{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Greatest memes in US election history, and trolls? Besides 2016 and pepe, of course.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/150854791723/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Greatest memes in US election history, and trolls? Besides 2016 and pepe, of course.</div>\n<p><a href=\"http://utilitymonstermash.tumblr.com/post/150840166723/greatest-memes-in-us-election-history-and-trolls\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">utilitymonstermash</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/150838855428/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Ah jeez, that would take an effortpost and this ask just ranks a shitpost. <br/></p><p>1840\u2032s \u201cLog Cabin and Hard Cider\u201d, maybe. Or just Teddy Roosevelt, man <a href=\"/post/141568668818/\" target=\"_blank\">was a meme in his own right</a>,<br/></p></blockquote>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"500\" data-orig-height=\"668\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_odzfyuqYsB1tvc5bm_540_7ee9a8387d3f.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"500\" data-orig-height=\"668\"/></figure><figure data-orig-width=\"572\" data-orig-height=\"768\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_odzg4pdh4Q1tvc5bm_540_cc959e9ebab8.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"572\" data-orig-height=\"768\"/></figure><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"575\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_odzg8pAf8N1tvc5bm_540_b4be55209f13.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"575\"/></figure><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"572\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_odzg9iJv3Q1tvc5bm_540_68deacea74ff.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"572\"/></figure>\n</blockquote>\n<p>yeah that too (James Blaine against Grover Cleveland, 1884)</p><p>That was the \u201crum, romanism, and rebellion\u201d election too - which like Romney\u2019s \u201c47 percent\u201d came out in a privateish setting (tho from a surrogate) and was picked up by an opposition tracker who used it to hype his base<br/></p><p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s appreciated enough that the \u201cacid, amnesty, and abortion\u201d line against George McGovern in \u201872 was an echo of this, only with the Catholic valence reversed<br/></p><p>and\u2026 HOLY SHIT, apparently that line <a href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/108977/acid-amnesty-and-abortion-unlikely-source-legendary-smear\" target=\"_blank\">came anonymously from <i>Thomas </i>fucking<i> Eagleton</i></a>, McGovern\u2019s later fucking <b>ticketmate</b>, the one who dropped out after it came out he\u2019d been electroshocked for being crazy, holy <i>shit</i>.<br/></p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_odzfyuqYsB1tvc5bm_540_7ee9a8387d3f.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 500, "thumbnail_height": 668}