Marjorie Taylor Greene And Senator Joni Ernst Present 'Scooby-Doo,' Uno Memes To Congress, Become Memes For It

September 23rd, 2021 - 2:03 PM EDT by Phillip Hamilton

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An image of the UNO meme, left, and an image of Marjorie Taylor Greene presenting a Scooby-Doo meme about Green New Deal, right.

Yesterday, Republican Representative for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene and Iowa Senator Joni Ernst took their arguments against the Green New Deal and unnecessary spending to Congress. Rather than present their arguments with facts and logic though, they used the internet's favorite learning tool: memes. Specifically, the Let's See Who This Really Is Scooby-Doo format and the Draw 25 UNO format.


Greene took to the House floor to argue that the Green New Deal, a plan for tackling climate change, puts China first and America second. After a brief introduction, her assistant Taylor pulls out a large cutout of a meme showing Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking a villain with "Green New Deal" written on his mask, revealing a communist hammer and sickle underneath. She then presents another meme, this one an image macro of Chinese President Xi-Jinping that reads "I OWN JOE BIDEN AND NOW I OWN AFGHANISTAN'S LITHIUM DEPOSITS."


That same day, Senator Ernst gave her own presentation to the Senate pleading to stop the type of unnecessary spending that increases America's national debt. Throughout the presentation, she used a number of Uno memes to illustrate her points. Particularly, she used the Draw 25 meme, which offers viewers the option of either drawing 25 cards (a major disadvantage in UNO) or making another difficult choice. In this case, Ernst used several memes offering the option to "draw 25" or "cut unnecessary spending," "cut the pork," "end welfare for politicians" and "put the breaks on boondoggles."

The politicians' use of memes to make a point left a bad taste in the internet's mouth, with many seeing it as not only cringe but evidence that Greene and Ernst don't have any good points for their arguments, forcing them to use memes in a desperate ploy to win people over. People also had a bit of fun photoshopping new memes into the presentations, the only logical thing to do when someone holds up a sign on television. Twitter's @CaseyHo provided a template for the format, which you can find at the bottom of this piece if you want to get in on the fun yourself.




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