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Another trending hashtag, man!

As jerkish as the hashtag and its concept is, considering most of the people posting in it probably haven't sacrificed anything/lost anyone either, and neither have the previous 5 presidents if I recall, making the entire thing just a dumb example of "those who have not sinned cast the first stone"

It's still pretty funny.

There are so many Trump hashtags that one would start to think a person or organization is paying people to spread them on social media.

If the DNC was hiring people to "push back" on Sanders, wouldn't it be logical they pushed back on the Trump Campaign as well?

Indeed, another email being wrongly used to suggest the DNC was being racist towards Hispanics suggests that it has been using social media against Trump since May.

I'm sure the Trump campaign has people doing this as well. And I'm equally sure a lot of people are simply contributing their own wit and wisdom into these hashtags.

The fact remains that when you see political-themed content on social media, you should be skeptical of its origins regardless of whether it aligns with your politics. Some of it is not spontaneous fun. Some of it is disguised political advertising coming directly from the campaigns themselves.

Can't wait for the inevitable article that'll get a 100 comments and then rot like every other election "meme" does.

I really don't understand why there's not just a 2016 Presidential Election article that all the useless hashtags and forced memes can be dumped into. Then, if one of them actually does last more than a week before fading into the ether, it can get it's own article.