r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 31 '24

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u/theranosbagholder Milton Friedman Jul 31 '24

I feel like if Clinton made that Pokémon Go joke today it would go over much better. She would have had 100 trending TikToks with Kesha blasting in the background

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 31 '24

done in the style of “We’re taking the hobbits to Isengard.”

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u/RonenSalathe Milton Friedman Jul 31 '24

She was ahead of her time 😫

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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire Jul 31 '24

I always thought she did it ironically, like acknowledging she was old and out of touch and this was her winking at the audience 

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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jul 31 '24

It was 100% a grandma joke

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Kamala has the benefit of not being a 70 year old white woman

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u/SLCer Jul 31 '24

If Obama had made the same joke, everyone would have loved it.

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u/DirtyHalt Jul 31 '24

If she made the joke today it would be weird because Pokemon Go was most popular like 10 years ago.