A conservative laments the proliferating ‘mittens memes’ of Bernie Sanders, while George W. Bush and his sensible gloves were completely ignored!
The social media powers-that-be have once again shown their utter contempt for the American people. Expect anything different with one of their own in the White House? Just look at the huge deal the folks who run Twitter and Instagram made over a totally stupid and definitely pointless photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders wearing a pair of mittens at Joe Bidenâs inauguration last week. It might be the most popular thing on the internet right now, which makes sense since it fits right in with their radical agenda.
They want us to revel through these many mittens memes at how Sandersâ fingers are enjoying each othersâ warm company all mushed together and protected by one communal piece of fabric. Well lah-dee-frickinâ-da, theyâre probably all sitting Indian-style singing âKumbaya,â too. (If only we had x-ray vision by now, like President Reagan intended, would we know for sure.)
Meanwhile, virtually no attention has been paid to the sleek leather gloves sported by George W. Bush just a few feet over. What about the rugged individualism of each of his fingers, separated by a barrier as all good neighbors should be?
It shouldnât even matter that Sanders is donating merchandise sales relating to the mittens, which a schoolteacher knitted from recycled wool, to Vermont charities while we donât even know the brand of glove that one of Bushâs assistants probably picked up at the Menâs Wearhouse in North Bethesda a few days before the inauguration. It wouldnât bother me if the workers who stitched them together earned half minimum wage. Hell, if the gloves were made from a pig that could talk, that wouldnât be an issue either. I think weâre overlooking the fact that the gloves are black, which the woke BLM crowd should appreciate as a sign of good will. Not even Barack Obama himself wore black gloves. (And no, his hands arenât dark enough to count, sorry!)
The fact that this unfair meme is so popular is also an indictment of the photographers there, everyone from the usually fair-and-balanced AP to the left-wing hacks over at Getty. Why bother taking pictures of an attendee who canât even participate in one of Sen. Jon Thuneâs famous pre-inauguration round-robin rock-paper-scissors tournaments?
Why bother capturing a senator who canât make the rock nâ roll sign while the Marine Band plays?
Why bother pointing your lensâunless weâre talking about a scopeâat someone who canât flip off Chief Justice John Roberts for his tie-breaking vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act?
But what makes this a real atrocity is that Sanders couldnât even do his bread-and-butterâmake a peace signâwith those floppy things on his old, hippie hands. What a fraud! (Frankly, Iâm surprised he hasnât tried to trademark the gesture to help pay the mortgage on his half-million-dollar third house on Lake Champlain.) With that off the table, Sanders’ choice of garb did still allow him to declare thumb wars, but that too was a no-go for obvious reasons.
So, what’s the secret formula for a conservative, Real American meme to go viral on-line? If it means sacrificing my values, sorry, folks, Iâve got a migrant caravan to monitor and blood pressure pills to take.
EDITORâS NOTE: In an earlier version of this article, the author wrote that he would have no qualms if the owner of the company that manufactured President Bushâs gloves was a âHolocaust denier.â That line has since been removed.
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