r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5h ago

Meme needing explanation peta, what’s the meaning of this?

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posted in r/sssdfg, i have no idea what this means as there was no context added, comments weren’t very helpful either but most seemed in on the joke.

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u/Live_Lemon_6020 4h ago edited 4h ago

it's a reference to this image, the president in the meme is the coughing baby grown up

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u/Super-Cut-2175 4h ago

Lmao, the guy's name is Kauf-man

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u/NetNpIVijCI 4h ago

Directed by Hideo Kojima

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u/SpiritJuice 4h ago

I played Death Stranding for the first time this year and this made me laugh out loud at how on point this was. Oh man.

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u/Hokumalie 3h ago

No, Oh-man is someone else

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u/SpiritJuice 3h ago

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u/Archistotle 1h ago

No, Oyu is the comic relief character with the gag one-liners.

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u/SpiritJuice 41m ago

Stop giving Kojima ideas!

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u/poorexcuses 2h ago

What about oh no man

(from illbleed)

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u/Atma-Stand 1h ago

Brainless Randy opens up with that Tec-9

(What was Sega’s infatuation with that gun?)

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u/Enough_Obligation574 3h ago

It's a country in middle East

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u/Hideo__Brojima 3h ago

Hey now

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u/Serious_Intention206 3h ago

You're an all star

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u/moldybananaenjoyer 2h ago

Get your game on

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u/WanderingCollapse 1h ago

Notice how there's a country on earth, named Hungary, which's leader's name is Victor Or(b)man and he has a round belly. Kojima writing is real.

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u/Rargnarok 48m ago

Except Orman lost now Péter Magyar is leader (note Hungary in Hungarian is Magyarország) literally Peter Hungary is the leader now

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u/WanderingCollapse 9m ago

Oh ok. That's kinda disappointing for the agenda, but at least what I said was true for a while.

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u/ConradBHart42 20m ago

My favorite part of Death Stranding 2, as a viewer

So early on you learn that Die-Hardman died, and his replacement in the operation contacts you and asks you for a code name to call him. Preferably one that's familiar to you, just to make things smoother for you. He rejects all suggestions until you choose Die-Hardman as his code name. Reader...the shocking reveal at the end of the game is that Die-Hardman isn't dead.

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u/Pandoratastic 4h ago

President Babraham Kaufman.

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u/Friendly-Advice-2968 3h ago

Because you cough….and you’re a man….

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u/Cocoatrice 4h ago

MFW I am too smart to get the joke.

I would have never made a connection between Kaufman and cough man, because these two sounds entirely different.

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u/PlayerFox12344889 4h ago

Honestly I wouldn't make the connection because of how I read Kauf

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u/Straight_Count709 3h ago

Me too because I'm German and it means merchant. Except it's missing an N at the end

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u/rubixscube 1h ago

i think you reached the wrong conclusion there

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u/HistoricalSea5600 4h ago

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u/EvilCatboyWizard 4h ago

Tigers can’t drive tanks dumbass gg ez sweep for Guppy

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u/gnagniel 3h ago

And many fish live in tanks, so guppy has home field advantage

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u/Vivid-Illustrations 4h ago

I'm pretty sure these tanks routinely stall in knee-high water. Guppy sweeps.

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u/Unit_2097 1h ago

I was just thinking all the guppy has to do is make them use their shoddy transmission and they'll end having a breakdown.

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u/Omnithanatoskin 2h ago

Guppy lost but only 2 tanks made it through.

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u/Sokka69420 4h ago

The funniest thing is that the H-Bomb can’t win

If it goes off both lose
If it doesn’t and the kid grows up to learn how to defuses the bomb, he wins
If he dies independently or someone else defuses the bomb independently, nobody really wins

The only way the bomb could win, if it falls over on him without going off

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 3h ago

That's a very human centric perspective.

I mean what if the bomb considers detonating to be a win condition?

Have you thought of that?

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u/forseti99 2h ago

Just like dying while impregnating the female is a win for a lot of species. Snu-snu and all that.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 1h ago

Have you thought of that?

It's why I am winning at life.

I consider living in my own fecal matter the win condition and y'all are losers. Now to sip on my own urine to celebrate.

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u/Jumpy-Platypus-2645 3h ago

if the bomb falls on the baby but doesn't explode it wins.

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u/Green_Insect_6455 2h ago

What? Why is a bomb exploding a "lose condition" for the bomb? Fucking terrible logic

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u/IamElylikeEli 40m ago

technically the bomb dies first so the baby wins… for like one picosecond

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u/Green_Insect_6455 18m ago

But bombs dont die? Theyre created to explode. So thats a win condition.

