The still communicates the evidentiary authority that judicious courts and broaded public courts of opinion ascribe to images, while also pointing to how images alone are insufficient- the Senator is also holding a physical snowball. Knowing the context of this image makes it feel like a meme-able image. The still communicates the latent potentiality of images as serious and humorous depending on their recontexualization. There are multiple paradoxes at play in this still.
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