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These critics believe focusing on mockery distracts from the gravity of the situation and may undermine more serious resistance efforts.

While the mockery and memes may feel good as snickering payback and certainly stoke the Democratic base — boosting Newsom’s presidential hopes — Mahan suggested they are ultimately counterproductive.

"This makes a mockery of government promises to protect workers and its plan for net zero," she said.

Simply by existing, it was a magnet for mockery and criticism, in the press — on morning radio and late-night television.

There’s mockery indeed in Moscow, where politicians and state-run media continue to celebrate Putin as the summit winner.