Another play on a classic. In the first panel, the woman says, “they haven’t finished counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan.” And the man in the shower replies, “they’re taking a while.”

Another in the genre. The first woman asks, “Well, Galya, what’s going on there?” Galya replies, “Everything will be decided in Michigan.” 

“Russians listening to Americans complain about Trump being on the ballot a third time.”

“My culture is not your costume.”

A darker meme. “Adam Kadyrov awarded medal for ‘Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election’,” referring to Ramzan Kadyrov’s son being given state awards after beating up Nikita Zhuravel, a teenager who was jailed in Chechnya after being accused of burning a Quran in Krasnodar.

“Trump announces White House being renamed.” The inscription on the white house says “Trumpunkt,” a play on the Russian word for “Emergency Room (травмпункт)”.

“Donald Trump has finished the SVO.” The headline being cut off appears to say that Donald Trump has ended the war in Ukraine, which the Russian government calls a “special military operation (SVO).”

“Come on, fix my life.”

“Americans complaining about election night, as if it looks like this:” referring to the speech Vladimir Putin gave at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And then there’s this bizarre meeting captured on Russian television.

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