Very serious people have informed me that Eli is portraying Obama as “fey” in an act of profound homophobia. This is because Obama has his hand on his hip, which is something only the gays do.
If you want to make sure you’re not losing any audience, the only way to do it is essentially saying nothing at all, which Obama perfected. Problem is that this doesn’t win any audience either.
Serious Mandela Effect here. I’d always known the quote as “Power accedes nothing without demand,” but now searching for that in Google shows almost no results. A newspaper article from 1983, a book from 2014, and an old meme. That’s it.