While you were sleeping, the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign declared a total meme war on the rest of the Dem field, hiring “a bunch of the biggest meme accounts on Instagram” to promote his candidacy.

Via the HuffPo’s Jesselyn Cook:

A bunch of the biggest meme accounts on Instagram just shared posts that claim to be sponsored by @MikeBloomberg pic.twitter.com/pckRX7LWbx — Jesselyn Cook (@JessReports) February 13, 2020

According to the NYT, the accounts he’s hired react around 60 million people:

The Bloomberg campaign is working with Meme 2020, a new company formed by some of the people behind a group of meme accounts with a collective 60 million followers https://t.co/SYB2Ubd2ds pic.twitter.com/k1hYL0ahLo — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) February 13, 2020

But here’s the thing. They’re. . . AWFUL:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8fQad9BhoT/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8fR4xnlqw6/

Maybe the second batch will get better?

And, NOPE. Still awful:

Yes, there are more:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8fRriUJAMm/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8fKw5jBXJ4/

We’re giving up. Feel free to click on the images below if you really want to see an old man continue to embarass himself:

We’ll point out that the backlash has begun with — more memes:

.@McJesse is already out with a meme making fun of Bloomberg’s meme account sponsored posts pic.twitter.com/mUmuT9N1bz — Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) February 13, 2020

And here’s our entry via Townhall:

Mike Bloomberg trying to get in the meme game. pic.twitter.com/4cYbF1CdD0 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 13, 2020

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