JESSICA D’NONSENS
Lampoonist
“Come to my New Hampshire Rally tonight. Bring your Tamagotchis and scooters, kids. It’s going to be cray cray. #rubtheclint” was the tweet sent out from the official “Ready for Hillary” Twitter page.
Since then, the Internet has stopped. People knew that Hillary Clinton was in desperate need for the Millennial vote, but no one could have anticipated that she’d stoop so low.
While underdog Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders currently polls at 82 percent with voters aged 18-25, his popularity comes mainly from an Internet-based community of hooligans and new-agey college students. The Facebook page “Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash” has over 140,000 followers and counting — not to mention the popularity of his hashtag, #feelthebern.
#Rubtheclint has started an all-out Internet war between Hilldogs and Sandmen. Some Clinton supporters have claimed that Clinton understands the connotation and is reclaiming her power as a woman. Sanders supporters think that her public relations team simply screwed up.
“I think it’s great,” said women over 40 years old who made a Twitter account yesterday. “I’ll always #rubtheclint! Hillary or bust!”
“Do you think she understands what that sounds like?” asked Sanders supporter Frita Wishin on Facebook. “Please, someone, tell me she knows what that sounds like.”
Clinton, however, has no intentions on putting an end to this trending topic. She also has addressed no concerns about the topic.
When CNN interviewed her asking to elaborate on the hashtag, she simply said, “Y’know, we as women get these questions all the time. And it’s not something that Sanders would be asked. When you have a woman, like I am, running against a man, like Sanders is, there’s going to be a difference. But I am a progressive who has always tried my hardest to do my best for Americans.
“You know something? I have been a senator,” she continued. “And as a woman who has served this country, I know a thing or two about politics. One thing about politics that I do know is that we can break through that glass ceiling.”
This isn’t the first time Clinton has made attempts to expose her youthful side. She released a video of her doing the “hyphy dance move ‘the whipped neigh-neigh,’” according to her public relations team, to show the cool kids that she’s new and hip and has a new hip.
While Clinton’s new Twitter resurgence has certainly garnered attention for her campaign, Sanders is still projected to win the New Hampshire primaries, according to recent polls.