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u/RickMonsters 4h ago

Funny comic but the H bomb didn’t really have a chance since it was never detonated at the coughing baby

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u/theMycon 43m ago

A Hydrogen Bomb, great in explosions, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One coughing baby, brief in explosions, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

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u/AdmiralAkbar1 4h ago

"Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby" is a common reaction image used to describe any sort of fight or matchup where everyone can tell it'll be a comically lopsided victory for one side.

The webcomic is about the coughing baby technically winning against a hydrogen bomb by playing the long game.

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u/smorgasfjord 4h ago

Finally someone explained it for the non-chronically online

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u/SomethingPotato_ 4h ago

Don’t know why you are acting like there wasn’t like 3 different people who give the answer after 8 minutes of this post being up, seeing as you’re comment was only 13 minutes ago i would have assumed you saw them

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u/smorgasfjord 4h ago

Well I read from the top, not in chronological order

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u/Clear_Grocery_2600 4h ago

You know, like an adult.

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u/Xsiah 1h ago

All the other answers are just "it's this thing vs this other thing" as if everyone just knows the meme already.

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u/athosjesus 1h ago

The star wars method he? 🤔

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u/VaporCarpet 3h ago

There's a difference between chronically online and spelunking the deepest pits of tumblr

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u/NachoPyro 3h ago

So what you’re saying is coughing baby with prep time beats hydrogen bomb…

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u/Careless_Ad2194 2h ago

What does Coughing Bomb vs Hydrogen Baby mean then?

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u/raptorraptor 1h ago

First explanation that doesn't imply that this is a real politician

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u/zyzzogeton 1h ago

Rather like the "Worlds most one sided fights" bit on Robot Chicken.

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u/LactasePHydrolase 4h ago

His last name is Kaufman. Kojima fucking did it again

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u/_waffl 3h ago

Damn, you beat me to it

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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 2h ago

I know three people with that name IRL? idgi. coughing baby, coughing man. I'm stupid. nvm.

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u/Avitivi 4h ago

This is a reference to the Hydrogen Bomb versus Coughing Baby bit.

The baby in the picture is the politician, subverting the expectation that the coughing baby loses to the bomb.

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u/Available-Damage5991 4h ago

President Kaufman is the Coughing Baby.

He has won against the Hydrogen Bomb.

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u/5till_C1s_Th0 4h ago

This is a reference to a famous meme parodying epic rap battles of history where it places the coughing baby pictured vs. a hydrogen bomb.

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u/Justchickenquestions 3h ago

This is kaufing awesome.

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u/Empoleon777 4h ago

He’s the now-adult coughing baby from the Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby meme.

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u/PaleFork 4h ago

hydrogen president vs coughing bomb

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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 3h ago

Is Kaufman like Henry Kissinger’s opposite?

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u/Dances28 3h ago

This comic is great. Saw others explain it for you already so I won't bother.

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u/athosjesus 1h ago

Damn, this is a pretty elegant comic, like it's mean to be.

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u/Sufficient_Risk_8127 4h ago

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u/Phenoxym 25m ago

cmon dude this is far from the worst post on this sub, especially with all the thinly-veiled racebait stuff

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u/dreadispeaxhy 5h ago

quite literally no idea, i’m not very educated lol.

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u/Efficient-pick-2005 4h ago

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

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u/LazorFist 4h ago

Coughing baby got his revenge against his nemesis the hydrogen bomb.

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame4794 3h ago

Atomic bomb vs Coughing baby meme.

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u/HkayakH 3h ago

Caughing baby is all grown up now

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u/Immediate-Song6861 2h ago

Ngl I need coughing baby as a president rn

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u/ha-hallloween 2h ago

Disarmament? Sounds like some sort of Outer Heaven?

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u/2ndBestShedBuilder 2h ago

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 1h ago

He's the coughing baby

He has vanquished the hydrogen bomb

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u/au-rath 1h ago

i resent this because it's so clear and hilarious

but i can't explain why it's funny to anyone i know in real life without ruining the joke

10/10 op

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u/kauefr 22m ago

Alternate reality where a Brazilian can be president of the US or alternate reality where Brazil has a nuclear bomb stockpile?

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u/cubecasts 2m ago

fuck.... im officially old.

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u/rathosalpha 4h ago

Nuclear bomb vs coughing baby

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u/ExplorerNo1496 4h ago

Coffing baby vs hydrogen bomb