Bernie hired a ‘Milkshake Duck.’ So what?

Justin Ward
4 min readOct 14, 2019
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Matt Orfalea’s time on Bernie Sanders’ staff was short. In less than 24 hours after the YouTuber announced he was joining the campaign’s communications team as a videographer he was fired. Someone turned up some problematic videos of his as well as instances where he had used the word “retarded.”

He got “Milkshake Ducked,” which is Twitter slang for when a viral phenomenon is undone almost…

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Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD