{"id":1472710,"date":"2024-06-22T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1472710"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:45:00","slug":"biden-allies-spend-10-million-to-learn-how-to-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/biden-allies-spend-10-million-to-learn-how-to-meme\/1472710\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Allies Spend $10 Million To Learn How To Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Biden Allies Spend $10 Million To Learn How To Meme<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Most of our readers know the left can&#8217;t meme<\/strong>, as memes require an understanding of both universal human truths <em>and<\/em> a minimal grasp on humor.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Internet_TLCM\/status\/1791962542996332919\">example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GN5UW9-bkAACwid_92.jpg?itok=Wpt3H5Sv\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Internet_TLCM\/status\/1788957289782673754\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GNOnLCFawAAv5lA_92.jpg?itok=fad1HBTm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Internet_TLCM\/status\/1786176766207201481\">hot garbage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GMnGTb4XUAAb2yH_92.jpg?itok=yMq3Limx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes they don&#8217;t even realize what they&#8217;ve done&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/FtrhzYmXoAMezwr_92.jpg?itok=yekknKfX\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These people are genuinely operating in their own reality:<\/p>\n<p>Every time the Left tries to meme Trump they just end up making him look cooler <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MKardQ6aD3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MKardQ6aD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Poso \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1646874195568074757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry about that, but the uninitiated needed to see how bad the situation is.<\/strong> Their jokes are obvious. Reductive. Anti-intellectual if you will. These are the same people who think gender is a state of mind, and these peeks under the hood can be constructive.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Biden&#8217;s allies are aware of their shortcomings, however &#8211; as the president&#8217;s main re-election SuperPAC, Future Forward USA Action, is raising<strong> $10 million <\/strong>to learn how to meme, <strong>or as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-allies-raising-10-million-challenge-trump-social-media-machine-2024-06-20\/\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a> puts it, &#8216;compete with Republican Donald Trump&#8217;s social media machine that spits out a wall of viral videos.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We guarantee whoever wrote that sentence does not know how to meme.<\/p>\n<p><em>The previously unreported effort by the highly-secretive Future Forward USA Action underscores broad concerns among Democrats and Biden donors that he and his campaign are losing a viral-video war with the Republican Party, which relentlessly portrays him as too old and out of touch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Democrats say they are playing catch-up in a battlefield with few rules<\/strong> or ways to police manipulated or misleading content before it reaches tens of millions of Americans on their smartphones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Palo-Alto-based SuperPAC,<strong> backed by tech giants like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz<\/strong> <strong>and LinkedIn founder Reed [sic] Hoffman, is raising at least $10 million <\/strong>to help better understand the algorithms that help Trump and his allies dominate vertical video platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The group will also &#8220;collaborate with left-leaning influencers to help generate and disseminate new content,&#8221; <\/strong>according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>How are they going to do that when the most &#8216;successful&#8217; lefty &#8216;influencers&#8217; are<strong> the perpetually-shat-upon Krassenstein brothers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@harryjsisson\/video\/7382706486557904171?_r=1&amp;_t=8bIhom1uMxu\"><em>this guy<\/em>&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/harry1.JPG?itok=CYKkBhts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of TikTok, <strong>Future Forward has given up on Twitter, and is hoping to appeal to short attention-spans<\/strong>, with TikTok&#8217;s short, vertical videos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Future Forward is around to help solve problems, and TikTok is a problem and the group is reasonably trying to solve that problem,&#8221; a Democratic source told <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In short, <strong>the left is now incinerating millions of dollars trying to learn how to be cool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, Reid&#8230; We can only explain it to you. We can&#8217;t make you understand it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hoffman1_0.jpg?itok=2NREGHj6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 06\/22\/2024 &#8211; 08:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/biden-allies-spend-10-million-learn-how-meme\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/biden-allies-spend-10-million-learn-how-meme<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Allies Spend $10 Million To Learn How To Meme Most of our readers know the left can&#8217;t meme, as memes require an understanding of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1472711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}