders were often used to say something - he wore what appears to be the same coat in a 2019 fund-raising video in which he is “once again asking for your financial support,” a line that has been repurposed in a litany of ways - there was no such deeper meaning to the newest meme.
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