Bookworm Beat 2/14/25: The happy warrior meme edition
I don’t think anyone can deny that, for the past three weeks, at least, we’ve been living in the best of times, led by America’s happiest warrior and his wingman.
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Bookworm Beat 11/1/24: The proud garbage people meme edition
I actually have a lot more memes to process but I’ll start with this and probably get to the others on Monday. And yes, this is leading with the proud garbage people of America.
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Bookworm Beat 10/5/24: the “if you don’t get it know” meme edition
Between the vice presidential debate, the government response to Hurricane Helene, and Iran’s attack on Israel (all alluded to in the header image), if you don’t get it now, you never will.
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Bookworm Beat 9/7/24: The ‘America’s gone mad’ meme edition
Once, America was a sane country. Now, as these memes prove, it’s gone bat fecal matter crazy. I want my old country back.
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Bookworm Beat 8/23/24 — the “Kamala is an easy target” meme edition
Kamala’s people may console themselves by saying she’s getting flak because she’s over the target. The reality is that she’s an easy target because she’s a walking disaster, propped up by an unprincipled media.
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Bookworm Beat 8/16/24: The Monkeypox meme edition
I was going to name this the “let’s do the time warp again” edition (old themes, new memes), but Monkeypox and Raygun added new themes, so I’ll start with them, just for fun.
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Bookworm Beat 8/10/24: The Harris-Walz dance of doom meme edition
If the Harris-Walz ticket wins, our constitutional experiment is over. But for now, we can still laugh and think about clever memes.
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Bookworm Beat 8/2/24: An Olympian Kamala meme edition
Obviously, the dominant memes here are about Kamala and the Olympics, but the world is in turmoil, so there’s a lot more.
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Bookworm Beat 4/19/24: Get yer red hot memes here!
If there’s a theme to this meme edition, it’s that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Vote out the Democrats in November to save the world.
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Bookworm Beat 4/6/24: the “small but mighty” meme edition
This is a somewhat smaller meme edition than usual, but it makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity.
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3/8/24: The “It’s Biden’s world and, sadly, we just live in it” illustrated edition
I’m baaaack! And I’m back with a carefully curated selection of images all aimed at illustrating the world Biden has brought us.
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Bookworm Beat 2/2/24: The “Don’t Mess With Texas” illustrated edition
I’m back, and everything is weirder than ever, whether it’s the border, the election, or the Republican primaries. But at least we can laugh.
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Bookworm Beat 10/20/23: The leftist intersectionality issue
Islam, Hamas, Biden, leftists generally… They’re all swirling together in one giant intersectional mess. Before I swing into the memes, a couple of notes. First, I mean it about the intersectionality issue. Usually, it’s pretty easy to categorize memes so that they flow together. This week, though, I struggled to
Continue readingBookworm Beat 9/15/23: The “alien nation” illustrated edition
It’s a ginormous illustrated edition. Come for the laughs; stay for the tears as you contemplate America in 2023.
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Bookworm Beat 9/8/23: the hell in a handbasket illustrated edition
There’s nothing specifically awful going on this week; it’s the usual generally awful stuff, and that’s clear from the memes I’ve assembled. I’ve also got a handful of interesting things, plus the usual silly stuff.
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