A Saturday Night Live viral skit shows how “life continue for progressive Americans as if the election never happened.”
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The satirical ad joked “Who knows what the hell’s happening outside in their America. The Bubble will be fully functioning city-state with things everybody loves: hybrid cars, used bookstores, and small farms with the rawest milk you’ve ever tasted.”
The ad is focused on people living in New York City, particularly Brooklyn, but many on social media are commenting that "The Bubble" could include cities such as San Francisco, Seattle and Portland. On the Seattle sub-reddit, one commenter said "Seattle is definitely more of a bubble environment than Brooklyn."
An Atlantic culture writer Megan Garber published an article on the satire, saying that it "punctures the liberal bubble."
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"It's a powerful segment—and not only because it's intimately informed by things SNL's writers likely know very well: the cultural and commercial habits of a very particular, and very stereotypical, cross-section of young progressives ... It is having fun with, but also giving credence to, one of the criticisms most commonly lobbed against progressives: that they are smug. And that they are, in their way, just as narrow-minded as the people they condemn for their provincialism."
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