{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief executive of Tesla Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted Pakistan&#8217;s most-famous meme to take a jibe at the US government&#8217;s policy on weed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s picture had become fodder for meme-makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tweet portrayed a look of disappointment on the faces of weed users in the US when they are thrown behind bars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;People in the US in jail for weed while the government trades a Russian war criminal to free a women&#8217;s basketball player in jail for weed,&#8221; the meme read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon, in his tweet, wrote: &#8220;Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?&#8221;<\/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>&mdash; 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meme was about\u00a0US Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star Brittney Griner, who was arrested at Moscow&#8217;s Sheremetyevo airport on February 17 after vape cartridges containing hashish oil were allegedly found in her baggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is currently undergoing a trial in a Russian court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&nbsp; 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&nbsp;<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&#8217;s 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":["post-16767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-important-news","category-latest-news","category-world","cs-entry","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}]}}