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There’s a lot more to the Kamala Harris memes than you think

“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” says Vice President Kamala Harris in a now infamous clip. An overlay of the lime green album art for

An overlay of the lime green album art for Charli XCX’s “Brat” flashes on the screen, while a remix of “ Von Dutch ” scores increasingly frenetic clips of Harris hysterically laughing and confessing her love of venn diagrams. Though her record as a prosecutor has made her unpopular on the left, Harris’ potential candidacy is perhaps the first time that Democrats have felt hopeful in a campaign cycle defined by Biden’s catastrophic gaffes and former president Donald Trump’s momentum. “It’s impossible to discern genuine versus ironic support, and so the ambiguity itself becomes this form of expression, and in this case, I think it’s dealing with some of that pent up frustration and doomed feelings around Biden… The line between sincerity and trolling, critique and complicity and all that stuff is, on purpose, blurred.”

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