The folks running social media for Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign dropped a TikTok with a great Dance Moms reference in it — Abby Lee Miller commenting on Cathy Nesbitt-Stein’s “agitating, grating voice” — and we’re basically like, “love it! More, please.” Because, really, what is more perfect for trashing your reality TV disaster of an opponent than using actual clips from reality shows to do it? Not to mention, the release of Dance Moms: A New Era has us back in our mama drama era, so really, Abby’s most popular quotes are on trend again. (Except, well, they never really went off trend.)
In fact, completely for free, we’d like to offer some advice. Not that whoever is running that social media really needs it since they’ve been pretty on point so far. But still. You can never really have enough ways to call these people out, so…yeah. We would like to humbly submit these infamous Abby Lee Miller quotes to Madame Vice President’s team.
The first and most obvious? “Everyone’s replaceable.” If you were to binge the original Lifetime series and take a drink every time Abby says this one, you’d need multiple replacement livers. It’s famous. The most famous. Bigly famous, even. So much so that folks who would never be caught dead admitting they know anything about that show know that one. Furthermore, it works in context. Because everyone’s replaceable — even 45. Harris and President Biden did, in fact, replace him in 2020. And unlike various members of the ALDC who were replaced but still found their way back in…what’s the quote? Ah, yes. “We are not going back.”
Ok. Another Abby Lee classic: “Save your tears for your pillow.” Grab a supercut of these folks suddenly being unable to handle being called “weird” when they’ve spent years hurling childish nicknames and vile insults at friends and foes alike. Drop the “save your tears” line in there. Boom. Artwork!
A third option? “JOJO HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING,” which has also blown up in recent years. There are so many possibilities for ways to use this classic, we don’t even know where to start. But we bet Kamala Harris’ social media team can figure it out. They’re on the top of our pyramid (or whatever), after all.
Just…whatever you do, don’t let the prop from that one Mackenzie Ziegler solo anywhere near a certain guy on the other side of the aisle…
