Paul Ryan's PowerPoint Presentation

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Paul Ryan's PowerPoint Presentation is a photoshop meme mocking a PowerPoint presented by Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan to explain the GOP's proposed Obamacare replacement in early March 2017.

Origin

On March 9th, 2017, Ryan delivered a 20-minute presentation containing charts and graphics, which described the Affordable Care Act as a "death spiral" (shown below). Additionally, the presentation contained a single slide about the GOPs plans for reform that said "There will be a stable transition to conservative health care reform."

Shortly after the presentation, Twitter user @Atrios^[4] retweeted a photo of Ryan's PowerPoint presentation along with the message "photoshoppers, start your engines" (shown below, left). Minutes later, Twitter user @twolf10^[6] posted a photoshopped picture of Ryan presenting #TheDress (shown below, right).

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That day, Twitter user @bakedinapie^[2] posted a photoshopped screenshot in which Ryan presents a slide showing various Better Names for Things animal examples (shown below, left).^[2] Meanwhile,, Twitter user @byrdinator^[1] posted a photoshop in which Ryan presents a portion of the Bee Movie script (shown below, right).

Also on March 9th, other Twitter users posted various photoshopped screenshots from the presentation, including Democratic congressman Keith Ellison from Minnesota (shown below).

That evening, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired a segment mocking the PowerPoint presentation (shown below).

Also that evening, Colbert tweeted a photoshopped presentation screenshot in which Ryan demonstrates how to find a woman's clitoris (shown below).^[5] Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 31,000 likes and 9,200 retweets. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop memes, including The Daily Dot,^[7] Cosmopolitan^[8] and Bustle.^[9]