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Paul Ryan's janky healthcare PowerPoint is perfect as a meme, really, how did he not see this coming?

I don't know what your high school was like, but at mine, when the teacher booted up PowerPoint, she'd also turn off the lights, and half the class would be asleep within like maybe five minutes.

Colin Daileda

on March 9, 2017

Paul Ryan's janky healthcare PowerPoint is perfect as a meme, really, how did he not see this coming?

Professor Ryan would really just like those of you in the back to stop talking, please, there will be a quiz, thank you. Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock

Somewhere, right now, and some high school somewhere in the world, a teacher has flicked off the lights, and booted up a PowerPoint presentation. And in five minutes, at least half of that class, without fail, will probably be asleep.

Such was the case when House Speaker Paul Ryan wheeled out a PowerPoint presentation on Thursday to get Americans to pay attention to his healthcare plan. He didn't turn out the lights, but given the effect, he might as well have.

Ryan looks like your average high school math teacher, and—in accordance with the law of student relationship to their high school math teachers—it's easier for most students to just make fun of whatever he's doing than to pay attention.

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That said? A decent number of folks actually did pay attention to the presentation, and their response was...to question whether their teacher should be teaching.

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Ryan's detractors believe that this particular math lesson may cost millions of Americans their healthcare. Here's hoping his calculator's working correctly.

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Colin Daileda

Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.