Hey, I'm Candace Lim.

And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I.

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Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Kate, I would love to know, what do you think when politicians should post? It's hard for me.

It's hard for me because on the one hand,

shit posting, it's the language of the internet and I'm happy they are attempting to use that language.

Right.

To reach voters.

But at the same time, I think you and I working in media are a little bit too close to like how the sausage gets made in terms of how like public figures and companies and corporations and brands

go the processes they go through to get tweets out there and fundamentally that it is not, you know,

it's not actually Wendy from Wendy's sitting down and tweeting.

And in the same case as this, when a politician sits down and, you know, shitposts

tweet something out of pocket, they signed off on it. But it was a team of social media

coordinators who were the ones ultimately typing. Yeah. And before we get too deep in it,

like I did want to kind of define what a shitpost from a politician looks like.

You know, it's memes. It's trolling Trump. Maybe like using some of the crazy phrases and I got to admit viral phrases that he uses but like against him to like make fun of him.

I also am thinking a little bit about Joe Biden. Do you remember when he kind of like embraced dark Brandon?

Yes. Yeah. I remember that. It was funny. Yeah, right. And this is kind of when the Republican Party was, you know, making comments about his cognition, questioning his ability to, you know, be president. They call him Brandon. And then he like tweets, you know, that photo of him with those crazy, like, red eyes. And that's the thing of, like,

it showed he was in the joke. But I do think people were still like, ha, ha, ha, okay, Grandpa Joe,

go back to bed now. And I would say that really describes how I feel when politician's shitposts,

which is that doesn't really work for me. Because just like you were saying,

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