EGO: "Judy, there is nothing you can do about it. You have to relax."

ID: "I have to look! Something big is happening, I can feel it. Something terrible happened while I slept! WHAT DID HE DO??? WHAT DID HE DO NOW!?!?! WHERE'S MY PHONE!"

Not today. This morning I picked up my phone immediately, but it was not for news about Trump. It was for a different FOMO (fear of missing out). The FOMO...on something really funny.

It started with a funny enough real picture of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, socially distanced and a little cranky-faced on a folding chair on the Capitol steps in a drab GoreTex jacket and big, brown hippy mittens, arms and legs folded for warmth, glasses and paper mask askew at President Joe Biden's inauguration. As soon as the world laid eyes on that image Wednesday, it exploded across photoshopping screens and then the internet.

Bernie Sanders -- the long-serving, self-described democratic socialist, the scourge of economic inequality and now the powerful incoming chairman of the Senate Budget Committee -- has inadvertently provided us with something we have been robbed of for the past four years, good old fashioned laughter.

Whatever political party you pledge allegiance to, whatever your socio-economic background, immigration status, language, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion...there is a Bernie meme for you. Bernie Gangnam stylin', Bernie with Chewbacca, or playing chess in the Queen's Gambit. Bernie on the subway.

Great comedy often comes from being a fish out of water. Sen. Sanders, attending what is arguably the most watched fashion forward outdoor event of the next four years in a Burton jacket zipped to his ears and those mittens (handmade by a teacher from Vermont) -- like he's headed to the post office in Rutland -- was everything this country needed. Who knew?

Great comedians and satirists understand that there is nothing funnier than the truth. (The truth -- something else we have missed.) And for all of the pomp and circumstance and talk of unity at the inauguration, it was Bernie Sanders, I would argue, who brought it home. No matter what anyone was wearing, singing or saying, sitting behind them was this unpretentious and completely authentic older gentleman exhibiting what everyone was probably thinking, "Hurry up! I'm freezing!"

A meme is only a meme -- I know. But why don't we think of this moment of silly hilarity as something more: a much-needed olive branch. Think of all the people you have avoided, shunned, unfriended and all but disowned because of their politics. Think of the times you saw an email or text from someone you vowed never to speak to again, and you furiously and immediately deleted it.

Comedy is a uniter that evens out the playing field. It relieves stress and tension, and it's truly the best medicine. As the writer Madeleine L'Engle once said, "A good laugh heals a lot of hurts."

So, why not put Bernie somewhere, anywhere, in a meme of your own, send it off and let the healing begin.