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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.

Mahmood said: "Migrants suddenly deciding that they are a modern slave on the eve of their removal, having never made such a claim before, make a mockery of our laws and this country's generosity."