so, inauguration week is coming to a close.

one highlight of the week were the many #Bernie memes, often tagged with creative & at times hilarious captions.

i wondered, though, if we were all laughing at the same thing?

(illustration here made by @raspbearyart)

1) There was delightful incongruity given the glam of the occasion about how he seemed to be on the way to the post office @cnn: "'This has been fun, but the post office closes at six” is a vibe that people felt deep in their souls." "This coulda been an email" fits in here

2) Even masked, Bernie's body language was expressive: grumpy, cold, both? Everything that day was so choreographed & cheery. This was funny because for many ppl, reality feels and looks more like Bernie than like Lady Gaga @todayshow: grumpy practical, @latimes: grumpy chic.

3) Then there are the nonstop images with Bernie photoshopped in. Waldo step off, Bernie is here. Here's one of my favorites of that genre https://twitter.com/mPinoe/status/1352321297896898568?s=20

4) Another stems from Bern as archetype for American Jew. He is our fathers, grandfathers, how we see ourselves. There he was, I mean there we are, at the US inauguration. But the pose reminded us of so many other contexts, like:

my favorite one from category #4 by far was this one, the most perfect caption pretty much ever https://twitter.com/ChanSteele/status/1351927821007003656?s=20

lots of category 4 the Jewish-themed Bernie memes had to do with shul, here's an archive of those https://twitter.com/MarisaElana/status/1351970536407109638?s=20

One thing that I don't understand, though, as funny is his sitting posture. This is my father's sitting posture. Is this something that Jewish men do but others don't? I guess so.

Jewish twitter is laughing uproariously about #4, while the rest of the world is busy with #1,2, and 3

this take, with only a single like, says it all: https://twitter.com/Haleyessie224/status/1352002584370884612?s=20