A year ago, before Kamala Harris put Gin to Tonic and started her 107 days to disaster, many on the political left saw that they were getting carpet-bombed with funny memes. One guy at The Independent wrote about it, lamenting that he was the guy in high school who repeated a joke until it smelled like 7/11 sushi. The funny part about his article is that what he was doing in high school wasn’t “pre-memeing,” it was just annoying, and based on his profile pic, I can see why.
"Memeing," making effective memes, requires a sense of humor and sense of timing. I don’t think this guy ever “got the joke.”
I don’t mean to sound a thousand years old, but when I was a kid repeating somebody else’s joke over and over until it became interminable wasn’t called a “meme”. It was called “being the most annoying kid in school”, and we all hated that person (I was that person).
Now, though, memes are all the rage. Once the prime tool of communication for always-online basement dwelling nerds, now everybody and your mother seems to know about being “demure”, or who the “Hawk Tuah” girl is. It’s even gotten to the point that politicians are getting in on the action: Joe Biden embraced his “Dark Brandon” persona, even selling merch to that effect, and our own health secretary Wes Streeting hit James Cleverly with a “Sure, Jan” just a few weeks ago.
Trump is genuinely funny. He is a natural comedian. Gavin Newsom is “that other guy.” He's like the guy above. He doesn’t “get it." He never fit in with the funny kids. Hair Gel doesn't meme - he has a team of two who produce “memes” to mock Trump’s style, but like so many on the left, they are reusing a joke. They're repeating a joke that everyone has heard.
I draw political cartoons that people repost, and those cartoons become “memes.” They are used and reused when appropriate. Reusing a joke requires timing, and the left has none.
Trump mocked Hakeem Jeffries with a sombrero. He and the left went nuts. RACIST! But Hakeem isn’t Mexican, or even Hispanic. Sure, it was funny, but what was even funnier was the apoplectic reaction from the left.
Of course, I jumped in. Excuse the language (profanity alert!). I had to:
Senorita needs to say "Fuck" more. pic.twitter.com/jy0w2r4XgL
— Jim Thompson (@JimmySportToons) October 3, 2025
And:
Si Homes pic.twitter.com/D1bJwpvBJr
— Jim Thompson (@JimmySportToons) October 2, 2025
AOC recently posted this insipid nonsense about Stephen Miller.
AOC attempts a burn of @StephenM: "looks like he's angry about the fact he's four foot ten" 🥱 pic.twitter.com/qqULEVwJfu
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 6, 2025
It’s stupid insults about physicality. I guess she thought it was funny. It's the insult joke that everyone responds to with: “Ummm, I don’t get it.”
You know what is funny – and will never not be funny? This
No one trolls the other side like Donald Trump. Before “meme” was a household term, Trump was meming the left with ALL CAPS tweets, then with ALL CAPS Truth Social posts. The left recognized that it was falling behind in the Meme Wars.
I drew that after AOC faked being handcuffed. Every time she says, does, or posts something stupid, I pull it out. Thanks, AOC – you're a well of stupid that keeps on giving.
In Meme Wars, the left lost long ago.
Maybe they don’t know it. Maybe they will repeat insipid 4th-grade jokes like “I know you are, but what am I?” The war is over. The left lost The Meme Wars.
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