This is important. This is the key to understanding the 2016 election. Pay attention.
Every time the GOP thought it had trapped Donald Trump—with the pledge, for instance—and every time the press thought he had done something so outrageous that his campaign was over only to see his numbers go up, this was the only gif you needed:
And every time a Republican candidate for president endorsed Donald Trump after calling him essentially unfit to lead the country, or a voter said they didn't care when he flip flopped on an issue, or a conservative media hack looked the other way when it was revealed that his companies had hired illegal immigrants and manufactured his goods overseas and hired seasonal workers, this was the only gif you needed:
And now with this disturbing bit of news:
Smiley face appears in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano during eruption. https://t.co/NgF2QUbR4T pic.twitter.com/zJwzqnpotQ
— ABC News (@ABC) August 1, 2016
I've come to realize that this is the third, and final, gif you need to understand the situation we find ourselves in:
I'm not saying that we should expect world capitals to disappear in blue balls of destructive light over the next three months, as happened at the end of Watchmen. But I'm not not saying it, either.
Update: Oops, I forgot one.
Every time we hoped in vain that Mitt Romney would come riding to the rescue and mount a legitimate third party campaign—every time you prayed someone would save us, only to have your dreams crushed—this was the only gif it made any sense to deploy:
