{"id":16767,"date":"2022-07-31T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16767"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:48:48","slug":"elon-musk-tweets-pakistans-most-famous-meme-to-take-jibe-at-us-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16767&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tweets Pakistan&#8217;s most-famous meme to take jibe at US govt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief executive of Tesla Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted Pakistan\u2019s most-famous meme to take a jibe at the US government\u2019s policy on weed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meme featured famous Pakistani cricket fan, Sarim Akhtar, whose disappointed look during Pakistan vs Australia ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 match had gone viral after Asif Ali dropped a catch. Later on, Sarim\u2019s picture had become fodder for meme-makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tweet portrayed a look of disappointment on the faces of weed users in the US when they are thrown behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople in the US in jail for weed while the government trades a Russian war criminal to free a women\u2019s basketball player in jail for weed,\u201d the meme read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon, in his tweet, wrote: \u201cMaybe free some people in jail for weed here too?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AYo0ZC79lZ\">pic.twitter.com\/AYo0ZC79lZ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1553747872373522432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The meme was about\u00a0US Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star Brittney Griner, who was arrested at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo airport on February 17 after vape cartridges containing hashish oil were allegedly found in her baggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is currently undergoing a trial in a Russian court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago, the Biden administration had offered a deal to Russia to bring back Griner and another jailed American, former-US marine Paul Whelan. While the details of the deal are unclear, there are reports that\u00a0 Russia has expressed interest in releasing the two Americans in exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in a US jail, according to\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News The chief executive of Tesla Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted Pakistan\u2019s most-famous meme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-important-news","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-world","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16774,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions\/16774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}