Abe Lincoln was dead long before the internet, so it’s unlikely he made a png and stuck it up on some random-ass website.

http://www.digdang.com/image/use_the_force_harry/4845/

Of course, Lincoln Logs go back about a century and in those days legendary people both real and fictional influenced language and advertising much more than they do in the present information/disinformation age.

Today a similar product would probably be given a made-up name or named after a character on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, etc.

That, however, may be one of those more british “stiff upper lip” things, where our humour being darker and celebrating the failure of the underdog than the USA’s upbeat and celebrating the winning of the underdog makes it less socially prevalent to find humour in this situation.

Colbert’s shots recently at trumpalina were an example of a dirtyer form of humour in a desperate situation. Some USians got it, some didn’t. TYT had a commenter saying it was valid to criticise “because if someone on Fox did that…”, but the difference is that Fox REGULARLY does it, and not to one individual who can defend themselves or show reasons for it being false, but to ENTIRE GROUPS, where you can always, if the group is large and diverse enough, find an example of the “bad behaviour” being “joked” about, therefore making it NOT A JOKE. Colbert didn’t do that.

The assininity of the left is the acceptance of rightwingnutjobs complaining about groups of people and the left just tut-tutting but going ballistic when someone they otherwise identify with does it. Because “both sides” insist that they must all be in lock-step agreement and no variation of apostatic thought is accepted.

Atheism plus tried it.

Atheists generally said eff-u. some were shamed into joining, some went anti-plus and some went to alt-right to double down on the effing.

(PS yes I checked the WP just in case I wasn’t talking complete bollocks and Abe and log cabins for kids were some sort of inspiration for the product. Stranger things have happened)

By the way, according to Wikipedia, “K’Nex, the toy’s current distributor, states the [Lincoln Log] product was named after Abraham Lincoln—famously born in a log cabin—due to patriotism during World War I. Others attribute the name to [the originator’s father] Frank Lloyd Wright’s original name, Frank Lincoln Wright, or the alteration of the name, ‘linkin’ logs.”