Musk posted this meme the night after Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primaries, the same night Yang dropped out of the race.
It draws on a popular Sanders meme format that builds on a still from a Sanders promotional video in which the senator says "I am once again asking for your financial support."
This meme is more heavily edited than the usual meme format however to depict Sanders as Professor Eggman, a main antagonist from the "Sonic the Hedgehog" game franchise. In the "Sonic" games, chaos emeralds are frequently coveted by Eggman.
Ok u can have a little emerald 🤹🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/3LzPe4aG4B
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2020
"Neon Genesis Evangelion" is a popular anime series with a famously ambiguous and complicated ending, and there is a cottage industry of YouTube videos attempting to explain it. Musk is on the record as a fan of anime, and has posted references to "Evangelion" before.
💘 be still my beating heart 💘 pic.twitter.com/Fnly6DNLIC
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2020In this instance Musk isn't posting an existing Bernie meme. Instead he is linking Bernie Sanders' supposed 69.2% marginal tax rate (the figure appears to be based on analysis) to the number 69 — which has become a meme in and of itself as it is commonly used as a joke in reference to the sexual position. According to Know Your Meme, it is sometimes known simply as "The Sex Number."
Bernie’s tax rate is 0.2% too high! pic.twitter.com/ESAqAYl9xB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2020
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