For many, the recent election's shocks have been somewhat tempered by a deluge of memes celebrating outgoing Vice President Joe Biden as a merry prankster bent on messing with the incoming administration.

Reflections of Biden and Obama's imagined relationship as impulsive scamp and responsible adult, respectively, appear in another currently popular meme: Kermit and Evil Kermit.

Inevitably, Biden's successor Mike Pence will get the meme treatment, but will anyone care? If the sad current crop of Pence memes is any indication, no.

Though its (ostensible) efforts to promote Jill Stein's campaign may not have had much success (she's still polling fourth in a four-way race), a Facebook page dedicated to sharing "dank memes" about the Green Party presidential candidate has at least been good for a few laughs, a common feature in an election year rife with political memes. (See also Gary Johnson's "dank memes" page here.) But maybe no one seems to understand memes as a conveyor of political messaging as much as alt-right memester Mike Cernovich, who in his own view "create[s] compelling spectacles using conflict."

IZOD aficionado and former Christian drummer Ken Bone went from unknown to overnight celebrity, to stale joke in a matter of days due to the earnest energy policy question he raised in the second presidential debate. But his "memeification" followed a familiar arc. At least Halloween brought us some decent Photoshops of Obi-Wan Kenboni.

Since Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter for harassing Leslie Jones with a barrage of overtly racist tweets (and rightly so considering Twitter's rules), some Twitter trolls have decided to code their racially hostile language using the names of popular tech companies and Skittles candy. Much like the anti-Semitic (((echoes))) meme, Twitter's algorithm can't do much to stop it.

Skittles as a codeword for Muslims entered the lexicon after Trump Jr. tweeted a (now-deleted) meme unfavorably comparing refugees to the candy, to which Mars Inc., owner of Skittles, responded quickly and admirably.

A Trump-supporting Pennsylvania mayor, Charles Wasko, faced calls for his resignation after he posted racist and misogynist memes to his public Facebook page. One of the memes featured an image of 2012 GOP convention speaker Clint Eastwood holding a noose in the film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with the words "Barry, this rope is for you." Wasko refused to apologize or resign, but on October 17 he was voted out of office. He is reportedly still posting awful memes to Facebook.