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When memes collide. The longboarding/juice/ Fleetwood Mac guy and Bernie. The Bernie meme is raising LOTS of money for charity.  Many of you are probably thoroughly sick of the now super famous Bernie Sanders mitten meme. That's the one based on the photograph of him sitting at the Joe Biden inauguration in those huge mittens.  The sale of merchandise based on that meme has so far raised $1.8 million for charities here in Vermont.  This is how quickly it went: The famous photo was taken on January 20.  According to the Associated Press, On the evening of January 21, the Sanders campaign put t-shirts, sweatshirts and stickers on its we site and they sold out within a half hour. More merch went up over the following weekend, but was sold out by Monday morning.  The money raised in the sales went to Meals on Wheels programs throughout Vermont, community action agencies such as food banks, senior citizens and medical services for the poor.  Getty Images , w...

Dolly Parton fixing Bernie's hair  Vermont's own Bernie Sanders was there at the inauguration, in that Burton overcoat, the medical mask and those awesome giant mittens  And arguably the internet's biggest, funniest meme was born. Tons of people had a lot of fun with it. Bernie sitting in mittens was ubiquitous.  Too bad we can't buy the mittens. The Vermont woman who gave Bernie those mittens as a gift no longer makes them.  So we can't really imitate Bernie.  We need to be content that there had to be several thousand of Bernie mitten memes within 24 hours of that famous photo appearing.  Some of my favorites are in this post. Keep scrolling down for some fun. Click on each image to make them bigger and easier to see. Also, tell us what your favorite Bernie meme is. Enjoy!  Bernie as one of the Golden Girls:  Bernie in famous paintings:  Bernie with a fellow Jew: Bernie on a lunch break during skyscraper construction: Bernie at yet another ...